CONCERNING SAINT THEOCTISTUS, MARTYR.
CommentaryTheoctistus, Martyr (S.)
I. B.
[1] Several Saints named Theoctistus are celebrated. For to pass over that holy Abbot Theoctistus who is venerated on September 3, of whom many distinguished things are recorded in the Life of Saint Euthymius the Great on January 20, and Saint Theoctistus the Patrician and Eunuch, of whom the Greeks treat on November 20, we have already reported above on January 4 Saint Theoctistus, Abbot of Cucumus; and we have said on the 8th of the same month that in the Greek Menaea a Theoctistus is mentioned — but (as it seems to us) a monk, together with Agatho. In the same Menaea, three Martyrs named Theoctistus are also celebrated: one on this day, February 4; another on October 3; a third, a boatman by trade, on September 6 — all beheaded. And they narrate nothing more about ours than that, armed with the divine weapons of the sacred religion, he offered his bared neck to the sword:
"Protected by God with the weapons of divine faith, Theoctistus bares his neck to the sword."