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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.
During the reign of the emperor Nero (54-68), the Archippus, Philemon and Apphia proclaimed themselves as Christians, stood trial and were meted out brutal penalties.
His true teaching on two natures and two wills of Christ was affirmed in the doctrine of the Church almost two centuries after his death.
Fearing that his steadfastness might embolden other Christians, the governor sentenced him to be burned at the stake. He walked into the fire and surrendered his soul to the Lord.
But when the Russian Orthodox Church glorified him in 1913, it was not for his religious ministry, but for his steadfastness in the service of the Russian Orthodox Church as its Patriarch and for his martyrdom.
Saint Makary (Nevsky), Metropolitan of Moscow and Altai is the outstanding missionary saint, lauded as the “Apostle of Altai,” “Siberian Pillar of Orthodoxy,” and “living Russian saint” by his contemporaries.
With sincere repentance, he received forgiveness of his transgressions and ascended spiritually to become an apostle of the seventy.
A friend of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, he tried to persuade him to become his successor as metropolitan, but did not succeed. He is also the guardian angel of Alexis II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in 1990 – 2008.
Saint Blaise is venerated in the Eastern and Western churches as a holy healer. Believers invoke his name for protection from wild animals and the healing of illness.
Harlampios did not hide his faith, but openly confessed it. He endured his tortures manfully, and with his courage brought many people to the faith.
Saint Nikephoros, a martyr was not just an example of Christian virtue and devotion to God, but also a vivid illustration of the truth that even a sacrifice of life will mean nothing in the eyes of God if given without love.
Word had reached the emperor that his commander was a Christian. He travelled to meet him personally, hoping to manipulate him into worshipping the Pagan idols.
