Saint Philoumenos the New Martyr

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From a young age, Saint Philoumenos loved Christ. At the age of ten, together with his brother, they waited for their older brother to fall asleep and they would get up and pray secretly for hours.

The Saint came from the village of Orounta in the province of Morphou. Their grandmother Loxandra was a good educator and teacher of piety, who asked them to read her the lives of saints. Reading the life of Saint John of Kavsokalyvos, Saint Philoumenos, as another imitator of that, burned the desires of this world.

The twin children of Magdalene and George Orountiotis, Philoumenos and Elpidios, burning with divine love, set out for the ancient Holy Monastery of Stavrovouni.

There they remained for five years and then departed from the martyred land of Cyprus to the Holy Land of Jerusalem. Father Elpidios, after twelve years of ministry in Jerusalem, continued his ecclesiastical life in various parts of Orthodoxy and fell asleep in Mount Athos.

Philoumenos remained in the Holy Land for 46 years, serving the brotherhood of the Patriarchate there, as a guardian of holy places, but especially of holy ways. The last stop of his ministry was Jacob's Well, which became the place of his martyrdom. On November 16, 1979 AD. (November 29 in the new calendar), fanatical Zionists, who claimed the pilgrimage as their own, interrupted it at the time of vespers. The Holy Sepulchre fathers received his holy relic after five days and buried it in the holy land.

Four years later, during the funeral of a deceased member of the Holy Sepulchre brotherhood, the tomb of Fr. Philomenos was opened, in order to remove the bones. All those present then witnessed an extraordinary and miraculous sight. The body of the deceased Archimandrite was intact and fragrant. The tomb was closed again until Christmas 1984 AD, when during the funeral of Archbishop Pellis Claudius it was opened again. The body continued to be unaltered and fragrant. The relic was placed with all reverence in a glass reliquary in the northern part of the Holy Step in the holy church of Saint Zion, where it is the object of veneration by thousands of believers.