CATECHESIS & DAILY INSPIRATION
Saint Tikhon, Bishop of Amathus on Cyprus (425)
Reflections and Daily Inspiration
“If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously. In the same way, through the Apostles ordaining their successors, and these successors ordaining others, and so on, the grace of the Holy Spirit is handed down through all generations and enlightens all who obey their shepherds and teachers.”

- St. Gregory Palamas
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SAINT OF THE DAY

 JUNE 29 / JUNE 16
Saint Tikhon, Bishop of Amathus on Cyprus (425)

St. Tikhon was a miracle-worker. Following the death of blessed Mnemonius, Tikhon was unanimously elected bishop and conse- crated by the renowned Epiphanius for the diocese of Amathus. His purity of life and zeal for Orthodoxy recommended him for this of- fice. There were still pagans on Cyprus at that time. With apostolic zeal St. Tikhon undertook to convert the unbelievers into believers, and he had great success in this. After lengthy labor in the vineyard of the Lord, Tikhon took up his habitation in blessed eternity in about the year 425. He is called a miracle-worker because of the many miracles he worked during his life. Tikhon’s father was a baker. When his father left him alone in the bakery, he would distribute bread free of charge to the poor. His father once reproached him for this. Tikhon prayed to God and their granary was so filled with wheat that the door could not be opened without difficulty. Again, at another time, he planted the withered branches of a vine and the vine became green and in due time brought forth fruit.