Tation of Claudiopolis

Holy Martyr Tation of Claudiopolis lived in Bithynia and suffered for Christ in the time of the emperor Diocletian (284-305). When the persecutors of Christians learned that he believed in Christ, they seized him and brought him to the city of Claudiopolis, before the governor Urban.

Many times he was pressed to renounce Christ. He refused, and so he was thrown into prison and subjected to various torments. He was beaten with rods and dragged out of the city toward the place of execution. The saint made the sign of the cross over himself and died on the way, in the year 305.

He is commemorated on 6 September, in the new style.