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- Martyr Hyacinth of Caesarea in Cappadocia, and those with him (108)
- He was a young courtier to the Emperor Trajan, and a secret
Christian. When the Emperor and his court were offering sacrifice to the
idols, Hyacinth stood apart; he was noticed and brought before the
Emperor where, when interrogated, he proclaimed himself a Christian and
refused to make sacrifice to the pagan gods. For this he was brutally
whipped, then thrown into prison, where the Emperor ordered that he be
given only food that had been sacrificed to idols. This Hyacinth refused
to eat and, after eight days, died in prison.
- Our Father among the Saints Anatolios, Archbishop of Constantinople (458)
- He was a priest from Alexandria. At the 'Robber Council' at Ephesus
in 449, Dioscoros, the monophysite who occupied the Patriarchal throne
in Alexandria, had Anatolios installed as Patriarch of Constantinople,
thinking that he would prove an ally. But Anatolios quickly emerged as a
fervent champion of Orthodoxy: he convened a council of bishops just
before the Council of Chalcedon in 451, at which Pope Leo's Orthodox
"Tome" (see February 18) was approved, though Dioscoros had not allowed
it to be read at the Robber Council. At the Council of Chalcedon,
Anatolios condemned Nestorius, Eutyches, and his frustrated patron
Dioscoros. He reposed in peace in 458.
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Anatolios is believed to be the author of the 'Anatolian Stichera'
found in the weekly Vespers and Matins services; but these may have been
composed by another Anatolios, a monk and a disciple of St Theodore the
Studite.
- source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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