From the Prologue of Ochrid
They were companions of Saint Theodore the Tyro. And when the glorious Theodore gloriously reposed, they remained in prison after him, and were not sentenced for some time due to a change of the imperial governor in the city of Amasia. When a new governor arrived, even more inhuman than his predecessor, he commanded that this trio be brought before him. All three were young men — Eutropius and Cleonicus being brothers by birth, and Basiliscus a kinsman of Saint Theodore. But all three were as born brothers in brotherly love. Thus they declared before the governor: "As the Holy Trinity is undivided, so are we undivided in faith and inseparable in love." All the governor's flatteries were in vain, as were his attempts to bribe Eutropius. First he invited him to dine with him, which Eutropius declined, speaking from the Psalms: blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly; then he offered him an enormous treasure — a hundred and fifty pounds of silver — which Eutropius also declined, reminding the governor that Judas lost his soul on account of silver. After all attempts, tortures, and torments, the first two were condemned to crucifixion and Basiliscus to beheading by sword. And the two brothers were crucified upon two crosses, for which they gave praise to Christ who counted them worthy of the same death by which He Himself died; while the third, Basiliscus, was beheaded by the sword. And all departed to the kingdom of joy where their commander, Saint Theodore, glorified by Christ the Lord and Victor before them, awaited them. They suffered honorably in the year 308.
