June 3
Reading:
Formerly a priest of the idols near Nicomedia, the Saint
came to the Christian Faith in his old age; this was during the reign of
Aurelian (270-275). Lucillian was brought before Silvan the Count; when
he refused to return to the service of the idols, his jaw was broken,
he was beaten with rods, and hanged upside down, then imprisoned with
four Christian children, Claudius, Hypatius, Paul, and Dionysius. All of
them were brought out again before Silvan, and remaining constant in
their faith, were cast into a raging furnace. Preserved unharmed, they
were sent to Byzantium, where the children were beheaded, and Lucillian
was crucified. The virgin Paula, a Christian, buried their holy relics.
For this, she was taken before the Count, and refusing to sacrifice to
the idols, was stripped naked and mercilessly thrashed; after other
torments, she was beheaded, in 270. There was a church in their honor in
Constantinople.
Apolytikion in the First Tone
Let all of us entreat Christ the Lord's holy Martyrs, for they
make supplication for our souls' salvation; with faith and with longing,
therefore, let us draw nigh unto them, for they overflow with the
divine grace of healings, and they drive away the ranks of demons in
terror, as guardians of the Faith.
SOURCE:
SAINT OR FEAST POSTED THIS DATE 2012(with 2011's link here also and further, 2010, 2009 and even 2008!)
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