Martyrdom
The synaxarion relates that Acacius was tried before three governors who attempted to make him sacrifice to idols. A governor named Licinius ordered his body torn with instruments of torture and then sent him on to a governor named Terence, who had him cast into a cauldron of boiling tar and tallow, from which the tradition holds he emerged unharmed.
The account continues that he was carried through the cities of Apamea and Apollonia, that idols fell at his prayer when he was brought into a pagan temple, and that he survived being given to wild beasts and being thrown into a red-hot furnace. He was then handed to an official named Posidonius, fettered, and taken toward Miletus, where the tradition again credits his prayer with the destruction of idols. The synaxarion concludes that the torturers, worn out, finally beheaded him, and that a priest named Leontius buried his body in the city of Synados in Asia Minor.