Holy Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia 10/23/2013
Brother and sister from Nicomedia. During a violent persecution of the Christians at the time of the Emperor Maximian, a part of the Christians from Nicomedia took refuge in the mountains near the city. The young Eulampius was sent to buy bread in Nicomedia. When he entered the city he saw the imperial edict for the persecution and killing of Christians posted on the walls and tore it to pieces. He was immediately brought before the authorities. When the judge began persuading him to deny Christ, Eulampius, in his turn, began advising him to deny the false idols and to confess Christ as the one living God. The judge ordered and he was beaten until he was covered with blood all over, and put him to long, violent tortures. When she heard for her brother's torturing, the virgin Eulampia came running to be put to the tortures for the Lord Jesus Christ, together with her brother. She was also beaten until her blood ran from her mouth and her nose. Then they were both thrown into boiling oil, and in a red-hot furnace, but by the power of the name of Christ and the sign of the Cross they made fire harmless. At last Eulampius was beheaded, and Saint Eulampia committed her spirit before being beheaded. Together with him were beheaded two hundred Christians, who believed in Christ having witnessed the power and miracles of Saint Eulampius and his sister. They were all crowned with wreaths of glory and inhabited the Kingdom of Heaven.
