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Venerable Theodore the Sykeote (Feast Day - April 22)

Verses 

 

And to Theodore—even when Theodore was dead—
the gift of working wonders is a great gift from God.
On the twenty-second, the tomb concealed the Sykeote.

 

Saint Theodore the Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasiopolis

 

April: Day 22: Teaching 1: Venerable Theodore the Sykeote

 

April: Day 22: Teaching 2: Venerable Theodore the Sykeote 
 

How St. Theodore of Sykeon Spent His Youth Between Epiphany and Palm Sunday

 

The Miraculous Recovery of Saint Theodore of Sykeon from the Bubonic Plague

 

The Role of St. George in the Life of St. Theodore Sykeote

 

April: Day 22: Teaching 2: Venerable Theodore the Sykeote

April: Day 22: Teaching 2:
Venerable Theodore the Sykeote
 
(Go to the temple of God with special delight.)

By Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko

I. The Venerable Theodore, whose memory is celebrated today, having been born in Sykeon, from his early years loved to visit the church. At eight years of age he began to attend school, and, returning from school, he always went in to pray in the church. Not only by day did Theodore visit the church, but even at night; when all those at home were sleeping a deep sleep, at the first glimmering of dawn he would leave the house unnoticed and go to the temple of God. For his nocturnal visits to the church his mother sometimes punished Theodore and even began to bind him to the bed; but Saint George appeared to her and commanded her not to hinder her son from going to the house of prayer. Thus passed the childhood and youthful years of Theodore.

April: Day 22: Teaching 1: Venerable Theodore the Sykeote

April: Day 22: Teaching 1:
Venerable Theodore the Sykeote
 
(On the Need and Benefit for Children of a Good Example from Parents and Elders in the Home of Relatives)

By Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko

I. Today glorified in ecclesiastical hymns and readings, Venerable Theodore the Sykeote was born in the sixth century to pious parents. When he was six years old, his mother wanted to enroll him in the military and began to prepare military things for him: a gold belt and precious clothes. But in a dream, the Holy Great Martyr George appeared to her and said to her: "Do not labor in vain, because the Heavenly King requires your son for Himself." Waking up, the mother began to cry, thinking that her son would soon die. Meanwhile, the youth grew and became stronger. At the age of eight, he was sent to school, where he did well. Remarkably, he never quarreled with others, but always tried to reconcile those who quarreled.