Today, Wednesday, April 6, is Agios Eftychios.
Those who are called Eftychios, Eftychis, Eftychia, Eftychoula, Eftychitsa, Efi celebrate.
Who was Saint Eftychios?
According to Wikipedia, Eftychios (January 22, 512 – April 5, 582), considered a saint in the Orthodox and Catholic Church, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 552 to 565 and from 577 to 582.
He was born on January 22, 512 in the village “Theia Komi” of Phrygia. His father was a general in the army of Belisarius. Eftychios became a monk at the age of 30 from the Metropolitan of Amaseia. He then stayed in Constantinople as a respondent of the Metropolitan of Amasya and reached the office of Archimandrite. Eftychios was highly esteemed by Patriarch Minas, after whose death Eftychios was elected Patriarch, at the suggestion of Emperor Justinian.
During the days of his first Patriarchate, and specifically from May 5 to June 21, 553, the Fourth Ecumenical Council took place[1]. On December 24, 563, he performed the second inauguration of the Hagia Sophia, after the damage he had suffered in the earthquake of 558. he could not suffer any damage from the moment the Word entered him[2]. Eftychios condemned this sect despite the pressure of the Emperor. On January 22, 565, while he was officiating for the feast of St. Timothy, soldiers arrested him.
After that he was deposed and exiled, first to the Prince and then to Amasya of Pontus. After the death of his successor, Patriarch John of Scholasticus, the new Emperor Justin II summoned Eftychios back to the throne, who returned to Constantinople, received a glorious reception and took over again in October 577.
Towards the end of his life, he seems to have adopted the opinion that after the resurrection of the dead, they will have an intangible body, thinner than air. The later Pope Gregory I, then respondent of the Pope in Constantinople, reacted to this view, citing a passage from the Gospel of Luke[3]. Emperor Tiberius II undertook a mediation effort.
Patriarch Eftychios died on the Sunday of Thomas, April 5, 582. Eyewitnesses told him that a few minutes before he died, he touched the skin of his hand and said, “I confess that we will be resurrected in this flesh.” He was buried under the base of the Holy Altar of the Church of the Holy Apostles, next to the relics of the Apostle Andrew, the Evangelist Luke and St. Timothy. His cart is today in the Monastery of Chilandari on Mount Athos. He was proclaimed a saint and his memory is honored by the Orthodox Church on April 6.
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