Feast Day: August 11th
The Life of Saint Euplus: While they were beating him with iron rods, Saint Euplus, mockingly said to the torturing judge: “O ignorant one, do you not see that because of God’s help, these tortures are for me as a cobweb? If you can, find other harsher tortures, for all of these are as toys.”… Finally, they led the Martyr of Christ out to the scaffold with the Gospel hanging around his neck. Then Saint Euplus opened the Holy Gospel and read from it to the people for a long time. Many converted to the Faith of Christ. Saint Euplus was beheaded in the year 304 and took up habitation in the Kingdom of Heaven…
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Prayers
Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone: As a Holy Deacon, a righteous minister of the Church of Christ, thou didst contend superbly. Thou didst sail over the sea of many torments and afflictions, O all-blessed Euplus. Guide us into the haven of Heaven.
Kontakion in the First Tone: Thou didst bear in thy hands the law of Christ, and cry to thine enemies in the stadium: I am coming willingly to contest most steadfastly. Then thou didst gladly finish thy course by bending thy neck to the sword.
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