health
HE IS ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST EXAMPLES OF CHRISTIAN LIFE! Today is Venerable Nikita the Confessor!
Unarmed monks decided not to flee and to await the heavily armed Arabs in their monastery, who showed them no mercy.
TL;DR
- Saint Nikita the Confessor was born in Caesarea, Bithynia.
- He became a monk and later an archimandrite at the Midician Monastery.
- He was imprisoned and tortured for his Orthodox faith during the iconoclast heresy.
- A person named Nikola, who tormented him, repented after a vision.
- Nikita was freed when Emperor Michael Valvosa came to power.
- He spent his final days in prayer near Constantinople.
- He performed many miracles during his life and after his death.
- He died in 824 AD.