Память преподобного Феофана

Saint Theophan came from pagan parents. When he reached adolescence, he married a girl, but she soon died, but Theophanes believed in Christ and was baptized. Then, leaving everything, he locked himself in one hut near that city and lived there for quite a long time, teaching those who came to him to keep the commandments of God and to live a chaste life. Having learned about one harlot that she had ruined many with her beauty, Saint Theophan came out of seclusion and, putting on light clothes, begged from his father nine liters of gold, as if wanting to take that woman for himself. Then he came to the harlot, gave the gold and, convincing her to change her life, baptized her. After this, Saint Theophan built another hut near his hut, where he shut up the said woman. And he made the one who had previously been a vessel of sin, a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit, and distributed the gold to the poor. These both pleased the Lord and on the same day departed to the heavenly abodes 3816. Death of St. Theophanes followed in the second half of the 4th century. You might be interested in: