Память преподобного отца нашего Фомы юродивого

Saint Thomas was a monk in one of the monasteries in Caesarea 2737. He was obedient to collect for the needs of his monastery. For these collections, he was sent to Antioch in 2738, near which there was a village that belonged to a monastery. When the elder came to the city, he assumed foolishness. One day, a certain man named Anastasius, the steward (builder) of a church, hit the blessed one on the cheek because the elder bored him with his request for alms for his monastery. Those present were indignant at Anastasy for this. Blessed Thomas, turning to them, prophetically said: - From now on, neither I will have to accept anything from Anastasy, nor Anastasy will have the opportunity to give me anything. Both soon came true: Anastasius died a day later, and blessed Thomas, on the way from the city to the monastery, fell ill and stayed in a hospital in the suburbs of Daphne, at the church of St. Euphemia, where, having become very ill, he passed on to immortal life and was buried in the place where the wanderers were buried. One day they brought a certain deceased wanderer here and buried her over the tomb of this blessed old man; They buried this woman at the second hour of the day, and at the sixth hour the earth spewed her out - and everyone marveled at this. In the evening they buried her again in the same coffin, but the next day they saw that she had been thrown out of the coffin a second time; then they buried her in another place. A few days later, they buried another woman in the same way near Abba Thomas, for the inhabitants of that place did not understand that the old man who died in the Lord did not want a woman to be buried near him. When the earth vomited out this woman, then they realized that it was not good for the elder that anyone should be buried near his relics. Patriarch Domna 2739 was notified of everything that had happened. By order of the patriarch, all citizens with candles and chants went to Daphne, took the relics of the saint, brought them to the city with honor and placed them in the tomb in which the relics of many holy martyrs rested. A small church was built over the relics of the saint, and many healings were performed from his holy relics on the sick. Through his prayers, the pestilence in Antioch stopped, for which the inhabitants of Antioch established an annual celebration of his memory, glorifying Christ God, to whom be glory forever. Amen. Caesarea is the main city of Cappadocia, located in the east of Asia Minor. Here, of course, is Syrian Antioch, the once magnificent capital of the Syrian state, and now a poor town in Asian Turkey. Patriarch Domnus ruled the Antiochian Church from 546 to 560. You might be interested in: