Eulogios

On this day we celebrate the memory of Eulogios, archbishop of Alexandria.

Eulogios lived during the reign of king Heraklios in 610. He was the archbishop of Alexandria before St. John the Charitable. He performed many miracles, one of which is the following: When St. Leo, the bishop of Rome, had written to the Council of Chalcedon that celebrated epistle of Orthodoxy, St. Eulogios not only praised it and accepted it but even preached it to all. So, God, wishing to gladden his two servants, St. Leo and St. Eulogios, sent his Angel to Eulogios in the shape of Leo's archdeacon, because he accepted the forementioned epistle of Leo. Eulogios spoke with the Angel, as if he was Pope Leo's archdeacon. When the Angel disappeared from in front of him, he understood that he was God's angel, he thanked God and commended his soul into His hands.