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- Translation of the Image Not-Made-By-Hands of our Lord Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople (944)
- The Third "Feast of the Savior" in August
- While the Lord was preaching in Palestine, his fame reached a king Avgar
of Edessa, who suffered from leprosy. Avgar sent a messenger named
Ananias to ask whether the Lord could heal his illness. The king also
charged Ananias, if he was unable to bring back Jesus Himself, to bring
back a likeness of Him. When Ananias found Jesus, the Lord told him that
he could not come to Edessa since the time of His passion was at hand.
But he took a cloth and washed His face, miraculously leaving a perfect
image of His face on the cloth. Ananias brought the holy image back to
the king, who reverently kissed it. Immediately his leprosy was healed,
save for a small lesion that remained on his forehead. Later the Apostle
Thaddeus came to Edessa, preaching the gospel, and Avgar and his
household were baptized, at which time his remaining leprosy vanished.
The king had the holy likeness mounted on wood and displayed above the
city gate for all to revere. But Avgar's grandson returned to idolatry,
and the Bishop of Edessa had the image hidden in the city wall to
prevent it from being defiled. Many years later, when the Persian king
Chosroes besieged Edessa, the Bishop Eulabius was told in a vision to
find the sealed chamber, whose location had been forgotten. The holy
icon was found, completely incorrupt, and by its power the Persian army
was driven off. In the year 944 the image was brought to Constantinople
and enshrined in the Church of the Theotokos called the Pharos. This is
the event commemorated today.
Martyr Diomedes the Physician of Tarsus in Cilicia (298)He is one of the Holy Unmercenary Physicians,
a physician who practiced in Tarsus during the reign of Diocletian.
Around 288 he came to Nicaea, where he healed many bodies by his medical
arts and many souls through his preaching of the Gospel of Christ. The
Emperor Diocletian sent men to arrest him, but when they arrived they
found that he had already reposed. They cut off his head to take it back
to the Emperor, and for this abomination were all struck blind. When
Diocletian saw St Diomedes' head, he ordered the men to return it to the
body from which they had taken it. As soon as they had done so, their
sight was restored.
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