الشهيد هرمياس/31 أيار

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الشهيد هرمياس/31 أيار


كان جنديًا رومانيًا مسيحيًا، أصله من الكبدوك،
في أيّام الملك انطونيوس قيصر. ولما أصدر هذا الملك أمره باضطهاد المسيحيين
، أرسل سيستيانوس واليًا الى الكبدوك ليفتك بكل مسيحي لا يضحي للأوثان.
فكلف الوالي هرمياس السجود للأوثان، فأجاب:"
إنني جندي يسوع المسيح الذي ملكه لا يزول، قبل أن أكون جنديًا لقيصر الملك الزائل"
. فأمر بتعذيبه، فصانه الله سالمًا. فأحضروا ساحرًا سقاه سمًا زعافًا فلم يؤذه.
فآمن الساحر، فأمر الوالي بقطع رأسيهما فنالا غار الظفر بالشهادة سنة 160. صلاتهما معنا. آمين.
Martyr Hermias at Comana
Holy Martyr Hermias suffered for Christ in the city of Comana during the persecution under the emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161). The governor Sebastian, who was in Cappadocia to arrest Christians, urged the saint to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods, promising him honors and mercy from the emperor.
The old soldier bravely confessed his faith in Christ. After long exhortation, the governor gave orders to torture the saint. They beat him on the face so that the skin peeled from his face, and they threw him into a red-hot oven. When the oven was opened after three days, the martyr Hermias emerged from it unharmed.
The governor Sebastian ordered the sorcerer Marus to poison Saint Hermias with a potion. The poisonous drink did the saint no harm. A second goblet with even stronger poison also failed to kill the saint. The sorcerer believed in Christ the Savior, and was immediately beheaded. Saint Marus was baptized in his own blood, and received a martyr’s crown.
Saint Hermias was subjected to even more terrible tortures. They raked his body with sharp instruments, threw him in boiling oil, and gouged out his eyes, but he gave thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ. Then they suspended the martyr head downward. For three days he hung in this position.
People sent by the governor to verify his death found him alive. Struck by the miracle, they were blinded with fright and began to call out to the saint to help them. The holy martyr ordered the blind to approach him, and healed them in the Name of Jesus Christ.
In anger the governor ordered the skin flayed from the saint’s body, but he remained alive. Then the crazed Sebastian beheaded him with his own sword. Christians secretly buried the body of the martyr Hermias, whose relics bestowed numerous healings.