Saint Eulogios the Hieromartyr and Saints Leocritia and the two anonymous virgin Martyrs in Cordoba, Spain, March 11
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ The Holy Hieromartyr Evlogios was born in the city of Cordoba, Spain in the 8th century AD. from a pious and aristocratic family. From his childhood he was raised with the threads of the Christian faith. But those years were difficult. The Arab occupation of the country (711 AD) had brought many sufferings to the Church, which was divided into three provinces with twenty-nine Bishops and was trying to cope with the persecutions of the Mohammedan conquerors as well as temptations from within, such as heresies. Many clergy and monks, due to the invasion of foreigners, settled in France, bringing with them the Visigothic ecclesiastical spirit and the Mozarabic standard. Nevertheless, in Spain, the Mozarabic Church maintained its tradition and organization until the time of the "full reconquest" (15th century AD), when, unfortunately, schismatic Rome had already imposed everywhere in the reconquered places with the Latin tradition and its formal and heretical teaching. A...