The Holy Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius.
During the persecution of Diocletian and Maximian, about the year 290, Saints Onesiphorus and Porphyrius were betrayed as Christians to the persecutors. After many torments through which they stood fast in confessing their faith, they were bound by the feet to wild horses and dragged to death.
The above account is taken from the Great Horologion,
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