Wednesday 25 December 2013

Venerable Parthenios Of Chios 1883

Venerable Parthenios Of Chios 1883
Good Parthenios of Chios (Feast Day - December 8)

The venerable Parthenios was from the commune of Dafnonas in Chios. At a teenage age he got engaged and he worked in trade amid Chios, Smyrna and Constantinople. In the function of preparing for marriage he was notified that his wife became sincerely ill and into the future he returned from a trip, she died.

Desiring to aspect his dead fiancee with his own eyes, he went to the ghastly at night, dug her up, and took her in his arms. He philosophized, as is thought in the hymns from the Interment Service: "We went out and saw in the tombs that the open bones of man are worms and muckiness and stink", and without momentous someone, he moved out the cares of this absurd world, and became a monk in Nea Moni of Chios, and he became noted for his ascetical feats.

By the blessing of his bulky, he ascended the peak of Skyrocket Penthodous, and put forward he would light the vigil oil lamp and cared in regular for the spellbound church put forward of the Saintly Apostle and Evangelist Support. At one point, by the general feeling of God, he undressed a underground cave at the Southeast base of the big money, anywhere he deep to wait in simplicity. There he lived with fasting, vigil and prayer day and night.

The Lady, beholding his spiritual feats, bestowed on him lots spiritual gifts, linking which was clairvoyance. He foretold the heavy and horrible earthquake of Chios in 1881. At full tilt, his eminence grew, and the spellbound church of Saint Support was reformed during a Skete, anywhere the venerable Parthenios and his disciples performed their monastic duties.

All the kind gathered from the compound parts of the coral island to seek his unhealthy words and to chase his prayers and his blessing. The ever-memorable guru Lazarios Zanaras, wrote vs. the general feeling of the Good One, that Good Parthenios performed lots miracles in his life.

He reposed in pact on December 8th 1883.

Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos