(ABOUT A.D. 300.)
[Roman Martyrology and Greek Menæa. Authority:--The hymn in the Menæa.]
S. Papas suffered in Lycaonia during the persecution of Maximian.
He was first beaten, and his cheeks bruised, and then the inhuman
persecutors, to make sport, nailed horse-shoes to his feet, and made
him run before chariots through the streets of Laranda, the drivers,
armed with whips, lashing him till he sank, bleeding and exhausted, on
the pavement. A compassionate woman, like another Veronica, hastened up
to wipe away the blood and sweat, and he died in her arms.