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- St Eustathius, archbishop of Antioch (337)
- He was consecrated Bishop of Berea (Aleppo) in Syria, then of
Antioch in 324. He took an active part in the Council of Nicea against
the Arian heresy. His zeal for the Faith aroused the hatred of various
heretics, who convened a council in Antioch where, by means of slanders
and false witnesses, they were able to have the holy bishop deposed and
exiled to Thrace, where he died a few years later.
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The deposition of the Saint caused a schism in the Church of Antioch
which was not healed until 414 (see St Meletius, Feb. 12). Saint John
Chrysostom publicly praised Eustathius as a Martyr, and his relics were
finally brought back to Antioch in 482. The Synaxarion
says "The people then went in jubilation to meet him with lights and
incense, and escorted him as he made a triumphal entry into his city,
which thus recovered its unity in the Faith and in the veneration of
this champion of Orthodoxy."
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