Saint Michael the Confessor was born at Jerusalem into a
family of zealous Christians and at an early age devoted himself to
monastic life. After the death of his father, his mother and sisters
went to a monastery, and Saint Michael was ordained as a priest. He was
famed as a strong preacher, and therefore the Jerusalem Patriarch Thomas
I took him under his wing and advanced him in the calling of
“synkellos” (dealing in matters of church governance).
At this
time there reigned the Iconoclast emperor Leo the Armenian (813-820).
The patriarch sent Saint Michael to him, together with the holy brothers
Saints Theodore (December 27) and Theophanes (October 11), with the
hope that they might persuade the emperor to cease his persecution
against the Orthodox. The emperor subjected Saint Michael to beatings
and sent him off into exile.
Later having returned from exile,
the monk again suffered for the veneration of holy icons under the
emperor Theophilus (829-842). The companions of Saint Michael, Saints
Theodore and Theophanes, were subjected to horrible torments: upon their
faces was put red-hot brands with an inscription slandering them. They
received the title “the Branded.” Again condemned, Saint Michael was
sent with his disciple Job to the Pabeida monastery.
After the
death of Theophilus, the empress Theodora (842-855) restored the
veneration of holy icons, and ordered the return of Christians banished
by the Iconoclasts. She made the offer that Saint Michael might occupy
the patriarchal throne in place of the deposed iconoclast, Grammatikos.
But the holy martyr declined this. Thus upon the patriarchal throne
entered Saint Methodius.
Saint Michael the Confessor to the end
of his days toiled in the position of “synkellos.” He died peacefully in
about the year 845.
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