(A.D. 202.)
[Commemorated in the West on this day; in the East on Sept. 17th.
The Acts are not trustworthy.]
Saint Charalampius was priest at Magnesia, in the reign of Severus. He
was brought before the governor, Lucianus, and was flayed with iron
scrapers; the governor himself, in his rage, assisting the
executioners in their barbarous work. With him suffered two soldiers
and three women.