Commemorated on November 9
Saint Matrona, Abbess of Constantinople was born in the city of Perge Pamphylia (Asia Petty) in the fifth century. They gave her in marriage to a affluent man named Dometian. For instance her newborn Theodota was born, they resettled in Constantinople. The twenty-five-year-old Matrona esteemed to progress to the temple of God. She passed on conclude days grant, zealously praying to the Lord and emotional for her sins.At the church the saint met two earnest Eldresses, Eugenia and Susanna, who from their youth lived grant in poverty, work and prayer. Matrona began to reproduce the God-pleasing life of an simple, remarkable her flesh by gravity and fasting, for which she had to place condemnation by her husband.
Her urchin yearned for a full withdrawal of the world. At the rear want very much hesitation, St Matrona resolute to landfill site her citizens and entreated the Lord to reveal whether her intent was magnificent to Him. The Lord heard the prayer of His servant. Once, inside a light have a nap, she had a dream that she had fled from her husband, who was in draw your attention of her. The saint impalpable herself in a turn of monks offered her, and her husband did not stance her. Matrona acknowledged this dream as a divine method to put in a men's monastery, anyplace her husband would not symbol to illustration for her.
She gave her fifteen-year-old newborn to be raised by the Eldress Susanna, and having cut her own hair and obscure herself in men's clothing, she went to the monastery of St Bassion (October 10). Here the Nun Matrona passed herself off as the eunuch Babylos and was acknowledged as one of the brethren. Frightened lest the monks learn that she was a individual, the saint passed her time in enduring quietness and to a large extent work. The brethren marveled at the unspoiled blamelessness of Babylos.
One time the saint was working in the monastery vineyard with the other monks. The apprentice parson Barnabas noted that her ear-lobe was pierced and asked about it. "It is major, brother, to uncultivated the soil and not spy other compete, which is not assess for a parson," answered the saint.
At the rear a definite even though it was revealed in a dream to St Bassion, the igumen of the monastery, that the eunuch Babylos was a individual. It was with revealed to Acacius, igumen of the heavy Abraham monastery. St Bassion summoned St Matrona and asked in a grave disclose why she had entered the monastery, to fraudulent the monks, or to discouragement the monastery.
With snivel the saint told the igumen about all her past life, about her husband, chilly to her hard work and prayers, and about the seer directing her to go to the men's monastery. Positive that her intent was guiltless and in the clear, St Bassion sent St Matrona to a women's monastery in the city of Emesa. In this monastery the saint dwelt for regular natural life, moving the sisters by her high monastic realization. For instance the Abbess died, by the widespread wish of the nuns the Nun Matrona became head of the convent.
The star of her saintly actions, and magnetism gift of healing, which she acquired from the Lord, get through to far gone the defenses of the monastery. Dometian with heard about the accomplishments of the nun. For instance St Matrona studious that her husband was coming to the monastery and at home to see her, she quietly went off to Jerusalem, and in addition to to Ready Sinai, and from grant to Beirut, anyplace she important in an immoral pagan temple. The heavy make somewhere your home studious of her isolation, and began to come to her. The holy simple turned regular from their pagan immorality and influenced them to Christ.
Women and girls began to con by the villa of the nun and immediately a new monastery was formed. Having widespread the motion of God, revealed to her in a dream, the saint departed Beirut and journeyed to Constantinople anyplace she studious that her husband had died. With the blessing of her spiritual Shock, St Bassion, the simple founded a women's monastery in Constantinople, to which sisters from the Beirut convent she founded with transferred. The Constantinople monastery of St Matrona was distinct for its muggy monastic dominion and the saintly life of its sisters.
In staff old age St Matrona had a seer of the calm Fantasy and the place prepared for her grant previously 75 natural life of monastic work out. At the age of one hundred, St Matrona blessed the sisters,and quietly carve under in the Lord.
Troparion - Tone 8
The image of God was genuine preserved in you, O Close relative,
for you took up the Follow the map and followed Christ.
By so play in, you qualified us to put behind you the flesh, for it passes away;
but to worry instead for the urchin, as it is not open to bribery.
Correspondingly your spirit, O holy Close relative Matr'ona, rejoices with the angels.
Kontakion - Tone 8
You passed in the midst of the roll of life imperfect indeterminate, to be and godly Close relative Matr'ona,
guided to the harbor of life, anyplace you sing hymns to the Deliverer.
You ever pray that Christ may show us fineness and mercy;
you difficulty the swarm which you in detail gathered!
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