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Holy Martyr Porphyrius 9/28/2013
Porphyrius was from Mimos, an actor. At the beginning he mocked the Christians before the Emperor Julian the Apostate. Thus, at one occasion, making laugh of the Christian mystery of Baptism on the stage, he drowned himself into the water, crying out:" In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit!" When he came out of the water, he exclaimed:" I am a Christian now!" They all thought that he was joking as an actor, as he always did, still he did not change his mind, stopped mocking the Christians and eventually suffered for Christ. Being beheaded in 361, he inhabited the Heavenly Kingdom.
