Martyr Callinicus of Gangra in Asia Minor

Callinicus was born in Cilicia and travelled through towns and villages preaching in the manner of the apostles, until he came to Ancyra in Galatia, where he won many to the faith. The local governor, Sacerdon, had him arrested, beaten with ox sinews and torn with iron hooks. Then he ordered him to be driven in iron boots studded with nails, eighty miles to Gangra, to be burned there, because many people there had listened to him.

According to his Life, on the road the guards were dying of thirst in the July heat and Callinicus prayed, and a spring flowed from a rock. At Gangra he went into the furnace himself, praying, and died. His body, the account says, was found unharmed and was buried by believers. He is remembered as of the 3rd or 4th century.