Overcome with weariness, he lay down to rest, fervently praying to his patron saint, the Martyr Tryphon, for help. In a dream he saw a youth on a white horse, holding the Tsar’s falcon on his hand.

The holy Great Martyr Euphemia (September 16) suffered martyrdom in the city of Chalcedon in the year 304, during the time of the persecution against Christians by the emperor Diocletian (284-305).