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Recollection of the miracle of Archangel Michael in Khony On this date, which is colloquially called the day of Michael's miracle, Rights. The Church glorifies the miracles performed for the benefit of Christians by St. Michael, the Archangel of the heavenly Powers, at different times and in different places: 1) Near the Phrygian city of Hierapolis, in a place called Choni, in the 4th century. Soon after John the Theologian, who was in Hierapolis with the Apostles Philip and Bartholomew to preach the Gospel, which the disciples of the Lord spread throughout the whole earth, predicted that the grace of God would shine in this place, and St. The Archangel Michael will visit this place, water will burst forth in the desert (Is. 35:6) of Hierapolis and a spring will open from which St. The Archangel invisibly gave healing to the believers, as he once did from the font of Siloam. Many came to this source; not only Christians, but also infidels, who washed and quenched their thirst with its water, were healed of their ailments; many accepted St. baptism. Subsequently, at a healing spring, through the zeal of one Greek, whose daughter the Lord allowed her tongue to flow with water from this spring, a church was created in the name of St. Archangel Michael. A man named Archippus settled at the church and became famous throughout the whole country for his holiness. The pagans, out of hatred for the faith in Jesus Christ, which destroyed false gods, decided to destroy the temple built at the spring in the name of the Archangel Michael and destroy St. Archippus, who served in the church. Repeatedly disgraced in their evil intentions against the shrine, they set out to flood the place on which to erect a church to the Archangel. St. Archippus prayed for deliverance, and while a stream was released from two rivers and rushed with great force towards the church, the Archangel miraculously stopped the rush of the water that had spread across the earth and saved both the church from destruction and St. Archippus from drowning: which is why the name of the place came from khonas (Χωνας - immersion). 2) On the Neapolitan Mount Gargan, near the city of Siponta, the Archangel, who appeared in 493, miraculously indicated the place for the construction of a church in his name and, after the construction of this church, also provided healing for the sick in it; and when the unfaithful Lombards in 630 approached Sipontus with the hostile intention of conquering and plundering it and the monastery of Gargon, the Archangel appeared in a vision to the bishop of this city and, having encouraged the frightened inhabitants, assisted them with his help and defeated and expelled the enemies, who after that, having recognized the omnipotent hand of God in this event, turned to the Orthodox faith of Christ. 3) Near Mount Athos, where Saint Michael saved from drowning one youth, whom the attackers wanted to drown in order to take advantage of the rich treasury he had found with a great amount of gold. On the occasion of this miracle, a church built on Mount Athos by a certain Dochiar, a Bulgarian courtier, was dedicated to the name of the Archangel, and the gold saved with the life of the youth was used to decorate the new church. In the 8th century St. John of Damascus, in IX Joseph the Studite and Byzantium wrote many hymns for the celebration of St. Archangel Michael on the 6th day of September. On the day of remembrance of the miracles of St. Archangel Michael, the Church calls on him for the intercession and intercession of the faithful and begs him, with other heavenly powers, to protect us with the shelter of the wings of his immaterial glory. Memory of Rev. Archippa, paramonaria Memory of Rev. Archippus, paramonarius (servant, inseparable from the church), through whose prayer the miracle of St. Archangel in Khony. Feast of the Fraternal Icon of the Mother of God Feast of the Fraternal Icon of the Mother of God. About her, see May 11th. Holy Martyr Eudoxius (Eudoxus) and squads Eudoxius, who held the position of military commander during the reign of Diocletian, during the ensuing severe persecution, when many believers fled to the mountains and deserts, also hid for some time in the desert with his children and wife. But having once met the soldiers sent to find him, Eudoxius, welcoming them and giving them a break from the journey, voluntarily surrendered into their hands, saying to his wife and family: “The time has come now to go where God is calling me. I leave you to God’s care; He will arrange you all as He pleases,” and after giving instructions to his wife on how she should raise her children and how they could all live without him, he went with the soldiers sent to take him to the city of Melitina. Brought to trial and forced to make a sacrifice to the gods, Eudoxius refused with unshakable firmness; then the ruler publicly announced: “Whoever does not fulfill the will of the king is not worthy to serve in his army: let him take off the insignia of his military rank!” At the same time, completely unexpectedly for the ruler, many of the soldiers present during the interrogation began to take off their badges of military rank, saying that they too were Christians and were ready to lay down their lives for the faith... Since there were more than a thousand Christian soldiers, it was decided that only the main commanders should be tortured and killed. Eudoxius was again called upon and forced to renounce Christ, but without being able to do this, after being tortured with iron, he was sentenced to death. Going to his death, Eudoxius prayed. Suddenly, among the crowd that had gathered around the place of execution, he saw his wife and two friends crying. “Don’t cry for me,” he said to his wife; “On the contrary, it is almost the day of my death for Christ, like a day of joyful triumph.” Then turning to his friend Zinon, he said to him: “God, Whom we serve, will not separate us; We, as if in one boat, are sailing together to eternal life”... In a fit of fiery zeal at these words of his friend, Zinon exclaimed: “And I am a Christian! I confess Christ and want to die for Him!” For this he was immediately captured and beheaded with a sword; then Eudoxius and some of the 1104 soldiers who believed for the sake of Eudoxius were beheaded. This was in 311 - In the 4th century a church was built in the name of St. Eudoxia in Constantinople. Rev. David, who was formerly a robber Like Moses Murin (August 28), David was a robber and even the leader of a band of robbers in the Ermopolis desert - in Egypt. Having reached old age, he seemed to have become ossified in vices. But even through the sins of the whole world, the insurmountable goodness of God found access to his heart. Sitting one day in the circle of his accomplices, David felt such disgust for his ugly comrades and for himself, his suddenly awakened conscience presented him with such a terrifying picture of a long series of crimes that he, in a fit of passionate desire to atone with all kinds of deeds for the evil that he had caused to people, hastened to seek refuge in the monastery. “You are very old,” the abbot warned him, “it is difficult for you to begin a monastic feat, especially since in this monastery the brothers live in great labor and abstinence ... “I will do everything that is required of me according to the monastery charter...” the robber promised and begged to accept him, and finally said that he was the one who brought terror to the whole country, and that his repentance was no less great than his crimes... Seeing the boundless desire of the unfortunate man to correct his path, fearing even to bring him to disastrous despair if he refused to accept it, the abbot allowed David to take monastic vows, and then everyone was amazed by the action of the Divine power, which transformed the last of the people into a great ascetic, since David soon surpassed all the brothers in the monastery with his feats of meekness and self-control. Honored even with divine visions, he could not yet believe that his sins, which seemed to him more countless than the sand of the sea, were forgiven. But the grace of God was so clearly manifested in many miracles that he performed in the name of God that the Church itself canonized him as a saint. The Monk David died peacefully at a very old age, in the 6th century.