Image of Liqānos

My heart yearns to proclaim your good deed, Liqānos, my father, for love of you has held me from my mother’s womb. O Lord, grant a guardian for my mouth and a key for my lips. Peace to the memory of your name, whose letters are inscribed on the tablet of heaven above. Liqānos, holy one, equal of all the saints, a refuge forever; your children say on your account: “The memory of the righteous endures for the world.” I am not skilled with a garland for your neck, O peace, nor with the mouth of my heart do I hear. Liqānos, you are the answer to my supplication. Truly, truly, when I loved you, truly, on your neck I placed a form. O my father Liqānos, I say peace to your knees. Twenty-five years they labored for righteousness. The king of Israel, David, said before, while the Lord by the power of His Spirit strengthens them—the many sufferings of the righteous. Peace to your tomb and to your new commemoration, a field of joy and gladness. Liqānos, wise one, chief of the five virgins. Grant me, O father, the blessing of the three names: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Where his body is buried, the word of Christ, as his bone was found after three days, without his garment being damaged and his head being shaven, the healing of your body like that, Liqānos, is a wonder; his bone was found within the rock for the sake of the two miracles and powers, for from the Father your life was dew. Praise to God, who has completed what he enabled me to do, by the power of his Holy Spirit while he helps me. Liqānos Melkiyas, who has hidden the memory of your name, has instructed me; this praise of your image is better than all that is beautiful; it is my entrance and my offering. I confess to God and always bless him, with prostration and blessing, for he has granted me, who is worthy, to speak and to narrate the story of your memory, Liqānos, which the elders hid from the heart, until it is revealed through my mouth, which he has adorned. Praise to God, who has enabled me to complete the story of your memory, which I have prepared with joy and delight. Liqānos the wise, treasury of patience and mercy, imprint the word of my mouth within your heart, as the word of thunder sealed John at the beginning.