Their Greek and Latin acts agree that Thyrsus, Leucius and Callinicus were put to death on three different days at Apollonia in Phrygia, after many torments, in the persecution of Decius.
Read the essentials →Their Greek and Latin acts agree that Thyrsus, Leucius and Callinicus were put to death on three different days at Apollonia in Phrygia, after many torments, in the persecution of Decius.
January 28
Not verified yet
Martyrs
Their Greek and Latin acts agree that Thyrsus, Leucius and Callinicus were put to death on three different days at Apollonia in Phrygia, after many torments, in the persecution of Decius.
Sozomen says Caesarius, a former prefect and consul, built a magnificent church in honour of St. Thyrsus at Constantinople. Many churches in Spain also bear his name. The text on this page gives 250.
Thin entry · the 1914 book gives only 103 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
In the reign of the Emperor Decius, Combritius, the governor of Bithynia, made the circuit of the province, to carry into execution the severe imperial edict against the Christians. Being a man of a naturally cruel disposition he subjected those brought before him to the most exquisite torments his ingenuity could devise. Thyrsus had his eyelids pierced, and rings put through them, and molten lead was poured down his back.
Stay faithful when it costs you. This account is about holding firm under pressure.
Keep their day. Remember them on January 28 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
In the reign of the Emperor Decius [Roman emperor 249–251, who ordered everyone to sacrifice to the gods], Combritius, the governor of Bithynia, made the circuit of the province, to carry into execution the severe imperial edict against the Christians. Being a man of a naturally cruel disposition he subjected those brought before him to the most exquisite torments his ingenuity could devise. Thyrsus had his eyelids pierced, and rings put through them, and molten lead was poured down his back. His arms and legs were broken. He died in prison. Leucius was hung up, and torn with iron hooks, and then decapitated; Callinicus and several others suffered in this persecution by various deaths.
Feast: January 28
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Thyrsus's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
