Hieromartyr Charalampus, Bishop of Magnesia in Thessaly, and the Martyrs Porphyrius, Baptus and 3 Women Martyrs

Charalampus was bishop of Magnesia in Asia Minor in the reign of Septimius Severus (193–211). Arrested for his preaching, he was brought before the governor Lucian and the commander Lucius; according to his Life, he said under questioning that he had lived a hundred and thirteen years. He refused to sacrifice, was stripped of his vestments, and his skin was torn with iron hooks. The two soldiers who tortured him, Porphyrius and Baptus, declared themselves Christians and were beheaded, and three women who watched also came to believe.

According to the Life, the old bishop prayed that the land where his relics would lie be spared famine and plague, and died before he could be beheaded, c. 202. Galina, the emperor's daughter, buried his body.