Martyr Davict (Adauctus) of Ephesus and his daughter Callisphenia

Martyr Davict (in some sources, Adauctus) held the post of governor of the city of Ephesus during the reign of Emperor Maximian and openly confessed the Christian faith. When a man close to the emperor wished to marry his daughter Callisphenia, Davict refused him, unwilling to give his Christian daughter to a pagan. For this he was stripped of his office, honors, and all his property, and then exiled to the city of Melitene, where around 312 he was beheaded for confessing Christ. His daughter, St. Callisphenia, hid first in Nicomedia and then in Thrace; after the death of Emperor Maximian she returned to her homeland, received back her father's confiscated property, which she distributed to the poor, transferred her father's body from the place of his exile to Asia, and built a church there in his memory. The memory of Martyr Davict and his daughter Callisphenia is kept on October 4/17.