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Martyr Eulogius of Palestine

Also known as Eulogius

A man who gave his inherited wealth to the poor and wandered preaching Christ and converting pagans, until he was arrested during persecution and martyred.

March 5New Calendar
Feast Day
March 18Old Calendar
Commemorated as

The Holy Martyr Eulogius of Palestine

Life

Eulogius of Palestine was an early Christian martyr commemorated on March 5. According to the synaxarion, he was a native of Palestine whose parents were pagans; after their death he gave away the whole of his inherited wealth to the poor and took up the life of a wandering preacher.

Travelling through Palestine, he devoted himself to converting pagans to Christianity. During a period of persecution he was arrested, subjected to torture, and put to death by beheading. The surviving account preserves no fixed dates, so his life is placed broadly in the pre-Nicene era of the early persecutions.

Kontakion & Troparion2 hymnsReadHide
KontakionTone 2

(Podoben: “You sought the heights...”) You appeared as a bright star announcing Christ with your radiance,
which is repulsive to this world, O Martyr Eulogius;
extinguishing the allure of false gods,
you enlighten the faithful,
always interceding for us all.

Text used with permission of the Orthodox Church in America (oca.org).

TroparionTone 3

Your holy martyr Eulogius, O Lord,
through his suffering has received an incorruptible crown from You, our God.
For having Your strength, he laid low his adversaries,
and shattered the powerless boldness of demons.
Through his intercessions, save our souls!

Text used with permission of the Orthodox Church in America (oca.org).

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Life and Martyrdom

The brief life recorded for Eulogius identifies him as a native of Palestine born to pagan parents. When his parents died, he distributed his entire inheritance among the poor rather than retaining it, and adopted a homeless, itinerant manner of life.

As a wanderer he moved through Palestine preaching Christ and, by the synaxarion's account, bringing pagans to the Christian faith. His missionary work eventually brought him into conflict with the authorities during a persecution, when he was seized, tortured, and beheaded for his confession of Christ.

The sources transmit no precise chronology, place of death, or details of relics; the tradition remembers him chiefly for his renunciation of wealth and his preaching, and commemorates him as a martyr on March 5.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints