He would have been very rich, but moved by the love of Christ, he gave away all his possessions for the sake of Christ, entered the Pechersk Monastery and became a monk. When the Polovtsy invaded Kiev in 1097, they looted the monastery, beheaded many Christians and monks, and sold Eustratia and some other believers into slavery to a Jew in the city of Korsun. That Jew mocked the faith of Christ and forced Christians to convert to the Jewish faith. Seeing that there was no other way out for them, they all decided to starve themselves to exhaustion, but not to renounce their true faith. He encouraged the Christians of Eustratia to make that decision. And they all died of hunger, some after three, some after four and some after seven days. Having learned the fast of Eustratia, I remained alive, and lasted fourteen days without food. Enraged by the loss of the money he used to buy slaves, the Jew takes revenge on Eustratia in such a way that he nails him to the cross. But Eustratius thanked God from the cross and prophesied the Jew's angry and imminent death. Enraged with anger, the Jew pierced him with a spear. And so the saint of God surrendered his soul to his Savior. They threw his body into the sea, but it floated up, and great miracles happened over that martyr's body. Soon after that, the Byzantine emperor ordered to punish the Jews in Korsun for malice towards Christians. And that torturer would be hanged on a tree, and receive Judas' wages.

Venerable Ilarion the Confessor. Venerable Hesychius of Jerusalem. Holy Martyr Bojan. A miraculous event with Taxiota, a soldier from Carthage. Easter fast.