Historical Record
The commemoration survives only in calendrical form. The OCA Synaxarion for August 8 records the combined entry in a single line, naming neither the ascetics nor the martyrs and supplying no dates or wider context; the entry appears among more than a dozen other commemorations on that date.
The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar lists the two groups as separate commemorations — the ten venerable ascetics of Egypt, and the two martyrs of Tyre dragged to death — citing the Great Synaxaristes and the OCA Lives of the Saints. Beyond the manner of death, no biographical or historical detail is preserved.
Liturgical verses associated with each group survive in the Greek tradition. For the ascetics: "The ten offspring of Egypt died, who were equal in number to the ten plagues." For the martyrs: "The pair tread the ground, the pole is the fear of God, the yoke is faith, and the wheels are eagerness." No scholarly hagiographic account of either group exists in the accessible record.