†) St. Cuv. Dimitrie the New, the Protector of Bucharest (whose relics are in the Patriarchal Cathedral); St. Mc. Nestor; St. Mc. Wolf of Thessalonicatranslated

Orthodox calendar October 27 St. Cuv. Demetrius the New

The Holy Reverend Father Demetrius the New lived during the time of the good-faith Romanian-Bulgarian emperors (12th-14th centuries), in a small village called Basarabov or Basarabi, located on the water of Lomului. He was born to poor, but good righteous Christian parents.

From his childhood, the Saint did not get used to high teachings, nor to brilliant crafts, nor to female tradesmen, nor to childish delights and other pleasures with which the young people who love the world and those of the world indulge themselves, but he occupied himself with the craft of crafts: the work of good deeds, of humility and prayer, like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; because through such virtues man easily qualifies to speak with God and rather befriends Him, making himself pleasing to Him.

From the beginning, the happy man occupied himself, mindfully and carefully, with the grazing of the cattle of his village, as Jacob used to graze Laban's flocks. After diligently and needlessly laboring for a long time in this humble obedience, counting all the things of the world as nothing, he retired to a cave on the water of Lom in...