Saint Eulampios & Eulampia

Commemorated on October 10

310 AD

Saint Eulampios and Eulampia were brother and sister who lived in Nicomedia during the rule of the ruthless Maximum. With great passion for the faith, they fled to the mountains in order to avoid execution due to their Christian Faith.

One day when Eulampius went into the city for supplies, he was taken by the soldiers for questioning. Discovering his Christian stance, they whipped him with iron rods and then burned his body on a bed of heated iron coals.

Fooling the soldiers, he then told them after these torments he wanted to go to a pagan temple. The pleased soldiers let him, thinking he had turned from Christ and wanted to honor the idols. When he got there, to many’s awe, he spoke to the idol of Aries and said “In Christ’s name I command you to fall to pieces.” Immediately the statue crumbled to the ground. And many proclaimed, “Christ is the one true God! “ after seeing the works of this miracle.

Again he was taken before his judge for a harsher sentences and his sister stood before the judge also standing by Christ and her brother.

Both were to be boiled alive in a big basin of water. Again, God had mercy on their souls and they did not experience any pain nor harm. This led even more idol worshipers to see the truth of the Christian Faith.

Finally Eulampios was beheaded and Eulampia died from previous torments.

They’re martyrdom inspired 200 other pagan worshippers to convert to Christianity. The works of Christ through the saints had sparked awareness in many who witnessed the miraculous events and all 200 became martyrs themselves.

Glory be unto God!

Troparion & Kontakion

Troparion — Tone 4

Your holy martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia, O Lord, / through their sufferings have received incorruptible crowns from You, our God. / For having Your strength, they laid low their adversaries, / and shattered the powerless boldness of demons. / Through their intercessions, save our souls!

Kontakion — Tone 3

Let us honor the noble martyrs, / brother and sister in the flesh, wise Eulampius and Eulampia; / for they put to shame the devices of tyrants / through the power of the Crucified one. / Therefore, they have been declared the glory and boast of martyrs.