St. Paul of Cyprus
Feast day: March 17
Death: 760 / 777
A martyr for the cause of venerating icons. During the period in the eighth century when several Byzantine Emperors implemented iconoclastic policies, forbidding the revering of icons, Paul was arrested and brought before local officials on the charge of opposing the decree.
Saint Paul was a monk of Cyprus, who, in the reign of the iconoclastic emperor Constantine Copronymus, refused to trample on a crucifix. He was brutally tortured, hung upside down, and burned to death slowly over a fire
Feast day: March 17
Death: 760 / 777
A martyr for the cause of venerating icons. During the period in the eighth century when several Byzantine Emperors implemented iconoclastic policies, forbidding the revering of icons, Paul was arrested and brought before local officials on the charge of opposing the decree.
Saint Paul was a monk of Cyprus, who, in the reign of the iconoclastic emperor Constantine Copronymus, refused to trample on a crucifix. He was brutally tortured, hung upside down, and burned to death slowly over a fire
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