Euthymios of Rhodes

The glorious Hieromartyr Euthymios of Rhodes was elected Metropolitan of Rhodes when the Ottomans occupied the island in 1523. During those difficult years he shepherded his flock in a God-⁠pleasing manner. In 1529 he was arrested as the leader of a conspiracy against the Turks and impaled on a stake along with other clergymen and leading citizens of Rhodes. Metropolitan Euthymios was honored as a martyr by the Christians immediately after his death. The Latin missionary Peter Fangonis, vicar general of the Latin archbishop Alfonso Gonzaga, states in his report to the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith that the tomb of the blessed Euthymios had become the most prominent site of pilgrimage on Rhodes, and that those who went there suffering from quartan fever, "malaria," and the chills and fever that went with it, were healed. He is commemorated on 9 August (new style; 22 August on the old calendar).