00:00Yes, good morning everyone. I've just arrived at Euphemia Matrion.
00:05What does Matrionu mean? It actually comes from the word Martr. Martr means martyr.
00:09In the Christian language. And in English, as you already know, it means martyr.
00:13This is Euphemia Matrion. She was a saint in Chalcedon during the Christian era, friends.
00:20He was killed on September 16, 303.
00:23And then he was buried in a tomb built by his family outside the city of Chalcedon, my friends.
00:30This is what remains of that period: the church, burial chapels, and matrions.
00:36Parts of the church remain here, but it's located next to Sultanahmet Square.
00:40Look, those are parts of the church, all the places you see here.
00:47The stones are still here.
00:49Yes, there are many legends, by the way, about Euphemia.
00:53According to one account, the iconoclasmians and iconoclasts threw his coffin into the sea, but some time later fishermen found it on the island of Lemnos.
01:03Now, the bones believed to belong to Euphemia are in the Hagios Georgios Church, which is also the Patriarchate Church, in a coffin made in Russia and sent as a gift.
01:12It is located.
01:13I wanted to share this information as well.
01:15Yes, this is Euphemia Matrion's resting place, or martyrdom site.
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