Martyr
Martyr Hermione of Ephesus
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Martyr Hermione of Ephesus — one of the prophesying virgin daughters of the deacon (or, per another tradition, the apostle) Philip, who came to Ephesus with her sister Eutychia, healed the sick in Christ's name, and endured brutal tortures under Emperors Trajan and Hadrian, ending in beheading.
The Martyr Hermione was one of the virgin daughters of Philip mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles (21:8-9): "...he [Philip] had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy." Together with her sister Eutychia she came to Ephesus, hoping to find the Apostle John the Theologian there (some traditions say she arrived too late after his death, others that she was seeking him out), and became a disciple of Petronius, a follower of the Apostle Paul. She healed many Christians "in the name of Christ." Under Emperor Trajan she was seized, beaten, and tortured, but, tradition holds, prophesied to the emperor his coming victory over the Persians and Hadrian's succession, for which she was released. Under Emperor Hadrian she was subjected to new, even more brutal torments — immersion in boiling pitch/molten tin and sulfur, beating with iron rods, placement on a heated grate — yet remained unharmed. She was finally beheaded; her executioners (named Theodulus and Timothy in some versions of the Life) reportedly converted to Christ upon witnessing her endurance.
NOTE ON HER FATHER: sources disagree on which Philip is meant — pravenc.ru notes that Archbishop Sergius (Spassky), citing Bishop Polycrates of Ephesus, held her to be the daughter of the Apostle Philip (one of the Twelve), while most modern sources (including ru.wikipedia.org) lean toward identifying her father as Philip the Deacon (one of the Seven, Acts 6:5) — this ambiguity is honestly noted as a genuine disagreement within the sources themselves, not a research gap.