(A.D. 308.)
[By the Greeks on Feb. 3rd, in conjunction with S. Adrian; but by
the Roman Martyrology on this day, and S. Adrian on March 5th.
Authority:--Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. lib. viii., c. 11.]
In the persecution in Palestine, carried out under the ferocious
governor Firmilian, Adrian and Eubulus, natives of Manganæa, suffered.
They came to Cæsarea, and were asked the cause of their coming, as
they entered the gates of the city. They confessed that they had come
to see and minister to the martyrs of Jesus Christ. They were at
once apprehended and brought before Firmilian. He ordered them to be
scourged and torn with hooks, and then to be devoured by the beasts.
After the lapse of two days, on the third of the nones of March, Adrian
was cast before a lion, and afterwards slain with the sword. Eubulus
was also reserved to the nones of March, and was then cast to the
beasts. He was the last to suffer for the faith at Cæsarea in that
persecution.