Память преподобного отца нашего Тита чудотворца

Our blessed father Titus, who from a young age loved Christ and hated the world, labored in the monastery 2360. Having assumed the monastic image, he walked here with great patience the sorrowful and thorny path of monastic life. For his great virtue of humility and obedience, in which the Monk Titus surpassed all the brothers of that monastery, he was elevated to the rank of presbyter, shepherd of the verbal sheep. The Monk Titus was filled with great love for his neighbors. Keeping himself pure both mentally and physically from a very young age, Saint Titus appeared, as it were, as an Angel of God on earth. For his virtuous life, the Monk Titus was awarded by God the gift of miracles. Shining with the virtues of monastic life, Saint Titus was at the same time an unshakable pillar of Orthodoxy, since he zealously defended the holy Church from attacks on her by heretical iconoclasts 2361. Having lived sufficiently and shown his followers a model of fasting life worthy of imitation, the Monk Titus departed in peace to the Lord 2362. Kinovia (“Kinovion” from “kinos” - general and “vios” - life) are called cenobitic monasteries in which the brethren enjoy the full maintenance from the monastery, but in return do not have their own property, providing their labor and its results for the general needs of the monastery. The iconoclastic heresy arose in the 8th century. and was founded by Constantine, bishop of Nakolia, in Phrygia. Unwisely confusing icon veneration with idolatry, the iconoclasts, by persistent and cruel persecution of icon veneration, wanted to destroy it in the Orthodox Church. The most zealous defenders of iconoclasm were the emperors Leo the Isaurian (from 717 to 741) and Constantine Copronymus (from 741 to 775). This heresy was condemned at the Seventh Ecumenical Council, which took place in Nicaea in 787. The death of St. Titus followed in the 9th century. You might be interested in: