Venerable Hesychius the Faster

Life

He was born near Brusa in the eighth century. But he withdrew to a mountain called Maion, notorious for demonic apparitions. He built himself a hut there and a small chapel in honor of the holy Apostle Andrew. He enclosed a garden for himself which he cultivated so that he might live by his own labor. He worked miracles through his prayer. He prophesied that after his death there would be a women's monastery in that place. A month before his death he foresaw the day and hour of his repose. At midnight of the foretold day, people saw his hut bathed in an extraordinary light. And when they came, they found him dead. He was buried in the church of Saint Andrew, and afterward Theophylact, bishop of Amasia, translated his remains to the city of Amasia. He reposed peacefully and departed to the Kingdom of his Lord in the year 790.