ON S. AGATHODORUS, MARTYR AT TYANA IN CAPPADOCIA.
CommentaryS. Agathodorus, Martyr at Tyana in Cappadocia.
By I. B.
The sacred tables of the Martyrology present to us two Agathodori: Three SS. Agathodorus: one a Bishop crowned with martyrdom in the Chersonese together with Basil, Eugenius, Elpidius, and others, on the fourth of March: another on the thirteenth of April, put to death at Sardis in Lydia together with S. Carpus, Bishop of Thyatira, and the Deacon Papylus, whose servant he was, in defense of the faith. Distinct from these, the Greeks celebrate on the second of February one who died gloriously at Tyana in Cappadocia after many tortures. His Acts are briefly described as follows in the Menaea:
This youth, brought before the Prefect of the Tyaneans, Acts of the Tyanean. was torn with hooks for the confession of Christ and placed upon a glowing gridiron: then his tongue was cut off with a sword, his teeth pulled out with pincers, the skin of his face shaved off with a razor, his legs and shins broken, his sides pierced with a stake, and red-hot spits driven through the membranes of his brain: and thus he gave back his spirit to God.