Celebration of the Icon "it Is Truly Meet"

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And the miracle that occurred before it in the time of Patriarch Nicholas Chrysoberges (983-996). This miracle consists in the following: One night a monk was reading the canon to the Theotokos and singing "More Honorable" in a cell of the Monastery of the Pantocrator, now called "It Is Truly Meet." His elder had gone to Karyes. Suddenly a man appeared in the church and began to sing: "It Is Truly Meet." That hymn had been until then unknown in the Church. The monk, hearing that hymn, was deeply moved, both by its content and by the wondrous heavenly singing. "Among us they sing thus," said the stranger to the monk. The monk wished to have that hymn written down and brought a tablet, on which the stranger inscribed the hymn with his finger as though on wax. And suddenly he vanished. That stranger was the Archangel Gabriel. The tablet was transferred to Constantinople, and the hymn has remained in the Church to this day.