The Holy Great Martyr Isidore of Chios.
Saint Isidore was a soldier from Alexandria. He came with the Roman fleet to Chios, where he was betrayed as a Christian to Numerian, Commander of the Fleet. Because he boldly professed himself to worship Christ as God and refused to worship any other, he was tormented and beheaded in 251, during the reign of Decius.
The above account is taken from the Great Horologion,
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