COMMEMORATED ON JANUARY 4
The Holy Apostle and Evangelist Stain, in the same way communal as John Stain (Acts 12:12), was one of the Seventy Apostles, and was in the same way a nephew of St Barnabas (June 11). He was uneducated at Jerusalem. The house of representatives of his mother Mary adjoined the Private grounds of Gethsemane. As Church Convention relates, on the night that Christ was betrayed he followed at the rear of Him, wrapped only in a linen cloth. He was apprehended by band, and fled old hat naked, momentary the cloth eleventh-hour (Stain 14:51-52). Once upon a time the Ascension of the Noble, the house of representatives of his mother Mary became a place someplace Christians gathered, and a place of apartment for some of the Apostles (Acts 12:12).St Stain was a very close accomplice of the Apostles Peter and Paul (June 29) and Barnabas. St Stain was at Seleucia with Paul and Barnabas, and from near he set off to the island of Cyprus, and he traversed the whole of it from east to west. In the municipal of Paphos, St Stain witnessed the blinding of the sorcerer Elymas by St Paul (Acts 13:6-12).
Once upon a time working with the Apostle Paul, St Stain returned to Jerusalem, and after that went to Rome with the Apostle Peter. From near, he set out for Egypt, someplace he unyielding a strict Church.
St Stain met St Paul in Antioch. From near he went with St Barnabas to Cyprus, and after that he went to Egypt once more, someplace he and St Peter founded countless churches. Then he went to Babylon. From this municipal the Apostle Peter sent an Memorandum to the Christians of Asia Decrease, in which he calls St Stain his son (1 Pet 5:13).
Some time ago the Apostle Paul came to Rome in wires, St Stain was at Ephesus, someplace St Timothy (January 4) was bishop. St Stain went with him to Rome. Dowry he in the same way wrote his holy Gospel (ca. 62-63).
From Rome St Stain traveled to Egypt. In Alexandria he started a Christian school, which final bent such famous Fathers and teachers of the Church as Composed of Alexandria, St Dionysius of Alexandria (October 5), St Gregory Thaumatourgos (November 5), and others. Ardent for Church services, St Stain composed a Liturgy for the Christians of Alexandria.
St Stain preached the Gospel in the inner regions of Africa, and he was in Libya at Nektopolis.
During these journeys, St Stain was emotional by the Holy Principal to go once more to Alexandria and accost the pagans. Dowry he visited the home of Ananias, and healed his crippled hand. The number with satisfaction took him in, listened to his words, and received Naming.
Resulting the illustration of Ananias, countless of the populace of that part of the municipal someplace he lived were in the same way baptized. This roused the detachment of the pagans, and they accept to net St Stain. Having erudite of this, St Stain completed Ananias a bishop, and the three Christians Malchos, Sabinos, and Kerdinos were destined presbyters to stockpile the church with run at the rear of his death.
The pagans apprehended St Stain time was he was portion the Liturgy. They exceed him, dragged him not working the streets and threw him in jail. Dowry St Stain was settled a representation of the Noble Jesus Christ, Who strengthened him beforehand his sufferings. On the fan day, the prickly haversack once more dragged the saint not working the streets to the courtroom, but knock down the way St Stain died saying, "Concerning Your hands, O Noble, I praise my spirit."
The pagans accept to scorch the saint's notable, but time was they lit the fire, everything grew dark, crash crashed, and near was an earthquake. The pagans fled in radio alarm, and Christians took up the notable of St Stain and out of sight it in a stone burial chamber. This was on April 4, 63. The Church celebrates his suggestion on April 25.
In the go out with 310, a church was built exhausted the residue of St Stain. In 820, time was the Moslem Arabs had unyielding their domination in Egypt and burdened the Christian Church, the residue of St Stain were transferred to Venice and placed in the church named for him.
In the ancient iconographic tradition, which adopted symbols for the holy Evangelists on loan from the representation of St John the Theologian (Rev. 4:7) and the prophecy of Ezekiel (Ez.1:10), the holy Evangelist Stain is represented by a lion, symbolizing the may perhaps and stately splendor of Christ (Rev. 5:5).
St Stain wrote his Gospel for Gentile Christians, emphasizing the words and happenings of the Savior which reveal His divine Energy. Many aspects of his journal can be explained by his obscurity to St Peter. The ancient writers say that the Gospel of Stain is a bag second of St Peter's preaching.
One of the important theological themes in the Gospel of St Stain is the power of God achieving what is humanly unimaginable. The Apostles performed abundant miracles with Christ (Stain 16:20) and the Holy Principal (Stain 13:11) working not working them. His disciples were told to go clothed in the world and talk the Gospel to all creatures (Stain 13:10, 16:15), and that is what they did.
TROPARION-TONE 3
Holy apostle Stain of the Seventy; pray the merciful; to present-day our souls forgiveness of transgressions.
KONTAKION-TONE 4
The Church ever sees you as a beaming star, O apostle Stain, Your miracles take manifested harmonious clarification. Hence we cry out to Christ: "Excluding natives who with look-in nominate Your apostle, O Most Benign One."
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"SAINT OR Feast POSTED THIS Spot 2010(with 2009's sign up here in the same way and expand, 2008's, even 2007!)"
