Venerable Naum the Wonderworker of Ohrid

Life

Naum was a disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and one of the Five Disciples, who most zealously collaborated with those apostles to the Slavs. Saint Naum traveled to Rome, where Naum was glorified by wonderworking power as well as by great learning. Naum was a knower of many languages. Upon returning from Rome, they settled, with the help of Emperor Boris-Michael, on the shores of Lake Ohrid. While Saint Clement worked as bishop in Ohrid, Saint Naum founded on the southern shore of the lake a monastery which even to this day adorns that shore—just as the name Saint Naum adorns the history of Slavic Christianity—and which through the centuries has been a source of wonderworking power and a refuge for the sick and afflicted. Around Saint Naum gathered a multitude of monks from all over the Balkans. Saint Naum was a wise teacher, a unique leader of monks, a resolute ascetic, a wonderworking man of prayer and spiritual father. The tireless laborer Saint Naum worked especially at translating the Holy Scriptures and other church books from Greek into Slavonic. Naum performed miracles both during his life and after his death. His wonderworking relics even to this day amaze with numerous miracles, especially healings from grave illnesses, particularly insanity. Naum reposed in the first half of the tenth century and passed to the joy of the beloved Christ (see June 20).