Acepsimas, Joseph and Aeithalas
martyrs
Who they were
On the same day, many holy martyrs throughout all Persia. The year after the death of Simeon and on the anniversary of Good Friday, King Sapor ordered them to be slain because of their belief in Christ. In this conflict for the faith there suffered the eunuch Azades, who was much beloved by the King; Milles, bishop, famed for his holiness and the gift of miracles; Acepsimes, bishop, with his priest James; Aithalas and Joseph, priests, Azadas and Abdiesus, deacons, and many other clerics. The Bishops Mareas and Bicor likewise suffered, together with twenty other bishops, about two hundred and fifty clerics, many monks, and many consecrated virgins, among whom was a sister of Bishop St. Simeon, named Tarbula, and her servant; these two were bound to stakes and then put to an atrocious death by being sawed in two.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: they have been honoured as saints since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Dominican Martyrology (1955) remembers them on 22 April.
Connected on this site
- Acepsimas of Hnaita Saint one of this group
- The Martyrology of the Order of Friars Preachers (tr. W. R. Bonniwell OP, 1955), 22 April
- Wikidata Q4202904 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.