Life
The accounts relate that Conon came from Nazareth of Galilee and moved to Pamphylia, a province on the southern coast of Asia Minor, settling in a town the sources give as Mandona or Mandron. There he cultivated a garden and grew vegetables, and the tradition describes him as a God-fearing, sincere, and guileless man who lived quietly by his own labor.
When the persecution under Decius reached the region, officers came to arrest Conon as a Christian. By the account of John Sanidopoulos, he was brought before a governor named Puplius (Publius), who urged him to sacrifice to the idols; Conon refused, declaring that he could not renounce his faith though he should suffer ten thousand torments.