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Formerly a priest of the idols near Nicomedia, the Saint came to the Christian
Faith in his old age; this was during the reign of Aurelian (270-275).
Lucillian was brought before Silvan the Count; when he refused to return
to the service of the idols, his jaw was broken, he was beaten with
rods, and hanged upside down, then imprisoned with four Christian children,
Claudius, Hypatius, Paul, and Dionysius. All of them were brought out
again before Silvan, and remaining constant in their faith, were cast
into a raging furnace. Preserved unharmed, they were sent to Byzantium,
where the children were beheaded, and Lucillian was crucified. The
virgin Paula, a Christian, buried their holy relics. For this, she
was taken before the Count, and refusing to sacrifice to the idols,
was stripped naked and mercilessly thrashed; after other torments,
she was beheaded, in 270. There was a church in their honor in Constantinople.
Apolytikion in the First Tone:
Let all of us entreat Christ the Lord's holy Martyrs, for they make supplication
for our souls' salvation; with faith and with longing, therefore, let us
draw nigh unto them, for they overflow with the divine grace of healings,
and they drive away the ranks of demons in terror, as guardians of the Faith.
Source: http://www.goarch.org
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