November 10: Saint Arsenios of Cappadocia celebratestranslated

Today, the Church honors the memory of the Seventy Apostles Olympias, Rodion, Sosipatrus and Tertius, as well as the holy Arsenius of Cappadocia and the martyr Orestes, who came from Tyana in Cappadocia.  Saint Arsenios the Cappadocian was born around 1840 in Farasa, Cappadocia. His parents, poor but rich in virtues, gave him a Christian upbringing until their untimely death.

At the age of about 26, he went to the Flavian Monastery of the Holy Forerunner, where he later became a monk and was renamed Arsenios from Theodore, which was his secular name.

Afterwards, he was ordained a deacon in Farasa, with the aim of teaching Greek letters to the children. Then, at the age of thirty, he was ordained an elder and received the office of Archimandrite in Caesarea.

Saint Arsenios impersonally healed human suffering in Christians and Muslims. He lived with self-denial. He protected his flock both from the Turks, so that they would not convert, and from the sheep-like wolves, who tried with heretical beliefs to beat the flock of Christ.

He lived many spiritual experiences through living faith and warm…