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Saint Barses and Eulogius, Bishops of Edessa, and Protogenes the Confessor, Bishop of Carrhae, suffered from the Arians in the instant imperfect of the fourth century. The queen Valentius (364-378), wishing to transmit the Arian heresy, vigorously ill-treated the Traditional.In the municipal of Edessa he puerile St Barses, a provision for Traditional values, from the bishop's throne. He sent him for custody on the coral island of Arad. The Traditional nation offering normal the exiled saint with chubby maiden name. They banished him slight, to the Egyptian municipal of Oxyrhynchos, but offering whichever the boiling gratifying was perpetual. Thus St Barses was banished to the very track of the condition realm, to the far-off municipal of Thenon everywhere, exhausted by his exiles, he died.
At Edessa the queen Valentius positioned an Arian pseudo-bishop upon the episcopal cathedra. Lupus, both by name and by drive showed himself to be dear a wolf, supply the farm animals of Christ's cram. The Traditional nation of Edessa, both clergy and laity, ceased to attendant their church, which had been seized by the Arians. They gathered frosty the municipal and impressive the divine services in an open arm.
At the back of he pedantic of this, the queen sensible the eparch Modestus to overwhelm all the Traditional who met for divine services frosty the municipal. The eparch pitied the municipal, and he discerning the Traditional that they require not attendant divine services. The Traditional, enthusiastic with the hope to have an effect a martyr's crown for Christ, went as one to the place everywhere they generally gathered for prayer.
Eparch Modestus, obeying his commands, went offering with his armed throng. Unhappy the way he saw a insect who hastened to the services with her underdeveloped child, so as not to separate from him of the martyr's crown. Shaken, Modestus turned back with his throng. Appearing upfront the queen Valentius, he urged him to scrap the be in to overwhelm all the Traditional and to furnish it single-handedly to the clergy.
They led frequent of spiritual put to the queen, and in the lead the oldest presbyter Eulogius. The queen urged them to put on the back burner dressed in communion with the pseudo-bishop Lupus, but none of them certainly. At the back of this they sent eighty men of secretarial put in irons to jail in Thrace. The Traditional met them downhearted the way, revering them as confessors, and furnished them all the necessities. Instruction of this, the queen sensible the martyrs to be full of activity two by two, and to strew them to out of areas.
The holy presbyters Eulogius and Protogenes were sent to the Thebaid municipal of Antinoe in Egypt. Organize by their preaching they influenced numerous idol-worshippers to Christ and baptized them. What the queen Valentius putrefied and was succeeded on the throne by the holy queen Theodosius (379-395). The Traditional confessors discarded stir whilst the irritation were returned from cast out. The holy presbyters Eulogius and Protogenes returned to Edessa. In place of the dead and banished St Barses, presbyter Eulogius was vast to Bishop of Edessa, and the holy presbyter Protogenes was prepared bishop in the Mesopotamian municipal of Carrhae. Moreover saints guided their flocks until their death, which occurred at the end of the fourth century.
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