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Of these most illustrious Martyrs of the city of Edessa in Syria, Guria and Shamuna
contested during the reign of Diocletian, in 288; after many tortures,
they were cast into prison, then beheaded. Saint Habib, a deacon, contested
in the days of Licinius, in the year 316, and was burned alive; he
was buried with Saints Guria and Shamuna. The three have one common
feast, and it is always together that they are portrayed in icons and
invoked by the faithful.On account of a renowned miracle they worked,
they are invoked for help in marital difficulties. A certain Goth had
come with the Roman army to Edessa and was quartered in the house of
a pious widow named Sophia. The Goth asked Sophia for the hand of her
daughter, Euphemia; after resisting for a long time, Sophia at last
agreed. When it was time for the army to return home, Sophia made the
Goth vow by the power in the holy Martyrs Shamuna, Guria, and Habib,
to keep Euphemia as the apple of his eye. As he was nearing his home,
however, the treacherous man revealed to Euphemia that he already had a wife. Euphemia was compelled to serve
the Goths wife, who dealt with her mercilessly. After extreme sufferings,
which included being sealed alive in a tomb and left there to die,
Euphemia was miraculously conveyed to Edessa, to the very shrine of
the holy Martyrs whose surety they had taken, and was reunited with
her mother through their holy prayers.
Apolytikion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone:
Since Thou hast given us the miracles of Thy holy Martyrs as an invincible
battlement, by their entreaties, scatter the counsels of the heathen,
O Christ our God, and strengthen the faith of Orthodox Christians,
since Thou alone art good and the Friend of man.
Kontakion in the Second Tone:
O yoke-mate of Paul, together with him, thou didst preach the tidings
to us of saving grace bestowed of God, O Apostle Titus, blest and
elect revealer of mysteries; for which cause we cry out to thee:
Cease not to entreat Christ God for all of us.
Source: http://www.goarch.org
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