Confessor
Theosterictus of Medikion
A monk of the Medikion monastery, a confessor of the veneration of icons.
- Feast
- February 28old style March 13
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Confessors
Life
Holy Confessor Theosterictus of Medikion, abbot of Pelekete, suffered for the veneration of icons in the time of the impious emperor Constantine Copronymus (741-775). With him were tortured Saint Stephen the Younger (commemorated on 28 November) and other devout monks. Saint Theosterictus was burned with boiling pitch.
He departed in peace to the Lord in deep old age. He is known as a spiritual writer and as the author of the canon to the Mother of God that begins with the words about one beset by many temptations, a canon that tradition connects with the order of the Paraklesis. Saint Theosterictus is commemorated on 13 March.
Commemorated the same day February 28
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