Sainted Artemon, Bishop of Seleucia,
Commemorated on March 24
Sainted Artemon,
Bishop of Seleucia, was born and lived in Pisidian Seleucia (Asia Minor).
He was pious and virtuous, wherefore the holy Apostle Paul (Comm. 29 June),
having come to Seleucia, established Saint Artemon as first bishop of this
city, as the one most worthy. Saint Artemon wisely nourished the flock
entrusted to him and won glory as a comforter of the poor and oppressed. Saint
Artemon died in extreme old age.
(In the ancient
Slavonic of the Saints "Seleucian" was written as
"Seleoukinian" from which appeared "Seleunian". However,
also in several of the Greek memorials the sainted bishop was called Soluneian
[ie. of Thessalonika]. Sainted Artemon (or Artemios) appeared in the
Mesyatseslov Saint-lists either as Seleucian or Soluneian. In the second half
of the XVII Century these two names were mistakenly applied to various
persons).
© 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos.