Venerable Titus the Wonderworker

Life

From his young years he loved Christ the Lord and despised the vain world. For this reason he left the world, went to a monastery, and received the angelic habit. Not sparing himself he gave himself over to the sorrowful and narrow monastic path. Through great patience he acquired two fundamental virtues: humility and obedience, and in these virtues he surpassed "not only the brethren but all men." Purity of soul and body he had preserved from his youth. In the time of the iconoclast heresy he showed himself to be an unshakable pillar of the Church of God. Because of his great humility and purity, the gift of wonderworking was granted him by God both during his life and after his death. And when he departed to the Lord he left behind numerous disciples. He reposed peacefully in the ninth century.

From the Hymn of Praise

### HOLY MARTYRS AMPHIANUS AND EDESIUSTwo brothers gave themselves to God as sacrifice,Despising the decaying world, a lifeless corpse,Amphianus and Edesius, brothers of one womb,In torments wondrous brothers, to Christ alike in doom.