Euprepius

Holy Confessor Euprepius was a disciple of Saint Maximus the Confessor (commemorated on 21 January) and suffered for the right faith in the seventh century, in Thrace.

Of Maximus's disciples, the two Anastasii were exiled to Thrace by the heretical emperor Constans II, where they endured many hardships. Because they persisted in their Orthodox conviction, they were brought to Constantinople, where a synod condemned them and they were handed to the prefect for punishment. He, together with their teacher Maximus, cut out their tongues and cut off their right hands. The elder Anastasius died in exile in Lazica after twenty years, and the younger Anastasius in a fortress of Thrace, silent but a thundering preacher of Orthodox truth. The same befell the other two disciples of Maximus, the confessors Theodore and Euprepius. After twenty years of exile for the first and only one for the second, both gave up their souls to the Lord. They are commemorated on 20 September, in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).