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Rev. Titus the Wonderworker, Presbyter Rev. Titus the Wonderworker, Presbyter. From a young age, a monk and ascetic (probably in the Studite monastery of Constantinople), was a presbyter and was distinguished by meekness, love and mercy to everyone; God glorified him with many miracles. Died in the 9th century. Holy Martyrs Amphian and Edesus Amphian and Edesius, brothers from Patara in Lycia, studied science in Virita (now Beirut) and there they realized that paganism is a delusion. Returning home, they did not want to live in the house of their parent, a stubborn pagan, and secretly withdrew to Caesarea in Palestine, where from Presbyter Pamphilus (February 16) they learned the Holy Faith and were baptized. At that time imp. Maximin brutally persecuted Christians. One day Amphian, who was about twenty years old, entered the church where the ruler Urban was making a sacrifice, held his hand and loudly began to denounce the wickedness of the idolaters and proclaim Christian piety. The pagans grabbed the confessor, beat him in the mouth, threw him to the ground and trampled underfoot, and then imprisoned him. The next day, seeing his steadfastness, they again beat him with tin rods, planed his body with iron and, wrapping his legs in flax soaked in oil, burned them. On the third day, the ruler ordered him to be thrown into the sea with a stone around his neck. It was April 2, 306. After some time, Edesius, along with other Christians, was taken and exiled to work in the copper mines of Fenon, in Palestine, and then taken to Alexandria. Here, seeing Hierocles the ruler, who cruelly tortured Christians and usually handed over Christian wives and girls for corruption, the confessor hit him in court and exposed his inhumanity. For this, after suffering, he was drowned in the sea (about 310).