Ulphianus

Saint Ulphianus (Ulpian), martyr, was a young Christian of Tyre and died a martyr in Palestine, in the persecution of Diocletian, in the year 305 or 306. He is commemorated on 3 April by the old calendar, which is 16 April by the new.

He was born in Tyre. He was tormented for Christ by the governor Urban, the same who tortured Saint Apphianus at Caesarea. At last he was sewn into a sack, together with a dog and a snake, and thrown into the sea. One source gives the year 306 for his martyrdom, and another the year 305, so the date is uncertain.

The sources at hand say nothing of his life before his martyrdom.