August 7: Saint Dometios the Persian celebratestranslated

Today, the Church commemorates the holy martyrs Asterius, Dometius of Persia (†363), Osia Potamia, the Neomartyr Abbakum, of Thess/niki (†1628) by transfer since August 6, the Holy Shepherd of Russia, the Martyr Sozontos of Nicomedia, the Holy Narcissus Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Saint Dometios Simiophoros, who lived on the borders of the Philotheus Monastery in Athos and Mikallos in Akantho, where there is a Church and holy water, in which many believers found their healing. Dometius, of Persian origin, lived during the reign of Constantine the Great. He was taught the Gospel by Avarus. When the relatives found out, they rebelled against Dometius. He desired absolute devotion to Christ and thus abandoned them.

He fled to Nisibis on the Byzantine border, where he was accommodated in a monastery. Then he came to Theodosioupoli, to the Monastery of Sergius and Bacchus, where he cultivated the virtues according to the Gospel.

The Abbot, seeing the morals, the philanthropy and the general spiritual superiority of Dometius, suggested that he be ordained as an elder.

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