SAINT FANOURIOSInauguration.Saint Fanourios is deficient think an vital and holy babies shape, who stands out in a identifiable way amid the other Saints of Christianity, as he is not only honoured on a introverted calendar day, but the obtain often make use of the well accustomed "fanouropita" (Fanourios cake).Saint Fanourios, who lived voguish Roman get older, went up bravely in opposition to the idolatric world, for the Christian spirit of this man of God did not allow him to refuse to give his clearly satisfactory credo. As a result, the 12 tortures that the Saint suffered get as far as for us a strong push for single-mindedness and celebration to the helpful idea of Christianity, to come out victors from the relentless work of unbelief and wrong of our time. This Saint teaches us with his real expense that even bit we do not work in opposition to Roman soldiers and horrible Hagarenes, languid we fasten to accept the greater so set traps of avarice and atheism, that make contact with en masse to hit the Christian order. Saint Fanourios further qualified us that the cup of a satisfactory life is not merely won but only complete perpetual tests - with gallantry, mercy and single-mindedness. That's why, as true fighters of the assurance let us mull over the model and perfect life of the Saint, so that we too may be found top-drawer to honour the Christian name we deduct, as he so correspondingly did.SAINT FANOURIOS1. Dominant Overview OF HIS Invention.Vitality identifiable is accustomed in relation to the ancestors and the life of Saint Fanourios seeing that all the information about his life was lost voguish turbulent get older.The only information we fasten in relation to the Saint is the verdict of his icon, influence 1500 AD according to the Synaxarion, or according to other sources influence 1355-1369 AD. Reliable own that the icon of the Saint was found in Rhodes but others say in Cyprus.2. THE Discovery OF THE Bust Let us return to the taking into account, in the same way as the Hagarenes (i.e. Muslims) ruled Rhodes and had somber to patch up the wall of the capital, which they so barbarically demolished and leveled a few natural life in advance.They started to send workers outside the south part of the mainstay to inference stones from the partially had it houses of the populace, to patch up the new and strong battlements of the capital. In addition to the dead body they bare a most penalize church which was one-sidedly shattered on one piece. At home they bare a group of icons, which outstanding the course of time the faces of the Saints as well as the inscriptions on them were unclear.Only one superb icon stood whisper from the rest, one that time did not outline, which depicted a early stages clothed as a opponent. The Public of Rhodes, Nilus, went immediately to the site and perfectly read the name of the Saint, Fanourios. The Public, stirred by the declare of the saint, saw that he was clothed as a Roman Soldier, holding a tetchy in his missing hand and a lit candle in his really. Speak the icon the iconographer had further tinted the twelve depictions of the martyrdom that the saint had suffered, perfectly stool pigeon his life.These depictions are as follows:1. The Saint is give or take a few in frontal of the Roman magistrate, standing and looking be devoted to he is boldly testifying and suspicious his Christian assurance.2. At home the soldiers are prevailing and remarkable Fanourios' essential and the maw with stones to organization him to acquiesce and refuse to give the Peer of the realm.3. The soldiers fasten as a result far become wound up by the persistence of Fanourios, throwing him to the showground and damage him indefatigably with brushwood and clubs to break his obstinate coldness.4. Fanourios is in jail and is persona tormented in a most loathsome way. He appears intensely naked and the nearly soldiers are tearing his flesh with bristly metal instruments. The Saint is without a sound hard-wearing his serious martyrdom.5. Fanourios is back in jail praying to God to brace him to the end of his tortures.6. The Saint is another time brought in advance the Roman magistrate to deliberate a missile for his position. By the soft manner on his apparent it appears that neither the tortures he suffered nor the intentional terrorization of the monster can pulsate his assurance, and as a result persona undeterred he is waiting for new tortures.7. The torturers of Fanourios with fury and fierceness are emotional his naked subject with lit torches, as a result show his undefeatable expense for the Crucified One. The Saint wins another time with his unattainable fortitude and phantom for the Peer of the realm.8. At home his savage torturers are making use of instinctive ability to gain the drop of his tortures. They fasten coupled the Saint on a urge which crushes his bones in the same way as rotated. He is irritation deficient neurotic, but on his penalize apparent dowry is an obscure satisfaction because he is irritation for the sake of the Peer of the realm.9. Fanourios is cast clothed in a pit to become sufferer to silly beasts and his torturers are adherence from chief to file his end. The beasts, on the other hand, are intensely docile complete the elegance of God and without a sound swathe him be devoted to lambs to reminiscent of his superb organization.10. The torturers were not packed by the contemporary adding up so they unworldly him from the hole and are violent him under a monstrous gemstone, absolutely that they fortitude incise him off. Calm down, even this time they do not catch. 11. The locality presents the Saint in frontal of an altar, somewhere the torturers are influence him to expense, placing emotional coal in his hands. Fanourios further passes this test victoriously and a devil in the form of a dragon is not on in the air in the air and crying outstanding its passing. 12. The snag locality is the end of his martyrdom, with Fanourios persona cast clothed in a voluminous falsify standing on a stool and constrained by ardor and fumes. The Saint seems to be praying by a whisker to God, deficient belligerent or neurotic, and as a result unwavering and deficient giving in, he flew to illusion, full of contentment for all the tortures he had suffered for the sake of the Peer of the realm.3. THE ERECTION OF THE Church.The subsequently Public of the atoll, Nilus, once assiduously studying the icon that was found, culminate that Fanourios was one of the most bizarre extreme martyrs of our Optimism. He immediately dispatched a deputation to the highest of the atoll and to ask him for a papers to directly a church. Calm down, in the same way as the highest refused the Public himself went to Constantinople and managed to secure from the Sultan the papers he required. He sharply returned to Rhodes and built the church upright on its old trickle, outside the battlements. The Church survives to this day and is a sacred testimonial for all Christians.4. Info FROM THE Discovery OF THE Bust.Observing the icon of Saint Fanourios that was found in Rhodes we can absolute numberless bizarre points which are as follows:1. To the same extent we read the name of the Saint on the icon we absolute immediately that he was of Greek downward slope.2. We further absolute that his parents were sacred to deliberate him such a Christian name (which ability "Revealer").3. The early stages would fasten been very qualified to become a mass officer.4. We further stay on the line that the martyrdom of Saint Fanourios occurred voguish the concluding or third century in the same way as the persecutions of the Christians were at their peak.5. Fanourios has evidently identified to be a extreme wounded person from the numberless foul tortures he suffered.6. For dowry to be such a church found in Rhodes, we are further identifiable that he was honoured in churches by the sacred Christians from the time of his martyrdom.7. From the representation of the Saint on the icon it appears that Saint Fanourios martyred at a verdant age.5. MIRACLES OF THE SAINT Saint Fanourios worked numberless miracles for the sacred who called upon his name and one of them was the following:At one time in its history, Crete was satisfied by the Latins (1204-1669 AD) who had their own Archbishop and for this basis they tried by all ability to lead the populace of the atoll to Catholicism (Papism).The Latins took an block jingle in opposition to Traditional values by outlawing the ordination of priests in Crete, forcing the Cretans to go outstanding to the atoll of Tsirigo (Kethyra) to be preordained by an Formulaic hierarch who served dowry.At some time, three deacons set off from Crete for Tsirigo and having been preordained priests dowry, they were happily inveterate to their sorrowful incarcerated atoll. To their bad luck, Hagarene pirates captured them at sea and on cloud nine them to Rhodes, somewhere they were sold to three odd Hagarene masters.The lot of the three priests was unpardonable but a powerful skirmish came to sweeten their lot. They wise person that in Rhodes Saint Fanourios worked miracles and they set their hopes in him, interminably praying, each one on your own invoking him to free them from the caustic imprisonment to the horrible Hagarenes.Every person priest asked their master, deficient in advance having communicated along with themselves, to allow them to go to church to tribute the icon of Saint Fanourios. They all standard coverage merely and so politely highly thought of the icon of the Saint, wetting the earth with their moan and kneeling and praying with all their character pleading Saint Fanourios to intercede so that they may be relieved from the hands of the Hagarenes.At the rear of the priests vanished, having been consoled of their hurt, Saint Fanourios appeared that night to all the masters and structured them to free their incarcerated priests, before he would prepare them plainly. Calm down, the Hagarene masters designed the society of the Saint to be some ask for of magic and they chained their captives and started to soreness them in the final within your capabilities way.Calm down, the appearance night Saint Fanourios intervened greater significantly. He loosed the three priests from their bonds and promised them that they would be careless from the Hagarenes the appearance day. He subsequently appeared another time to the Hagarenes and threatened them this time that if they did not free the priests in the crack of dawn he would use caustic measures in opposition to them.The appearance crack of dawn the Hagarenes felt the instruct seeing that they all lost their panorama and their bodies became paralyzed. They were as a result worried to poll the point of view of their family and give up the evil that had befallen them. All the masters subsequently somber to phone the three priests in lid they may perhaps help them. The only explanation the priests gave them was that they would pray to God and He would gel.The third night Saint Fanourios another time appeared to the Hagarenes and on the ball them that if the three masters did not send in writing to his church their contract for the circulation of the priests, they would never revive their health. The Hagarenes, whether they wanted to or not, wrote the memo the Saint asked for and acknowledged ingenuous out that they fixed carriage to the three priests. These submissions were sent to the holy church of the Saint. Press flat in advance the messengers of the Hagarenes returned from the church, the screen and paralyzed faithless ones were satisfactorily healed according to the fortitude of the Saint. The grave Hagarenes gave the priests all the responsibility for their travel and the priests in advance departure went to the church, thanked the Saint for their circulation, and assiduously commonplace the icon of Saint Fanourios, which they took to Crete somewhere they honoured it every meeting with doxologies and litanies (processions).6. THE PITA (CAKE) OF SAINT FANOURIOS.The extreme honour the Christians fasten for Saint Fanourios became the basis for the support of the everyday tradition of the pita (cake) of the Saint, improved accustomed as "Fanouropita".The pita is in total dumpy and ardor and is complete of organic flour, sugar, cinnamon, and oil. At the rear of all these ingredients are various together, they are kneaded, put in a ardor cake form and the pita is uninteresting under medium reheat in the oven.The pita is regulate so that the Saint may reveal to someone a lost item, find a job for someone out of work, finding the middle ground on a lost jump, just the health of someone easily upset, etc.Our Church commemorates Saint Fanourios on Pompous 27.
APOLYTIKION (TROPARION) - Declare 4. Acquire Diadem.A enjoyable tweak of position is chanted radiantly upon the earth; the organization of Angels now optimistically celebrates an terrestrial local holiday and from on high with hymns they position your contests and from less than the Church proclaims the Pleasant turmoil which you fasten founded by your labours and struggles, O magnificent Fanourios.KONTAKION - Declare 3. THE VIRGIN These days.You did obstruct the Priests from the profane imprisonment and did break their bonds by Foretell Power, O godly minded one; you did bravely disgrace the madden of the tyrants and did inspire the tips of the Angels, O Immense Sufferer. Wherefore, we honour you, divine warrior, magnificent Fanourios.MEGALYNARIONTo nation who wear your sacred icon with assurance and asking your assist, Sufferer, heirs of the Pleasant Acquire, Fanourios, to all your entreaties wait on.Publication: Formulaic Idryma (Foundation) "O Apostolos Barnabas"
