Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Mensea and Menologies. Inserted in the Modern Roman Martyrology by Baronius. Authority: — Mention by Socrates, lib. iii. 15, Sozomen, v. ir, and Suidas, sub voc. Amachius. All these accounts agree, except that Suidas makes Amachius prefect of “a little city of Phrygia,” and the other two call him " prefect of the province." When Amachius, governor of Phrygia, heard that Constantius was dead, and that Julian was Emperor, and had renounced Christianity, and professed his resolve to reestablish paganism, with devotion to the rising star, he ordered the temple at Merus, a city of Phrygia, to be opened, and cleared of the filth that had accumulated in it, and that the statues of the gods should be repolished. This order so exasperated three Christians, Macedonius, Theodulus, and Tatian, that they rushed into the temple, and broke the images to pieces.

The governor, infuriated at what had been done, would have executed some of the principal inhabitants of the city, had not the three men who had done the deed delivered themselves up. They were offered pardon if they would sacrifice; but on their refusal they were racked with a variety of torments, and lastly laid on gridirons, and slowly roasted over a charcoal fire. They are said by Socrates to have addressed the governor with the same taunt as that used by S. Lawrence,— “ If you wish to eat broiled flesh, Amachius, turn us on the other side also, lest we should appear but halfcooked to your taste.”