The holy Martyr Badimus of Persia
Saint Badimus, [Vadim] from the city of Bethlapat in Persia, was of illustrious birth and quite rich. But renouncing all, he became a monk, and after distributing his goods to the poor, kept only enough to found a monastery. In the savage persecution of King Sapor he and seven of his disciples were taken, commanded to worship the sun, and upon refusing, were imprisoned four months during which they were tormented with inhuman ferocity. At the same time a certain Christian named Nirsan was also imprisoned for the Faith, but unable to endure to the end, he renounced Christ. Sapor accepted him, but assigned him to be Badimus’ beheader. The Saint, appearing before him, with words of mercy and compassion tried to draw Nirsan to repentance, but to no avail. The now enraged but incompetent Nirsan smote to behead Saint Badimus, but did so only after four shaky blows, during which the Saint suffered horribly. His disciples were beheaded with him.
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