Martyrs Probos, Tarachos and Andronicus, at Tarsus in Cilicia

Tarachus, Probus and Andronicus were arrested at Pompeiopolis in Cilicia under Diocletian and taken before the governor Numerius Maximus at Tarsus. Tarachus was a former soldier aged sixty-five, Probus came from Side in Pamphylia, and Andronicus was a young man of good family from Ephesus.

Their Acts, which take the form of court records of three interrogations, are among the best-known accounts of the Great Persecution. After long tortures they were sent to the amphitheatre of Anazarbus, where, according to the Acts, the beasts would not touch them; they were then killed by gladiators with the sword, in 304.