Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon

Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon were three Christians of Antioch in Syria during the persecution of the Emperor Probus (276–282). Sabbatius and Trophimus were friends who had refused to participate in the great festival of Apollo at Daphne — the suburban shrine outside Antioch with its famous oracular spring — and had been arrested for their public absence. Dorymedon, a senator of the city, came to the prison to visit them and was himself arrested when he confessed himself a Christian.

The three were brought before the prefect Atticus for separate examinations and offered, in turn, the customary inducements and threats. Sabbatius was so heavily scourged at the rack that he died on the spot of his wounds. Trophimus and Dorymedon, after extended tortures of their own — including, by the synaxarion's account, being thrown to wild beasts that refused to touch them — were beheaded together on a day appointed for their public execution.

Their joint feast falls on September 19.