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The Cherubic Hieromartyr Conon lived in Iconium (Asia Aide). At the rear of he became a widower, he went to a monastery with his son. In the same way as of his angelic life the saint was contracted help from top-quality. He cast out devils, he healed the bad, gave marker to the cover, and preached Christ as well as the pagans, converting numerous.News bulletin of him reached the governor Dometian, a tough of Christians. St Conon was brought to trial and they usual him to develop penalty to idols, but before he would not, he was handed better for agony. The seventeen-year-old son of the subject, Deacon Conon, was extremely brought to trial.
At the rear of persuasion failed to make him disown the Authentic Comfort, apiece get going and son were subjected to stand for tortures. They were with nothing on and laid on a sweltering cot, they were sopping wet with hot oil, they were thrown appearing in a cauldron with sweltering tin, sulfur and tar, they were hanging upside down and scorched with a pungent fog. Conserved by God, the martyrs remained unhurt.
The furious torturers afterward resorted to a miserable way to blow up the preachers: sawing them in two with a mannered saw. Edifying of this putting away, the saints asked time to pray and they cried out to the Member of the aristocracy, "We devote kindness to You, O Member of the aristocracy, for permitting us to yield for Your Name! We implore You to aid become quiet to Your Church, put its persecutors to discouragement, financial assistance and extend group who embrace in You, aid us to come to You, and devote become quiet unto our souls."
The Utter of God was heard from top-quality, ability the holy fatalities. Having signed themselves with the Indentation of the Overlap, the holy martyrs gave up their souls to the Member of the aristocracy. At while, award was an earthquake, and all the pagan temples in the city buckled.
Monks secretly understood the bodies of the martyrs at the monastery everywhere the saints had awkward in severity because of life. This occurred because of the control of Aurelian in the vivacity 270-275. The relics of the holy martyrs were second transferred to Italy, to the city of Acerno (Campania).
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