{"id":26143,"date":"2011-01-11T08:21:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T12:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/saint-theodosius-the-great\/"},"modified":"2011-01-11T08:21:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T12:21:16","slug":"saint-theodosius-the-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/saint-theodosius-the-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Theodosius the Great"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Saint<\/a>Planted in the courts of your Lord, you blossomed
\nbeautifully with virtue, and increased your children in the desert, showering them
\nwith streams of your tears, O chief shepherd of the divine flock of God. Therefore,
\nwe cry to you: “Rejoice, Father Theodosius.” <\/span><\/font>Kondakion – Tone 8<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n


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From the hagiography:<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

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Saint
\nTheodosius the Great lived during the fifth-sixth centuries, and was the
\nfounder of cenobitic monasticism. At the monastery St Theodosius built a home
\nfor taking in strangers, separate infirmaries for monks and laymen, and also a
\nshelter for the dying<\/u>. Seeing that people from various lands gathered at the
\nLavra, the saint arranged for services in the various languages<\/u>: Greek,
\nGeorgian and Armenian. All gathered to receive the Holy Mysteries in the large
\nchurch, where divine services were chanted in Greek.<\/span><\/p>\n

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St Theodosius accomplished
\nmany healings and other miracles during his life, coming to the aid of the
\nneedy<\/u>. Through his prayers he once destroyed the locusts devastating the fields
\nin Palestine. Also by his intercession, soldiers were saved from death, and he
\nalso saved those perishing in shipwrecks and those lost in the desert. Once,
\nthe saint gave orders to strike the semandron (a piece of wood hit with a
\nmallet), so that the brethren would gather at prayer. He told them, “The
\nwrath of God draws near the East.” After several days it became known that
\na strong earthquake had destroyed the city of Antioch at the very hour when the
\nsaint had summoned the brethren to prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Before his death, St Theodosius
\nsummoned to him three beloved bishops and revealed to them that he would soon
\ndepart to the Lord. After three days, he died at the age of 105. The saint’s
\nbody was buried with reverence in the cave in which he lived at the beginning
\nof his ascetic deeds.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Planted in the courts of your Lord, you blossomed beautifully with virtue, and increased your children in the desert, showering them with streams of your tears, O chief shepherd of the divine flock of God. Therefore, we cry to you: “Rejoice, Father Theodosius.” Kondakion – Tone 8 From the hagiography: Saint Theodosius the Great lived … Continue reading Saint Theodosius the Great<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1712,1731,1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}