Theodula

Holy Martyr Theodula lived in the time of Diocletian (284-305) and came from Diocaesarea in Cilicia. She is counted among the martyrs who suffered around the year 298.

When the prefect Pelagius pressed her to renounce Christ, she answered that she was and would remain a Christian. Pelagius subjected her to torments, but her womanly nature, strengthened by divine grace, proved stronger. Her modest and heroic conduct made such an impression that even the prefect's men who had been among her tormentors told him that they accepted Jesus Christ as God. He threw her, with Evagrius and Macarius, into the furnace, and beheaded the other two, Helladius and Boethus.

She is commemorated on 18 January (new style), alongside those who suffered with her: Helladius the Commentariensis, Theodulus, Boethus, Evagrius and Macarius.