Euschemon of Lampsacus

Saint Euschemon, confessor, was bishop of Lampsacus in Asia Minor, on the shore of the Dardanelles, a monk from his youth, and died before 843, in exile, for the veneration of the holy icons. He is commemorated on 14 March by the old calendar, which is 27 March by the new.

From his youth he was distinguished by a virtuous life. He received monastic tonsure and was made bishop of Lampsacus. He showed himself a defender of the true faith and suffered exile for the veneration of icons, in the time of the iconoclast emperor Theophilus (829 to 842). He died in exile. The Serbian source says that he was arrested and thrown into prison, where, by his words, he urged the prison guards to venerate the holy icons with prayer, and that he died in peace.

He is venerated as a wonderworker: according to his life, he raised a dead infant at the mother's request. His life is told in the Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople and in the Menologion of Basil II, and one of the letters of Theodore the Studite was addressed to him.