ON THE TWO CRUCIFIED ONES, FATHER AND SON, MARTYRS.
CommentaryTwo Crucified Ones, father and son (Ss.)
G. H.
Various sacred calendars present Martyrs whose names are unknown. A long series of this kind is listed in the Index of the Roman Martyrology under the name of Martyrs; more are added in our work. These two have their veneration among the Greeks on this day, both in the Menaea and in the Lives of Saints by Maximus of Cythera, in these few words in both places: On the same day, a father and son, affixed to the cross, ended their lives. In the Menaea this distich is added:
A father with his son suffers the punishment of the cross, For the Father who gave his Son to the Passion.
The rest -- which would suggest the time, the place, and the occasion of their obtaining the cross -- together with their very names, remain unknown. In the Coptic Calendar, two Martyrs are indicated on this day, Bastaemon and Eudaemon, but other evidence is lacking from which we might conjecture that they were father and son and underwent the martyrdom of the cross.