The life of St Solochon
Under brutal flogging, Pamphamir and Pamphalon died, but Solochon endured and kept confessing his faith.
Church tradition tells that when Campanus tried to force wine offered to idols into his mouth, Solochon set his jaw so firmly that no force could open it, and that his bonds gave way as he stood to face his tormentor undaunted, strengthened, he said, by a voice from heaven. He was dragged over jagged stones and left hanging by one hand for hours with a great weight on his foot, yet when cut down he stood upright as though unharmed. In fury, Campanus at last drove a sharp instrument through his ear. Dying, Solochon was carried to the house of a Christian widow, where he ate a little, blessed those gathered around him, and commended his soul to the Lord Jesus Christ.
