The memory of the holy martyr Eustace

The holy martyr Eustathius served in the army, and because he was a Christian, he was taken and brought to the governor of the city of Ancyra [Ancyra is in the Roman province of Galatia in Asia Minor] Cornelius.

It begins in the province of Phrygia, bordering Galatia, passes through Galatia and Bithynia, and flows into the Euxine Pontus, now the Black Sea.], and the governor followed him and watched, and finally they put him in a box and threw him into the river.

When the governor saw this, he was ashamed and drew his sword and killed himself. Meanwhile, the holy martyr prayed to God, received the Divine Mysteries from the hands of the angel who appeared to him, and after that he gave his spirit into the hands of the Lord.