The Holy Martyr Porphyrius.
Commemorated September 15 in the Orthodox Christian Menaion
From the Prologue
An actor, he first mocked at Christians before Julian the Apostate.
On one occasion, when he was mimicking the Christian mystery of Baptism, he was dipped into the water, pronouncing the words: 'In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.' When he emerged from the water, he cried out: 'Now I am a Christian!'
Everyone thought that this was in jest, as always, but he held firm to it, stopped mocking Christians and finally suffered for Christ.
He was beheaded in 361, and entered into the Kingdom of Christ.
From The Prologue From Ochrid by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich
©1985 Lazarica Press, Birmingham UK
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