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'''Anthony, John, and Eustathios (Eustace)''' are martyrs (+ 1347) of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]. They were attached to the [[Muscovy|Muscovite]] mission in the court of the pagan warlord, Algirdas (Olgierd) of Lithuania. Algirdas was married to a Russian Christian princess, and the missionaries were permitted only to minister to the religious needs of the princess and her retinue. All proselytising was strictly proscribed. The three youths were apprehended for preaching in public and brought before Algirdas, who ordered them to consume meat during a solemn fast. When they refused, he had them tortured and killed. Their incorrupt relics are entombed in a crypt below the altar of the cathedral church in the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, Lithuania.  
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'''Anthony, John, and Eustathius of Vilnius''' were 14th century [[martyrs]] (d. 1347) of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]].  
  
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Their feast day is celebrated on April 14.
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They were attached to the Muscovite mission in the court of the [[paganism|pagan]] warlord, Algirdas (Olgierd) of Lithuania. Grand Duke Algirdas was married to the [[Christians|Christian]] Russian Princess Yaroslavna, and the missionaries were present to minister to the religious needs of the princess and her retinue. The Grand Duke had nominally converted to Orthodoxy, but upon the death of Yaroslavna, he apostasised and resumed his pagan ways. All [[evangelism|evangelizing]] became strictly proscribed. The three youths, all popular and promising courtiers, were apprehended for preaching in public and brought before Algirdas, who ordered them to consume meat during a solemn [[fast]]. When they refused, he had them tortured and killed. Their [[Incorruptibility|incorrupt]] [[relics]] are now enshrined in the [[crypt]] [[chapel]] below the [[altar]] of the [[cathedral]] [[church]] in the [[Monastery]] of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania.
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Their [[feastday]] is celebrated on [[April 14]].
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==External links==
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*[http://saints.oca.org/IconDirectory/LG/april/0414anthonyjohneustathius.jpg Icon of the three martyrs Anthony, John, and Eustathius of Vilna (OCA.org)]
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*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=101076 Complete hagiography] ([[OCA]])
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[[Category:Martyrs]]
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[[Category:Saints]]
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[[Category:Lithuanian Saints]]
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[[Category:14th-century saints]]

Revision as of 20:21, October 22, 2012

Anthony, John, and Eustathius of Vilnius were 14th century martyrs (d. 1347) of the Russian Orthodox Church.

They were attached to the Muscovite mission in the court of the pagan warlord, Algirdas (Olgierd) of Lithuania. Grand Duke Algirdas was married to the Christian Russian Princess Yaroslavna, and the missionaries were present to minister to the religious needs of the princess and her retinue. The Grand Duke had nominally converted to Orthodoxy, but upon the death of Yaroslavna, he apostasised and resumed his pagan ways. All evangelizing became strictly proscribed. The three youths, all popular and promising courtiers, were apprehended for preaching in public and brought before Algirdas, who ordered them to consume meat during a solemn fast. When they refused, he had them tortured and killed. Their incorrupt relics are now enshrined in the crypt chapel below the altar of the cathedral church in the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania.

Their feastday is celebrated on April 14.

External links

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