Juan de Afusia

John of Afusia (John of Constantinople, John Homologuetés or John the Confessor) (813) was an abbot of the monastery of Catari, at Propontide, Constantinople. He was imprisoned and tortured by the emperor Leon V Armenian to defend the cult of holy images. He is revered as a saint by the Catholic and Orthodox churches, celebrated on April 18 and 27. Biography

The data that we know of John of Afusia does not come from a Greek menology, and was collected by Cardinal Baronius when he organized the first Roman Martyrology. According to this writing, "he was abbot of the Monastery of the Cathars, and in the time of the emperor Leon, for his defense of images, he was exiled", not without exhorting the monastic Fathers and Brothers to remain firm in the Orthodox faith. He remained in exile eighteen months, imprisoned his feet. He was then brought to the Emperor's presence in triumph, but there he did not retract the doctrine, and after bearing more vexations he was relegated along with others to the island of Afusia, where he died after two and a half years of suffering. p> Notes

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