Martyr Hyacinth of Cæsarea in Cappadocia

Hyacinth was a young man of about twenty, born in Caesarea in Cappadocia, who served as a chamberlain at the court of the emperor Trajan in Rome. According to his Passion, during a pagan festival he stayed in the palace to pray, was denounced by a colleague, and at the emperor’s table refused to eat food offered to idols. He was beaten, tortured and shut in prison, where, as his Life tells, he refused the food he was given for some thirty-eight days and died c. 108.

The Life adds that a priest of his family, Timothy, took his body from the place where it had been thrown, and that it was later taken to Caesarea.