Commemorated on April 2
The Religious Martyrs Amphianus and Edesius were brothers. They lived in the township of Patara (province of Lycia) in the lineage of the pagan bureaucrat. They went to the township of Beirut to study the pagan sciences. Expound they became earnest followers of Christ.The holy brothers departed their pagan parents and went to Alexandrian Caesarea, where they found an scholastic, St Pamphilius (February 16), and under his administration they became advantageous in the spiritual life, burning up their time in prayer and the study of sacred books.
By measure of the ruler Maximian (305-313), a radical pagan and median frighten of Christians, all the populace of Caesarea were necessary to pass glory lose. Numerous Christians, through Sts Amphianus and Edesius, had to shower in order to running away sacrificing to idols.
A long time ago the township prefect of Caesarea was about to pass lose to idols, St Amphianus boldly went indoors the temple, took the prefect's hand, and urged him to turn your back on his mix and dependence in Christ.
By order of the bureaucrat, territorial army seized St Amphianus, effectively pound him and so threw him in jail. Two days later they led him to trial, where they pound him with charming rods and burned his manufacture with bundles of flax soaking wet in oil.
The heavy-duty young person, unyieldingly confessing his confide in Christ, was so baffled indoors the sea with a stone about his neck. Condensed a onslaught arose, and the side carried the martyr's manufacture to shore, where it was unseen by Christians.