Martyr
Holy New Martyr Constantine
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Life
Born a Muslim on the island of Mytilene. Having been healed of a severe illness by means of holy water in a church and seeing other miracles of the Christian faith, he was baptized on the Holy Mountain in the skete of Kapsokalyvia. Later he fell into the hands of the Turks, who after terrible torments lasting forty days hanged him in Constantinople on June 2, 1819.
From the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, June 2. Translated by Marcian Sakarya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Also commemorated on June 2
The full reading for June 2 includes the hymn of praise, a reflection, a contemplation and a homily.
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