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The Great Martyr Euphemia (Greek: Ευφημία), known as the All-praised in the Orthodox Church is a Christian saint, who was martyred for her faith at Chalcedon, c. 304-307 AD.The Council of Chalcedon, the Fourth Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church, took place in the city of Chalcedon in the year 451. It repudiated the Eutychian doctrine ofmonophysitism, and set forth the Chalcedonian Definition, which describes the "full humanity and full divinity" of Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. Around the year 620, in the wake of the conquest of Chalcedon by the Persians under Khosrau I in the year 617, the relics[1] of Saint Euphemia were transferred to a new church in Constantinople. There, during the persecutions of the Iconoclasts, her reliquary was said to have been thrown into the sea, from which it was recovered by the ship-owning brothers Sergius and Sergonos, who belonged to the Orthodox party, and who gave it over to the local bishop who hid them in a secret crypt. The relics were afterwards taken to the Island of Lemnos, and in 796 they were returned to Constantinople. The majority of her relics are still in the Patriarchal Church of St. George, in Istanbul.
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Mavi Boncuk | Agia Efimia of Kadikoy
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[1] Eski kaynaklar bu azizenin adına İstanbul’da bugün mevcut olmayan 4 kilise daha olduğundan bahsederler. Bunların içinde en önemlisi Sultanahmed’de Hipodrom yakınında olanıdır. Azize’nin röliklerinin de bulunduğu bu kilisedeki rölikler İkonoklast dönemde İmparatorun emriyle buradan kaldırılmıştır. Daha sonra 798’de İmparatoriçe Eirene rölikleri törenle geri getirmiştir. Diğer kiliselerin Olibreu (Şehzadebaşı), Petrion (Cibali civarı) ve Petra (Edirnekapı civarı) da olduğu söylenir.
The Great Martyr Euphemia (Greek: Ευφημία), known as the All-praised in the Orthodox Church is a Christian saint, who was martyred for her faith at Chalcedon, c. 304-307 AD.The Council of Chalcedon, the Fourth Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church, took place in the city of Chalcedon in the year 451. It repudiated the Eutychian doctrine ofmonophysitism, and set forth the Chalcedonian Definition, which describes the "full humanity and full divinity" of Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. Around the year 620, in the wake of the conquest of Chalcedon by the Persians under Khosrau I in the year 617, the relics[1] of Saint Euphemia were transferred to a new church in Constantinople. There, during the persecutions of the Iconoclasts, her reliquary was said to have been thrown into the sea, from which it was recovered by the ship-owning brothers Sergius and Sergonos, who belonged to the Orthodox party, and who gave it over to the local bishop who hid them in a secret crypt. The relics were afterwards taken to the Island of Lemnos, and in 796 they were returned to Constantinople. The majority of her relics are still in the Patriarchal Church of St. George, in Istanbul.
Mavi Boncuk | Agia Efimia of Kadikoy
Kadıköy Euphemia Greek Orthodox Church: The ancient church in Kadıköy market is dedicated to Saint Euphemia, who is a widely venerated saint among all Eastern Orthodox Christians, not only for her virginity and martyrdom, but also for her strengthening of the Orthodox Faith.
Euphemia was subjected to harsh tortures for converting to Christianity. When she died of serious wounds, she was buried in Chalcedon between 304 and 307 AD. After The Council of Chalcedon, the fourth Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church, which took place in the city of Chalcedon in 451 AD, Euphemia was declared saint protector of Orthodox Church. It is known that the original church dedicated to Saint Euphemia was looted and destroyed during the Persian invasions around 626. The current church was built by the Metropolitan (Archbishop) Gabriel of Chalcedon in 1694. In 1830, Metropolitan Zaharias II ofChalcedon Russia the 1st of April 1993 . The church has a Greek cross layout, which is a common feature of Byzantine architecture.
[1] Eski kaynaklar bu azizenin adına İstanbul’da bugün mevcut olmayan 4 kilise daha olduğundan bahsederler. Bunların içinde en önemlisi Sultanahmed’de Hipodrom yakınında olanıdır. Azize’nin röliklerinin de bulunduğu bu kilisedeki rölikler İkonoklast dönemde İmparatorun emriyle buradan kaldırılmıştır. Daha sonra 798’de İmparatoriçe Eirene rölikleri törenle geri getirmiştir. Diğer kiliselerin Olibreu (Şehzadebaşı), Petrion (Cibali civarı) ve Petra (Edirnekapı civarı) da olduğu söylenir.