Ελληνικά για τον άγιο στην ανάρτησή μας Το στρουμφάκι Προκόπης και ο άγιος Προκόπιος
Neanius asked, “Who are you, Lord?”
The words of the Savior came true for the saint, “A man’s foes shall be those of his own household” (Mt. 10:36). His mother, a pagan herself, went to the emperor to complain that her son did not worship the ancestral gods. Neanius was summoned to the procurator Judaeus Justus, where he was solemnly handed the decree of Diocletian. Having read through the blasphemous directive, Neanius quietly tore it up before the eyes of everyone. This was a crime, which the Romans regarded as an “insult to authority.”
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Struck by the great faith and courage of the Christians, and seeing the firmness of her son in bearing terrible sufferings, Theodosia became repentant and stood in the line of confessors and was executed. Finally the new procurator, Flavian, convinced of the futility of the tortures, sentenced the holy Great Martyr Procopius to beheading by the sword. By night Christians took up his much-tortured body, and with tears and prayers, they committed it to the earth. This was the first martyrdom at Caesarea (303).
See also
Three girls of July...
Elder Sophrony Sakharov († July 11, 1993)
Orthodox Monasticism
"Partakers of Divine Nature" - About Deification & Uncreated Light in Orthodox Church
The Uncreated Light
"Partakers of Divine Nature" - About Deification & Uncreated Light in Orthodox Church
The Uncreated Light
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