Память святого священномученика Аврамия, епископа Арвильского 1192

Saint Abramius was captured by order of the chief of the Magi in 1193 in the fifth year of the persecution inflicted on Christians in Persia in 1194. The chief of the Magi forced the saint to renounce Christ and worship the sun 1195, but blessed Abramius said to him: - Pathetic wicked! Why are you bothering yourself by ordering me to do such an indecent thing? What madness is it to abandon the Creator and worship the creature! Fool! Is not the sun the creation of my God? These words brought the wicked tormentor into terrible anger, and he immediately ordered the saint to be undressed, laid out on the ground and beaten all over his body with gnarled sticks. Saint Abraham courageously endured suffering and prayed for his tormentors, saying: “Lord, do not impute this sin to them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Seeing this, the chief of the Magi ordered to cut off the saint’s head with a sword. The holy martyr Abramius met his martyrdom in a village called Felman. The city of Arvil or Arbela was located within the ancient Assyrian kingdom, east of the river. Tiber in its upper reaches. Magi or magicians were both priests and guardians of religious rites among the Persians. This persecution was initiated by King Sapor II after the Persians began a war with the Romans, around 343. The reason for the persecution was that Sapor saw the secret allies of the Romans in Christians. The fifth year of persecution falls around 348–352. The Persians worshiped fire and the sun. The latter, under the name Mnera, was their supreme deity. You might be interested in: