Hieromartyr Eutychius
Eutyches was a young man of Sebastea who came first to John the Theologian and learned from him, and afterward joined himself to Paul and travelled with him on his early journeys preaching the Gospel. The elder apostles themselves set him over a church, though he had not been one of the Seventy, and the Church has always called him an apostle for the sake of that labor beside them.
Coming feasts: Tuesday, August 24, 2027
He suffered a great deal for it in his own city at the end of his life: starved, beaten with rods of iron, thrown to burn, and then thrown before wild animals. The Church remembers that when a lion was loosed on him it would not touch him but instead spoke in a human voice and gave glory to God, to the astonishment of everyone watching. In the end he was beheaded there in Sebastea, at the very start of the second century.
On the feast day Orthros sets the life of St Eutychius before you, beside the day's fast and readings, free to read.
