“From Your Many Miracles…”

From your many miracles I have heard, while you dwelt in Armenia, the place of Eustathius; a miracle in Ethiopia that occurred: the spreading of the faith within our community; the adversary is put to shame, our swift arrival; the beauty you wrought, Gazyon, our father. From your many miracles I set forth one: Eustathius, who performs great powers; the renowned governor, when he desired, built your glorious tomb with precious stones; with his many troops you erected a monument. Your second miracle, Eustathius the virgin: when you were submerged in the sea while fleeing from slaughter, how you saved the Light of the Cross by your staff from the great wave of the resurrection; who is like you who can do this? Your ten miracles in the number of ten words: Eustathius the mighty, worker of miracles; how you pity the people of one city in heat and cold and with much hail, while the whole earth is consumed.

I humbled my soul and opened my mouth. Eustathius, I recount your many miracles. I bring fierce lions, terrors, while they ever lick you. One that cuts wood, and another, two garments. For this father of our spirit, his great deeds have been brought. He who preached to us Takla Haymanot, his help. I saw him, he said before the throne of the Father and the Son, while he stands in majesty with the learned elders. Hearken to faith and righteousness. All his miracles, when they were written one by one, if one were to count the number and if one were to know his decree, for Eustathius the father who performed mercy, his custom. The sea of his praise, when I desired to recount, a small measure of its wave restrained me. From your many miracles I recount one, Eustathius, which you perform. Great powers, the judge, remember. When he desired to take the honor of your tomb.

Second miracle of yours, Eustathius the virgin, when he was submerged in the sea, while he was cutting from the rope. Third miracle of yours, this one: how you saved the father of the gift of the Lord and his son from the punishment of the severe judgment. Fourth miracle of yours, Eustathius my father, for one woman who had no sustenance. Fifth miracle of yours, Eustathius, life, how you struck with the power of the angel of death for one woman. Sixth miracle of yours, Eustathius the glorious, for one man, his sins many, how you saved him. Now the seventh of your miracles, a command, Eustathius the rebuker, how you rebuked from above your children. Eighth miracle of yours, Eustathius the red, how you hid in the monastery from the waves of the many waves of the sea. Ninth miracle of yours, I recount the story, Eustathius my father, full of wisdom and heart. Tenth miracle of yours in the number of words, Eustathius the strong and the doer of every wonder.