Saint Philoxenos of Mabbug

He anchored this theology pastorally through numerous spiritual homilies, ascetical treatises, and letters, and, together with the chorepiscopus Polycarp, sponsored the 508 Philoxenian Syriac revision of the New Testament. When imperial policy turned against the Miaphysite churches he was deposed and exiled first to Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv, Bulgaria) and later to Gangra, where he continued to write under harsh house arrest, reportedly in chains. He died violently in exile where some accounts say by suffocation, after which the Oriental Orthodox Churches venerated him as a confessor.