Today is celebrated the Memorial of the miracles of St. Archangel Michael

In Phrygia there was a place called Honey ("diving") not far from Hierapolis; and at that place a spring with miraculous water. When the Holy Apostle John the Theologian and Philip preached the Gospel in Hierapolis, he looked at the place and prophesied that a source of miraculous water would open there, from which many would receive healing, and that the great Architect Michael of God would visit that place. Soon after, this prophecy was fulfilled, a fountain was opened which, because of its miraculous power, became famous on all sides. A pagan in Laodicea had no daughter and was deeply saddened by this. But in a dream the Archangel Michael appeared to him and instructed him to lead his no daughter to the spring, where he would be healed. The father immediately obeyed, took his daughter and found many people at the water, who were looking for salvation from various torments at the spring. They were all Christians. Then the man asked them how he should seek healing, and the Christians said to him: "In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit you should pray to the Holy Archangel Michael." The man did so, prayed and watered his daughter from the water, and then the girl started talking. Then the pagan man was baptized together with his whole house, and by the spring he built a church for the Holy Archangel Michael. Later, a young man named Archip settled in the area and performed asceticism in a strict fast of fasting and prayer. The pagans hurt him a lot, because they did not like the fact that so much power comes from Christian holiness and attracts so many people. So in their malice they turned the nearby river to drown the church and the spring. However, after Archip prayed, the Holy Archangel appeared again and opened a cleft in the rock near the church which received the whole winding river. So that place was saved and called Honey ("diving") because the river plunged into the open abyss. Saint Archip asceticized here for seventy years and rested peacefully in the Lord.

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