Monday 16 June 2014

Saint Evlogius The Prophet And Fool For Christ

Saint Evlogius The Prophet And Fool For Christ
St. Evlogius the Farsighted and Con (Feast Day - April 1)

The Worthy Evlogius was natural in Georgia and lived concluded the time of Queen Tamar (1184-1213). In the role of he esteemed God and the monastic life, he became a cleric. God blessed his spiritual strive and craziness and graced him with the gift of foreknowledge.

Joined with St. John the Academic, he helped Queen Tamar in the Accomplishment of Basiani (ca. 1203) on top of the sultan Rukn al-Din and his army of 400,000.

Queen Tamar's spouse, Davit Soslan, led the Georgian army with his wife to Odzrkhe Monastery to pray for help. Catholicos Tevdore of Kartli and many hierarchs and monastics accompanied her offering. Flanked by introduce somebody to an area praying for the sensation of the Christians at the Monastery were St. John the Academic and St. Evlogius the Farsighted and Con. The Queen moved out for a close cooperative spirit where she prayed unendingly for sensation, in the function of her spouse led the army to Basiani to contend the sultan and his army.

Because of the Holy Liturgy, sometime some time ago, a awesome sight took place at the Monastery. St. Evlogius crush to his break on and lifted his hands to paradise, crying out: "Radiance to God! Almighty Christ!...Do not terror the Persians, but rather haven in group, for the elegance of God has descended upon the consign of Tamar!" Do, St. John went to Queen Tamar and said: "Your Highness! The Almighty has finished known to us our sensation in the war from the orifice of a fool-for-Christ!" Detection the time of this sit-in, it was the exceedingly time that the Georgian army beaten the army of the sultan.

Starting his gift became known to all, St. Evlogius at once deceased out of observe to escape the working class care for. He reposed in group.

St. John the Academic imperturbable his "Hymns to the Theotokos of Vardzia" in style for Georgia's sensation in the Accomplishment of Basiani. He is equally legendary as the composer of "Abdul-Messiah," (Abdul-Messiah: servant of Christ) a charming ode to the holy Queen Tamar. He equally reposed in group.