Martyrs Acyndinos, Pegasias, Aphthonios, Elpidiphoros, Anempodistus and 7,000 suffering with them in Persia

Acyndinos, Pegasias and Anempodistus were secret Christians at the court of the Persian king Shapur, in the persecution traditionally dated c. 341–345. Informers denounced them, and the king had them beaten, hung over fire and lowered into cauldrons of boiling tin, sulphur and pitch. According to their Life, they were unharmed, and the temple of Zeus collapsed when they prayed in it.

Aphthonios, one of the torturers, declared himself a Christian and was beheaded. The noble Elpidiphoros was likewise condemned to the sword, and about seven thousand people who had come to believe are said to have died with him. Acyndinos, Pegasias and Anempodistus were finally thrown into a furnace, together, says the Life, with the king's own mother and twenty-eight soldiers. The Roman Martyrology also lists them among the martyrs of Persia.