Память святого мученика Солохона

The holy martyr Solokhon lived during the time of King Maximian 3273, was an Egyptian by birth, and was a Christian by rank. He served with the rank of warrior under the tribune Campanus, who had three thousand soldiers under his command. When, by order of the king, Campanus and his regiment arrived from Egypt to Chalcedon in 3274, all generals and their soldiers were ordered to offer sacrifices to idols. Fulfilling the royal order, Campanus began the sacrifice. While the soldiers of Kampanov’s regiment were making sacrifices to idols, Saint Solokhon, together with two soldiers, Pamphirus and Pamphalon, confessed himself to be a Christian and publicly declared that he would under no circumstances renounce Christ, even if he were given over to the most cruel tortures, but promised to remain faithful to Christ until the end of his life. When after this the saints were given over to various cruel torments and were cruelly beaten, then Pamfamir and Pamphalon gave up their souls into the hands of God, while Saint Solokhon continued to courageously publicly confess the name of Christ. Having learned about this, Campanus became very angry and ordered his servants to open the martyr’s mouth with a sword and pour blood sacrificed to idols into his mouth. But the martyr, with the strength of his teeth, crushed the iron, then broke his bonds and appeared free before the tormentor, magnifying the name of Christ and condemning the wickedness of Campanovo. At this time, a voice was heard from heaven, strengthening the saint in his suffering and calling him to courage. Following this, the saint was given over to many other torments: the tormentors beat him without mercy, dragged him by his feet over tiles and sharp stones; then they hung him by his right hand to a tree attached to the house, and tied a large stone to his left leg; in this position the saint hung from the sixth hour to the ninth hour; At the same time, the tormentors exhorted Solokhon in every possible way to renounce Christ, but he did not fulfill their wicked desire. When the saint was taken down from the tree of torment in the evening and placed on the ground, then, to everyone’s surprise, he could stand as if healthy. Finally, late in the evening, Campanus, becoming enraged, picked up the cane with which they were writing, and angrily thrust it into the saint’s ear, so that it went through his entire head. When the soldiers left the place of torment, Christians came here, who took the honorable body of the holy martyr, who was very weak from torment; Having laid him on the bed, they brought him to the house of a Christian widow. Here the saint ate some bread and drank water. Having strengthened himself a little, he began to talk with the Christians who surrounded his bed, exhorting them to be steadfast and courageous in confessing the faith of Christ. Then, raising his eyes to heaven and praying for a sufficient time to God, the saint gave up his spirit to Christ 3275, our God, to whom glory is given forever. Amen. Maximian, Roman Emperor, reigned from 284 to 305. Chalcedon - or, more correctly, Kalchedon - was originally a Megarian colony on the shores of the Sea of ​​Marmara. Under Christian emperors, Chalcedon was the capital of the Asia Minor region of Bithynia. In the history of the Christian Church, Chalcedon is remarkable as the site of the IV Ecumenical Council, convened in 451 by Emperor Marcian (from 460 to 467) to condemn the Monophysite heresy (the Monophysite heresy was founded by Eutyches, Archimandrite of Constantinople, who taught that human nature in Jesus Christ was completely absorbed by the Divine nature and therefore in He should recognize only one nature, the Divine). The death of the holy martyrs Solokhon, Pamfamir and Pamphalon followed in the third century. or at the beginning IV century You might be interested in: