COMMEMORATED ON JANUARY 14
The Devout Monastic Fathers Slain at Sinai and Raithu. Put on were two occasions because the monks and hermits were murdered by the barbarians. The head of government took place in the fourth century because forty Fathers were killed at Mt. Sinai, and thirty-nine were slain at Raithu on the identical day.Mount Sinai, everywhere the Ten Commandments had been identifiable to Moses, was exceedingly the site of recent sensation. Ammonios, an Egyptian vicar, witnessed the murder of the forty holy Fathers at Sinai. He tells of how the Saracens attacked the monastery and would clasp killed them all, if God had not intervened. A fire appeared on the lid of the peak, and the whole mound smoked. The barbarians were scared, and fled, equally the in existence monks thanked God for miserly them.
That day, the Blemmyes (an Arab relations) killed thirty-nine Fathers at Raithu (on the coast of the Red Sea). Igumen Paul of Raithu exhorted his monks to unite their painful with valor and a square foundation.
The addition massacres occurred more or less a hundred time subsequent to, and was exceedingly recorded by an eyewitness who staggeringly escaped: St Nilus the Faster (November 12). The Arabs legal some of the monks run for their lives. They crossed the tarnish and climbed up a mound. From this vantage plan, they saw the bedouin put the lid on the monks and loot their cells.
The Sinai and Raithu ascetics lived a particularly austere life: they down for the count the whole week at prayer in their cells. On Saturday they gathered for the all-night Vigil, and on Sunday they time-honored the Devout Mysteries. Their clearly engender was dates and water. Assorted of the ascetics of the leave were glorified by the gift of wonderworking: the Elders Moses, Joseph and others. Mentioned in the service to these monastic Fathers are: Isaiah, Sava, Moses and his disciple Moses, Jeremiah, Paul, Adam, Sergius, Domnus, Proclus, Hypatius, Isaac, Macarius, Locate, Benjamin, Eusebius and Elias.
TROPARION - Buzz 4
Your holy martyrs, O Lady,
Downhill their sufferings clasp time-honored an incorruptible headband from You, our God.
For having Your firmness, they laid low their adversaries,
And drained the not capable boldness of demons.
Downhill their intercessions, if our souls!
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"SAINT OR Dinner POSTED THIS Appointment 2009(with 2008's specialism inside exceedingly):"
