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St. Martyr Dometius and others with him Dometius, a Persian by birth, taught Christianity, left Persia to the Roman Empire, was baptized and became a monk in Nisib, and then was a deacon in the Feodosiopolis monastery of Sergius and Bacchus. But when the abbot wanted to invest him with the rank of presbyter, he withdrew with two disciples to the mountains beyond the Euphrates, within the city of Kirra, to Syria (a hundred miles from Antioch). Emperor Julian, on a campaign against the Persians, noticed a crowd of people near a mountain cave, and upon learning that a Christian hermit was being saved there, he ordered the cave to be filled with stones. Here the saint and his disciples died suffering (March 23, 363). St. Narcissus Bishop of Jerusalem He was taught the faith by the apostolic men and occupied the throne of Jerusalem after Dolikhian; in 197 he was a participant in the Palestine Council (in Caesarea) on the issue of celebrating Easter, raised by Victor, Pope of Rome. Three people, out of hatred for him, slandered him for violating his chastity and, in confirmation of their slander, called upon their head various executions from God if the denunciation was unjust. Therefore Narkis disappeared into obscurity; but under his third successor (ten years later), the slander was revealed by the slanderers themselves, struck by the very executions to which they condemned themselves, and Narkis appeared in Jerusalem. After the death of Bishop Gordius (211), Christians convinced him to take the throne again; and since he, due to his advanced old age (being 116 years old), could not correct his ministry, a certain Bishop Alexander, who arrived on a pilgrimage in Jerusalem, was elected as his collaborator. Narkis died in 213. † On the same day the memory of the Monk Pimen the Much-Sick The Monk Pimen, through a serious illness, reached the kingdom of heaven 66. He was born sick and grew up sick. Many times he asked his parents to send him to a monastery; they were sorry to part with their only son, heir. The illness intensified so much that there was no hope of recovery, and his parents took him to the Pechersky Monastery, asking for prayers for his health. At the monastery, at the request of the parents, they prayed for the healing of the sufferer; but the sufferer already felt the high cost of suffering and his prayer for the continuation of the illness was heard by the Lord. “The sick Pimen also prayed for one thing - to honor him with the rank of angel. And then one night some monks came, performed the rite of tonsure on him and clothed him in monastic robes. No one heard how they instilled, and no one called, as in a locked church, in cancer, the Venerable. Theodosius, Pimen's hair has appeared. Only the sounds of singing were heard by some, and when they went up to Pimen, they found him tonsured and a candle was burning in his hand; They brought the “book of tonsure” and Pimen found that his tonsure was performed in accordance with the book 67. Pimen spent many years in serious illness. Those who served him were burdened by him and often left him without bread and water, hungry and thirsty: but Pimen endured everything with joy. Another patient was brought into the cave to care for him at the same time: but both were often left unattended. “Brother! Pimen once said to the one lying with him; employees abhor us; if God heals you, will you perform this service? “The sick man promised to serve the sick until his death. At Pimen’s word, he got up healthy and began to serve the sick man. Once he became lazy in his service and illness befell him again: but Pimen healed him again. “You of little faith! Pimen said to him then, don’t you know that both the sick person and the one who serves him receive an equal reward? The patience of the poor is not in vain: here there is sorrow and hardship, there there is joy and gladness. That's why I endure everything. God, who healed you of your illness, can also restore my health: but I do not wish that. He who endures to the end will be saved. Let all of me rot in this life: if only my flesh remains there without decay; let there be a stinking smell here: if only there you can enjoy the indescribable fragrance. What does this stinking and cramped church mean if not judgment before that judgment, torment before endless torment? Pimen spent twenty years in suffering. Before his death, he became healthy, said goodbye to all the brethren, took communion in the church of St. Tain, bowed to the tomb of St. Anthony and indicated the place for his burial. “In this place,” he said, “two brothers were buried this year, one with schema, the other without schema. The first did not think about the meaning of the schema and only before death was clothed in it, without being worthy of it; Now he is without a schema. Another constantly wanted to be in the schema, but he was not clothed in it. The Righteous God, who protects our hearts, gave him the schema after death.” When the earth was dug up, they found it exactly as the Venerable Pimen had said: he calmly gave up his spirit to God. “On the day of his repose,” adds the narrator Polycarp, three pillars appeared above the table and from here they moved to the top of the church, as stated in the chronicler. “However, only God, who showed this sign, knows whether it was for this blessed one, or for another purpose.” According to the ancient chronicle, the appearance of a pillar of fire over the table, which appeared in two places on the church, was on February 11, 1110 68. Therefore, the blessed death of St. Pimen must be attributed to 1110, as one chronicle does 69. - Relics of the Ven. The Pimens rest in Anthony's Cave 70. Kontakion to the venerable: “He who endured a long illness with gratitude, come, come together, let us praise the long-suffering Pimen: who sometimes we do not disdain for the stench of illness, this fragrance now releases with faith to the race of his relics who come and will drive away the stench of passions from the crying ones; come, Pimen, to us and the enemy will not have time to attack us.” Discovery of the relics of St. Mitrofan of Voronezh On this same day we celebrate the discovery of the relics of St. Mitrofan of Voronezh (1832). The legend of Polycarp about Pimen in the last. to Akindin, along the RCP. The story of Polycarp about the tonsure of Pimen is also remarkable because it shows the same rite of tonsure that is still used today. “Behold, I came to him, like eunuchs of light with lights, where Pimen lay, carrying with him the gospel and retinue and mantle and doll and everything that was needed for tonsure and you said to him, do you want to tonsure you? He promised them with joy, saying, Lord, you have sent, my lords, to fulfill the desire of my heart. They then began to ask questions: what did you come, brother, falling to this holy altar and this holy squad? Do you want to be worthy of Mnishe’s great angelic image? and all the rest he did according to the order, as it is written. He also tonsured him into the great image and clothed him in a mantle and a cape, and everything you demanded, singing the great angelic image, ruling and arranging and kissing him, named him Pimen and burned the candle, deciding that until 49 days and night this light will not go out. The Vlasa was taken up and placed in the ubrus on the coffin of St. Eodosia." RKP. patericon. The Gustine Chronicle: “in the same summer (1110) the long-suffering Pimen passed away, and there is more about him in the patericon.” Collection l. 2, 288. According to Chet-Mineya and months. His memory is on August 7. Description of the K. Lavra p. 107. and Vershinsky attributed the death of this Pimen to 1139; but they confused this Pimen with Pimen the faster, about whom see August 28th. Description laurels p. 107. Kalnofoisky: “St. Father Pimen is a miracle worker.”