"St. Barbarus the Myrrh-Grusher (Banquet Day - May 15 and June 23)" Saint Barbarus lived trendy the govern of Queen Michael the Stammerer (820 - 829). A previous robber from Arabia, he ventured with his band of pirates to Acarnania in Greece and for a covet time he committed robberies, extortions and murders. The Acarnanians disgusted versus these pirates and killed them all, secure Barbarus who fugitive. But the Lord, Who does not want the death of a sinner, turned him to misgiving. Afterward, past Barbarus was sitting in a deep hole and gazing upon his stolen chattels, the weakness of God touched his embodiment. He attention about the conclusiveness of death and pondered pompous the crowd of his decomposing deeds. He was suffering in his embodiment and he momentous to make a beginning of misgiving, saying, "The Lord did not dislike intensely the prayer of the robber limp contrary to Him. May He excess me via His indefinable refinement."Barbarus spent all his reserves too late in the deep hole and he went to the adjoining church, which was robust to Saint George the Effective Dead person in Nisa. By way of the Envisage Liturgy, Barbarus saw angels ration with the priest named John Nikopolitou. Afterwards he asked the priest everyplace were the men he was ration with, to which the priest replied that God had arranged him a wet ghost of the holy angels ration at the Envisage Liturgy. Barbarus did not confuse his decomposing deeds from the priest, and he asked to be flag for misgiving and catechism. The priest gave him a place in his own home, and St Barbarus followed him, separation about on his hands and reach in the function of a four-legged animal, previously he intentional himself contemptible to be called a man. In the boarding house of the priest he lived with the keep, use with the animals and similar to himself auxiliary decomposing than any creature. Conclusive, to replacement his sins, he momentous to occur for the rest of his life, linked at the neck, waist and legs with three irons tetragon as he linked to his victims past he was a robber. The three irons were in stack of the Divine Trinity. Having normal lenience from his sins from the priest, Barbarus went stylish the woodland of Tryfo in Xiromero of the conurbation of Aetolia-Acarnania and lived there for twelve living (or eighteen living depending on sources), in the buff and in need clothing, unrest from the frigid and heat. His spirit became dirty and blackened all pompous.From top to bottom, St Barbarus normal a sign from on high that his sins were forgiven, and that he would die a martyr's death. Afterward, merchants came to the place everyplace St Barbarus anguished. In the burdensome grass back them they saw everything moving. Philosophy that this was an animal, they veer some arrows from their bows. Prospect more readily, they were frightened to see that they had terminally wounded a man. St Barbarus begged them not to displease. He told them about himself and he asked that they have an effect what had happened to the priest at whose prevent he had past lived.On one occasion this, St Barbarus yielded up his spirit to God. The priest, who had flag the misgiving of the previous robber, found his spirit glittering with a restful light. The priest inherent the spirit of St Barbarus at the place everyplace he was killed on June 23.Afterwards, a restorative myrrh began to make available forth from the critical of the saint, which healed roughly maladies. At his burial a animal cover for seven living was healed. From so on many miracles are recorded. Meticulous the critical is a edition from which many loyal utilization to roughly wounds for healing. Patriarch Kallistos of Constantinople in 1355 and Joseph Bryennios in 1400 outspoken us that Bulgarians were baptized in this edition. Constantine Akropolites says his schoolgirl was healed of leprosy by Saint Barbarus.In 1571 a Venetian participant named Sklavounos, who took part in the Wrestle of Lepanto, became amiss and was by means of death. He had a dream of Saint Barbarus who told him to stomping ground his critical in order to be healed. Like he in the sphere of at the critical of the Saint he respected his holy leftovers and instantly began to salvage. In need to stack the Saint in his residence, he momentous to bring the leftovers of the Saint to Venice. On his way, he momentous to take lodgings his ship in Kerkyra in the rural community of Potamos. Gift the leftovers of the Saint cured a paralytic child of the Souvlaki family. Sklavounos legitimate many of the amiss in this place to come value the Saint, and many were healed. To stack St. Barbarus, the locals renamed the church of their rural community from Life-Giving Catacomb to St. Barbarus in stack of this scene, and social gathering annually the healing of the paralyzed boy on May 15th. He is what's more imposing on June 23 in Kerkyra as St. Barbarus the Pentapoliti.The Secret place of the Saint can deskbound be seen in Tryfo of Aetolia-Acarnania by means of his church. Sources say the leftovers of the Saint are in a lean Italian rural community proverbial as Family Barbaro. The irons of the Saint were lost past the Ottomans invaded Xiromero. "The edition and church of St. Barbarus in Tryfo" "The Cathedral of St. Barbarus in Potamo, Kerkyra"
