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- St Theophylactus, bishop of Nicomedia (845)
- "Theophylact was from the east; his native city is unknown. In
Constantinople he became a close friend of Tarasius, who afterwards
became Patriarch of Constantinople (see Feb. 25). Theophylact was made
Bishop of Nicomedia. After the death of Saint Tarasius, his successor
Nicephorus (see June 2) called together a number of Bishops to help him
in fighting the iconoclasm of Emperor Leo the Armenian, who reigned from
813 to 820. Among them was Euthymius, Bishop of Sardis (celebrated
Dec. 26), who had attended the holy Seventh Ecumenical Council in 787 —
he was exiled three times for the sake of the holy icons, and for
defying the Emperor Theophilus' command to renounce the veneration of
the icons, was scourged from head to foot until his whole body was one
great wound, from which he died eight days later, about the year 830;
Joseph of Thessalonica (see July 14); Michael of Synnada (see May 23);
Emilian, Bishop of Cyzicus (see Aug. 8); and Saint Theophylact, who
boldly rebuked Leo to his face, telling him that because he despised the
long-suffering of God, utter destruction was about to overtake him, and
there would be none to deliver him. For this, Theophylact was exiled to
the fortress of Strobilus in Karia of Asia Minor, where after 30 years
of imprisonment and hardship, he gave up his holy soul about the year
845. Leo the Armenian, according to the Saint's prophecy, was slain in
church on the eve of our Lord's Nativity, in 820." (Great Horologion)
source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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