St Paul the Confessor the Bishop of Plusias in Bithynia
Commemorated March 7
Saint Paul the Confessor was bishop of the city of Prusa (in the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor) at a time when the iconoclasts raged against the Church of Christ. His zealous defense of the holy icons was based on Holy Scripture, St Paul was subjected to harassment and persecution together with St Theophylactus (March 8). The holy confessor was sent into exile, and reposed around the year 850.
Troparion
The teacher of orthodoxy, preceptor of piety and chastity, luminary of the universe, God-inspired instruction of the hierarchs, O Paul, greatly wise, thou hast illumined all by thy teaching, O spiritual flute; entreat Christ the God that our souls may be saved.
Kontakion
Having found delight in abstinence, thou hast stilled the very desires of thy body, appearing to be reared on the faith, and as the paradisical tree of life hast thou blossomed, O Paul, sacred father.
Source: Crkveni Kalendar
