Epipodius and Alexander of Lyon

They escaped the slaughter that took Pothinus, Blandina and their companions, and took refuge at Vaise, outside the walls, at the foot of the hill north-west of the city, with a widow named Lucia who kept them some months. They were denounced. The governor questioned them together and got no recantation; they were then separated, and the two deaths were not the same — Epipodius was put to the rack and beheaded, Alexander crucified two days later. Christians carried off the bodies by night and buried them in a cave on a hill then outside the walls, which the city has since reached; they were later moved beside Saint Irenaeus, into the crypt that bears his name. Lucia had kept a shoe of Epipodius, which was said to heal. One of the earliest traces of their cult is a Lyon homily long ascribed to Eucherius, which criticism places in the pseudepigraphic Eusebius Gallicanus collection and attributes to Faustus of Riez; their Passion was written in the same century, and modern scholarship disputes even their existence. Their relics were destroyed in 1562 during the sack of the city.