Martyr Hyacinth of Amastris

Hyacinth came from a pious family in Amastris, a Greek city on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor. According to his Life, he received his name from an angel and, when he was three, he is said to have raised a dead child who afterwards became his companion in prayer and fasting. When he was old, he saw villagers venerating a hollow elm tree and cut it down.

For this the local governor, Castrisius, had him arrested and brought to Amastris. He was beaten, so that his teeth were knocked out, dragged along the ground with ropes and shut in prison, where he died. The Church remembers him as of the 4th century.