Holy Martyr Polychronius 10/20/2013
Polychronius was born in a peasant family from the district of Gamphanetis. In his youth he worked in the vineyards around Constantinople. Yet, Polychronius lived in ascesis of fasting and prayer day and night. When the owner of the vineyards came to notice his way of life - angelic in terms of purity and restrain, he paid him much greater salary than he had earned. And Saint Polychronius took the money and built a church with it. At the time of the Niaceian Council, Polichrunius was a reader, and he showed such great zeal in defending the Orthodox faith against the Arians that he was consecrated a priest. To revenge the Arian heretics attacked him in the church and cut him to pieces. Thus this great defender of the Truth and the purity of Orthodoxy suffered and died and was crowned with a wreath of glory by his Lord.
