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A wonderworker. Having purified his spirit by prolonged ascetical struggle in the desert of the Jordan, he received from God the gift of wonderworking. While traveling by ship to Constantinople, it happened that the ship went astray and the drinking water ran out. When all the passengers on the ship were near death from thirst, Theodore raised his hands to heaven, prayed to God, and made the sign of the Cross over the sea water. Then he told the sailors to draw from the sea and drink; and when they drank, the water was sweet. When all began to bow before Theodore, he begged them not to thank him but the Lord God, Who had wrought this miracle out of His love for mankind. He peacefully departed this life in the year 583.

One of the great Egyptian monks. He suffered much for the true faith. When three desert elders visited him before his death, he, being clairvoyant, revealed to them all the secrets of their hearts. He peacefully departed this life in the second half of the fifth century.

Persecuted by his relatives, he left the world and was tonsured a monk. The Kievans, dissatisfied with the Olgovichi dynasty, wished to exterminate it. They rushed upon the monastery, seized the innocent and young schema-monk Igor, and slew him. Because of this crime many calamities befell the Kievans. And at the tomb of this blessed one candles were seen, lit of themselves, on several occasions, and over the church where he was buried a pillar of fire was seen. This was in the year 1147.

A native of the village of Korisa, above the Monastery of Saint Mark near Prizren (according to another tradition, from a village near Pec). As a youth he plowed with a one-eyed ox. He was uncommonly meek and without anger. Together with his sister Helen he withdrew early to the ascetical life. He struggled very firmly and perseveringly. In a difficult battle with demonic temptations he proved victorious. A multitude of monks gathered around him, and he was their instructor. Fleeing from the glory of men, he hid for a time in Crna Rijeka, where Saint Joanikije of Devic later struggled. In old age he reposed in his cave in Korisa. On the night when he reposed, a light of many candles was seen in his cave and angelic singing was heard. This wondrous saint lived probably in the thirteenth century. Over his wonderworking relics Emperor Dusan built a church, which was a dependency of Hilandar. In more recent times the remnant of the relics of Saint Peter was secretly transferred to Crna Rijeka, where it rests to this day.

In the days of that blessed Prince Igor, when there was great strife and confusion among the Russian princes, there were also disorders and frequent changes on the hierarchical thrones in the Church. Thus after the death of Metropolitan Michael of Kiev, Prince Iziaslav brought as metropolitan a certain learned monk Klim, without seeking the blessing of the Patriarch of Constantinople, contrary to the ancient custom. Then the patriarch sent this Constantine as metropolitan to investigate the matter. Constantine deposed Klim and removed from the Church all those clerics whom Klim had ordained. Because of this the people were divided: some held to Klim and others to Constantine. Then, at the wish of the Russian princes, the patriarch sent a third, a certain Theodore, and both Klim and Constantine were removed. When Constantine died in the year 1159, they opened his testament, in which he adjured them not to bury him but to cast him into a field for the dogs to eat, since he considered himself the cause of the disturbance in the Church. Not daring to disregard the testament, yet with great horror, the people took the body of the metropolitan and cast it into a field, where it lay for three days. For three days there was terrible thunder over Kiev, lightning flashed, thunder crashed, and the earth trembled. Eight people were killed by lightning. Over the dead body of Constantine three pillars of flame appeared. Seeing all this, the prince of Kiev ordered the body taken up and honorably buried in the church where the tomb of Igor also was. And immediately afterward calm came upon nature. Thus God vindicated His humble servant.