COMMEMORATED ON SEPTEMBER 27
Saint Anthimus was untutored in Georgia, and his parents were called John and Mary. The child customary the name Andrew in Inauguration, and his parents raised him as an Follower Christian.Andrew was captured by Turks who invaded Georgia in the role of he was jade, and he was one of multitude who were completed slaves in Constantinople. Offer he scholarly to speak Greek, Arabic, and Turkish, and as a consequence became adept in woodcarving, embroidery, and sculpture. Following a few years as a slave, Andrew abscond and fled to the Ecumenical Patriarchate for hideaway.
Give or take 1690, Andrew was invited to Wallachia by Prince Constantine Brancoveanu (Esteemed 16), who had heard of his talents. Following a day or so, he became a priest and customary the name Anthimus. Latter, he was appointed to the holy priesthood. He was positioned in charge of the condition imprint shop in Bucharest, and later set up a printing look after in the Snagov Monastery.The monastery embossed sixty-three books in Romanian, Greek, Arabic, and Georgian. St Anthimus was the jot of thirty-eight of them. He was in to be the igumen of Snagov in 1696.
The saint was holy as Bishop of Rimnicu-Vilcea in 1705, and three years later he was completed Community of Wallachia. As Community, he received schools for poor children, and built churches and monasteries. To the same degree he was a woodcarver, he used his accomplishment to decorate multitude churches.
St Anthimus was a deep high priest who chock-full his flock's avarice for spiritual knowledge. Preaching in the Romanian language, he educated them the reduction truths of Compliance, and unfilled words of shape and consolation. His informative books and sermons are part of the spiritual inheritance of the Romanian Follower Minster.
Community Anthimus was arrested by the Turks in 1716 and sentenced to be exiled at St Catherine's Monastery on Mt. Sinai, but he never in the field of at his destination. On September 27, 1716, he was killed by the defense force who were escorting him. They cut his numeral inside new pieces and threw them inside the Tungia Accept, south of the Danube. Consequently, the within walking distance servant of Christ customary the pinnacle of martyrdom.
St Anthimus was a true collect of his come together, and a twitch to his clergy. He was overvalued by the Follower Minster of Romania in 1992.
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