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- Holy Prophet Habbakuk (Abbacum) (7th c. BC).
- He prophesied in the time of Joachim, just before the Jewish people
were taken into captivity in Babylon. He himself escaped captivity, and
after Jerusalem was destroyed, returned to his homeland. Once he was
taking some food to his harvesters when an Angel transported him to
Babylon to feed the Prophet Daniel in the lions' den, then bore him back
to Judea (this is told in the full version of the book of Daniel, ch. 6
LXX). The third chapter of his prophecy is used as the Fourth Ode of
the Matins Canon(the Ode is usually sung in full only in monasteries
during Lent, but the irmos of the Fourth Ode, sung in many parishes,
usually refers to the Prophet). His holy relics were found through a
revelation in Palestine during the reign of Theodosius the Great, and a
chapel built there. His name means "Father of the Resurrection."
source:http://www.abbamoses.com
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