A beacon and courageous champion of the Church of Christ. He was born in Constantinople in 1391 to noble parents. He studied philosophical and theological sciences, first with his father George, a deacon, and then with other famous teachers of the time. When he was 25 years old, he gave away all his property and went to live an ascetic life on the islands of Antigonus in the Sea of ​​Marmara. As Metropolitan of Ephesus, he participated in the Council of Ferrara, which continued in Florence, where, with a pure and courageous confession of the Orthodox faith, armed with the decisions of the ecumenical councils and the heritage of the holy fathers, he dealt with the Latin heresy, and thus resisted both Emperor John VIII Palaeologus and Pope Eugenius in concluding a union with Rome. He died in 1444.

Venerable Macarius the Great. Venerable Macarius of Alexandria. Saint Arsenius, Bishop of Corfu. Blessed Theodore.