Venerable Asclepius of Syria

In-depth verification found no documented "Martyr Asclepius" in any authoritative source (pravenc.ru, azbyka.ru, days.pravoslavie.ru, drevo-info.ru, OCA, OrthodoxWiki).

The only substantively attested saint with a closely matching name belongs to an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT category: Venerable Asclepius of Syria, an ascetic hermit from the vicinity of Cyrrhus (Syria), 4th–5th century. His life is described by Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus, in "A History of the Monks of Syria" (chapter 25): he first practiced restraint among the brothers of his native village, then withdrew as a hermit roughly ten stadia from the cell of Polychronius, living an equally austere life of poverty, prayer, and hospitality. His best-known disciple was St. James of Cyrrhus (Nisibis), who later withdrew into even stricter seclusion; the two are commemorated jointly.

IMPORTANT NOTE: since no genuine martyr named "Asclepius" could be located, and the available match (Venerable Asclepius of Syria) belongs to a different category of sanctity (not a martyr, but a venerable), this identification is adopted as the most plausible but not one-hundred-percent certain — disclosed honestly, without forcing the category to fit the original slug. The entry's former sole image turned out to be a statue of the ANCIENT PAGAN GOD Asclepius (Aesculapius) with his serpent-entwined staff — a classic name-collision error with a mythological figure rather than a saint — entirely excluded.