Память во святых отца нашего Агапита, папы Римского

Saint Agapit, Pope of Rome 2608, was sent by the Gothic king Theodoric the Great 2609, who then owned Italy, to Constantinople to Emperor Justinian 2610 to negotiate peace. Having set out, he met on the way a man who suffered from two ailments - mute in tongue and lame in legs. Taking him by the hand, Saint Agapit healed him of lameness; having communed him with the Holy Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Christ, he resolved his tongue. While staying in Constantinople, Saint Agapit saw there a blind man sitting at the so-called Golden Gate and begging for alms. Taking pity on him, Saint Agapit laid his right hand on his eyes, after which the blind man received his sight. During the stay of Saint Agapit in Constantinople, here, by order of Emperor Justinian, the Local Council met in 2611, at which Patriarch Anthimus was deposed in 2612, who had been elevated to the patriarchal throne illegally, contrary to church rules in 2613. In place of the deposed Anthimus, a certain presbyter named Mina was elevated, who led a holy and strictly ascetic life. At the same time, at the same council, Severov’s heresy of 2614 was condemned. Soon after this, Saint Agapit reposed in the Lord in 2615 and was buried in Constantinople. Saint Agapit was Pope from 535 to 536. Theodoric the Great, king of the Ost-Goths, reigned from 485 to 536. The Ost-Goths lived between the Dnieper and Don rivers and formed the eastern branch of the Gothic people, which split into the Ostrogoths and Visigoths in the 4th century. The Roman Emperor Justinian I reigned from 527 to 565. Anthimus I was patriarch from 535 to 536. Anthimus was a convinced Monophysite and hypocritically accepted Orthodoxy only in order to receive the Patriarchal throne of Constantinople. The Monophysites incorrectly taught about the union of two natures in Jesus Christ; it was they who said that the divine nature in Jesus Christ swallowed up the human. The Monophysite heresy is also called Eutychianism, named after its founder, Archimandrite Eutyches of Constantinople. This heresy was condemned at the IV Ecumenical Council, which took place in 451 in Chalcedon. Severus, Patriarch of Antioch (from 512 to 519) belonged to the number of “moderate” Monophysites; The difference between his teaching and the teaching of other Monophysites was that he recognized the body of Jesus Christ as “similar to ours” and subject to corruption. The death of Saint Agapit followed in 536. You might be interested in: