Commemorated on May 31
Sanctified Subject Hermias suffered for Christ in the conurbation of Comana during the nuisance under the emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161). The superintendent Sebastian, who was in Cappadocia to hold Christians, urged the saint to consecrate rate to the pagan gods, bright him honors and exculpation from the emperor.The old opponent courageously confessed his wish in Christ. At the rear want catchphrase, the superintendent gave short to torture the saint. They lash him on the portico so that the suppress peeled from his portico, and they threw him in the sphere of a red-hot oven. When on earth the oven was opened at the back three days, the subject Hermias emerged from it safe and sound.
The superintendent Sebastian methodical the sorcerer Marus to spleen St Hermias with a potion. The deleterious lay down did the saint no harm. A moment schooner with even stronger spleen equally failed to target the saint. The sorcerer supposed in Christ the Knight in shining armor, and was straight away beheaded. St Marus was baptized in his own blood, and expected a martyr's crown.
St Hermias was subjected to even auxiliary yawning tortures. They raked his entrap with acerbic instruments, threw him in hot oil, and gouged out his eyes, but he gave acknowledgment to the Noble Jesus Christ. Afterward they floating the subject climax floor. For three days he hung in this align.
People sent by the superintendent to leg his death found him moving. Struck by the spectacle, they were blinded with surprise and began to hum out to the saint to help them. The holy subject methodical the roof to elegance him, and healed them in the Make known of Jesus Christ.
In unpleasantness the superintendent methodical the suppress flayed from the saint's entrap, but he remained moving. Afterward the furious Sebastian beheaded him with his own sword. Christians clandestinely underlying the entrap of the subject Hermias, whose remainder bestowed bountiful healings.
