Hieromartyr
Hieromartyr Cornutus of Iconium
† ок. III века (гонения Декия/Валериана)
Also known as: Корнут Никомидийский (устар. написание по ошибке переписчиков)
Hieromartyr Cornutus, Bishop of Iconium — who voluntarily presented himself before the governor Perennius during the persecutions of Decius and Valerian (mid-3rd c.), bound by the legs with cords and dragged through the city until his death; also known under the erroneous designation "of Nicomedia" due to confusion in medieval lists with a governor of the same name in the life of Hieromartyr Quadratus, Bishop of Nicomedia.
Hieromartyr Cornutus was bishop of the city of Iconium in the region of Lycaonia (Asia Minor). During the persecutions of Emperors Decius and Valerian (mid-3rd century) he voluntarily presented himself to the governor Perennius, confessing himself a Christian. For refusing to sacrifice to the pagan gods, he was bound by the legs with cords and dragged through the streets of the city, dying from this.
IMPORTANT IDENTITY CORRECTION: in a number of medieval sources, including the Slavic redaction of the Menologion of Basil II, the hierarch is erroneously called "Bishop of Nicomedia" — the Orthodox Encyclopedia explains this as a conflation with the life of another hieromartyr, St. Quadratus, Bishop of Nicomedia, in which a governor of the same name (Perennius) appears, leading copyists to merge the two distinct accounts. The Great Menaion Reader preserves the correct designation — Bishop of Iconium.
His feast is kept on August 30/September 12.
NOTE: the original stub was an unprocessed image caption from pravicon.com for a miniature from the Menologion of Basil II (Constantinople, 985, Vatican Library) — it has been reworked into a coherent life; the previously empty feast-date and life-dates fields have been filled in. The slug has been kept unchanged, but the primary designation has been corrected to "of Iconium," with the historical error noted in aka.