OCTOBER 22
READING: Saint Abercius, Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia in the period of Marcus Aurelius, was decked out with the care of wonderworking and with apostolic zeal. Trendy a carnival in honour of Apollo, the chief deity of Hierapolis, the holy bishop was instructed in a daze to relax the idols. He went to the temple by night and reversed the statues of Apollo and the others. Taking into consideration this was discovered, the Saint courageously cried out that the gods, becoming intoxicated from the wine of the libations vacant them, had struck one reluctant another in their muddle. A pack of uncontrolled pagans came to avenge the wide of the mark to their gods, but as soon as the Saint cast the demons out of three afflicted unsophisticated men, fear level upon the idolaters and they with the whole metropolitan became Christian. Time was heaps labours, and afflictions, Saint Abercius reposed in friendship about the rendezvous 167 (or, according to some, 186).APOLYTIKION IN THE FOURTH Border The truth of things hath revealed thee to thy multitude as a produce of chance, an icon of gentleness, and a learned of temperance; for this snap, thou hast achieved the heights by humility, prosperity by crave. O Jump and Hierarch Abercius, intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.
KONTAKION IN THE PLAGAL OF THE FOURTH Border The Cathedral of all the trustworthy doth standing thee, O Abercius, as a wonderful priest and a reliable ally of the twelve Apostles of the Member of the aristocracy. By thy prayers, O blest Hierarch, base the Cathedral sound from every vain-minded heresy, unconquered and unshaken for ever, O thou most wondrous one.
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