The Monk Akhila (Aquila), Deacon of Pechersk
Commemorated on January 4, August 28 and on the 2nd Sunday of the Great Lent
The Monk Akhila
(Aquila), Deacon of Pechersk (XIV), became famous as a great faster, having
spent a long while as an hermit. Legend says that he ate neither vareny
(pirogi) nor sweet food, he partook vegetables seldom and in small quantity,
and during periods of fast he tasted of only one prosphora.
To the intercession
of Saint Akhila flee those thirsting of soul to be delivered from "the
enslavement of stomach passions" and those wishing to learn temperance
(3rd song of the Kanon to the Monks, venerated in the Farther Caves).
The commemoration of
the Monk Akhila is also 28 August and on the 2nd Sunday of Great Lent.
© 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos.
