Saint Hyacinth, Metropolitan of Wallachia; St Theophano Basarab; Martyrs Terence, his wife Neonila and their 7 children; Saint Firmilian, Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia

Orthodox Calendar October 28 Saint Hyacinth, Metropolitan of Wallachia He was born at the end of the 13 th century. He attended the high schools of the time, completing his theological education in Constantinople, where he defended the Orthodox teaching of hesychasm together with Saint Gregory Palamas. Given his worthiness, he was elected metropolitan of Vicina after the death of metropolitan Kiril, in 1358.

Saint Hyacinth was one of the most brilliant metropolitans who completed the series of hierarchs who served at Vicina, Dobrudja, throughout the Christian centuries. In this part of the country inhabited by our Geto-Dacians ancestors, the true faith of Christ, our Saviour, was kept and experienced according to the word of the Gospel preached here by Saint Andrew the Apostle, the first called.

During his pastoral service at Vicina, Saint Hyacinth took good care of his eparchy, of priests, faithful and monastics, but he also faced great trials because of the invasions in these territories of the Tatars and then of the Genoveses. Saint Hyacinth was called several times to Wallachia to bless the Christian faithful in this region.

Metropolitan Hyacinth lived a holy life…