Ahmed was a Muslim official in Constantinople in the 680s. He had a Christian slave girl, who led Ahmed to become curious about her faith and he went incognito to a church in the city. There he saw what seemed like light falling on others but not on him, and was deeply distressed by it.

Ahmed was so impressed by the church at Constantinople that he asked to be baptised. His conversion was kept secret for safety’s sake, but he let the truth slip in conversation with his Muslim colleagues at the library, and was denounced as an apostate. He was executed on May 3rd, 682, and is honoured as a Christian martyr.

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