Orthodox · 4th century
St. Hypatius the Wonderworker and Bishop of Gangra
Commemorated: April 13 (March 31, Old Style)
Life
Hypatius, bishop of Gangra in Paphlagonia, took part in the First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea in 325, which condemned the teaching of Arius. His Life calls him a great wonderworker and tells how the emperor Constantius II summoned him to Constantinople to drive away a huge serpent coiled at the door of the imperial treasury; afterwards the emperor kept a painted image of him there.
On his way home Hypatius was ambushed at a narrow pass above a marsh by followers of Novatian, beaten and thrown into the bog. As he prayed for his attackers, a woman of the Arian party struck him on the head with a stone and killed him, c. 326. The Life tells that she later confessed at his funeral.
Retold briefly in our own words from: the Lives of the Saints by St Dimitry of Rostov (1902–1916).
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