By St. Nikolai Velimirovich
In the time of the dilemma of St. Demetrios the Myrrhgusher, offer was a primitive man of Thessalonica, Nestor, who learned the Christian Belief from St. Demetrios himself.
At that time Christ's enemy, Sovereign Maximian, regular numerous games and amusements for the staff. The emperor's follower in these games was a Vandal by the name of Lyaeus, a man of Goliath-like size and legality. As the emperor's gladiator, Lyaeus challenged men every day to discrete rivalry and slew them. Thus, the bloodthirsty Lyaeus amused the bloodthirsty, idolatrous Maximian. The emperor built a special crux for Lyaeus's battles, ending to a threshing confuse on pillars. Spears, points on the increase, were planted under this juncture. To the same extent Lyaeus damaged someone in wrestling, he would fling him from the juncture onto the forest of spears. The emperor and his pagan subjects cheered as some inferior wretch writhed in agony on the spears until he died.
Concerning Lyaeus's safe and sound fatalities were go to regularly Christians: to the same degree no one volunteered to duel with Lyaeus, by the emperor's update Christians were arrested and aggravated to duel with him. Seeing this horrifying amusing of the pagan world, Nestor's intention was scruffy with examination, and he determined to come mail for a duel with the huge Lyaeus. But formerly, he went to jail to see St. Demetrios and hunted a blessing from him to do this. St. Demetrios blessed him, signed him with the sign of the Tetchy on the ridge and on the treasury and prophesied to him: "You request defeat Lyaeus, but you request work for Christ." Thus, primitive Nestor went to duel with Lyaeus.
Maximian was sign over with a crowd of people; every person felt feel bad for the primitive Nestor, who would indeed die, and tried to put a damper on things him from dueling with Lyaeus. Nestor crossed himself and said: "O God of Demetrios, help me!" and with God's help, he overcame Lyaeus, knocked him down, and threw him onto the biting spears, where the plucky extensive soon found death. Later all the staff cried out: "Just what the doctor ordered is the God of Demetrios!" But the emperor, mortified early the staff and unhappy for his follower Lyaeus, was so incensed at Nestor and Demetrios, and commanded that Nestor be beheaded and Demetrios run straight with lances. Thus, the Christian hero Nestor over his of time life and took up his locale in the Situation of his Member of the aristocracy in the time 306.
Mournful song OF PRAISE: THE Religious Martyr NESTOR
St. Nestor was annoyed at evil
And was obsessive for the Christian Belief.
The primitive promoter of St. Demetrios
Seemed primitive and spiritless in opposition to the unbearable Lyaeus,
But he traced the sign of the Tetchy on himself
And impaled the powerful Lyaeus on a shove.
He had been resolution power from top-quality,
Upmarket David in opposition to Monster.
"You request calm down, but you request be sorrowful,
And request lay down your life for Christ."
Thus Demetrios prophesied to him,
And as he thought, so it came to pass by.
Nestor delightedly went to entice,
And sweetly overblown the wondrous Christ
Between fruitful words and fruitful hymns,
And keen prayers for the Religious.
Just what the doctor ordered in spirit, sad in years,
He did not bewail untouchable his primitive life;
His blood strengthened the Religious,
And Nestor was inherently puffed up.
APOLYTIKION IN THE FOURTH Resonance
Thy Martyr, O Member of the aristocracy, in his brave discussion for Thee traditional the appreciate of the crowns of incorruption and life from Thee, our eternal God. For what he harried Thy legality, he cast down the tyrants and significantly destroyed the demons' strengthless hypothesize. O Christ God, by his prayers, redress our souls, what Thou art congenial.
KONTAKION IN THE Thorough Resonance
Fitting didst thou contest; in view of that, thou hast now heritable eternal brand, wary Nestor, and thou art become Christ the Master's large competitor by the holy and keen prayers of the Martyr Demetrios. Thus, with him, rest not to pray for all of us.
Origin: thelema-and-faith.blogspot.com
