Feast Day: November 1st
The Life of Saint Eleni: The vile Pasha made several more attempts to rape the Saint, but once again he was restrained as if by an invisible wall as she recited the Six Psalms and all the Prayers that she knew by heart…
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Prayers
Apolytikion – Tone 1: The most-fragrant flower of purity and the boast and Divine offspring of Sinope Virgin-Martyr of Christ Eleni most-pure, who struggled steadfastly, and cast down the enemy, with the power of Faith and entreats for everyone, to have mercy on our Souls.
Megalynarion: As an undefiled Virgin in the power of Christ you cast down the much-contriving enemy, and you are arrayed in Martyrdom, O Virgin-Martyr Eleni the All-praised.
Saint Eleni was a fifteen year old girl who lived with her Christian parents in Sinope in Pontus.
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One day she passed the house of the Pasha as she went to the marketplace. He saw her beauty and was seized with lust for her, ordered his servants to bring her to him, and made two attempts to defile her however both times he was prevented by a mysterious power that stopped him like a wall. So the Pasha kept Saint Eleni prisoner in his house, but she escaped to her home.
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This enraged the Pasha who threatened he would kill all Christians of the town unless Saint Eleni was returned to him. Saint Eleni’s father was persuaded to return her, and once again he attempted to defile the young Saint Eleni but each time he was restrained again by an invisible wall. During this time Saint Eleni kept Christ in her heart, recited the Six Psalms and all the Prayers that she knew.
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She was then thrown into jail and endured many tortures, she then had two nails driven into her skull and was beheaded, and her body thrown into the Black Sea in a sack. Some Greek sailord saw a Heavenly Light and followed it to the place where the Saint’s body had sunk to, and they retrieved it.
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