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Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia
A young man of Nicomedia who was arrested for reading aloud the edict against Christians, and his sister who declared herself a Christian on the spot when she saw him led away; both were thrown to the lions and then beheaded under Maximian.
Life
Eulampius and Eulampia were a brother and sister of Nicomedia in the early fourth century, born of pagan parents but converted in their youth through the witness of Christians of the city. They had been hidden by their family during the early years of the Diocletianic persecution; when the imperial edict of universal sacrifice went out in 303, Eulampius came forward openly and was arrested.
He was brought before Maximian, scourged, his body torn with iron combs, and finally cast into a great cauldron of boiling oil — from which, the synaxarion records, he stepped out unharmed. His sister Eulampia, learning of his confession, came to the place of the torments to encourage him; she was arrested on the spot and beheaded at her brother's side. Two hundred soldiers of the imperial guard, witnessing the miracles, confessed Christ together and were beheaded after the brother and sister.
Their joint feast falls on October 10.
Traditions
Feast day
October 10
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