Maria Constantinople Biography

The memory of the holy martyrs of Julian, Marcian and others, who suffered with them for icons, the memory of August 9, For idolaters. Lev Isaurian ordered to throw holy icons from churches, houses and generally dwellings and destroy them, plunging either into fire or into water; He did not share heretical delusions or referred to the extreme limits of the state or subjected various torment and even killed.

At the beginning of his persecution, he overthrew with the dishonor and beatings of His Holiness Patriarch of Constantinople Herman because the latter opposed his orders; In the place of the overthrown Patriarch, the heretic Anastasius was erected with Tsar at that time, many pious Christians rebelled against heresy, for which they chopped the martyrdom, like those that we now have a word.

Their suffering began on the following occasion. In Constantinople, since the time of Constantine the Great, there were a gate known as copper; From a long time ago there was an image of the Savior over these gates, also copper.

The wicked king and the patriarch were ordered to be removed; They put a staircase along which one of the warriors began to rise, San Spafaria; This was outraged by the pious feeling of a huge crowd of people gathered at the gate; Some of it grabbed the staircase and threw it along with the warrior on it on the ground, betraying the last death. Having learned about such an act of the people, the king sent against the Orthodox armed with naked swords of soldiers who killed many men and women, old and young; Their number is known to the Lord alone.

The most noble, admirers of the icons, located among the people's crowd, were taken alive; Their names are as follows: Julian, Markian, John, James, Alexy, Dimitri, Foka, Peter, Leonty. After brutal punishment with sticks, they were plunged into the dungeon, where they were in bonds for up to eighty days, merciful beatings were suffering: each of them was supposed to daily five hundred blows.

But strengthened by the power of Christ, the holy martyrs courageously endured everything, without losing the strength of the bodily; Seeing this, the tormentor first ordered to burn their faces with the red -hot iron, and then bring it to the square and kill with a sword. So the saints ended their suffering. Together with them, one noble woman, named Maria Patricia, was truncated for the reverent veneration of the icons.

The bodies of the holy martyrs were thrown into the sea abyss. When the holy martyrs were captured, the Monk Feodosia Chernorizitsa was also taken with them, as accused of the same crime, she and others participated in overturning the stairs. The Monk Feodosia grabbed the martyrdom of previously mentioned saints; Her memory is revered on the twenty -ninth day of May; Under this number, its life is placed.

All the holy martyrs who suffered behind the honest icon of the Savior appeared together to the Lord of Christ, our God, to Him for the forever. Amen