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St. Apostle Onesimus, one from 70 Having great boldness in Christ to command you what you should, out of love I better ask, none other than me, Paul the Elder, and now a prisoner of Jesus Christ; I ask you about my son Onesimus, whom I gave birth to in my bonds. He was once unfit for you, but now he is fit for you and me; I'm returning it. You accept it as my heart. I wanted to keep him with me, so that instead of you he would serve me in prison for the gospel; but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your good deed would not be forced, but voluntary. For, perhaps, he went away for a while so that you could accept him forever, not as a slave, but above a servant, a beloved brother, especially to me, and even more so to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. “So if you have fellowship with me, accept him as you do me. If he offended you in any way, or should, consider it on me. I, Paul, wrote with my hand: I will pay; I’m not telling you that you owe me yourself. “So, brother, let me benefit from you in the Lord; rest my heart in the Lord. Hoping for your obedience, I wrote to you, knowing that you will do more than I say.” (Episode to Philim. I, 8–21.) So wrote St. Apostle Paul to Philemon, a rich and noble man who believed in the teachings of Christ during Paul’s preaching in Phrygia, Asia Minor. He wrote this to him about his servant Onesimus, who, having offended his master and fearing punishment, fled from him to Rome, where the Apostle Paul was then preaching. Many people, hearing the Apostle, were enlightened by faith. Servant Onesimus was also captivated by the teachings of St. Paul and did not retreat from him, insatiably listening to the words of life and true freedom. He opened his soul to Paul, expressed repentance for his sin and, having received St. Paul from Paul. baptism, wanted to serve him. But not wanting to take advantage of the service of someone else's slave, St. Paul sent a letter with him to Philemon with the above content. Philemon, who was already a Christian, responded not only with forgiveness, but also with the release of his slave, so that Onesimus could return to Rome to Paul and served him, zealously fulfilling his instructions. He himself, over time, became one of the 70 Apostles, and after the death of Paul he preached the word of God in many countries of Greece and Asia Minor. In his old age, he was a bishop in Ephesus after the death of the Apostle Timothy, and for his zealous assistance in spreading the faith of Christ he was called to Rome, during the reign of Emperor Trajan, where he suffered from Eparch Tertilus and died, stoned in 109, shortly after the death of St. Ignatius. His body was returned to Ephesus. Relics of St. The Apostle Onesimus and the church in his name were in Constantinople in 1200, as the Russian pilgrim Anthony says. Rev. Eusebius, hermit of Syria His contemporary, Blessed Theodoret of Cyrus, talks about him as a great ascetic. Having secluded himself on a mountain near the village of Asikhi in Syria, Eusebius took refuge against a wall, the stones of which were not even bound with clay: he lived all year round in the open air and ate peas and beans soaked in water, only occasionally adding figs to them to maintain his strength. Throughout Lent he was content with 15 figs. And despite such emaciation of his body, he lived to be almost a hundred years old... “The weakness of his bodily strength was replenished in him by fiery zeal, and love for God made everything comfortable and easy for him,” says Theodoret about him, who was not deprived of conversations with the elder even when he had already refused all communication with people and completely blocked the entrance to himself, rolling a stone to the door of his home. Thus, blessed Eusebius labored to the end, “washed by streams of sweat” in the midst of his feat of renunciation of all the joys and conveniences of life and anticipating with aspirations and comprehension of a blessed eternity already here on earth... Rev. Paphnutius, the recluse of Pechersk Rev. Paphnutius, the recluse of Pechersk, who died in the 12th century; His relics are in the Feodosiev caves in Kiev. His ascetic life was especially remarkable for his inexhaustible tears about his sins... Through tears, the truly “blessed” one achieved that “consolation” that was promised to “those who weep now”... Feast of the Dalmatian Icon of Our Lady The Dalmatian icon of the Mother of God is located in the Dalmatian monastery in the provincial town of Dalmatovo, Perm province. This monastery was founded in 1644 by the monk Dalmat, who, in his humility, retired from the Nevyansk monastery of the same province, where they wanted to assign the title of abbot to Dalmat, came to the homeland of Iligei Tatar with the icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God and decided to build a monastery here, which was later named Dalmatov after the name of the builder. Iligei, having learned that Dalmat had erected a monastery on the land that belonged to him, wanted to expel him in 1646; but the Mother of God appeared to the owner in a dream, in a scarlet robe and crown, with a fiery sword, and commanded him to give up the land for a monastery. This phenomenon probably occurred on February 15th. After the vision, Iligei humbly came to Dalmatus and gave him the place he now occupies for the monastery, and in addition brought him other gifts. At the end of 1646, the new buildings of the Dalmatian Monastery were burned by Kalmyks; Some of the monks were killed by them, and others were taken prisoner, but Dalmat hid and saved the saint. icon. After the Kalmyks had left, he returned to the same place and renovated his monastery, which, adorned with the offerings of the people flocking to pray, finally became the most noble in Siberia. On August 15, on the day of the church holiday of the monastery, there is a great gathering of people there to worship the miraculous Dalmatian icon.