EUPOLUS, Saint, Martyr. - He was killed on 12 Aug. 304 in Catania, during the persecution of Diocletian. His cult spread between the 5th and 7th centuries in Sicily and Italy. Of his martyrdom there exist acts in Greek and in Latin, but the former are certainly more genuine, although interpolated between the end of the 4th century and the beginning of the 5th, and they derive from the official protocols of the trial. Found with a copy of Holy Scripture, E. underwent a first interrogation on 29 Apr. by the corrector Calvisianus, after which he was shut up in prison. Brought back to the tribunal on 12 Aug., he was subjected to cruel tortures, as a result of which he died. Later hagiographers believed, because of the circumstances of his martyrdom, that E. was a deacon, but this ecclesiastical dignity of his is absolutely not proven.

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BIBL.: Acte SS. Augusti, II, Paris 1867, pp. 710-23; A. Dufourca, Etude sur les Gesta martyrum romanes, II, ibid. 1907, pp. 177-85; F. Franchi de' Cavalieri, Non agiografiche (Studi e text. 40), Rome 1928, pp. 1-54; Martyr. Hieronymianum, p. 436; H. Delchaye, Les origines du culte des martyrs, 2nd ed., Brussels 1933, p. 311.

Agostino Amore

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Eupolus, Saint, Martyr

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