Saints Sapor, Isaac, Mahanes, Abraham, and Simeon (died 339 AD) were a group of Christians in Persia who were martyred under King Shapur II.
A band of Martyrs in Persia who endured savage torture and in the end were beheaded under Sapor II, the persecuting monarch (A.D.
The day after the arrival of this new company of holy champions, Sapor, Isaac, Mahanes, Abraham, and Simeon, were presented to the king, who said to them: “Have not you heard that I derive my pedigree from the gods?
and who is ignorant that the sun is to be worshipped.”[4] The holy bishop Sapor replied: “We confess only one God, who made all things, and Jesus Christ born of him.”[5]
The king reproached him bitterly for having presumed to build churches; but the martyr maintained the cause of Christ with inflexible constancy.
By the king’s command several of the chief men of the city who had embraced the faith, and abandoned it for fear of torments, were sent for, and by threats engaged to carry off the servant of God, and stone him to death.
The other three were then called by him to the bar: and the tyrant finding them no less invincible than those who were gone before them, caused the skin of Mahanes to be flayed from the top of the head to the navel; under which torment he expired.