Today we celebrate St. John Chrysostom

Saint John Chrysostom

Patriarch of Constantinople. He was born in Antioch, in 354, to father Secund, duke, and mother Antusa. Studying Greek philosophy, John hated Greek paganism and adopted the Christian faith as the only and complete truth. He received baptism from Meletius, the patriarch of Antioch, and then he received baptism and his parents. After the death of his parents, he became a monk and began to work hard. Then he wrote the book "On the Priesthood" and then the holy apostles Peter and John appeared to him and predicted a great service, great grace, but also great suffering. When he was to be ordained a priest, an angel of God appeared: at the same time to the patriarch Flavian (after Meletius) and to John himself. And when the patriarch was ordained, all saw a bright white dove above John's head. Celebrated for his wisdom, struggle, and word of great authority, he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople at the request of Emperor Arkady. For six years he ruled the Church as a patriarch with incomparable wisdom and zeal. He sent pagan missionaries to the Celts and the Scythians, destroyed the simony in the Church by removing many Simon-bishops; spread the charitable activity of the Church; wrote a special act of the Holy Liturgy; shame the heretics; rebuked Empress Eudoxia; He interprets the Holy Scriptures with his golden mind and tongue, he left to the Church many precious books with his sermons. The people glorified him, the envious hated him, the empress twice sent him into exile. He spent three years in exile and died on the Day of the Cross, September 14, 407, in the town of Koman in Armenia. Before his death, the apostles John and Peter appeared to him again, as did the holy martyr Vasilisk (celebrated on May 22), in whose church he received Holy Communion. "Glory to God for everything!", Were his last words and with those words the soul of the golden-headed patriarch went to Heaven. From the relics of St. John Chrysostom, the head rests in the Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos, and the body in Constantinople.

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