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Venerable Lazarus the Stylite (Feast Day - November 7)

Verses

 

Prepare your bosom, Father Abraham, 

For after your Lazarus comes Lazarus. 

 

Saint Lazarus the Stylite and Wonderworker of Mount Galesion (+ 1053) 

 

November: Day 7: Venerable Lazarus of Galesion

 

The Birth of Saint Lazarus of Mount Galesion 

 

The Education of Saint Lazarus of Mount Gelasion

 

Saint Lazarus of Mount Gelasion and the Greedy Monk

 

The Life of Lazaros of Mt. Galesion: An Eleventh-Century Pillar Saint (pdf)

 

SAINT LAZAROS OF MOUNT GALESION – HEAVENLY MAN OR EARTHLY ANGEL  

 

Feigning Demonic Possession For Profit

 

Saint Lazarus of Mount Gelasion and the Greedy Monk

 

By Gregory the Cellarer

 

While Lazaros was sitting in the narthex after the completion of the early morning service, he saw a monk going into the church to pray. When he came out, Lazaros went up to him and asked him where he was from and where he was going. Then, since he heard from the <monk> that he came from Paphlagonia and was traveling to the Holy Land, he fell at his feet and begged him to take him along. The monk encouraged Lazaros to follow him readily, since he had nothing to fear from him, and so he left that place and went on his way with him. But the monk was perverse and did not want to travel straight <there>, or rather he was unable to because of the wicked habit which he had. He would thus turn aside from the direct route and go round on a detour to the villages where he would beg and collect bread and whatever else anyone offered him; he would put these things into a bag and give them to the youth [Lazaros] to carry. Then, wherever they were when evening fell, they would go in, whether it was to a village or a local market, and he would sell these things and pocket the price <he got> for them.