September 6: Commemoration of the miracle of the Archangel Michael in Chonaitranslated

Today, September 6, the Church, in the resurrection atmosphere of Byzantine hymnology, commemorates the miracle of the Archangel Michael in Chonai and honors the memory of the Martyrs Andrew, Andronikos the soldier, Andropelagia, Thekla and the Saint Neomartyr Lygeri of Chiopolitis.

Memory of the miracle of the Archangel Michael in Chonais, Phrygia Near Hierapolis, in Phrygia, there was a place called "Honai" and in that place there was a spring of water that cured diseases. The Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian had prophesied about this place, when he preached the Gospel in Hierapolis in Phrygia, accompanied by Philip. Then he had said that a spring would miraculously spring up there, whose water would heal many and also that the great Archangel of God Michael would visit this place. The Evangelist's prophecy was confirmed a few years later, when a spring sprang up from the earth and its water became famous for its miraculous power.

A certain idolater in Laodicea had a daughter who was deaf, which caused him great sorrow. Archangel Michael appeared to him and told him to take his daughter...