Anthony, John, and Eustathios
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Anthony, John, and Eustathius (Eustathios, Eustace) are saints and martyrs (d. 1347) in the Russian Orthodox Church. They were attached to the Muscovite missionaries in the court of the pagan warlord, Algirdas (Olgierd) of Lithuania. Algirdas was married to an Orthodox Christian princess, and the Orthodox were permitted only to minister to the religious needs of the princess. All outside proselytising was forbidden. The three youths were arrested for preaching in public, and were ordered by Algirdas to consume meat in his presence during an Orthodox fasting period. When they refused, they were tortured and executed. Their bodies are entombed beneath the altar of the cathedral church in the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, Lithuania. Their relics are said to be incorrupt.
Their feast day is celebrated on April 14 in the horlogion .
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