Elias and companions

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Elias and four companions, Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Samuel were Egyptian martyrs who visited Christians condemned to work in the mines of Cilicia during Maximus' persecution, to comfort them. In 309 They were arrested at the gates of the mine in Caesarea Palaestina, Israel, and brought before the governor Firmilian, and accused of being Christians. They were all tortured and then beheaded. St. Pamphilus was also caught up in the martyrdom, sharing Elias’ fate. When Porphyry, a servant of Pamphilus, demanded that the bodies be buried, he was tortured and then burned to death when it was found that he was a Christian. St. Seleucus witnessed his death and applauded his constancy in the face of this terrible death; whereupon he was arrested by the soldiers involved in the execution, brought before the governor, and was beheaded at Firmilian's order. The historian Eusebius was in Caesarea, and gave a vivid account of their martyrdom by torture and beheading.

St. Elias and companion's feast day is on February 16.

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