Venerable Athanasius of Medikion Monastery (814)
Commemorated October 26
The Monk Athanasias of Mydicea by love for the monastic life secretly left his parental home, but was forcibly returned by his father. But after a certain while Athanasias with the consent of his father entered the Mydicea monastery in Bythnia. He was a companion of the Monk Nikita (Comm. 3 April) and he died about the year 814. On his grave grew up a cypress tree, from which by the grace of God, occurred healings.
Troparion
In thee, O father, was manifestly preserved what is in the image of God, for having taken up thy cross, thou didst follow Christ, and by thine own example hast taught that the flesh is to be despised as transient, but that particular care should be bestowed on the soul, as a thing immortal; wherefore, together with the angels, rejoiceth also thine, O holy Athanasius, spirit.
Kontakion
Having divinely armed thyself with the purity of thy soul and unceasing prayers firmly grasping as a spear, thou, our father Athanasius, hast pierced the armies of the demon; supplicate unceasingly for us all.
Source: Crkveni Kalendar
