The Holy Hieromartyr Athenogenes.
Saint Athenogenes was from Sebastia of Cappadocia and, according to the Synaxaristes, became bishop of Pidachthoa. He and ten of his disciples were tortured and beheaded by the governor Philomarchus in the times of Diocletian. There is a second Martyr Athenogenes commemorated today, mentioned by Saint Basil in Chapter 29 of his treatise On the Holy Spirit; it is said that as this Athenogenes approached the fire, wherein he was to die a martyric death, he chanted the hymn O Joyous Light in praise of the Holy Trinity (see also Mar. 11).
The above account is taken from the Great Horologion,
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