New Martyr Anastasius at Constantinople (1743)
Commemorated July 8
Born in Janina, a parish hieromonk of a suburban church near Constantinople, he was decapitated in 1743 by the Turks for his confession of Christ and censure by Islam.
Troparion
In thee, O father, was manifestly preserved what is in the image of God, for having taken up the cross, thou didst follow Christ and by thine own example hast taught that the flesh is to be despised as transient, but that particular care should be bestowed on the soul as a thing immortal; wherefore together with the angels rejoiceth also thine, O ascetic Anastasius, spirit.
Kontakion
As a keeper of fasts pious and skilled, as an honoured voluntary martyr and one that in the desert led the life of a hermit, — let us worthily extol in hymns Anastasius, the ever to be praised; for he hath trodden the serpent under his feet.
Source: Crkveni Kalendar
