Hard adamant, truly, father, you showed yourself, / in everything like your Master and Lord, / you, rejoicing, endured the unjust exile, / also Christ as a saint and Make you a martyr / and give you to your flock, as the treasure is inalienable, / enriching miracles for everyone, / as we too, having come to the race of your relics, / cry out to love thy:/ O great in the saints and wondrous in the sufferers/ most honorable bishop, Serapion our father,/ pray for us to the all-good God, // may he save our souls.
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