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nothing could dampen his courage, and he continued to cry out loudly, in the midst of the torments, in favor of justice and truth unworthily violated in the cause of the holy Bishop. His enemies, confused by a heroism they were far from expecting, had him transported to a prison, where he died from his wounds. Pallade claims, however, that he died on the very scene of his torture, in the eyes of all the people trembling with indignation. However that may be, shortly after the tragic death of
Eutrope, the Lord testified by several miracles to the holiness of this glorious Martyr.
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rich and powerful man from
Constantinople who gave him freedom, as a reward for his zeal in serving him. His piety and virtues then brought him into the ecclesiastical state, and elevated him to the priesthood. Tygrius was so gentle and so fervent in piety, that in a short time he attracted the esteem and affection of the clergy and people of Constantinople.
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Optat first had him beaten with rods, then his face and all his limbs were torn with hard nails; finally his whole body became nothing but a wound, over which they ran fiery torches to make the pain more alive and more sensitive. Eutrope suffered these atrocious treatments with admirable firmness;
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The chance of birth seemed to have never separated these two holy characters, united by the defense of the same interests, and the glory of a common martyrdom. Tygrius was born among the barbarians who conquered the Roman Empire. Having been taken prisoner in his youth, he was sold as a slave to a
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The lector
Eutrope and the priest Tygrius, both guilty of too ardent a zeal for religion and too much devotion to the banished patriarch, were the first to be arrested. Eutrope was first tortured to force him to reveal the perpetrators of the fire. But this cruelty only served to explode, in the
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Eutrope, a lector (reader) of the church of
Constantinople, belonged to one of the patrician families of that city. He was a young man of very delicate complexion, who had received a distinguished education, and who had already been distinguished by the sanctity of his life when the opportunity
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Jan. 12.] SS. TYGRIUS AND EUTROPIUS, MM. TYGRIUS, a priest, who was scourged, tormented with the disjointing of his bones, stripped of all his goods, and sent into banishment; and EUTROPIUS, lector, and precentor of the church of
Constantinople, who died in prison of his torments, having been
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Grande vie des saints: comprenant la vie et les fêtes de Notre-Seigneur et de la très-sainte Vierge, des saints de l'Ancien et du
Nouveau Testament, des bienheureux et des vénérables serviteurs de Dieu, les plus récents et des plus illustres confesseurs de la
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At the time when St. Chrysostom was expelled for the second time from
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scourged, his cheeks torn with iron hooks, and his sides burnt with torches; are honoured in the Roman Martyrology with the title of martyrs, on the 12th of January.
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at the time of his exile. Eutropius was tortured and died, while Tygrius was exiled, but both are considered martyrs. Their feast day is 12 January.
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