By St. Nikolai Velimirovich
Barlaam was born in Antioch.* Such as of his dream in Christ the Lord, the dissipated mediate distressed him harshly. From tip to toe, the mediate resolute to fake him by forcing him to approach sacrificial victim to the idols. For this he took him to the pagan temple and set a fiery coal on his palm and incense on the coal. The mediate study that the ordeal would dig up the sufferer to whip the coal and incense off his hand beforehand the idols, and as a result unconsciously cense them. At a standstill, the fighter of Christ daringly held the fiery coal on his palm with no study of casting it beforehand the idols, until his fingers were burned major and cleave off and his palm was very thirsty. St. Sage the High ranking said: "He had a right and proper hand pompous powerful than fire: though the coal burned his hand, his hand still held the fire as if it were ash." Chrysostom writes: "The angels looked from the heights. The archangels beheld-the viewpoint was groovy, in truth transcending at all influence. Stance, who would not wish to see a man who completed such an outsider stab, yet did not regularity that which is characteristic of men to feel; a man who was himself all the altar of oblation and the sacrificial victim and the priest?" So his hand burned off, exclusive Barlaam's whole conditional cleave to the flooring dead and his character went to the eternal rest of our Lord the Redeemer. This dazzling, admirable exclusive suffered in the day 304.
KONTAKION IN THE THIRD TONEWeak with age, yet thou didst put to death him that is ancient in evil to the same extent thou didst piece to Christ thy thirsty right and proper hand and tuneful incense; for thou barest malicious tortures with incredible staying power, casting down the fleshless foe with thy fleshly suff'rings. Now thou standest at the right and proper hand of thy Planner, O bold sufferer Barlaam.
* Though Chrysostom says Saint Barlaam was born and martyred in Antioch, Sage the High ranking says that his serious was in Caesarea of Cappadocia.
Origin: masonsofheaven.blogspot.com