November 20
Reading:
Saint Gregory who was from Irenopolis of the Decapolis of
Asia Minor, was the son of Sergius and Mary. He became a monk as a young
man, and after struggling for many years in virtue and prayer under
obedience to a wise spiritual father, he was informed by revelation that
it was the will of God for him to live, like the Patriarch Abraham,
with no certain dwelling, moving from place to place. His journeyings
took him to Ephesus, Constantinople, Corinth, Rome, Sicily,
Thessalonica, and again to Constantinople, where, after many labours in
defence of Orthodoxy against Iconoclasm, he reposed in peace in the
first half of the ninth century. He had two disciples, one of whom was
Saint Joseph the Hymnographer (see Apr. 3), who wrote the Menaion
service for Saint Gregory, his father in Christ.
Kontakion of Gregory Decapolite in the Third Tone
The Church knoweth thee to be a shining sun that enlight'neth all
men with the rays of cures and with the beauty of virtue. Hence, O
truly blessed Father, Christ's faithful servant, we all celebrate thy
venerable memorial, O wise Gregory most righteous; and we now honour thy
valiant struggles for Christ.
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