Stephen of Trigleia

Holy Venerable Stephen of Trigleia was a hegumen and confessor of the holy icons, and he died in prison, worn out by torments, after the year 815, in the time of the iconoclast emperor Leo the Armenian (813-820).

From his youth he devoted his life to God and received monastic tonsure, then became abbot of the Trigleia monastery near Constantinople. When the persecution of the holy icons began, the holy hegumen was summoned for questioning, where he was pressed to sign a renunciation of the veneration of icons. The venerable Stephen firmly refused to change Orthodoxy and boldly accused the emperor of impiety. He was subjected to fierce torments, after which in 815 he was sent into confinement. Exhausted, sick and suffering, the holy confessor Stephen soon died in prison.

He is commemorated on 10 April, in the new style.