Individual Martyrs
Eustratius held civic authority as city prefect and provincial archivist. He had kept his Christian faith concealed but publicly declared it when confronted with the persecution. After extensive torture, including forced marching in iron sandals studded with sharp nails, he was condemned to death by fire on December 13.
Auxentius was a presbyter — a priest — whose arrest and execution by beheading made him a clerical martyr in the group. Eugene and Mardarius were members of the lay Christian community. Eugene's martyrdom was particularly brutal: the authorities tore out his tongue, amputated his hands and feet, and then beheaded him. Mardarius publicly declared his faith before officials, was tortured by having holes drilled through his ankles through which ropes were passed, then was suspended upside down with heated nails driven into his body; he died from his injuries. Orestes, identified as a young soldier, was stretched upon a red-hot iron bed until he died.