{"id":463,"date":"2025-01-10T18:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/?p=463"},"modified":"2025-01-13T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:34:46","slug":"saints-of-the-day-2025-01-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2025\/01\/10\/saints-of-the-day-2025-01-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints of the Day 2025-01-09"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Polyeuctus the Martyr of Melitene in Armenia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saint Polyeuktos went to the city square, and tore up the edict of Decius which required everyone to worship the idols. A few moments later, he met a procession carrying twelve idols through the streets of the city. <strong>Dashing the idols to the ground, he trampled them underfoot.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His father-in-law, the magistrate Felix, who was responsible for enforcing the imperial edict, was horrified at what Saint Polyeuktos had done and advised him to obey the imperial edict. Polyeuktos told him that <strong>we must obey God rather than men.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Felix declared that Polyeuktos must die for this. \u201cGo then, bid farewell to your wife and children,\u201d he said. Paulina wept and urged her husband to renounce Christ. Felix also wept, but Saint Polyeuktos remained steadfast in his resolve to suffer for Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowing his head beneath the executioner&#8217;s sword, he was baptized in his own blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eustratios the Wonderworker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Peter, Bishop of Sebaste, brother of Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyeuctus the Martyr of Melitene in Armenia Saint Polyeuktos went to the city square, and tore up the edict of Decius which required everyone to worship the idols. A few moments later, he met a procession carrying twelve idols through the streets of the city. Dashing the idols to the ground, he trampled them underfoot. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}