St. Charalambos the Hieromartyr

Charalambos was a priest in Magnesia on the Meander who taught the faith openly in the reign of Septimius Severus. He was flayed and tortured in his old age, and many who saw his endurance believed. By tradition he was beheaded at 113, the oldest of the martyrs. Greeks pray to him against epidemics, and his skull is kept at the monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora.

• Feast: February 10 (New Calendar)
• Lived: died c. 202
• Place: Magnesia, Asia Minor
• Relics today: St. Stephen’s Monastery, Meteora