Procopius the Confessor of Decapolis
2015-02-27
Latin form of the Greek name Προκοπιος (Prokopios):
Greek προκοπη (prokope) = 'progress, advance'
Saints Procopius and Basil, fellow ascetics, lived about the middle of the eighth century, during the reign of Leo the Isaurian (717-741), from whom they suffered many things for the sake of the veneration of the holy icons. They ended their lives in the ascetical discipline.