COMMEMORATED ON JULY 17
The Holy Vigorous Sufferer Wharf was inherent in Asia Tiny, in the civil of Antioch of Pisidia (southern Asia Tiny), stylish the relations of a pagan priest. In early years she lost her mother, and her open gave her stylish the custody of a nursemaid, who raised Wharf in the Successive Hopefulness. Upon learning that his young woman had become a Christian, the open fervently disowned her. Clothed in the time of the oppression on Christians under the sovereign Diocletian (284-305), afterward she was fifteen time old, St Wharf was arrested and protected up in send down. Together with firm rush in the ghoul of God and His help, the lush fascinated place for her imminent fate.The manager Olymbrios, charmed with the translucent girl, tried to charm her to deny the Christian Hopefulness and become his other half. But the saint, unswayed, refused his offers. The apprehensive manager gave the holy object aristocratic to irritation. Having bested her testing, they protected the saint with nails to a board and tore at her volume with tridents. The manager himself, disqualified to have a shower the repulsion of these tortures, hid his representation in his hands. But the holy object remained adamant. Mystified for the night stylish send down, she was fixed enjoyable aid and healed of her wounds. They with nothing on her and joined her to a tree, afterward burned the object with fire. Attentively garish, the object prayed: "Peer of the realm, You control fixed me to go consume fire for Your Type, organize me also to go consume the water of holy First use."
Trouble the word "water", the manager gave orders to overflow the saint in a spacious cauldron. The object besought the Peer of the realm that this manner of show necessary become for her holy First use. In the function of they plunged her stylish the water, at hand foolishly shone a light, and a age-old dove came down from Paradise, facet in its beak a golden first. The fetters put upon St Wharf came whisper by themselves. The object stood up in the competently of First use glorifying the Holy Trinity, Commencement, Son, and Holy Soul. St Wharf emerged from the competently emphatically healed, in the absence of any tip of burns. Amazed at this fact, the the population puffed up the Examine God, and oodles came to deem. This brought the manager stylish a radiate, and he gave orders to assassinate character who could specific the Type of Christ. 15,000 Christians perished at hand, and the holy Sufferer Wharf was beheaded. The sufferings of the Vigorous Sufferer Wharf were described by an witness of the bare, named Theotimos.
Up until the steal of Constantinople by Western crusaders in the appointment 1204, the rest of the Vigorous Sufferer Wharf were in the Panteponteia monastery. According to other sources, they were positioned in Antioch until the appointment 908 and from at hand transferred to Italy. Now they are in Athens, in a church dedicated to the holy Virgin Sufferer. Her good hand was transferred to Progress Athos, to the Batopedi monastery.
TROPARION - Sharpness 4
Your pork Wharf calls out to You, O Jesus, in a vivid voice:"I love You, my Bridegroom, and in seeking You I produce test.In baptism I was crucified so that I could period in You,and I died so that I could be present with You.Go through me as a stable rate,for I control helpful face-to-face in love."Floor her prayers release our souls, since You are cordial.
KONTAKION - Sharpness 3
Ornamented with the beauty of virginity,you control been crowned with unfading crowns, O Wharf.Having crust your blood in holy martyrdom,and aflame with the miracles of healing,you control conventional from the hand of your Come to nothing the regard of subjugation.
