Память преподобного Павла
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The Monk Paul came from the city of Corinth 4203, from Christian parents; Having been brought up in piety and having loved God from his youth, he came to one of the monasteries and took monastic vows here; He worked a lot in the feats of fasting and was an experienced ascetic. The demon of fornication armed himself against this Paul; One night, while St. Paul was standing in prayer, a demon appeared to him and said:
- If you do not satisfy your carnal lust, even just once, then I will brutally arm myself against you!
Paul rebuked the demon in the name of Jesus Christ and drove him away with the sign of the cross.
Then the demon taught a certain harlot woman to bring to the monk a baby recently born to her; Having laid this baby on the saint’s bed, the woman said to him:
“I conceived and gave birth to this from you.”
The elder received the baby with joy. The heretics, having come to the elder, tied his hands behind his back and, tying the baby to the neck of the monk, led him around the city with ridicule. Standing in the midst of the crowd and making a sign with his hand, Paul said:
- Listen, brothers! Let's ask the baby and let him tell us who his father is?
(The baby was only a few days old from birth). And Paul said to the child:
- Tell us, who is your father?
The baby, tearing his diapers, pointed his hand at a certain blacksmith and said:
- This is my father, not Pavel the monk.
The people who heard this bowed to the elder, asking him for forgiveness.
From that time on, God granted the monk the gift of healing. Paul laid hands on the sick and they received health.
Having lived for more than seventy years, the monk departed to the Lord, 4204 Whom he served without laziness, and was canonized; together with them he glorifies the One God in the Trinity, to whom glory is sent eternally from us. Amen.
Corinth, the oldest city in Greece, was located in the northern part of ancient Argolis, on the shores of the Gulf of Corinth.
The time of St. Paul's death is not known with certainty.
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