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During his lifetime, the Trimifuntsky Wonderworker Saint Spyridon was a model of righteousness, kindness, meekness and philanthropy. He worked miracles for the benefit of everyone who asked, donated to those in need, and lived in modesty, not striving for wealth or fame. The saint is credited with miraculous healings, both physical and mental. People turn to him for stability, and what it consists of, we will tell you in more detail in this article.
The life path of the Saint and the miracles performed
The Bishop of Salamis lived a worldly life in Cyprus about 18 centuries ago. Since those times, people have carefully preserved valuable facts about the deeds of the Saint in chronicles. According to records, Spyridon was born in 270 AD, into a simple family, the head of which was a shepherd.
From an early age, the future clergyman tried to be hardworking and kind to his neighbors, especially to the suffering, among whom were beggars and travelers in need of temporary shelter. Salaminsky helped in word and deed. When lending money to someone, he never demanded their speedy return, sincerely hoping for the good faith of the person to whom he extended his hand.
In his youth, Spiridon married a girl to match himself. His wife gave him a child, but soon after giving birth she died, leaving her husband with the offspring in his arms. This grief forced the shepherd to change his attitude towards life. He distributed all his property to the poor, forgave everyone's debts, and decided to hit the road. Wandering around the world, Salamis continued to do good, for which he was sent a gift from above.
Miraculous power helped Spyridon control natural elements and save people from serious illnesses and demons. The saint, despite his lack of education, never ceased to amaze those around him with his wisdom. He had a keen sense of the human soul, easily identified its vices and did everything to eradicate them, while relying on the Holy Scriptures.
Life of a Saint
The life of the saint begins at the end of the 3rd century AD. on the island of Cyprus. He did not particularly stand out among his fellow citizens; he tended cattle and had a family, but he distributed all the money he earned to those in need. For this, the Lord granted him the ability of exorcism (casting out demons), healing, and also allowed him to work miracles, carrying the word of God.
During the time of Emperor Constantine (306-337), Spyridon served as bishop of the city of Trimifunt. Throughout his life, Spyridon cared for the suffering, performed miracles and carried the word of God.
Prayer to Saint Spyridon of Trimythous for financial well-being
Christians can ask different Saints for financial well-being, but many stop at Spyridon of Trimythous, which is not surprising, given the generosity that the miracle worker showed in his worldly life. For his good, selfless deeds, Salamis was awarded the highest status among mortals. The Lord gave his faithful son eternal life and the opportunity to sit next to him and help everyone who needs help from above.
Spyridon answers various prayer requests, including those related to increasing profits. It is advisable to read the prayer to Trimifuntsky in front of the face of the Saint. At the same time, a Christian must remember that money does not solve all problems and in the life of a righteous Orthodox Christian it cannot be the main value.
Regular use of the prayer book allows the believer to better understand the meaning of “well-being,” consisting of the words “good” and “receive,” and goodness, as is known in the Christian world, cannot be associated with material things used for non-godly purposes.
Basic Rules of Prayer
You must first of all visit the church and go to confession. All sins must be forgiven, after which a blessing must be received. After this, you need to buy candles and make sure you have holy water.
Remember:
you will need an icon of Spyridon, since it will allow you to turn specifically to the saint, to imagine how effective the appeal can be.
In order to read the prayer, it is advisable to retire in a room at home, after which you light candles in front of the face of Spyridon, bow and cross yourself, and think about the request. Try to concentrate on the goal and existing emotions.
You must pay attention to the fact that the request will be safe for other people. Read the prayer only with pure thoughts and strong faith.
It is recommended to read the prayer for forty days at any time of the day. However, it is undesirable to carry out the process during Lent, as this is contrary to church laws. You can see that prayer for money and prosperity is effective.
Prayer to Spyridon of Trimifuntsky about work
Finding a well-paid job is important for every person; this process is associated with a number of difficulties and trials, which faith in the One Creator, omnipotent and merciful, helps to cope with. Prayer to Spyridon helps you find a good job quickly that allows you to earn decent money.
In the text of the prayer book you will not find a specific request for work, which means that all the words written by the clergyman and addressed to the Saint have the same great weight, they must be read equally carefully and thoughtfully.
At the same time, it is important to understand that work and work are different, the meaning of well-being in everyday life differs from the true church. Therefore, you need to ask for employment that will be pleasing to God and good.
It is difficult for a modern person to find a good job that would allow him to do something every day that does not contradict the rules of a righteous life in Christ, and at the same time receive good money. Taking this into account, prayer to Spyridon of Trimythous can become a real salvation in a desperate, difficult life situation.
We also recommend praying to St. George the Victorious for work.
How to pray correctly?
Before you start praying to Spyridon the Wonderworker, you should consider a number of rules that must be followed:
- The time for prayer is chosen according to availability: early in the morning or late in the evening. The main condition is that the prayer should be read alone, so that no one can distract or interfere with the action. It is recommended to choose the evening time before bedtime.
- Thoughts during prayer must be pure and sincere, and intentions must exclude the thirst for easy money or the desire to deceive other people.
- It is necessary to focus on what you want without clogging your mind with extraneous thoughts, fears or concerns. It is important to pronounce the text while being calm.
- In order for the request to be heard, the sacred texts should be pronounced in front of the icon of the Saint and in the light of church candles.
- The room should be quiet, and all electrical appliances should be turned off.
Prayers are read to Saint Spyridon every day until what you want is granted. Once a week, preferably on Sunday, it is recommended to visit church in order to offer a prayer service within the walls of the temple.
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Prayer to Spyridon of Trimifuntsky for housing
In his worldly life, Spyridon of Trimifunsky, having many material benefits, sacrificed them for the benefit of the poor. It is in this way, kind and generous, that he appears before Christians in parables and descriptions of the miracles he performed, which have survived to this day. Considering this, it is not surprising that even after the death of the Saint, millions continue to hope for his selfless help.
People pray to Spyridon for financial well-being and all benefits, including housing, problems with which are familiar firsthand to many in the modern world. Salamissky answers everyone whose faith is strong, pure, and sincere.
The fact that many Christians who turned to Trimifuntsky with a request to grant them a roof over their heads get what they want suggests that this prayer to Spyridon is one of the most powerful among all, aimed at overcoming difficulties associated with material values.
In what situations should you read the prayer “For Money”
- Purchase or sale of real estate, various vehicles;
- Solving problems related to banks;
- Resolving difficulties in the legal field;
- Obtaining money for expensive medical treatments;
- Debt recovery.
Please note:
you must act with pure thoughts and listen to your heart in order for the prayer to give a result that is favorable to you. If you need to receive the required amount to achieve vital goals, the Miracle Worker will definitely provide his help.
How else can you pray to a saint?
If possible, you should not miss the opportunity to venerate the relics of the saint, which are located in Kerkyra. Particles of the relics are also found in Russian churches. The main thing is not the pilgrimage, but the sincerity of prayer, the confidence in receiving help. A person must be sure that the benefits he receives will go to a good deed and will not be spent on satisfying sinful needs and indulging passions.
You can read the canon and akathist, which describe the life of the saint and help to ordinary people. While reading, your faith grows, and the saint wants to support you and help you.
In addition, in the temple you can order a prayer service, but you must indicate all the names of those asking and remember: they must be baptized.
Faith is something that is always with us, the stronger it becomes, the more grace we experience, O Lord God and the saints, including Spyridon.
Miracles through prayers to St. Spyridon
One of these miracles occurred during a terrible drought, when one of the wealthy townspeople began to sell bread at an inflated price and then one of the hungry poor came to the bishop to seek justice. Spyridon prayed and answered the following: “Don’t cry, go home, for the Holy Spirit tells me that tomorrow your house will be full of bread, and the rich man will beg you and give you bread for free.”
At night there was a heavy downpour and the waters demolished the walls of the stingy merchant’s barns and carried away all the bags of wheat, and all the people took them absolutely free.
Another story also happened during another drought, typical for those places. A poor man came to Spyridon asking for a loan to buy bread, the bishop went away for a while and returned with a bag of gold, with the condition that he must return the gold.
A few months later, the poor man returned to Spiridon to repay the debt, and he took him to the garden to repay the debt “to the one who so generously lent to us.” Before the poor man’s eyes, the gold turned into a snake; it turned out that Spyridon asked the Lord to turn the snake into gold to help the man, and now he has repaid this debt.
Despite the fact that the saint has been dead for a long time, he still performs his miracles for people who revere and pray to him.
Servant of God V. told about an incident that happened to her many years ago, when she was a young girl who had just started working after college, barely making ends meet, and was constantly short of money. But one day at work they dropped 160 rubles on a gift for a colleague, she felt so ashamed that she didn’t have that kind of money and she prayed to Saint Spyridon. After some time, walking down the street, she put her hand in her pocket and, lo and behold, the required amount was in it. For her, this was not just a miracle, but a coming to true faith.
Servant of God Tatiana spoke about a difficult period in the life of her daughter, when she tried for a long time and unsuccessfully to find a job. They, together with their daughter, believed in the holiness of Spyridon and, despite financial difficulties, went to his relics. “We got to the relics of the Saint in the morning, stood for almost 10 hours, but there was no fatigue. Literally the next day, my daughter received many job offers.”
In 1948, a few days before the feast of St. Spyridon, the mother of 11-year-old George, who was mute from birth, had a dream about his miraculous healing. She had made attempts before, went to churches, but this time she felt that it was in the church of St. Spyridon a miracle will happen. When they prayed in the temple and the relics of the saint were carried over the child, a miracle really happened and George was able to speak.
These are the stories of real people and true believers in Saint Spyridon of Trimythous, whose prayers were heard.
Days of veneration of the saint
Every year on December 25 the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Spyridon. This is the day when the saint departed to the Lord. Services are held in churches and prayers are offered. Moreover, on any other day the prayers will be no less powerful.
The date of the holiday practically coincides with the moment of the winter solstice, so this holiday has always been considered remarkable in the peasant agricultural calendar and was called Spiridonov's turn. There were many signs and superstitions associated with this holiday.
The Church interprets this coincidence as a symbol of the fact that Rus' was in the darkness of paganism, but with the adoption of Christianity, gradual enlightenment with the light of the truth of faith begins. And in this continuous process, Orthodox prayers to saints play a large role.
Saint Spyridon of Trimifuntsky, bishop
Saint Spyridon of Trimythous was born at the end of the 3rd century on the island of Cyprus. Little information has been preserved about his life. It is known that he was a shepherd and had a wife and children. He gave all his funds to the needs of his neighbors and strangers, for this the Lord rewarded him with the gift of miracles: he healed the terminally ill and cast out demons. After the death of his wife, during the reign of Emperor Constantine the Great (306–337), he was elected bishop of the city of Trimifunt. In the rank of bishop, the saint did not change his way of life, combining pastoral service with works of mercy. According to church historians, Saint Spyridon in 325 took part in the actions of the First Ecumenical Council. At the Council, the saint entered into a competition with a Greek philosopher who defended the Aryan heresy. The simple speech of Saint Spyridon showed everyone the weakness of human wisdom before the Wisdom of God: “Listen, philosopher, what I will tell you: we believe that Almighty God out of nothing created heaven, earth, man and the entire visible and invisible world with His Word and Spirit. This Word is the Son of God, Who came down to earth for our sins, was born of the Virgin, lived with people, suffered, died for our salvation and then rose again, atoning for original sin with His suffering, and resurrected the human race with Himself. We believe that He is Consubstantial and Equal in Honor with the Father, and we believe this without any crafty inventions, for it is impossible to comprehend this mystery with the human mind.”
As a result of the conversation, the opponent of Christianity became its zealous defender and received Holy Baptism. After a conversation with Saint Spyridon, turning to his friends, the philosopher said: “Listen! While the competition with me was carried out through evidence, I set up others against some evidence and, with my art of argument, reflected everything that was presented to me. But when, instead of proof from reason, some special power began to emanate from the mouth of this old man, evidence became powerless against it, since a person cannot resist God. If any of you can think the same way as I do, then let him believe in Christ and, together with me, follow this old man, through whose mouth God Himself spoke.”
At the same Council, Saint Spyridon presented against the Arians a clear proof of the Unity in the Holy Trinity. He took a brick in his hands and squeezed it: fire instantly came out of it, water flowed down, and the clay remained in the hands of the miracle worker. “Behold, there are three elements, and there is one plinth (brick),” said St. Spyridon then, “so in the Most Holy Trinity there are Three Persons, but the Divinity is One.”
The saint took care of his flock with great love. Through his prayer, the drought was replaced by abundant life-giving rain, and continuous rains were replaced by buckets (warm, dry weather), the sick were healed, and demons were cast out.
One day a woman came to him with a dead child in her arms, asking for the saint’s intercession. After praying, he brought the baby back to life. The mother, shocked by joy, fell lifeless. But the prayer of the saint of God restored life to the mother.
Once, rushing to save his friend, slandered and sentenced to death, the saint was stopped on his way by a stream that unexpectedly overflowed from a flood. The saint ordered the stream: “Stand up!” This is what the Lord of the whole world commands you, so that I can cross and the husband for whose sake I am hastening may be saved.” The will of the saint was fulfilled, and he safely crossed to the other side. The judge, warned about the miracle that had occurred, met Saint Spyridon with honor and released his friend.
Such a case is also known from the life of the saint. One day he walked into an empty church, ordered the lamps and candles to be lit, and began the service. Having proclaimed “Peace to all,” he and the deacon heard in response from above a great multitude of voices shouting: “And to your spirit.” This choir was great and sweeter than any human singing. At each litany, an invisible choir sang “Lord, have mercy.” Attracted by the singing coming from the church, people nearby hurried to her. As they approached the church, wonderful singing filled their ears more and more and delighted their hearts. But when they entered the church, they saw no one except the bishop with a few church servants, and they no longer heard heavenly singing, from which they were in great amazement.
Saint Simeon Metaphrastus, a writer of his life, likened Saint Spyridon to Patriarch Abraham in the virtue of hospitality. “You also need to know how he received strangers,” wrote Sozomen, who was close to monastic circles, citing in his “Church History” an amazing example from the life of the saint. One day, after the approach of Lent, a wanderer knocked on his house. Seeing that the traveler was very tired, Saint Spyridon said to his daughter: “Wash this man’s feet and offer him something to eat.” But due to fasting, the necessary supplies were not made, for the saint “ate food only on a certain day, and on others he remained without food.” Therefore, the daughter replied that there was no bread or flour in the house. Then Saint Spyridon, apologizing to the guest, ordered his daughter to fry the salted pork meat that was in stock and, having seated the wanderer at the table, began to eat, convincing that man to imitate himself. When the latter, calling himself a Christian, refused, the saint did not object, noting: “The word of God has spoken: to the pure all things are pure” (Titus 1:15).
Another story, reported by Sozomen, is also very characteristic of the saint: the saint had the custom of distributing one part of the harvest to the poor, and giving the other part to the needy as a loan. He himself did not personally give anything, but simply showed the entrance to the storeroom, where everyone could take as much as they needed and then return it in the same way, without checking or reporting.
There is also a well-known story by Socrates Scholasticus about how thieves decided to steal the sheep of Saint Spyridon: in the dead of night they climbed into a sheepfold, but immediately found themselves tied up by an invisible force. When morning came, the saint came to the herd and, seeing the bound robbers, prayed, untied them and for a long time persuaded them to leave their lawless path and earn food by honest labor. Then, giving them a sheep each and sending them away, he said kindly: “Let it not be in vain that you kept watch.”
Saint Spyridon is often compared to the prophet Elijah, for also through his prayer, during droughts that often threatened the island of Cyprus, it rained: “We see Spyridon, the great wonderworker, equal to the angel. Once upon a time the country suffered greatly from lack of rain and drought: there was a famine and a plague, and many people died, but through the prayers of the saint, rain came down from heaven to earth: the people, having been delivered from the disaster, cried out in gratitude: Rejoice, thou who art like the great prophet, and the rain that takes away the famine and sicknesses, Thou hast sent down in good time.”
The entire life of the saint amazes with the amazing simplicity and power of miracles given to him by the Lord. According to the word of the saint, the dead awakened, the elements were tamed, and idols were crushed. When the Patriarch convened a Council in Alexandria for the sake of crushing idols and temples, through the prayers of the fathers of the Council, all the idols fell, except one, the most revered. It was revealed to the Patriarch in a vision that this idol remained in order to be crushed by Saint Spyridon of Trimythous. Summoned by the Council, the saint boarded the ship, and at the moment when the ship landed on the shore and the saint set foot on land, the idol in Alexandria with all the altars was thrown into dust, which announced to the patriarch and all the bishops the approach of St. Spyridon.
Saint Spyridon lived his earthly life in righteousness and holiness and in prayer gave up his soul to the Lord (c. 348). In the history of the Church, Saint Spyridon is venerated together with Saint Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra.
His relics rest on the island of Corfu in the church named after him (except for the right hand, which is in Rome).
See also: “The Life of our Holy Father Spyridon of Trimifuntsky” as presented by St. Demetrius of Rostov.
Prayer for getting a job
“O blessed Saint Spyridon! Beg God, the merciful Lover of Mankind, not to judge us according to our iniquities, but to deal with us according to His mercy. Ask us, unworthy servants of God, from Christ God for a peaceful and serene life, mental and physical health. Deliver us from all mental and physical illnesses and troubles, from all the anguish and slander of the devil. Remember us at the throne of the Almighty and beg the Lord Jesus Christ to grant us forgiveness of many of our iniquities, a comfortable and peaceful life, grant us a shameless and peaceful end of life and grant us eternal bliss in the future life, may we constantly send glory and thanksgiving to the Father and the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen"
