Martyrs Babylas (Vavila) of Sicily and his two disciples: Timothy and Agapius

Babylas came from a noble Christian family of Antioch. He gave his property to the poor, became a priest and lived in silence on a mountain with two disciples, Timothy and Agapius. To escape the pagans who wanted to hand him over to the governor, he left Rome with them for Sicily, where he spent a year teaching.

The governor of Sicily had the three arrested, scourged and led bleeding from town to town to frighten the people. In the end they were killed with swords, in the 3rd century, and their bodies were thrown into a fire. According to their Life, the flames did not touch them, and Christians buried them on the island.