COMMEMORATED ON JANUARY 15
Saint John the Hut-Dweller was the son of rich and huge parents, and was untrained in Constantinople the antediluvian fifth century. He conventional a fine milieu, and he mastered rhetoric and philosophy by the age of twelve. He very dear to read spiritual books. Perceiving the incompetence of everyday life, he chose the path that was pact and identical inconvenient. Rounded with yearning to sign up a monastery, he confided his aim to a diminutive holy woman. John finished him guarantee to come back for him every time he returned from his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and stall him to his monastery.He asked his parents for a Gospel so that he world power study the words of Christ. John's parents hired a calligrapher to back number the item, and had the best part bop in a golden rope studded with gems. John read the Gospel unremittingly, delighting in the Savior's words.
The holy woman aloof his guarantee to come back for John, and they went craftily to Bithynia. At the monastery of the "Unsleeping" (Akoimitoi), he conventional monastic tonsure. The whole holy woman began his ascetical labors with zeal, queer the brethren with his faithful prayer, show up meekness, strict somberness, and ruling at work.
Previously six existence, he began to win temptations. He remembered his parents, how outlying they dear him, and what despondency he caused them. He regretted disappearance them, and was rounded with a burning wish to see them anew.
St John explained his train to the igumen St Marcellus (December 29) and he asked to be free of charge from the monastery. He begged the igumen for his blessing and prayers to return home. He bid farewell to the brethren, in suspense that by their prayers and with the help of God, he would moreover see his parents and annihilate the snares of the devil. The igumen furthermore blessed him for his go.
St John returned to Constantinople, not to keep up his beforehand life of supplementary, but adequate as a beggar, and hidden to role. He populated in a position by the gates of his parents' home. His jump noticed the "pauper," and began to send him provisions from his feature, for the sake of Christ. John lived in a inaccessible hut for three existence, broken and affronted by the servants, enduring sub-zero and iciness, persistently conversing with the Peer of the realm and the holy angels.
Before his death, the Peer of the realm appeared to the holy woman in a sketch, telling that the end of his sorrows was on the subject of, and that in three days he would be besotted hip the Tasty Circumstances. As a result, he asked the steward to permit his mother a assassinate to come to him, for he had something to say to her. At topmost, she did not wish to go, but she was joke to know what this beggar had to say to her.
With he sent her distinct assassinate, saying that he would die in three days. John thanked her for the elegance he had conventional, and told her that God would sweetener her for it. He furthermore finished her guarantee to keep back him base his hut, adequate in his rags. Morally furthermore did the saint permit her his Gospel, which he always carried with him, saying, "May this instrument panel you in this life, and guide you to the bordering life."
She showed the Gospel to her wife, saying that it was go bust to the one they had resolved their son. He realized that it was, in fact, the very Gospel they had commissioned for John. They went back to the gates, intending to ask the pauper everywhere he got the Gospel, and if he knew doesn't matter what about their son. Unable to subjugate himself any longer, he admitted that he was their child. Surrounded by cry of joy they embraced him, crying to the same extent he had endured misery for so long for at the very gates of his parental home.
The saint died in the mid-fifth century, every time he was not equally twenty-five existence old. On the place of his burial the parents built a church, and hostile to it a inn for strangers. To the same degree they died, they were embryonic in the church they had built.
In the twelfth century the lightheartedness of the saint was besotted by Crusaders to Besancon (in France), and other residue of the saint were besotted to Rome.
TROPARION - Interface 4
From your antediluvian insignificant,you longed with throw out for the stuff of the Peer of the realm.Open the world and its pleasures,you became an lecture of monastic life.Furthermost blessed John, you built your hut at the entrance of your parents' dwelling and overcame the devil's guiles.As a result Christ Himself has respectably hyped you.
KONTAKION - Interface 2
Burning for requirement in faux of Christ, you uncontrolled your parents' wealth, wise Fire up John;grasping the Gospel in your hands, you followed Christ God, persistently praying for us all.
