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He is also remembered as a model pastor to his flock who showed his disciples that the teachings of the faith were not abstract intellectual constructions, but had a direct bearing on our Christian life.
He eschewed worldly comforts and most of all he escaped worldly fame. For his humility and service to God, he received the name god-bearing.
He had to abandon his municipal service and go into hiding in a remote village when Emperor Diocletian of Rome unleashed the vicious persecution of Christians.
The Holy Martyr Agapius and seven other Christian martyrs suffered during the reign of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, a vicious persecutor of Christians.
On 26 March, the Russian Orthodox Church remembers the translation of his relics. His main commemoration is on 15 June.
Many sick were healed by his prayers, and he acquired the gift of wonderworking. To this day, believers have invoked his name in prayers for patients with mental diseases.
He defended the true faith against the heresies of his time, and wrote key liturgical texts that we hear at the worship services during the Great Lent, including the Life of Saint Mary of Egypt and three Lenten canons.
He mastered the art of medicine, and began to cure people with potions, herbs, and, most importantly, by his faith and prayer.
The forty martyrs of Sebaste were Christian soldiers who distinguished themselves in battles and glorified themselves in eternity by remaining loyal to Christ despite flattery and brutal torture.
When the Patriarch of Constantinople ordained him as bishop of Nicomedia, he became a loving shepherd to his flock and spared no effort to ease the plight of the sick and needy.
He was a contemporary of the Holy Apostles and, according to tradition, a disciple of Archangel Michael himself, who brought him to Christ and gave him baptism.
He also founded the great Lavra in Palestine famous for its strict and simple monastic rule that exists to this day. Steadfast and uncompromising on matters of faith, he was also compassionate and loving with people and animals.
All these saints were relatives and St Theodore the Tyro (2 March) who were in the same prison with him for their Christian faith.
The life of Martyr Eudokia is an example of the power of repentance to transform one’s life from unclean to pure, from unbelief to full faith in God.
But he performed the feat of his life by standing up fearlessly against the heresy of iconoclasm that became official policy in Byzantine during the reign of Emperor Leo the Isaurus.
In a dream, he had a vision of the Golgotha in which the good thief descended from the cross to lead him to Christ, and entrusted to his keeping His Cross.
As Patriarch of Constantinople, he led a simple life of humility that contrasted sharply with the lifestyles of many top courtiers and secular dignitaries.
Blind from birth and paralyzed in her legs from the age of 17, St. Matrona was endowed from childhood with the gift of unceasing prayer. By the age of seven or eight, she possessed the miraculous ability to heal the sick.
As bishop of Smyrna for over five decades, he preached faithfully the word of Christ and guarded the purity of His teaching. He left a legacy of theological writings.
The relics discovered at Eugenios Gate at Constantinople worked numerous miracles, including surprise healings of the sick and the driving out of the demons from the possessed.
