He was of noble birth and well brought up in the pious faith. During the time of Emperor Julian the Apostate, when St. Basil the Great was governing the Church of God in Caesarea, this Eupsychia married a distinguished girl. But he was not allowed to live in marriage for a single day. For at the time of his wedding, a pagan festival occurred with a sacrifice to the idol of Fortune. Eupsychia and his companions went and broke all the idols in the temple, and even destroyed the temple itself. Hearing of this, Emperor Julian was very angry and ordered that the culprits be beheaded, that many Christians be taken into the army, that a huge tax be levied on the Christians, that the temple of Fortuna be rebuilt at the expense of the Christians, and that the city be stripped of its honorable name of Caesarea (which the Emperor Claudius had given it) and called by its former name of Maza. St. Euphisius was first tied to a tree and tortured severely, and then beheaded, in 362. Shortly after this wicked Emperor Julian visited that city on his way to Persia, against which he was waging war. St. Basil went out to meet him and brought out three barley loaves as a sign of honor and hospitality. The emperor ordered that the saint be given a handful of hay as a gift. Basil said to the emperor: “You mock us, O emperor, we have brought you bread, which we eat, and you give us cattle food, which you cannot transform into human food by your authority.” — To this the emperor replied: “Know that I will feed you with that hay when I return from Persia!” — But the evil apostate never returned alive from Persia, for he died there a deserved and unnatural death.

Venerable Martyr Vadim.