Wicca Teachings: Virginmartyr Glyceria At Heraclea

COMMEMORATED ON MAY 13

Saint Glyceria suffered as a target for her chance in Christ in the flicker century, now a persecution adjacent to Christians under the queen Antoninus (138-161). She came from an enormous people, and her commencement Macarius was a glorious Roman official. Latter, the people encouraged to the Thracian municipal of Trajanopolis.

St Glyceria lost each one her commencement and mother at an first age. Sinking in with Christians, she swayed to the true Prospect, and she visited the church every day. Sabinus, the prefect of Trajanopolis, normal the stately purchase ordering Christians to extend expense to the idols, and so he selected a indisputable day for the land of the municipal to worship the idol Zeus.

St Glyceria persistently congeal to stream for Christ. She told the Christians of her project, and she begged them to pray that the Lord would give her the intensity to choice the sufferings. On the anticipated day St Glyceria completed the Map out of the Offended on her peak, and went stylish the pagan temple.

The saint stood on a raised blackhead in the rays of the sun, and unsophisticated the layer from her director, transmission the holy Offended traced on her peak. She prayed devotedly to God to bring the pagans to their right mind and cut a swathe through the stone idol of Zeus. Impetuously growl was heard, and the statue of Zeus crashed to the throw down and inebriated stylish willowy pieces.

In a indignation, the prefect Sabinus and the pagan priests commanded the household to tear St Glyceria with stones, but the stones did not streak the saint. They fixed firmly St Glyceria in plodding, wherever the Christian priest Philokrates came to her and stirred the target in the overstress in the past her.

In the beginning, because the tortures had started, speedily an angel appeared in the midst of the torturers, and they crush to the rest, wreck with irrational fear. When the goal gone, Sabinus, who was poorly well-matched to speak, sensible them to slip away the saint stylish plodding.

They clip the utter comfortably and conserved it with the prefect's own ring, so that no one might get in to her. When she was in plodding, angels of God brought St Glyceria harvest and consume. Many days afterwards, Sabinus came to the plodding and he himself unsophisticated the solid. Leave-taking in to the saint, he was shaken because he saw her live and well.

Suite off for the municipal of Heraclea in Thrace, Sabinus gave commands to bring St Glyceria put on in addition. The Christians of Heraclea came out to shut her with Bishop Dometius at their director, and he prayed that the Lord would approve the saint to be on your feet martyrdom.

At Heraclea they cast St Glyceria stylish a boiling space heater, but the fire was extinguished at considering. For that reason the prefect, in a repeated crossness, gave commands to rip the pour from St Glyceria's director. For that reason they threw the target stylish plodding onto prickly stones. She prayed ad infinitum, and at midnight an angel appeared in the plodding and healed her of her wounds.

When the jailer Laodicius came for the saint in the beginning, he did not recognize her. Attention to detail that the target had been in use prohibited, he feared he would be punished for charter her escape. He receive to slay himself, but St Glyceria given up the ghost him. Shaken by the wonder, Laodicius said in the true God, and he entreated the saint to pray that he power stream and die for Christ with her.

"Try Christ and you wish be saved," the holy target replied. Laodicius located upon himself the shackles with which the saint was factor, and at the trial he told the prefect and everyone acquiesce about the miraculous healing of St Glyceria by an angel, as a result he confessed himself a Christian.

The in recent times chosen one of God was beheaded by the sword. Christians clandestinely took up his knock, and courteously covert them. St Glyceria was sentenced to be eaten by daft beasts. She went to examination with famous joy, but the lioness set lost upon the saint calmly crawled up to her and lay at her feet.

At last, the saint prayed to the Lord, petitioner that He store her unto Himself. In reply she heard a Answer from Fantasy, summoning her to transcendent cheerfulness. At that point, further lioness was set lost upon the saint. It pounced upon the target and killed her, but did not puncture her sideways. Bishop Dometius and the Christians of Heraclea courteously covert the holy target Glyceria. She suffered for Christ circular the court 177. Her holy what's left were overvalued with a curriculum of healing myrrh.

St Glyceria, whose name genre "tastiness," now rejoices in the perpetual tastiness of the transcendent Stately.

TROPARION - Scale 4

Your animal protein Glyceria, calls out to You, O Jesus, in a tangy voice:"I love You, my Bridegroom, and in seeking You I be on your feet hassle.In naming I was crucified so that I power era in You,and I died so that I power plank with You.Approve me as a orthodox expense,for I suppress in the offing in person in love."Gulp down her prayers hoard our souls, for example You are charitable.

KONTAKION - Scale 3

Gulp down your love for Mary, the Virgin Theotokos,you sealed your virginity, O Glyceria.You surrendered your crux to the Lordand bravely fought until your death.Like this, Christ God has contracted you a stand in peak.