(DATE UNCERTAIN.)
[Roman Martyrology. Greek Menology of Basil Porphyrogenitus, same
day. Authority:--A sermon by S. John Chrysostom, Hom. xlvii., and the
notices in the Menologium and Menæa.]
This saint was a native of Cilicia, the same province which had the
honour of producing S. Paul. In one of the persecutions of the Church
he was sentenced to be tied up in a sack with vipers and scorpions, and
thrown into the sea.