Reading from the Synaxarion:
This Martyr was the daughter of most distinguished and noble parents
named Philip and Claudia. Philip, a Prefect of Rome, moved to
Alexandria with his family. In Alexandria, Eugenia had the occasion to learn
the Christian Faith, in particular when she encountered the Epistles
of Saint Paul, the reading of which filled her with compunction and
showed her clearly the vanity of the world. Secretly taking two of her
servants, Protas and Hyacinth, she departed from Alexandria by night.
Disguised as a man, she called herself Eugene while pretending to be a
eunuch, and departed with her servants and took up the monastic life in a
monastery of men. Her parents mourned for her, but could not find her.
After Saint Eugenia had laboured for some time in the monastic life, a
certain woman named Melanthia, thinking Eugenia to be a monk, conceived
lust and constrained Eugenia to comply with her desire; when Eugenia
refused, Melanthia slandered Eugenia to the Prefect as having done insult
to her honour. Eugenia was brought before the Prefect, her own
father Philip, and revealed to him both that she was innocent of the
accusations, and that she was his own daughter. Through this, Philip became a
Christian; he was afterwards beheaded at Alexandria. Eugenia was taken back
to Rome with Protas and Hyacinth. All three of them ended their life
in martyrdom in the years of Commodus, who reigned from 180 to 192.
Apolytikion in the Third Tone
Being mystically moved by the Spirit, thou didst sing God's praise,
thereby receiving the clear light of divine knowledge in thy heart; and
shining bright as the sun with a righteous life, thou overcamest the
devil in martyrdom. O Eugenia, thou most glorious Martyr of the Lord,
entreat Christ God to grant great mercy unto us.
Kontakion in the Fourth Tone
Fleeing from the fleeting world's temporal glory, thou didst greatly long
for Christ, and didst preserve wholly unhurt the high nobility of thy
soul, O godly Martyr, all-lauded Eugenia.
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