Poplion the Martyr

Holy Martyr Poplion.

Poplion is commemorated in the Greek synaxaria as a martyr who gave his life for Christ. Nothing further of his life has been preserved.

The Church keeps his name in her calendar on this day.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Poplion the Martyr is commemorated on April 27. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on May 10 of the civil calendar.

Also commemorated on April 27

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  Simeon, Bishop of Jerusalem

  Martyr, Συμεών

  Hieromartyr Simeon, Kinsman of the Lord, Bishop of Jerusalem.

  Name days: Simeon, Symeon

• John of Kathares

  Venerable, Ιωάννης ο Ομολογητής

  Venerable John the Confessor, abbot of the Monastery of Kathares, who suffered for the icons.

• Eulogius the Hospitable

  Saint, Ευλόγιος ο Ξενοδόχος

  Righteous Eulogius the Hospitable, a stonecutter who shared all he earned with strangers.

• Lollion the New

  Martyr, Λολλίων ο Νέος

  Holy Martyr Lollion the New.

• Stephen of Vladimir

  Hierarch, Στέφανος Επίσκοπος Βλαντιμίρ

  Saint Stephen, abbot of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Vladimir in Volhynia.