Calendar Thursday, April 25: St. Makedonios II, as elder and custodian of Hagia Sophia, for his piety, in which he was educated by his uncle Patriarch Gennadius, was called to administer the Ecumenical throne (496-511), instead of Patriarch Euphimius, who was exiled to Euchaita .
The people had great love for his person. However, the heretical emperor Anastasios Dikoros (491-518), asked Macedonia for a letter – which Anastasios had given to Macedonian’s predecessor, Euphymius, and then he had given to Macedonian – with which he assured in his own writing, that he would observe inviolable the doctrines of the Church. An assurance he brutally violated.
Macedonius refused to give it to him, and Anastasius, enraged, deposed him, and exiled him first to Chalcedon and then to Euchaita. But due to the incursions of the Huns in Pontus, he fled to Gangra, where he died in 517 AD. He turned out to be a true bishop, a defender of Orthodoxy and the Church against imperial arbitrariness.
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Calendar Thursday, April 25
Saint Makedonios II Patriarch of Constantinople
Commemoration of the opening of the sept Apostoleion
Agia Niki
Holy Eight Martyrs and Departed
Saint Maughald (Irish)
Saint Annian Bishop of Alexandria
Saint Sylvester of Obnora
Saint Basil the Hesychast
Today 25/4 they celebrate: Victory *
Today 25/4 the sun rose at 6:35am. and will set at 8:10 p.m.
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