Life and Miracles of Śamra Krǝstos

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God. He who can kill and bring to life is the righteous judge without partiality. Hear, O chosen ones of the wedding, who have been chosen in the name of the Trinity, who have been baptized in the water of the Law which you have swallowed, and in the milk of the Gospel which you have drunk, and who have been strengthened by the body and blood of Christ. May the Lord your God protect you from all evil. The first miracle of our father Śamra Krǝstos. May his prayer and blessing be with us. There was a man who had no children. One day he arose and went with his wife to our father Śamra Krǝstos and entreated him. And he said to him, "Peace be to you, my father." And the saint said to him, "Peace. May God be with you.

His second miracle: Healing of a girl who was possessed by a demon 2. His miracle. And on one day, they summoned our father Śamra Krǝstos to a girl whom a demon had seized. And the saint went and commanded over her with the sign of the cross, and immediately the demon cried out and said, "Woe to me!" His third miracle: A woman cured of heavy menstrual bleeding 3. His miracle. And there was a woman who had been flowing with blood for seven years. And on one day, she stood at the door of the church while she was entreating our father Śamra Krǝstos. And our father the saint was in the sanctuary while he was consecrating the offering. His fourth miracle: Stoning of three ravens 4. His miracle. And again, on one day, three ravens came and perched upon the roof of the church of ʾabbā Maṭāʿ, and they cried out with their beaks, mocking the sanctuary. And the saint, while they were crying out, was greatly grieved, and he stoned the ravens, and they fell quickly at that moment beneath his feet and died.

5. His miracle. And when a locust came into the whole region and destroyed the fruits, the saint asked of the Lord that the locust not devour the land of his country, and the locust departed from his region. 6. His miracle. And there was a certain blind girl. 7. His miracle. And there was a deacon whom a demon, a legion, possessed, and it cast him into a great fire and threw him from above, and he remained as one who was mad for many days.

8. His miracle. And there is a disciple of our father Śamra Krǝstos, and when he was afflicted, he took refuge with our father the saint before the queen and the lady, before our father Śamra Krǝstos, while she said, “Come here into the palace of the king.” And the messenger arrived before the saint. 9. His miracle. And there was a certain Jewish woman, a noblewoman, and the king gave her a plot of land at the sanctuary of our father Śamra Krǝstos, and she built a house there near the church. And the saint our father said to her, “Why, my lady, do you build a house near the church, while you are a Jewish woman?” 10. His miracle. And after many days from the time our father was born, when the affliction of illness overcame him, on the day of his death a certain woman named Magdalawait, whom our father Śamra Krǝstos had clothed and adorned, went to a certain solitary man of God named Gabra Ḥawāryāt.

11. His miracle. And after a few days from when our father Śamra Krǝstos reposed, when they moved him from his tomb to another place, and only that tomb remained, and in that tomb water is generated in the rainy season when it rains. 12. His miracle. And there were two blind persons, one male and one female. They arose and went to the tomb of our father Śamra Krǝstos after he had departed from that tomb, and they washed with faith in the water of the tomb, and at that moment they lived and saw. 13. His miracle. And there was a man whose name is Ḥabta Ṣǝyon. He told, and he said, “Our father Śamra Krǝstos said to me, and he said to me, ‘Make a tent over my tomb from which my body has departed,’ and he himself told the people.

14. His miracle. And there was a man who took earth from the tomb of our father Śamra Krǝstos without the priests opening it by his permission. When he took it and brought it in, up to seven weeks, and those who saw him said to him, “Why did you take earth from the tomb of our father Śamra Krǝstos?” 15. His miracle. And there was a child, and his mother was a nun, a God-fearing woman, and he was ill, and the child was afflicted with a great sickness, and his illness was from Satan, and his mother wept greatly and took him and brought him to our father Śamra Krǝstos. 16. His miracle. And after a few days from when our father Śamra Krǝstos died, there was a child, the son of a certain priest, at the place of our father, and he was struck with plague, and he was afflicted with a great sickness, and he drew near to death.

17. His miracle. And there was a deacon who sang the hymn at the church of our father Śamra Krǝstos, and a great disease afflicted him. And because of the severity of his disease, he asked at the tomb of our father Śamra Krǝstos, and said, “O my father, heal me by your prayer.” 18. His miracle. And there is a tree in which our father Śamra Krǝstos used to place the cup of the offering. And after the death of our father Śamra Krǝstos, after many days, a cow belonging to a certain man came and licked that tree while it was grazing.

19. His miracle. And after many days from the death of our father Śamra Krǝstos, three monks, hermits from the desert of Waldǝbbā, came, who eat roots, herbs, and wild vegetables, and they do not eat grain. And they arrived at the tomb of our father Śamra Krǝstos and marvelled at his tomb. And when the people of the town saw them, they said to them: 20. His miracle. Listen, O my fathers and my brothers, to the miracle and wonder that this our father showed. In the honey of the myrrh that was mixed, this our father is a flower of holiness that was crowned. He became a dwelling for the works of righteousness. This our father, who judges judgment for us, has authority from Christ our Saviour.

21. His miracle. And three monks came from the land of Dāmot to the field of Zǝhru of our father Śamra Krǝstos. And after that, on one day of the arrival, a certain woman from the vicinity of the place of our father Śamra Krǝstos came and, having arrived there, found those monks.