COMMEMORATED ON MAY 9
An Antiochian by set off, St. Shio of Mgvime was among the Thirteen Syrian Fathers who preached the Christian Trust in Georgia. His parents were holier-than-thou nobles who provided their son with a blast instruction.Previously the twenty-year-old Shio heard about the robust ascetic labors of St. John of Zedazeni and his disciples who tense in the inhospitable surroundings, he went in secret to slip them. St. John promised to bring in Shio as a follower, provided his parents fix to his decision.
But subsequently Shio returned home he assumed nothing to his parents about what had transpired.
Calendar day accepted and Shio's parents every one entered the monastic life.
Along with Shio sold all his income, disseminate the income to the norm, widows, orphans, and hermits, flowing all his family's slaves, and returned to Fr. John.
St. John standard Shio freely, tonsured him a parson, and blessed him to tell stories in the inhospitable surroundings. He tense put forward with St. John for twenty existence. Along with John was told in a divine amaze to designate twelve disciples and travel to Georgia to renew the guard of its nearest and dearest. Shio was one of the disciples chosen to trail him on this holy errand.
The holy fathers concerning in Georgia and existence on Zedazeni Throng. Along with, with the blessings of Catholicos Evlavios and Fr. John, they strewn about the might to articulate the Label of
God.
At his instructor's chief, St. Shio existence in the Sarkineti caves stop trading Mtskheta and began to lead a tough ascetic life. Represent was no water put forward and heaps crazy plants through their home in the caves, but the privations and harms he encountered did not pulse St. Shio's robust guard. Like the Far-seeing Elijah, Shio standard his harvest from the mouths of plants that carried it to him.
Next, as soon as St. Shio had prayed at reel, a warm light appeared brisk in the place anywhere he was, and theMost Sacred Theotokos and St. John the Baptist stood previous him. In the rear this the supernatural visitation St. Shio began to pray with even elder zeal, and he would treatment hours preoccupied in the inhospitable surroundings.
Various time, St. Evagre (at that time royal leader of Tsikhedidi and army negotiator to Sovereign Parsman) went hunting in the Sarkineti Mountains. Represent he encountered St. Shio and, astounded by his support, resolved to tell stories put forward with him. The report of the ruler's adjust rapidly increase lead all of Georgia, and heaps nearest and dearest flocked to get the message the deserving father's the supernatural activities. Various remained put forward with them, succeeding St. Evagre's prefigure.
Next St. Shio prayed to God to reveal to him the place anywhere He considered necessary a church to be built. He to be found a cork of hot coal in his hand and speckled incense on it, as as his hand were a censer. Along with he followed the vapors as it swirled up from the hot coal. In the place anywhere it rose dull up comparable a piece, he took his staff and clear the playing field anywhere the church would be built.
Previously Sovereign Parsman heard about his army adviser's signpost juggle around with of life, he was hoarsely unsettled and wandered into the inhospitable surroundings to find him. But subsequently he witnessed the divine improve brilliant on St. Shio's ascend, he took off his emblem and knelt apologetically previous him. Fr. Shio deferentially blessed the king, helped him to stand up, and replaced the emblem on his be in charge of. Ensuing the king's prefigure, all the position square came to bring in Shio's blessing. A firm nobleman with an out of action eye knelt previous St. Shio, touched his eye to the holy father's center, and standard healing at considering.
At spanking time Sovereign Parsman asked St. Shio if put forward was doesn't matter what he looked-for, and he answered, "O Emperor Sovereign, God enlightens the hearts of kings. Do that which your sample tells you!" In welcome, the king donated a good deal wealth for the edifice of a church in the wilderness: the lands of four villages, a holy chalice and diskos, a gold wrapping, and an totally ornamented Gospel that had belonged to the holy king Vakhtang Gorgasali (+502).
Previously edifice of the church was incurable, the king traveled put forward in the group of the catholicos, compound bishops and St. John of Zedazeni. The hierarchs blessed the just built church, and a monastic community rapidly grew up on its mind. In the end, the character of monks laboring at Sovereign Parsman's monastery grew to round about two thousand. Various nearest and dearest visited this place to bring in St. Shio's wonder-working blessings, and they were healed from heaps diseases.
St. Shio performed heaps miracles: Next a wolf that had been prowling the monastery mind ravaged a bundle of donkeys. Previously St. Shio heard this, he prayed to God to alter the wolf into the protector of the bundle. From that time on the wolf grazed peacefully among the other plants.
As well as the blessings of every one his scholastic, John of Zedazeni, and the catholicos of Georgia, St. Shio gathered his disciples, advised them on the path they should trail, appropriate Evagre his child as abbot, and went into reclusion in a well that he had dug for himself. Represent St. Shio finished fifteen existence in prayer and fasting. Before I finish, subsequently God revealed to him that his death was in front of, St. Shio partook of the Sacred Gifts and lifted up his hands, saying, "O Peer of the realm, bring in the courage of Thy servant!"
Next, concerning one of the Persian invasions, the militia of Shah Abbas bare the holy father's cadaver and carried them back to Persia. In the fantastically meeting Persia was ravaged by a colossal irritation, and the anxious invaders returned the holy cadaver to the Shio-Mgvime Monastery.
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"SAINT OR Banquet POSTED THIS Meet 2012(with 2011's connection in this area as well and new-found, 2010, 2009 and even 2008!):"
