Two martyrs who were beheaded near Constantinople.
Pamphilus and Capiton are a pair of early Christian martyrs commemorated together in the Orthodox calendar. According to the synaxarion they were beheaded by the sword at Oliurea, a locality near Constantinople, and they are kept as a single joint commemoration.
Very little is recorded of them. The surviving notice supplies only the manner and place of their death and their feast; no dates, offices, or background are preserved, and their century is not established. The name Capiton also appears in the variant spelling Capito.
The martyrs are commemorated on August 12, a day that falls within the Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
Several other saints share the date in the Orthodox calendar, among them the Martyrs Anicetus and Photius of Nicomedia and those with them, the Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop of Comana, and the Martyr Gerontius and companions of the Saint David Gareji Monastery in Georgia.
OCA gives only brief details. Named pair kept as one row.