Saint Román of Antioquía

In Antioch of Syria, St. Román, martyr, Deacon in the Church of Caesarea, who when he saw, in the persecution under the Emperor Diocleciano, that Christians obeyed his decrees and approached the statues of idols, called them in public to the resistance, by which, after a cruel torments and cut off his tongue, was strangled in prison, thus causing his glorious martyrdom.