The memory of the reverend Koprius

St. Cyprian, the visionary of St. Patermutius and the narrator of his miracles, was a priest and also had the grace of God to perform miracles.

One day when he was telling the brothers gathered to him for their souls' sake about the life of St. Patermutius and other saints, one brother, not trusting his stories, did not listen to him and fell asleep.

But in his dream he saw in the hand of St. Cyprian a book written in gold letters, from which he told something to his brothers, and standing beside him was a bright man, of respectable appearance, adorned with gray.

When the brother woke up, he told what he had seen, and from then on he listened to everything St. Cyprian said.

One day the monk had a group of wanderers who came to hear him preach about the salvation of the soul, and a man came to the door of the cell with a vessel full of sand and waited for the old man to finish his talk.

And the man said, My sons, I ought not to tell you, lest the works of God should be made vain, and I should lose my reward.

And I will not hold back from declaring to you, for your benefit, the work of God's grace that was worked in us sinners.

The land of the village near us was very barren, and the bread that was sown in the fields hardly yielded its crop, but a worm ate the stalks and gnawed off the stalks before they were ripe.

But when they came to us, they pleaded with us to pray for them that God would make their land fruitful in Christ Jesus.

We will pray, but you must have unshakable faith in God. And then they promised to have unshakable faith, and they took the sand from the ground that our sinful feet have trodden in their bosoms, and they asked me to bless that sand in the name of the Lord as seed.

And it came to pass, when they came, that they sowed corn and grain in the fields, and there was bread in all the land of Egypt; and all the peasants came to them, and blessed them.

Their faith does not deceive them and they always have a harvest. The Monk Kopry, once having entered into a controversy about faith before the people with the heretic Manichaeus.

The founder of Manichaeism was Manes, a Persian magician, who taught that for centuries there existed two independent kingdoms, good and evil, which were in constant conflict with each other.

Man is also, according to Manes, composed of two elements <unk> light and darkness and has as it were two souls <unk> good and evil, which constantly fight among themselves. <unk> The Manichaeans were very restrained in life: they preached celibacy and permanent fasting.

<unk> Manichaeism was fairly widespread in the 3rd and 4th centuries, and seeing that he could not overcome the arrogant orator with his own humble and mild words, he wanted to show by deed the correctness of his faith.

And he caused a great fire to be kindled, and called a heretic with him, that he might know whose faith was true; and he that said, He is a saint, and is not burned, said, He believeth rightly.

And he went into the fire, and the flame was divided before him, and he stood on the coals as on the grass for half an hour, and had no hurt; and he came out of the fire, and his garments were not hurt. And the people, when they saw it, were astonished, and glorified God.

But the heretic refused to go in, and the people threw him into the fire, and immediately he burned; but he escaped from the fire, and fled in the heat; and they seized him, and cried, Let the heretic be burned.

Venerable Cyprian calmed the people's agitation and released the heretic, who had been burned to death, alive. The old man had a small garden near his cell; in this garden he grew grain and fruits, which went to feed the strangers who came to him.

And one of the idolaters came into the garden at night, and stole as much fruit as he could carry, and some of it he brought home, and he boiled it in the fire, and it was three hours, and there was much wood burned, and the fruit was not boiled, and the water in the pot was not hot.

This unusual circumstance caused the robber to be very surprised and he, realizing his sin and realizing the power of Christ at work in Christians, took and realizing the power of Christ at work in Christians, took everything that was stolen and even what was already in the kettle, and brought to the feet of the old man, confessing in

I'm sorry about the theft.

At the same time, many visitors came to see him, rejoiced over the miraculous conversion of the man to Christ, and ate the fruit and praised God.

In addition to these miracles, St. Cyprian, by the grace of Christ, performed many others and rested in peace.

who has been given an equal share in the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. To him be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.