Saint Theodore The Graptos Who Was Branded With Twelve Iambic Verses

St. Theodore the Famous (Saint's day Day - December 27)ON THIS DAY WE Grade OUR Worthy Found THEODORE THE GRAPTOS [Famous], BROTHER OF THEOPHANES THE Essayist AND GRAPTOSBy St. Nikodemos the HagioriteSaint Theodore together with his brother Theophanes (who is prominent on the eleventh of October) lived voguish the epoch of Theophilos the iconoclast in the appointment 830. And whichever struggled pleasingly for the concern and worship of the holy icons. Wherefore they were trounced not up to scratch pity. And according to the tips of Theophilos, with sintered soft impart was adorned on their foreheads the stakeout iambic verses:,,. E, E. O. K.All ache to run to the settlement [Jerusalem],Everyplace the all-pure feet of God's WordStood as a trick of the ecumene,These men were seen in this revered placeWicked vessels of superstitious phantasm.Offer due to unbeliefThey did a mixture of deplorable, mortifying and ungodly-minded facts They were banished from impart as apostates.Towards the settlement [Constantinople] of the people they fledThey did not set down their chaotic childishness.Hence they were well-known to be seen as evil-doersThey are again condemned and prosecuted. Having been well-known with these verses, they were sent in the sphere of outsider, where on earth the marvelous most-brave and victorious Theodore disappeared to the Noble.It is assumed that as soon as this Saint reposed, a marvelous Bulky went to him, and heard holy Angels, together chanting spiritual songs. He chanted together with them. God showed unswerving this song how widely concern Theodore had by persons attending him.From the "Synaxaristes of the Twelve Months of the Engagement". Translated by John Sanidopoulos.

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