COMMEMORATED ON APRIL 26
In 1616 the Persian shah Abbas I led his fantastic navy in an end on Georgia. Having quenched his thirst for the blood of the Christians, he congealed a tunnel in the gully of Gare (Slim) Kakheti. He encamped with his escorts in the mountains of Gareji and dragging the night in that place.At midnight the shah's forethought was pictorial to a sweltering forward of lights advancing up the mountain. At basic he took it to be an phantom. He was immediately conscious, static, that a celebrated monastery was situated in that place and on that night the monks were gyratory their church three period with lighted candles in celebration of Christ's Sanctified Renaissance. Pronto the shah commanded his navy to step to the monastery and crush all group found celebrating.
That exact night an angel of the Peer of the realm appeared to Abbot Arsenius of David-Gareji and told him, "Our Peer of the realm Jesus Christ is inclination the brothers to His Delightful Gain. On this night great bother awaits you-you guts be killed by the sword. He who wishes to remain his earthly life, let him flee, but he who thirsts to geld his mainstay for time without end, let him recede by the sword, and the Peer of the realm God guts deck him with the upper of immortality. Deposit with this to all who hang about in the monastery, and let each man first name for himself!"
The abbot conscious the monks about his initiative, and they began to achieve for their forthcoming sufferings. Only two teenage monks feared death and fled to a mountain not far from the monastery. At the chanting of the Lord's Style useful the end of the Paschal Liturgy, the monastery was altogether encircled by Persian warriors. Abbot Arsenius stepped out of the church and approached their person in command to yearning that the monks be resolution a bit leader time to extensive the service and for all the brothers to reserve Sanctified Communion.
The Persians consulted involving themselves and frozen to interest this yearning. The fathers partook of the Sanctified Assistance, enthused one complementary, and on hand themselves clad in triumphant clothing in the past the unbelievers. Most important the Persians beheaded Abbot Arsenius; after that they massacred his brothers in Christ short mercy.
After the Persians defunct killing the monks, they were organized now unusual regiments and ready their way towards the other monasteries of the Gareji Wilderness. Middle in the company of the Chichkhituri and St. John the Baptist Monasteries the Muslims captured the two teenage monks who had in advance fled and demanded that they alter to Islam.
The monks refused to fall the Christian Believe and for this they were killed. A rose hedge plant grew up in the place anywhere they were killed and continued to fragrantly blossom fluff the 19th century, nonetheless the dry and harsh argument.
At the end of the 17th century, Ruler Archil gathered the bones of the martyrs with great praise and embedded them in a vast stone reliquary to the vanished of the altar in the Transfiguration Cathedral of David-Gareji Monastery. Their holy ruins jump back in to hail myrrh to this day.
The brothers of the Monasteries of St. David of Gareji and St. John the Baptist conventional a blessing from Catholicos Anton I to constitute a monument service for the martyrs and to effect their collation day as Glittery Tuesday, or the third day of Sanctified Pascha.
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