PseudoCelestinus Discourse Gabriel

✠ Alpha Omega Iota Sigma Pi Epsilon Chi Sigma: Iaboth Theta A discourse of the patriarch, which is honored, and he who gave place for the dwelling of the Holy Spirit, Apa Celestinus, the archbishop of the great city of Rome, who proclaimed it, concerning the great honor of the feast of God, of the aeons, of the light, the archangel Gabriel, on the day of his holy feast, which is the twenty-fourth of the month Choiak. He spoke also concerning the power and the wonders that occurred in the holy topos, which were built for him in the city of Rome. And also concerning the word that is written in the law: "That which you do not wish to happen to you, do not do to another." And also: "It is a great sin to bear false witness," especially those who strengthen falsehood through the spirit of deceit. And also: "Let prayer help the man, that he may be saved from the power of Satan, in the peace of God." Bless us. Amen. The grace of God is received. And the grace ... ... prepare us. And he prepared us for his hand, of the invisible. He brought us up into the cycle of the year of life. He entered into the topos of his feast of God of the aeons, of the light, the holy archangel Gabriel. Concerning this, I will also take these from the voice of the holy hymnodist David, and the righteous king, who said in my tongue of the poor.

✠ Alpha Omega Iota Sigma Pi Epsilon Chi Sigma: Iaboth Theta A discourse of the patriarch, which is honored, and he who gave place for the dwelling of the Holy Spirit, Apa Celestinus, the archbishop of the great city of Rome. This is the day on which the Lord created it. Let us gather together, let us rejoice, let us be glad. None among us shall say again, "Judah, make your festival, and give your gifts." Because of this, God is blessed, for he has deemed worthy, he has brought in to the place of his holy steward, and his worthy one, the light of the aeons, the holy archangel Gabriel. Let us gather together in purity of heart and purity of body, that we may make festival for him for whom God and his angels make festival. Let us cast away from ourselves all boldness and all hypocrisy. Let us make festival for the archangel Gabriel, singing aloud, saying with the psalmist David, "Bless the Lord, all his angels, strengthening themselves in their power, who perform their word." Truly, O holy archangel Gabriel, great is the glory which God has given you, beyond the whole angelic order, the incorporeal ones who are in the height of the heavens. O archangel, you were called by this name from the beginning by God, "Gabriel," that you might continue to serve the birth of God the Logos. For the interpretation of "Gabriel" is "God and man," according to the type of our Lord.

✠ Alpha Omega Iota Sigma Pi Epsilon Chi Sigma: Iaboth Theta A discourse of the patriarch, which is honored, and he who gave place for the dwelling of the Holy Spirit, Apa Celestinus, the archbishop of the great city of Rome. He came in humility. He put on flesh for our sake. He is both God and man. His divinity was not separated from his humanity, not even for the blink of an eye. Let it not be so. But he is God and man together, completely and simultaneously, in the womb of his mother who bore him. He is God and man. They crucified him, he being God and man. He became one single flesh in his divinity, of a single nature, without separation, without change, without one being removed from the other. Come now, O Nestorius, truly godless one, and O mouth that cannot be shut, you will take shame and you will be disgraced. Come now, you will see the King Christ, the one and only, being God and man. The kings and the armies come to prostrate themselves before him. And the whole world partakes of his body and his blood, being proclaimed from the voice of that blessed one there: "Remember me to the Lord." If you come in the kingdom, you, O holy one, you have lost your glory, and you will die in exile because of your blasphemy and your tongue that is full of lies. But besides a little, we have gone and washed away your honor and your glory, O great archangel Gabriel. But grant us a pardon, for I am very weak in my deeds, and my mouth is not able, being feeble.

✠ Alpha Omega Iota Sigma Pi Epsilon Chi Sigma: Iaboth Theta A discourse of the patriarch, which is honored, and he who gave place for the dwelling of the Holy Spirit, Apa Celestinus, the archbishop of the great city of R ...to speak of your glory, which God gave to you, O Gabriel, the archangel of joy. What flesh, or the mouth of a man, that could speak of your honor, O holy liturgist of the great king? My face (?) which is joyful outwardly. O Gabriel, the one who bears the good news of the angelic order. O true deacon, who serves at the birth of your Lord. O rhetor of truth, the herald of the kingdom of the heavens. I wish to see you, O holy archangel Gabriel, if you would speak with...

✠ Alpha Omega Iota Sigma Pi Epsilon Chi Sigma: Iaboth Theta A discourse of the patriarch, which is honored, and he who gave place for the dwelling of the Holy Spirit, Apa Celestinus, the archbishop of the great city of Rome. The virgin. O the garment of the incarnation of God, the Pantocrator of humanity, I wish to behold you. If you speak with the queen of the heavens, I wish to see your face, which is full of joy without. If you speak with the chosen one, beyond heaven and earth, you cry out to her, "Hail." The Lord is with me. O the commander of the army of the king of kings, there is no power for my tongue, poor as it is, to utter your glory, but I will say only this: Blessed is God, the merciful one, who said in his mouth of God, "The place where two or three are within my name, I am there with them, in their midst." If God is with two or three, who can take away his joy today, and his good father, and the Holy Spirit, when they see this great multitude of listeners gathered together, giving glory to the great holy archangel Gabriel, the archangel of joy? Let us also withdraw from all injustice, and all slander, and all calumny, and all hatred, and all deceit, and all evil works, for those who do them are under condemnation. For every man who practices deceit is equal to the devil, who never stood in the truth. Do not listen to what is written: "The Lord will destroy every one who speaks deceit," and also, "Every deceit is abominable.

They are not outside in the truth, but they are outside in Satan. Because of this, the one who will bear false witness, or swear a false oath, over some vessels of this world, he goes and leaves them, equating himself with Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed his Lord for money. Did you not hear what is written: "Cursed is the one who takes the name of the Lord over a vain thing"? I wish to speak with you for the benefit of your souls, but the father of the archangel Gabriel has disturbed my mouth. This one who serves him today, for all the angels whom God sent in Palestine minister to men who are about to die. But you yourself, O holy archangel, whom the Father sent in the Old Covenant to the holy virgin Mary, to proclaim to her the birth according to the flesh of his only-begotten son. O archangel of honor, Gabriel; O herald of joy; O holy messenger, whose face is set like a flame; O house-builder, who prepares and adorns the house of the one who established the foundation of the whole world. God looked out over the whole race, and he did not find one who was equal to Mary in the whole race of women. He was pleased to dwell in her in an economy, until he saved our race. He looked out from the angelic order.

the whole of the angels did not find what is equal to you in the economy of your holy name. Because of this, he sent you to his mother, the virgin, to give her a greeting. They sent my incorporeal one to the holy Pistis. He sent his greeting of life to the queen of the race of women. They sent Gabriel, your crown of life being true to him, the life of everyone within her, to dwell in the womb for nine months, the chosen one beyond heaven and earth. And when the angel appeared to her, he said to her, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Behold, the one who will give birth to a son, whose name is called Jesus." And immediately, when he said these things to her, she gave birth through the hearing of the ears and the salutation of the archangel Gabriel, the son of God. Go down to the womb in humility, I entreat you, O holy archangel.

Gabriel, the bearer of the fragrance of life, in the midst of the day, in this great festival that is spread abroad, blesses this great multitude gathered together in your holy name. For indeed, behold your Lord is near us today, and our Lord of all, with all his holy angels and his mother the virgin, are making a feast for you. And the whole angelic order of the incorporeal ones rejoices with you on the day of the revelation of your holy name. O Gabriel, the comforter of the angelic order and the glory of the ranks of the heavens, great is the honor that God has given you in heaven and on earth. In heaven they have called you "the bearer of the fragrance of the lights of the aeons"; on earth they have called you "the angel of joy" because of the great and wondrous economy for which you were sent. O Gabriel, the faithful deacon, for when the righteous one arose over Daniel the prophet, they cast him down into the den of lions; he suffered greatly from hunger and thirst. But the holy archangel Gabriel took pity on him, by the command of his Lord, and seized the crown of his head and the vessel that was in his hand, and brought him in the rush of the spirit from Judea to Babylon, a distance of a hundred and fifty miles, in an instant.

to the den of lions. He gave the gift to Daniel. He ate, he blessed God, saying, "You have remembered me, O Lord. You did not abandon those who love you." He himself is the one who shut the mouth of the lion, so that they would not trouble him for seven days, while he was in the den of lions. Gabriel the archangel is the one who appeared to Daniel. He taught him the vision according to what is written: "Gabriel, teach me the vision." And, "Behold, the man Gabriel came to my door. He gave me strength.

as before. Gabriel the archangel, he who revealed himself to Zacharias in the temple, he proclaimed to him the birth of John. And when he became an unbeliever, he made him mute. Gabriel again is the one who appeared to the shepherds, announcing to them the great good news, which is the birth of God the Word incarnate from the true virgin, the Theotokos Mary. Gabriel the archangel is the one who led out the Hebrews from captivity, he saved the people from the land of their servitude, he rescued them in the desert, he performed these signs in the hand of Moses the chief prophet. Gabriel again is the standard-bearer who stands in the midst of the angelic host. He is also the one who brought the good news among the angels. Gabriel again is the mediator of the Pantocrator and the steward of the kingdom of the heavens. O Gabriel, the bearer of good news who stands, who is it that can speak of your great glory? What fleshly tongue of a man who has been on earth can speak of your great glory? O archangel Gabriel, who stands before God at all times, as you testified to Zacharias in the temple, saying, "I am Gabriel, who stands before God." What heart of a man, even if he is wiser than all, can become?

upon the earth, he who will manifest to us the honor. O archangel Gabriel, your face that is joyful outwardly and in goodness, for indeed with honor you strive with your honor outwardly, that you may stand before God at all times, interceding for the entire race of Adam. And at the hour when all the ranks of angels, along with the cherubim and seraphim, prostrate themselves before God, giving confession, glory, and honor.

and the power of God, the king of heaven and earth, they open outwardly, saying at all times, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord Sabaoth, of the heavens and the earth." You are filled outwardly with your glory, until the great archistrategos, the one who is the likeness of the living, Gabriel, and the great archistrategos Michael, the ruler of the heavens, they prostrate themselves before God who sits upon his throne, saying, "Lord, God Pantocrator, have mercy on your people; incline your heart toward your image and your likeness; accept the work of their hands; do not take accusation from the enemy against them, that he hates your servants. The power of these men, whom you created according to your image and your likeness, bless the work of their hands; increase the fruit of their land; send them dew and the death of their beasts at all their time; bring down to them the water of the river according to your will; grant them their forgiveness. Do not bear witness against them concerning their lawlessness, for you know that the blind-hearted devil who leads their heart astray apart from you, and their tears are poured upon their face, as they entreat him day and night until he forgives his image and his likeness, that he may have compassion and establish them all through their entreaties. But I entreat you, O holy archangel, forgive them, for I have dared to do a thing.

beyond my worth, and beyond my measure, that I might speak of your honor. And the apology of my tongue is weak. If it could grasp a small part of your honor, the great king, truly Jesus Christ, would be glorified according to your worth. I will turn myself to speak to you of a few of the powers and wonders of the great archangel Gabriel, which took place in the holy martyrion, the one that is gathered around him, the glory of God.

with his great holy archangel Gabriel, this one who is fitting for him today. Now there was a rich man in the city, whose name was Philip. This one was very wealthy in gold, silver, and cattle, and as it is said concerning him, he had more than the royal treasury of gold, for he was a great merchant, receiving from many regions, and many men worked for him in the regions abroad, bringing him great merchandise from all the regions. And they blessed him greatly because of his good work. This one was a lover of the poor, a good man. And he gave great alms to the poor and the orphans. And also, he gave great alms to the shrine of the holy archangel Gabriel, for he dwelt near the shrine of the holy archangel Gabriel. Now there was a poor man dwelling near him, whose name was Stephen. This one was wretched, lacking daily bread. Philip, the rich man, provided for the poor man all his need, according to a love of God through his goodness, for he dwelt near him, as I first said. Stephen, the poor man, knew how to write well. The rich man, however, was illiterate, he did not know how to write.

And many times he would have Stephen the poor man establish his accounts for him, along with his stewards and the men who transacted on his behalf. And he would inform him of all his accounts, writing down everything that was his. And many times, the men who were with the rich man would give large sums of money to the poor man in secret, so that he might cheat the rich man in his accounts, so that they might take what was near them without his knowledge.

One day after another, the poor man became a rich man little by little. But the wealth that is gathered through injustice will be scattered in a moment, according to how the matter will be revealed to you, according to the word of the Psalmist David: "Do not trust in injustice, nor set your heart on extortion." If wealth comes, do not set your heart on it. When the poor man gave a little here and there, he found bread and ate it. He gave his attention to the rich man one day and said to him, "I wish you would do me a favor. Give me also a few gold coins so that I may trade with them and show them to my children. And when you seek your gold, I will give them to you with the profit from what is born of them. I will be grateful to you." The rich man said to him, "Go, prepare your contract for me, for what is needed." And he said, "I will give it to you." The poor man sat down and prepared the contract for the rich man for seven hundred gold coins, swearing by God the Pantocrator that he would give him the full amount of a man and the increase of what would be born of them. The rich man took the contract and gave the seven hundred gold coins to the poor man. He went and traded with them for three years, and he gained great wealth.

And he did not ask for anything from the rich man, neither a head covering nor consolation. Then after some days, the rich man took the poor man into his house to make him his accountant. And when he opened the chest where his documents and books were, wanting to look at the papers that were around them, at that moment Stephen, the man who had spoken to him, saw his document and put it under his arm.

The rich man, understanding his humility and simplicity, went out from the man. But after some days, the poor man became a little wealthy. However, wealth that is gathered through violence will destroy its possessors in a moment, as I said before. When Stephen went to his house, he opened his account book, he counted it piece by piece, and he said in his heart through his evil thoughts, which Satan cast into his heart, "Truly, I have nothing of this forever, in this seven hundred holokottinoi which I need for him. And if he says to me, 'Give them to me,' I will say to him, 'You have nothing of mine. Behold your account book, I have filled it for you. If indeed I need it for you, nor did I have need of gold, but I will take them to become rich from them, and these will be a great profit for me, eating and drinking from them, and I will heal my soul.' He did not even think of what is written: 'The poor in heart will take your soul from you. Those you have prepared, for whom will they be?' So then, let us not be deceived by the word. After eight years, the rich man saw that the poor man had given him nothing, not even a head covering nor consolation. He was angry, he sent his servants after him, and he said to him,

When he came to his door, he said, "Give me the seven hundred gold coins that are with you, for I need them." But that God-fearing man took the hand of that rich man, that pious one, and said, "I have nothing with me, nor have I ever given you anything." The rich man said to him in anger, "O truly lawless one! Is this not the document in your hand that you signed with me for seven hundred gold coins? Behold, it is now ten years since I gave them to you. Not only have you not given me my interest, but behold, you even wish...

he took the foreign thing. The poor man answered, saying, "If your document is with you, bring it to me, so that I may see its door, and I may go and give my house and my children, and I may fill for you seven hundred gold coins." But the rich man searched all his documents and his papers, and he did not find its door. He realized immediately that he had been robbed, and he said to him, "I know that I have realized that it is you who stole it. However, if you are pure in your heart, that I did not give you the seven hundred gold coins, come, let us go to the place of the holy archangel Gabriel, which is on our road. You will swear to me, you will convince me, and I will release you." That God-fearing man threw the fear of the Lord behind him, away from him, along with the speed and the goodness, which he had suffered from them, out of the hand of that pious rich man, because he had forgotten what is written: "The Lord will destroy everyone who speaks falsehood." And he said to the rich man, "Let us go, so that I may swear to you." And immediately they walked together until they entered the place of the archangel Gabriel. And a great crowd gathered around them. They marveled at what had happened. But the rich man kept saying to the poor man, "Give me the seven hundred gold coins, and I will give them to you. Do not swear falsely, lest an evil thing overtake you." But that God-fearing man said,

that you have nothing with me. The rich man said to him, "If I have nothing with you, swear to me, so that I may go to you." But that God there despised the power of the holy archangel Gabriel because of corruptible wealth, and he dared in his shamelessness. He placed his hand upon the door of the sanctuary and swore to him, "By the great powers of the archangel Gabriel, you have nothing to do with me, nor have you ever given me anything, in the seven hundred holokottinos that you will exact from me at the door." And immediately, as the word was in his mouth, a power struck him down, and he fell upon his face, and he became blind in both his eyes. His face was twisted backward, his tongue filled his mouth, he fell upon the flagstones of the place, and he could not move his tongue nor his lips by himself in great agony, and he spewed foam from his mouth like a demon. When the crowd saw what had happened, they were amazed and astonished, and they cried out in a loud voice, saying, "One is the God of the archangel Gabriel." And after a great while, he was being tormented, crying out in a loud voice, "Forgive me, my Lord, the archangel Gabriel, for I have dared. I have sworn by your name in vain." This rich man gave me seven hundred holokottinos, behold, for three years.

all these things, and I gave him nothing for them. At that time, on the Lord's day, I took your document by stealth, for I had set my hand to his mouth, wishing to take them, that I might become rich through them. Woe is me! What shall I do, for I have sworn falsely? And immediately he sent to his house in haste. His wife brought the seven hundred gold coins. She gave them to the rich man. But the man who was there remained tormenting himself all that day, as if he were being wronged by a small amount. And he gave up his spirit in a state of poverty, more than any man. He swore falsely, and it profited him nothing, except the destruction of his soul and his body. You have seen, O my beloved, what great power the archangel Gabriel has, he who is honored to this day, and that he who swears falsely by his name in death will die in a state of poverty. Let us pursue the undoing of deceit, the evil lie, especially those who strengthen deceit by means of false oaths. Listen.

me, to the Lord, crying out to everyone, "Let your words be as they are, and what is not, not, lest they judge you." And we also, let us guard our mouth from these terrible oaths, especially concerning a vain matter, lest we incur a great judgment and a punishment without end in the place where it is not fitting to seek his inquiry. For I thought that I had spoken to you of small things, apart from the powers and wonders of the great archangel Gabriel, to whom it is fitting today to give glory to God and to his great archangel Gabriel. He is a wonder-worker. There was also a man in the city who was blind in both eyes from his childhood. When he heard about the powers and wonders of the archangel Gabriel, he besought his people to bring him into the shrine of the archangel Gabriel, saying, "Perhaps by his grace I may obtain the light of my eyes." And they brought him into the shrine of the archangel Gabriel, saying, "Perhaps by his grace I may obtain it." And when he entered, he prostrated himself on his face before the holy sanctuary, weeping and saying, "My Lord, the holy archangel Gabriel, have mercy on my wretchedness.

Grant me the light of my eyes, for I am greatly troubled. And as he wept, he said to me, "He has become flesh, a man's hand touching his eyes." The entire people gathered at the place of the archangel Gabriel. When the blind man saw outside, he cried out in joy, saying, "God is one, the holy archangel Gabriel, for his grace has brought me to the light of my eyes." And the whole multitude ran to him and asked him, saying, "Speak.

... concerning what happened to you, that you saw outside in what manner. He commanded them all the things that had happened to him, saying, "It happened to me after I came into this holy place. I prostrated myself before the holy altar. I entreated the holy archangel Gabriel. Immediately I perceived a man's hand. It came down upon my face. It signed my eyes. And at once I saw outside. And I heard a voice saying to me, 'Behold, I have granted you the light of your eyes, according to the way you entreated me.' But I said, 'Who are you, my Lord?' And he said to me, 'I am Gabriel, the archangel.' And this is how I heard, but I did not see the one who spoke with me. And all the people, when they heard these things, they cried out aloud with a great voice, saying, 'One is the God of the archangel Gabriel.' The man who saw outside remained in the place of the archangel Gabriel, serving until the day of his death. Another man, a rich man in gold and silver, who was blind, and afterwards he fell into a sickness which is called ...potakria, and a great worm consumed him for forty days and nights, until he cast out the pus of the tumors externally, but it did not benefit him at all; rather, it increased the more.

When he heard, however, the power and the wonders that were in the place of the holy archangel Gabriel, he commanded his servants to carry him and take him to his holy place. He laid down in that place, being in great suffering, and he cried out, saying, "My Lord, the holy archangel Gabriel, incline your heart toward me, grant me the healing, for I have suffered greatly." And the man likewise, being sick in his limbs, was bound.

in the land at all times, like little children, he himself in the place, lying down, entreating the archangel to grant him healing. The sick man, however, lay beside the place, giving thanks for his cure. And the two of them sought healing from outside, from the hand of the holy archangel Gabriel. At that very moment, the archangel paid attention to them, he had compassion in his goodness, to grant them healing, the two of them, at one and the same time. And in this way, he appeared to the sick man in a vision, in the form of a luminous man, his face radiant, emitting rays of light. He said to the sick man, "If you truly desire healing and your salvation to come to you, walk on your feet like other men. Pay attention to your mouth until all the people who are in the place lie down and go away. If you realize that they have all fallen asleep, rise up yourself, stretch out your hands and your feet, go to the place where the rich man lies who gives thanks for his cure, and begin to take the covering that is upon him. And when you have taken hold of the healing, walk on your feet; immediately you will be saved. You will go to your house like one who has never been ill." The man, however, when he heard this in the vision, was amazed and said within himself.

Truly, they made me a servant in the prison. If I do this, then I will go and take the garment of the rich man. It will become a cause of suffering for him, and his servants will be seized. For I am not able to heal myself, to deliver myself into the hands of the governor of the city, and he will kill me. I will go seeking a cure for my body, and I will give rest to my soul through the tortures that will be given to me. I will not do this forever. And that night, moreover, which is coming.

The archangel Gabriel came to his door, wearing a great imperial robe, shining more than the sun. He spoke with the sick man, while a great flame was coming out of his mouth, and he said to him, “Why have you neglected to do what I commanded you? I have told you this: if you do not listen to me, you will not be healed from your sickness until you die. If you do what I commanded you, you will be healed quickly.” And when the archangel said these things to him, he went out from him immediately. He fell into confusion and fear, and he strengthened his heart well, saying, “Truly, the archangel Gabriel is the one who speaks with me. Now then, if it happens that they seize me and kill me, I will not listen this time. Let the will of the Lord be done in this way.” The man kept the word in his heart; he did not tell any man what had happened. When evening came, the sick man prayed until all the men who were sleeping in the place of the inn arose. He stretched out his hands and his feet. He went near the man who was naked and giving his feet to be bound. He seized the garment that was covering him, and he began to drag him. The man who was giving his feet and was naked fell down from the inn in confusion. And God and the archangel Gabriel...

He was terrified. He fell upon his face. His tongue was immediately loosened, and he spoke. He had never spoken before. He cried out in a loud voice, saying, "Arise quickly! Let the servants of the rich man seize him!" And immediately his hands and feet became straight. He lifted him up, and he fled on his feet like a gazelle until he went to his resting place. Likewise, the one whose feet were bound by the bone became straight for him. He threw him down upon his resting place like one who had never been ill. He ran after the sick man and his servants, shouting to seize him. After a while, however, when they had both experienced the grace that had come upon them—that is, the rich man who had been healed and was giving thanks, and the sick man whose straightening had occurred—they came together in the middle. They confessed the healing that had happened to both of them. They cried out together, "One is God, the holy archangel Gabriel!" When the entire crowd gathered together in the place of the holy archangel Gabriel, they saw this great wonder. They were filled with great fear. And they stood in awe. Then they asked the man who was lying down.

What has happened to you?" until you did this. He, however, gave orders to them concerning everything that had happened to him, saying, "Behold, this is how it happened to me." And he said, "The archangel Gabriel is the one who appeared to me twice, wearing a form of light, until you did this." All the people who were gathered together in the place of the holy archangel Gabriel raised a cry outside with a great voice, saying, "One is the God of the archangel of strength. Great are the powers of this one who is the eighth of the life of Gabriel, the name of his honor." The man whom they had seized, the paralytic, remained in the place of the archangel Gabriel, praying within it and fasting until the day of their death. "I will say something of your deeds among the wonders that you have done. O great orator of God, the Logos, the holy archangel Gabriel. Truly, if I spent my entire time laboring after the completion of your wonders, I would not be able to speak a single part of them. Nevertheless, I will speak a few small portions among the wonders of strength that you have done, for the glory of Christ the Savior and his great holy archangel Gabriel, this one whose festival is today." There was also a man dwelling in a village, a priest, outside the city of Asyut, at eight million. This one had there...

of a son, an only child. He came to the rank of tribulation, and afterward, he fell into a sickness, giving pain to his hands and his feet, by day and by night, and he had no strength to lift himself up entirely, as if he had spent years lying on a bed, unable to rise from the place where he slept. And many times, his parents and his relatives reached out to him, saying, "Truly, death would be more restful for him than the suffering that is upon him." His parents, however, spent great sums of money on physicians, but they brought him no relief. Rather, it made him worse. When his father heard about the powers and the miracles that occur in the holy place of the archangel Gabriel, which is in the city of Rome, he prayed, saying, "If the God of the archangel Gabriel would hear my supplication and grant healing to my son, I will give sixty gold coins each year to the sanctuary until the day of my death. For I know, O my Lord the archangel, that you have power over all things, and that I am unable to bring my son to stand in your sanctuary, because he cannot walk or mount a beast, due to the great suffering upon him. But I believe that your holy power fills every place. May your grace reach me, that you may grant healing to my little son. I will become...

he would confess your powers, until the day of

My death. At that hour, however, the archangel Gabriel heard the prayer of the man. He wished to grant the healing of his son, for he was compassionate. And he brought a small piece of linen upon the small child. He shone more than the sun, as if he did not shine by day and by night, being dark outside, because of the great worm that was consuming him. And when he shone, the holy archangel Gabriel came to the small child in a vision, wearing a great glory that cannot be described, his face having a garment of light cast outward, covering his face. He said to him, "Behold, I have taken from you the worm, and there is no pain that will afflict you from this time, O child." He said, "My lord, who are you, that you have such great glory surrounding you?" He said to him, "I am Gabriel, the archangel." And at that hour he hid his face from him. When he awoke in the morning, he found his body full of filth. And when he perceived the healing that had happened to him, and that there was no worm on his body, he washed himself on his bed, stood on his feet, walked, taking strength, blessing God, and he acted as one who had never been ill. At that hour he wished to proclaim, "I give glory to you, the great holy archangel Gabriel, because you have fulfilled my thought, you have granted me the healing.

His father and his mother, when they saw the healing that had happened to their son, in a single moment, wept greatly. Then they asked their son, "What has happened to you, our beloved son?" He, however, told them the vision that he had seen. At that hour, they cried out, saying, "One is God, the holy archangel Gabriel. Great is the gift that you have given us, O blessed one, good one." And great joy came upon their house.

all of them, because of the healing that had happened to the young child, since he was an only son of his parents. And everyone who heard marveled greatly. They gave glory to God the Archangel, the holy Gabriel. And the news spread to everyone. On the next day, which was the Lord's Day, the man called his son. He gave him the hundred gold coins and some other gifts, which were prepared. He sent him to the city of Rome, to the shrine of the holy Archangel Gabriel, according to the vow he had made. The young man took them with joy. He gave them to his mother, so that she might go to the shrine of the holy Archangel Gabriel. And as he was walking alone, until he entered the city, until three million (units), he came upon great thickets of dry wood, which were difficult to walk through. And immediately, behold, a wild lion came out from the thickets there, rushing upon the young child. He ran into his mouth. It filled its mouth with the young child's spittle. It drew him into the thicket, wanting to eat him. The young child wanted to cry out, in great distress, saying, "My Lord, my Archangel Gabriel, help me in this great distress. For you know, my Lord, that my father sent me to your shrine to give these small gifts.

into your holy martyrion, and you turned me to my house. And behold, I am about to die at the hand of the beast. But at that very moment, the holy archangel Gabriel came out from heaven, wearing a garment of light. He took the young child out of the mouth of the lion, sealed his seed, healed him from his wounds which the lion had given him.