Euplúsio
Feast: 12 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Euplus (Euplius) was a Christian at Catania in Sicily who, on 29 April 304, during the persecution of Diocletian, stood outside the governor's court shouting that he was a Christian and ready to die. Brought before the governor Calvisian carrying a book of the gospels, he was sent to prison.
Questioned again on 12 August, he said the forbidden writings were within him, meaning he knew them by heart, was tortured, and was beheaded when he would not sacrifice. Butler says his acts, which survive in Latin and Greek, make a favourable impression.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
A martyr of Catania whose trial for owning the gospels is recorded in his acts.
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, ed. Thurston and Attwater (1956), vol. III - 12 August
- Wikidata Q10368230 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.