Feast Day: September 3rd
The Life of Saint Polydorus: The courageous Martyr endured all of them with courage and unique perseverance. He endured them by Praying with Faith: “Lord forgive me”…
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A Prayer
Apolytikion in the Third Tone: A great boast of Lefkosia, a great protector are you of Ephesus, a great glory of the two cities, of a sacred offspring were you shown to be by the purple of your blood. Intercede with Christ God, Polydoros, that we may be delivered from dangers and sorrows.
…Then he remembered the advice of his good mother. She told him the following words once when he did something which he should not have done and felt uneasy and distressed: “My child, the only thing that appeases and gives peace to an upset conscience is repentance and confession”. This recollection strengthened him somehow but also pushed him without any delay or postponement to leave Egypt and go to Beirut. When he reached there, with great agony he ran to see the local Orthodox Bishop. When he found him, deeply crushed, he fell in front of him and requested to accept his confession. He told him everything. He did not withhold anything…
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