October 30 Memorial Day of Saint Andrew of Crete The venerable Martyr Saint Andrew of Crete lived during the reign of the iconoclast emperor Constantine Copronimus (741-775), who, on pain of death, ordered Christians to remove holy icons from churches and homes. The believers who fearlessly opposed the evil iconoclast and firmly adhered to the tradition of the holy fathers were imprisoned. When the monk Andrew heard that the emperor was imprisoning and torturing not thieves and robbers, but Christians of good and pious virtues, he arrived in Constantinople and publicly, in the church of Saint Maman, condemned the heretic for the persecutor of the true faith. In justification, the emperor said it was crazy to pay respect to wood and colors. To this the monk replied that he who suffers for the sake of the holy icons suffers for the sake of Jesus, and he who insults the symbol on which Jesus is depicted insults Jesus himself. The enraged iconoclast ordered the merciless torture of Saint Andrew. On the way to the place of execution, the dead man went to God. One hundred years later, a canon was written for the saint by the monk Joseph the homographer. Through the prayers of the venerable martyr Andrew, the possessed are healed.

October 30 Memorial Day of Saint Andrew of Crete The venerable Martyr Saint Andrew of Crete lived during the reign of the iconoclast emperor Constantine Copronimus (741-775), who, on pain of death, ordered Christians to remove holy icons from churches and homes. The believers who fearlessly opposed the evil iconoclast and firmly adhered to the tradition of the holy fathers were imprisoned. When the monk Andrew heard that the emperor was imprisoning and torturing not thieves and robbers, but Christians of good and pious virtues, he arrived in Constantinople and publicly, in the church of Saint Maman, condemned the heretic for the persecutor of the true faith. In justification, the emperor said it was crazy to pay respect to wood and colors. To this the monk replied that he who suffers for the sake of the holy icons suffers for the sake of Jesus, and he who insults the symbol on which Jesus is depicted insults Jesus himself. The enraged iconoclast ordered the merciless torture of Saint Andrew. On the way to the place of execution, the dead man went to God. One hundred years later, a canon was written for the saint by the monk Joseph the homographer. Through the prayers of the venerable martyr Andrew, the possessed are healed.