(ABOUT A.D. 320.)
[The Martyrologies of S. Jerome, Bede, Usuardus, &c. Commemorated
in the Roman Martyrology on this day; in the Greek Menaea on the 2nd
Jan. Theognis, especially, is famous throughout East and West. The
account in the Menaea and Menology is probably trustworthy. The Acts
published by the Bollandists are of doubtful authority.]
Theognis was the son of the Bishop of Cyzicus, in Hellespont. In the
persecution of Licinius, he and his companions suffered at Cyzicus,
being first scourged, and then cast into the sea.