Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon

Saints Trophimus and Sabbatius, during a pagan festival in Pisidian Antioch (Asia Minor, not to be confused with Syrian Antioch), witnessed a debauched sacrificial celebration and openly grieved and prayed over it, drawing the crowd's hostility and denunciation to the authorities. Sabbatius was martyred in Antioch in 276 under Emperor Probus.

Trophimus was tortured (tradition holds he continued to confess his faith in the words of Scripture even under torment), shod in heated iron sandals studded with nails, and marched to Synnada in Phrygia for further torment. There a secret Christian, the senator Dorymedon, visited him in prison and dressed his wounds — an act that exposed his own faith and joined him to the prisoner's fate.

Trophimus and Dorymedon were thrown to wild beasts, which did not harm them, and were finally beheaded. Though all three suffered in two different cities at different times, church tradition has always venerated them as a single martyric group.

Their feast is kept on September 19/October 2.