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Commemoration of the earthquake in Constantinople in 447, when a boy was lifted to heaven and heard the "Trisagion". Commemorated on September 25 During the reign of the Emperor Theophilus, the city of
Constantinople was visited by earthquakes for almost four months. The Emperor,
the Patriarch Proclus, and the people joined in a barefoot procession to make
prayer to God for their safety. While they were gathered, the tremors increased
dramatically, and a young boy was taken up into the sky in the sight of the
people, who fearfully cried out Kyrie eleison! When the
boy came down from the heavens, he said that he had been among choirs of Angels
who sang Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on
us! and that a voice had commanded him to tell the Patriarch that the
people should make supplication to God in this way. The Patriarch instructed the
people to chant this hymn, whereupon the ground stopped shaking and the child
died. |
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