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Saint Timothy, Bishop of Prussia St. Timothy was a bishop in the city of Prusse (now Brousse). For his holiness of life he received from the Lord the gift of miracles. King Julian ordered him to be imprisoned for preaching the word of God and denouncing the infidels. Having learned that he was teaching those who came in prison, he ordered him to be beheaded in prison (362). Saint Bassian, Bishop of Laudia Saint Vassian, Bishop of Laudia, who was a saint for 35 years and reposed in 409. He was a friend of St. Ambrose of Milan. St. Muchch. Alexandra and Antonina girls Saint Antonina from Krodamnos (near Alexandria, others call the city Kardam and are looking for in Thrace), because she refused to renounce Christ and sacrifice to idols, was taken to a shameful house by the sentence of hegemon Faustus; but the warrior Alexander, dressing her in his clothes, gave her the opportunity to escape from desecration... For this, both, after torture, were burned on May 3, 313. The relics of these martyrs 102 were subsequently transferred to Constantinople and placed in the Maximov Monastery, where their memory was solemnly honored and their relics exuded miracles. – The legend about them is one of the oldest. † Rev. Theophanes, St. Pansemnia and Pelagia At the same time as blessed Publius labored (Oct. 9), a son of the pagans lived in Antioch in paganism 103 . Having come of age, he married, but his wife died in the third year of marriage. After her death, he was baptized with the name Theophanes and, having built himself a very cramped cell outside the city, he lived a life of Gospel selflessness. Carrying out a strict ascetic life himself, he zealously taught the ways of salvation to those who came to him, and he especially inspired them to lead a pure, chaste life. In such a city as the luxurious capital of the East, which had not yet parted with the sins of dirty paganism, the reverend’s zeal for a pure life was offended by many. So he hears that in the city a woman who was called Pansemnia 104 lives dissolutely and drags many into a dirty life. He decided to return her to the path of good. The Apostle James teaches: “Whoever turns a sinner from his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins” (his own) (James 5:20). The feat is wonderful, lofty, but difficult to accomplish. The ascetic Theophan did not trust himself in success, because he knew that evil passions and the spirit of malice do not sell victory over them cheaply - he did not trust himself and because of the consciousness of his weakness; he saw that he would have to move from quiet solitude into a noisy society of light, absent-minded people, where they consider it fun to lure others into unclean sins. Realizing the danger of the undertaking, Theophanes prayed long and fervently to the Lord, so that He would either send him His help to fulfill his intentions, or would hold him back at the very beginning of the matter. Leaving his cell, he comes to his father and, saying that he wants to get married, begs him for an elegant dress and 10 pounds of gold. The pagan father, very rich, willingly gave everything. Dressed as a dandy, Feofan appears to Pansemnia, as one of so many intelligent admirers of her charms. Feofan asks her: “How long has she lived the way she has?” “Twelve years,” she answers with the shamelessness of women of her kind, “and of all the men I have seen, I have not loved one as much as I am ready to love him.” “Fine,” he said, “but if I get close to you, I want our relationship to be honest, and not to be debauchery.” He also showed her the money with which he was ready to buy her marital fidelity. Pansemnia, who did not at all expect such happiness for herself, delightedly announced that she agreed to everything. Having received the word of the oath, Theophanes left it and began building a cell near his cell. Having finished his work, he again appeared to Pansemnia and announced that his first condition was that she should accept Christianity. At first she was very reluctant, but when she saw that his intention was unshakable, she agreed to be baptized. During the seven-day preparation for baptism, they revealed to her the beginnings and foundations of the holy faith and especially explained how the truth of God does not tolerate sin and debauchery and how God’s love is generous to those who repent; bliss Feofan, in the language of living faith, depicted to her pictures of eternity, ready for repentant and unrepentant sinners, and together he prayed for her with humility and love. When baptism took place over her, the grace of God kindled in the soul of the sinner an ardent love for the Lord. Pansemnia took upon herself the most severe feats of repentance. She released all her slaves, distributed everything that she had acquired through debauchery for charitable works, and locked herself in a cell built for her. Her firm and unyielding struggle with herself soon changed her entire soul. To the glory of the grace of Christ, the gift of working miracles was revealed in Pansemnia: she healed those possessed by demons. 22 months after baptism, she moved to the Lord on the same day as her holy mentor, the Monk Theophan 105. A more striking example of his extensive action was set by St. John the Merciful, Archbishop of Alexandria, is an example, who was in the same Syria where Pansemnia and Theophan labored 106. One hermit, he said, was walking along the street in Tire. And so the dissolute woman stops him with her cry: “My father! save me as Jesus Christ saved the harlot.” The hermit, not at all thinking about what people would think, what people would say about him, took her hand and went with her to a nearby monastery outside the city. Those who saw this began to say that he was leaving monasticism to marry this woman. Unfortunately for the good judges, while walking with a woman to the monastery, the hermit saw a child abandoned on the road, and the woman took this child to her out of compassion to raise, so that the intention to enter the monastery remained unfulfilled for the time being. The evil-pagans did not miss a wonderful opportunity for them; they spread the rumor that the child had been adopted by the monk. “What more?” others said. The child’s face is as similar to a monk as a son’s to his father! It was bitter for the innocent hermit to listen to this, but he endured and endured. The former Porfiria has already become the good nun Pelagia. The hermit lay sick, and God revealed to him that his death was near. It was also hard for the ascetic’s soul that people sin so easily to their own misfortune and judge others so unfairly. He asks Pelagia to come to Tire with the child, who was already seven years old. In Tire, when he was lying sick, many visitors gathered to see him, up to a hundred people. He asks for hot coals to be brought, and when they were brought, he sprinkled them on his clothes. “You see, my friends, fire does not burn my clothes by the grace of God: just as God preserved my body throughout my life from the fire of lust, and I did not have carnal intercourse with any woman.” Having said this, the hermit gave up his spirit to the Lord. Then the intelligent judges of someone else's conscience reluctantly admitted that they were stupid and that the Lord has His secret servants, to whom if an insolent tongue touches, it is cruelly burned. Then the example of Pelagia, who turned out to be a sincere ascetic and not a ridiculed sinner, had a strong effect on many: people like her decided to wash their sinful lives with warm repentance, left the world and entered a monastery. So Pelagia († Oct. 502) not only saved herself, but also turned many people to the Lord by her example. “The Lord is close to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear Him, and He hears their prayer and saves them” (Ps. 144:18). “If anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for the sins of the whole world” (1 John 2:1-2). “Monthology of the East”, vol. II, p. 164, – Archimandrite Sergius. About Ave. Theophanes and Pansemnia in Act. Sanet, junii II, 275. Synaxarion Greek. The June Menaion and the legend in the abbreviated menology of Vanat: Thesaurus monum. 3, 439. Translation of the last legend in the prologue of June 10, but not always accurate. Prologue: “having learned about the harlot called honest.” Pansemnia exactly means: honest and even all-honest; only this is a proper name, not a common noun. In the official Menea of ​​Zografskaya of the 13th century. (admirer of the holy mountain, p. 324) “Pansemnia.” For this reason, other names of saints in the same Menea are distorted by the scribe to the extreme, for example. 6 Feb. Farosta (Favsty), February 16. Anitropovi (also in Martiropoli), May 15 Pamikhkha (Pachomia), November. 5 Epimisa (Epistats), Dec. 7 Anidora (Athinodora). Synaxarion: “Having lived a year and two months, he moves to the Lord together with the Venerable. Feofan." According to her life, “I labored for 22 months.” The latter indication should be preferred. Instruction of St. John in his life, which was written by his contemporary Leontius, Bishop of Naples, Chet-Minea November. 12 noon Acta Sanet, ad 23 iann. Or. chr. 2.443. Patrol. Lat. T. 73. p. 377. The same story in the prologue Aug. 3.