At the fourth session of the Seventh Ecumenical Council
(in 787), St Peter, Bishop of Nicomedia, in defending the necessity of
icon veneration, presented an account of St Athanasius about a miracle
which occurred in the city of Beret, Phoenecia.
In this city,
near the Jewish synagogue, lived a certain Christian. When he moved to
another place, he left behind an icon of the Lord Jesus Christ. A Jew,
who moved into the house, paid no attention to the icon. Once, his
friend noticed of the image of Jesus Christ on the wall and said to the
homeowner, “Why do you, a Jew, have an icon in your house?” He then went
to the synagogue and reported this transgression of Jewish law.
The
Jews expelled the owner of the house from the synagogue.They took the
icon from the wall and began to scoff at it, “As once our fathers mocked
Him, so we also mock Him.” They spit at the face of the Lord. Hurling
abuses, they lashed at the icon, they placed thorns around the head,
nailed it to a tree, and put a sponge with vinegar to the mouth.
Finally, they took a spear, and one of the Jews thrust it into the side
of the Savior. Suddenly, from the hole in the icon made by the spear,
blood and water flowed. The Jewish rabbis, seeing the miracle, said,
“The followers of Jesus Christ say that He could heal the sick. Let us
take this blood and water into the synagogue and anoint those afflicted
with infirmities. Then we shall see whether what is spoken of Him is
true.”
A vessel with the blood was put in the synagogue. The
inhabitants of Beret, once they learned of the miracle, began to bring
those suffering from various illnesses into the synagogue. They all were
healed, after being anointed with the blood from the icon of the
Savior. Then the Jewish people believed in Christ and exclaimed, “Glory
to You, O Christ, Whom our fathers crucified, Whom we also crucified in
the form of Your icon. Glory to You, O Son of God, for having worked
such a miracle! We believe in You, therefore be merciful to us and
receive us!”
The Jews went to the Bishop of Beret. After showing
him the wonderworking icon and the blood and water that flowed from it,
they told him of their misdeed. The bishop, seeing their sincere
repentance, accepted them, catechized them for many days and then
baptized them. Then he consecrated the synagogue into a church of our
Savior Jesus Christ. At the request of the Jews, he also consecrated
other synagogues into churches dedicated to the holy martyrs. There was
great joy in that city, not only because many people were healed, but
because many were baptized due to the miracles worked by the icon of the
Savior.
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