Martyr
Venerable Martyr Agathangelos
April 19 Old CalendarMay 2 New Calendar
Life
Agathangelos was from Thrace. His secular name was Athanasios. While serving among the Turks, he was forcibly made a Muslim by the Turks at Smyrna. As a penitent he was tonsured a monk on the Holy Mountain, in the Monastery of Esphigmenou. Tormented in his conscience, he desired to wash away his sin with his own blood. He went to Smyrna, where he showed the Turks a cross and an icon of the Resurrection of Christ. He was beheaded on the nineteenth of April 1819 in his nineteenth year. After his death he appeared alive to his spiritual father, German.
From the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, April 19. Translated by Marcian Sakarya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Also commemorated on April 19
The full reading for April 19 includes the hymn of praise, a reflection, a contemplation and a homily.
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