The Holy Christ Martyr Akakios suffered during the reign of Licinius for confessing Christ. He was subjected to cruel tortures, including hanging and being scraped on the body, and then sent to the eparch Terentius. After the saint remained unharmed in a cauldron of tar and lard, he was brought into a pagan temple, where through prayer he overthrew the idols. The eparch handed him over to the tribunal, which ordered him to be severely beaten, then thrown to the beasts, and finally into the furnace, but Akakios remained unharmed. The tribune, wishing to verify the coldness of the furnace, burned himself. After this, the saint was handed over to the trial of Posidonius, who commanded heavy chains to be placed on him and to be taken to Miletus, where he again overthrew the idols. For this, his head was cut off, and blood and milk flowed from the wound. His body was buried by the presbyter Leontius in the city of Sinnada.
