Otdanije (leave-taking) of the Feast of the Birth of the Mother of God.
The Holy Bishop-Martyr Autonomous.
During Diocletian's persecution,
Autonomus left Italy for Asian Bithynia, for a place called Soreoi. There, he converted many to Christianity, and built a church for them
dedicated to the holy Archangel Michael. Autonomus lived in the home
of a devout Christian, Cornelius, whom he first ordained as a
presbyter, and then consecrated to the episcopacy. Not far from
Soreoi there was a place called Limnae, inhabited entirely by pagans.
St. Autonomus went to this place and soon enlightened many with the
Gospel of Christ. This embittered the pagans, and one day they rushed
into the Church of the Holy Archangel Michael in Soreoi during the
divine service and slew Autonomus in the sanctuary, and killed many
other Christians in the church. During the reign of the Emperor
Constantine, Severian, a royal nobleman, built a church over the tomb
of St. Autonomus. Two hundred years after his death, St. Autonomus
appeared to a soldier named John. John exhumed the relics of the
saint and found them to be completely incorrupt, and many who were
sick received healing from Autonomus's relics. Thus, God glorifies
the one who glorified Him while living in the flesh.
Respectfully Taken From the:
"The Prologue of Ohrid"
by St. Nikolai of Zica, Serbia(Velimirovic)
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