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- Hieromartyr Patrick, bishop of Prusa, and three priests with him (3rd c?)
- 'Saint Patrick was Bishop of Prusa, a city in Bythinia (the
present-day Brusa or Bursa). Because of his Christian faith, he was
brought before Julius (of Julian) the Consul, who in his attempts to
persuade Patrick to worship as he himself did, declared that thanks was
owed to the gods for providing the hot springs welling up from the earth
for the benefit of men. Saint Patrick answered that thanks for this was
owed to our Lord Jesus Christ, and explained that when He, Who is God,
created the earth, He made it with both fire and water, and the fire
under the earth heats the water which wells up, producing hot springs;
he then explained that there is another fire, which awaits the ungodly.
Because of this, he was cast into the hot springs, but it was the
soldiers who cast him in, and not he, who were harmed by the hot water.
After this St Patrick was beheaded with the presbyters Acacius,
Menander, and Polyaenus. Most likely this was during the reign of
Diocletian (284-305).' (Great Horologion)
source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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