Martyrs Martyrs at [the Gate of] Eugenius (Constantinople)

IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION: the word "Eugenius" in this entry is not a personal name shared by several martyrs, but a place name — τὰ Εὐγενίου, a tower and gate in Constantinople on the shore of the Golden Horn. The Church Slavonic formula "martyrs who [are] at Eugenius" means "martyrs [whose relics are located] at [the place called] Eugenius," not "martyrs named Eugenius" — the original database entry's divergence from this standard formula was a parsing error during initial data population.

The bodies of unknown early martyrs were secretly buried near the Gate of Eugenius in Constantinople. Centuries later, miraculous healings began occurring at the site, prompting an excavation and the solemn translation of the relics found there into a church. According to tradition, the cleric Nicholas the Calligrapher received a revelation in which, among the unnamed remains, the relics of the Apostle of the Seventy Andronicus (mentioned by St. Paul in Romans 16:7) and his companion Junia were identified. Sources differ on the dating of the event: some place it in the early 5th century (the era of Emperors Arcadius and Theodosius II), others attribute the excavation to the time of Patriarch Thomas I of Constantinople (607-610). In the 12th century, Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos, who regarded the Apostle Andronicus as his patron saint, built a church to the Archangel Michael on the site. The feast is kept on February 22/March 7.