Sainted George the Confessor, Bishop of Pisidian Antioch
Commemorated on April 19
Sainted George the
Confessor, Bishop of Pisidian Antioch, lived during the Iconoclast period.
In his youth he became a monk, was known for his holiness of life and was made
bishop of Pisidian Antioch.
During the time of
persecution against holy icons under the emperor Leo the Armenian (813-820),
Saint George was at Constantinople and at a Council of bishops he denounced the
Iconoclast heresy, calling on the emperor to forsake it. When Saint George refused
to remove the icons from the church by decree of the emperor, he was exiled to
imprisonment (+ c. 813-820).
© 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos.