COMMEMORATED ON NOVEMBER 25
The Sacred Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria, was uneducated and raised at Alexandria. He was a ably informed man, and was controller of the school of Alexandria. In the see 300 he became the archpastor of the Alexandrian Cathedral, consequent his activist and spiritual guide, the holy Bishop Theonas.Artificial popular banishment from the urban all through the anti-Christian persecutions under the emperors Diocletian and Maximian, St Peter traveled in addition to mass lands, encouraging his mob by letter. Once again returned to his urban, in order to guide the Alexandrian Cathedral personally all through this decomposing name. The saint secretly visited Christians guarantee up in detain, encouraging them to be devoted in confide in, support the widows and orphans, preaching the Alert of God, every time praying and officiating at the divine services. And the Noble diffident him guiltless from the hands of the persecutors.
Via this time of insurrection the unsuitable heretic Arius, who denied the divinity of Jesus Christ, sowed the tares of his ungodly teaching. After Arius refused to be corrected and proposal to the truth, St Peter anathematized the heretic and excommunicated him from the Cathedral. Arius after that sent two of St Peter's priests to beg the saint to modify the excommunication from him, pretending that he had repented and perfect up his untrue experience. This was not true, for Arius hoped to perform St Peter as Archbishop of Alexandria. St Peter, under the instruction of the Sacred Center, saw in addition to the meanness and fraudulence of Arius, and so he instructed his mob not to form Arius nor to hear him popular communion.
Knocked out the sagacious development of St Peter the Cathedral of Alexandria strengthened and grew in malevolence of the persecutions. But these days, on mission from the emperor Maximian (305-311), the saint was arrested and sentenced to death. A mass of the social order gathered at the grip of the detain, expressing their detestation. Missing to lose slaughter and a gradient by the the social order, the saint sent a moral to the business, in which he optional that they make an opening in the back wall of the detain, so that he depth be busy on view secretly to contentment.
In the dark of the night St Peter went with the executioners, who took him gone the urban buttresses and beheaded him at the dreadfully spot someplace fundamental St Bring out had been executed. That night a exact dedicated virgin heard a Originate from nirvana saying, "Peter was cover amid the Apostles; Peter is the track of the Alexandrian Martyrs." This took place in the see 311. In the daybreak, since the social order guru of the death of their bishop, a gather together gathered at the place of contentment. They took up the corpse and controller of the wounded person and went to the church, salad dressing him in his bishop's vestments, they sat him in his throne at the high place in the altar. Via his life St Peter never sat on it, but sat on a footstool relatively. The saint in imitation of explained that whenever he approached his throne he beheld a delightful light glowing on it, and he sensed the apparition of a divine power. Suitably, he didn't take as read to sit portray.
The Noble Jesus Christ in imitation of appeared to St Peter as a twelve-year-old child clothed in a robe that was ragged from top to root. St Peter asked the Liberator who had ragged his garment, and He replied, "That madman Arius has ragged it by dividing the the social order whom I produce redeemed by My blood. Do not take him popular Communion with the Cathedral, for he has worked evil against Me and My mob."
St Peter, a total aid of Accord, is much-admired moreover as a staid theologian. Passages from his book, "On the Divinity (of Jesus Christ)", were consulted at the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon. Of all his works, the record a long way away much-admired and ably august by the Cathedral are his "Penitential Canons".
TROPARION - Complement 4
O God of our Fathers,increasingly act with discernment towards us;take not Your patience from us,but guide our lives in peacethrough the prayers of the hierarchs Moderate and Peter.
KONTAKION - Complement 4 Podoben: "Today You produce in a daze forth..."Unshakeable and godlike towers of the Cathedral,in reality stirred and overwhelming pillars of the Possibility,all-praised Moderate and Peter, protect us all by your prayers.