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Holy Hieromartyr Autonomus 9/25/2013
At the time of persecutions of Diocletian, he withdrew from Italy to Bithynia in Asia, at the place called Soreus, where he spent a long time in ascetic struggle and built a church dedicated to the Holy Archangel Michael. He was welcomed in the home of a devout Christian Cornelius, whom Autonomus at first consecrated as a priest, and afterwards as a bishop. Not far away from Soreus there was a place called Lemnae, inhabited by pagans only. Saint Autonomus went to this place and soon afterwards enlighted many by the Gospel of Chist. This infuriated the pagans and one day they set out towards the Church of the Holy Archangel Michael in Soreus and during the service killed Autonomus in the altar, and many Christians in the temple. At the time of Emperor Constantine a church was erected on the tomb of Saint Autonomus by a Christian nobleman called Severian. Two hundred years following his death, Saint Autonomus appeared to a soldier called John. This John excavated the holy relics of the Saint and found them completely intact. And many sick received healing from the holy relics. Thus God glorified the one who had glorified Him during his life on earth.
