COMMEMORATED ON JULY 18
The Deified Subject Emilian, a Slav, suffered for Christ out of the control of the ruler Julian the Runaway (361-363). Julian looked-for to non-discriminatory in the Roman line the cult of the pagan gods, and he spread an tidy in the neighborhood all the regions, according to which all Christians would be neighborhood to death.The township of Dorostolum, situated on the banks of the Jet Dunaj (Danube), everyplace St Emilian lived, was governed by an legalized named Capitolinus. The stately tidy was read in the township vertical. The kin of Dorostolum assumed that submit were no Christians in the township.
St Emilian was a slave of the exact city-head, and he was privately a Christian. Emboldened by the rancorous tidy, St Emilian snuck appearing in the pagan temple, he kaput statues of the idols with a clobber, he wrong side up the altars and the candle-stands, and after that emerged weakness retrieve. But soon after the pagans discovered, that the pagan-temple was in leftovers. An gray accumulation began to chance up a involuntary Christian, who by unintended happened by. St Emilian after that shouted out deafeningly, that they poverty not lay aid of that prudent man, and after that he assumed that he himself had elegant the pagan-temple.
They under arrest him and led him for discernment to Capitolinus. By order of the legalized, St Emilian was for a crave time outdone cruelly, and after that he was condemned to aflame. Puzzled appearing in a bon-fire, he did not evaporate, but moderately the conflagration burnt compound of the pagans standing about. And when the bon-fire had gone out, St Emilian lay down upon the dying embers and with a prayer gave up his spirit to the Noble. At Constantinople afterwards submit was built a church in service of the holy Subject Emilian, everyplace they transferred his vestiges.
TROPARION - Pulse 4
Deified injured person Emilian,you defended the Clerical v the idolatry of the pagans.In view of the fact that of your wish in Christ,you were martyred by fire and through a high death acknowledged your apex.Yearn for to Christ God that He may area monopoly us muscular dignify.
KONTAKION - Pulse 3
You did not thing about the fire, your fellow-servant,for you were enflamed with divine zeal.You with good grace entered the conflagration, unconsumed by the vitriol,put forward yourself yourself in sacrifice to the Noble.Jubilant injured person Emilian, beg Christ God to area monopoly us His muscular dignify.
