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Orestes was a doctor in the city of Tiana. The ruler of Maximia, who was looking for Christians during the Diocletian persecution, having received a denunciation of his zeal for the Christian faith, called him and asked: “Who are you and what is your name?” Orestes answered: “I am a servant of the Lord God and Jesus Christ and I am called a Christian, since I bear the name of the One Whom I serve.” “How dare you call Christ God and yourself a Christian? For this you are worth execution! But come to your senses and make a sacrifice to the gods,” said the ruler. And “From childhood I was taught to worship and offer sacrifice and praise to the living God, Whom I honor, and not to your invented gods,” answered Orestes. “I pity your youth, and I also heard that you are skilled in medical wisdom; Therefore, I do not immediately condemn you to execution, but I urge you to obey the royal will.” The judge said this and much more, but did not shake the confessor’s courage. Then he ordered Orestes to be stripped and scourged with ropes and sinews, the wounds to be poured with vinegar and salt to be sprinkled, and after torture by fire to be taken to prison. Here they starved and thirsted him for seven days, then they drove twenty nails into his heels and tied him to a horse, which they drove hard across fields and sharp stones. In such torment, Orestes betrayed his soul to God; the remains of his body, thrown into the river, were collected by the faithful and buried on a mountain near Tiana. Saints Apostle from LXX: Olympus, Rodion, Erastus, Euartus and Tertius Saints Apostle from LXX: Olympus, Rodion, Erastus, Euartus and Tertius. See about them in the Council of the 70 Apostles, January 4th. St. Martyr Miles (Milia) and others with him A native of the Rakhiz region, he entered military service at a young age and was at the royal court; but soon left the service, accepted the Christian faith and began to study the holy books. Some time later, he left the place of his scientific education, Bet-Lapet (80 versts from Ispagan) in the country of the Gusites, and arrived in Susa, in the country of Elam, where he served as a priest, and then became a bishop, consecrated bishop of Bet-Lapet (who later suffered along with Simeon). He spent three years in the department, but his zeal for the enlightenment of the pagans had no success. In the fight against magicians and inveterate pagans, he was even subjected to gross insults; Finally, an irritated crowd beat him, dragged him through the city streets and left him half-dead outside the city. This forced him to leave Suza and look for another place for his activities. But before he left, he predicted the death of the city, saying: “Since you did not want to settle down and adorn yourself in the world, then unexpectedly, by the hand of the enemy, death and sudden destruction will come upon you. Your palaces will fall and your inhabitants will be scattered." And barely three months had passed when Sapor learned of the conspiracy against him of the noble Elamites, sent an army with three hundred elephants and destroyed the city to the ground, and turned the country into a desert, so that even in the fifth century, when Marufa wrote, there was little cultivated land there. Miles went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, from where, after a two-year stay there, he traveled to Alexandria in Egypt and visited the monks of the Nitrian desert, where, as is known, Miles’s contemporary, Ephraim the Syrian, lived for seven years. After a five-year wandering, he arrived in the mountains. Nisibis went to the local bishop Saint James and stayed with him for quite some time. Out of gratitude for the hospitality, Miles from Adiaba, where he went, sent James a not insignificant gift - silk for his household needs and together reported the news of church discord in Seleucia-Ctesiphon on the occasion of the claims of Simeon's predecessor, the Pope, a bishop, who lived there, to power in the Church (and the Pope refused the see in 324). This happened in 334. On this occasion, a council took place in Seleucia-Bthesiphon, at which Miles was also present; The condemned Pope died the following year (335). From Ctesiphon, Miles went to the region of Maizan (in Babylonia, under the domain of the Tigris in the Persian Gulf) and there he lived in the desert near a monk, spreading the light of faith everywhere and establishing piety. Finally, he returned to his homeland, to the region of the Rakhisites, and converted many there to Christ, thereby incurring the hatred of the ruler of the region, Gormizda Gufriz. The latter only expected an opportunity to remove a person who had a strong moral influence on the people, and therefore, when the royal decree was issued on the persecution of Christian teachers, he ordered Miles and his employees, the priest Abrosim and the deacon Sina, to be imprisoned. The proud ruler considered it unnecessary to bring them before an ordinary court; he wanted to personally decide their fate. One day, together with his brother, he went out into the mountains to hunt and ordered confessors of the faith to be introduced there. When they were brought, Gormizda mockingly asked Miles: “Are you God or man? Give evidence of your faith and your teaching,” and concluded with the words: “and if you do not explain why you are captured, then I will order your head to be cut off like a wild beast.” Miles answered fearlessly: “I am a man, my faith is true, and I will not defend it because of your false speeches. My teaching is pure, and I will not reveal it to your unclean ears, but I will tell you the truth. Woe to you, godless villain, and to everyone like you who insults God! According to His righteousness, in the next century He will condemn you to Gehenna and the darkness there, and you will forever be tormented by weeping and gnashing of teeth, because you do not know the One who has given you these blessings, by which you are glorified and consoled.” Irritated by the contradiction, Gormizda jumped up and pierced Miles's shoulder with his sword, so that the sword passed right through; overwhelmed by the same rage, Hormizda's brother, Nerses, drew his sword and hastened the death of Christ's confessor. But before he gave up the ghost, Miles predicted both brothers imminent and inevitable punishment from God for shedding innocent blood. At the same time, Gormizda ordered his servants to beat Abrosim and Sina. The wrath of God was not slow to befall the wicked; the next morning, both brothers, while chasing a deer, accidentally hit each other and thus died. The death of the confessors of Christ followed on November 13, 344, that is, seven months after the publication of the aforementioned decree of Saporov. Saint Nonnos, Bishop of Iliopolis St. Nonnos, who became famous for his holy life first in the Tavensky monastery, was after that (from 448) a bishop in Edessa and then (from 451) in Iliopolis, where he converted up to 30,000 Arabs to Christianity. For the last three years of his life he again graced the Edessean See and died peacefully in 471. He is mentioned in the life of St. Pelagia (October 8th), whom he turned to the path of salvation.