Hierarch
Priest-Martyr Hypatios, Bishop of Gangra
March 31 Old CalendarApril 13 New Calendar
Life
Born in Cilicia, he was bishop in the city of Gangra. He was present at the First Ecumenical Council. Renowned on all sides for his pious life and miracle-working. Emperor Constantius had ordered that an image of Hypatios be made during the lifetime of this saint, and the emperor kept that image in his palace as a weapon against every hostile power. Returning once from Constantinople, Hypatios was attacked in a narrow pass by heretics of the Novatian party and pushed from the road into a swamp. In that moment a woman from their company struck him on the head with a stone, and thus the saint ended his earthly life. But that woman suddenly went mad and took that same stone and beat herself with it. When she was brought to the grave of Saint Hypatios and prayer was offered to God for her, she was healed through the great mercy of the spirit of Hypatios, and lived out the remainder of her life in repentance and prayer. The holy Hypatios suffered and was translated to the eternal Kingdom of Christ God in the year 326.
When she was brought to the grave of Saint Hypatios and prayer was offered to God for her, she was healed through the great mercy of the spirit of Hypatios, and lived out the remainder of her life in repentance and prayer.
From the Hymn of Praise
### SAINT JONAH THE METROPOLITAN AND PRIEST-MARTYR HYPATIOS
From the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, March 31. Translated by Marcian Sakarya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Also commemorated on March 31
The full reading for March 31 includes the hymn of praise, a reflection, a contemplation and a homily.
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