Saint Euplo of Catania

In Catania, Sicily, saint Euplo of Euplius, martyr, who, according to tradition, in the persecution unleashed by the Emperor Diocleciano, when he took in his hands the volumes of the Gospels, was imprisoned by the Governor Calvisiano, and when, quizzed again, responded that he gloried in the heart have the Gospels, he was flogged to death.