Miracle of St. Michael the Archangel

Чудо Святого Архистратига Михаила

The Holy Archangel Michael, is the main archangel being the most respected among all of the Archangels in religions such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In Orthodoxy, it is called the Archangel, which means the head of the holy host of angels and archangels.

The one true God, wanting to enlighten the world with the radiance of His knowledge and instruct lost people onto the true path, sent his disciples throughout the globe to preach the gospel to people.

At this time, there was a temple in Ephesus to the pagan goddess of Artemis. With the help of the Word of God St. John the Evangelist won worshiped to goddess and with the power of the name of Christ he destroyed the temple and turned idol into dust.

There lived an Hellene (Greek) in Laodicea, tried unsuccessfully to cure his only daughter, she was dumb from her birth. Desperate, he fell into a deep depression.

One night he had a dream in which God told him to take his daughter and bring her to the source of being in "Herotope" near Hierapolis, girl would then need to drink water from this source, and the grace of God will cure her.

Waking up, this man immediately took his daughter and hurried to the miraculous water source. There he found a lot of people drinking this water and also they were baptised in water. All who were there were healed from their diseases. People called St. Michael the Archangel and the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit to help them. Man took water from a source and poured it into the mouth of her daughter with the faith in his soul; immediately the dumb girl started to praise and admire the God. After this miracle father with his daughter and all his family were baptised, and thanks to power and efforts of the grateful father was erected a church in the honour of St. Michael the Archangel.

To this source of water started to come for healing, not only Christians, but also the Gentiles, many of the Gentiles give up idols and turned to faith in Christ.

In the Church of St. Michael the Archangel during 60 years served the sexton service the pious St. Archippus. Preaching about Christ and the example of his own God-pleasing life he led many to the faith into Christ.

Embittered Gentiles wanted to destroy the temple and kill St. Archippus. To implement into life their bad idea, they put together into one channel two mountain rivers and turned this flow in the direction of the temple. направили prayed passionately to the Archangel Michael in order to prevent this disaster. Thanks to his prayer the Archangel Michael appeared at the temple and hit with his baton thus he did a wide cleft in the mountain and ordered to rush the raging waters flow into this hole. Thus, the temple remained safe and sound.

People call this day - "The Miracle of the Archangel."