Severus of Thrace

Holy Hieromartyr Severus of Thrace was a priest and suffered at Philippopolis in Thrace in the year 304, in the time of Emperor Diocletian, together with the centurion Memnon and thirty-⁠seven other martyrs.

For his fearless confession of Christ, Severus was scraped with iron hooks; then red-⁠hot rings were put on his fingers and he was girded with a red-⁠hot iron belt. After these torments his head was cut off. When the governor learned that Severus had brought the centurion Memnon to Christ, he ordered him to be tortured too: they stretched him out and cut three straps from the skin of his back. With him thirty-⁠seven other martyrs suffered. Hands and feet were cut off from them all and they were thrown into a blazing furnace.

The saint is commemorated on 2 September, in the new style.