The Holy Bishop-Martyr Eutyches, Disciple of St. John the Theologian.
Eutyches was one of the lesser apostles and was born in Sebastopol. He was a disciple and imitator of the Apostle John the Theologian and the Apostle Paul. Even though he is not numbered among the seventy apostles, nevertheless, he is called an apostle because he was a disciple of the great apostles and, because in his evangelical service, he displayed true apostolic zeal. Consecrated a missionary bishop, St. Eutyches traveled much, having, an angel as his companion. In prison, he received heavenly bread from an angel. When his body was scrapped with a serrated iron rod, blood flowed from him with unusual fragrant myrrh. He was thrown into a fire and before wild beasts and finally beheaded with a sword in Sebastopol.Our Blessed Confessor and Priest-Monk Dominic Methodius Trcka.
Domnonic Trcka, of Frydlant nad Ostravici (now in the Czech Republic), entered the Redemptorist Congregation at the age of sixteen, and was ordained a priest eight years later. In 1919, he obtained permission form his superiors to minister to Eastern rite Catholics in Lviv (now in Ukraine). He took at this time the eastern name of Methodius. He founded the first Redemptorist community to serve both Roman rite and Byzantine rite Catholics in Strophov, Slovakia . In 1950, Father Trcka was arrested by the Communists and taken to a concentration camp, where he was interrogated and tortured. Father Trcka’s continued contacts with his superiors in Prague and Rome were branded by the Communists as ‘espionage’ for which he was sentenced to twelve years of imprisonment. During Christmas of 1958, he was discovered singing a Christmas carol, for which he was confined to a ‘correction cell’, in which he contacted pneumonia. Denied proper medical treatment, he died three months later on March 23, 1959, having forgiven his persecutors.\
Respectfully Taken From the:
"The Prologue of Ohrid"
by St. Nikolai of Zica, Serbia(Velimirovic)
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