St. Volodymyr's Parish

St Basil the Confessor, bishop of Parium (~760)

In the dark days of iconoclasm, this holy bishop refused to sign the imperial order condemning the veneration of icons, and for this was cruelly persecuted in many ways by the heretics for the remainder of his life; all the while he remained 'firm as a diamond in his Orthodoxy.' (Prologue)

source: http://www.abbamoses.com