Память святых мучеников Филита и Лидии

These holy martyrs suffered during the reign of Emperor Hadrian 2104. Of these, Saint Philetus Synclitus 2105, his wife Lydia and their sons Macedon and Theoprepius were Christians and always remained in the service of the true God. Therefore they were captured and brought to Hadrian. During interrogation, the emperor was unable to resist the wise answers of the holy martyrs and sent them for trial to Illyria in 2106 to the military leader Amphilochius. The latter immediately ordered to hang them all on a tree and cut their bodies with knives, and then they were imprisoned along with commentary 2107 Kronid, who also believed in Christ. At night, when the holy martyrs were praying and singing sacred chants, an Angel appeared to them and strengthened them for the upcoming feat. The next morning the saints were again brought to the tormentor, and he said to them: – You will have a lot of torment and torture! After this, he ordered oil and sulfur to be boiled in a copper cauldron and the holy martyrs thrown into it. But when they were thrown, the cauldron immediately cooled. Amazed by such a miracle, Amphilochius himself believed in Christ and, deciding to enter the cauldron, said: - Lord Jesus Christ, help me. Then a voice was heard saying to him: - Your prayer has been heard, come here. Having learned about all this, Adrian, breathing anger and threats, arrived from Rome to Illyria and ordered to heat a cauldron filled with oil for seven days and then throw all the holy martyrs into it. But when the saints were thrown into the cauldron, they remained safe and sound. After this, the disgraced emperor returned to Rome, and the holy martyrs began to pray and thank God, and in the midst of their prayers they gave up their souls to the Lord, receiving martyr’s crowns from Him. The Roman Emperor Hadrian reigned from 117 to 138. He was a persecutor of Christians, but, by virtue of the edict he issued, the latter were punished only on formal denunciations and after trials against them. A synclitist is one of the important royal advisers and dignitaries, who was part of the synclitus, that is, the royal council. Illyria was located along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. In the northwest it was limited by the Savoy River, and in the southeast by the Drava. Now it contains Dalmatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as a small part of Albania. Commentary - the head of prisons and the clerk of trials, who carried out preliminary investigations of the accused, especially of Christian martyrs. You might be interested in: