In his youth, he dedicated himself to God and thus became an honorable vessel of the abode of the Holy Spirit. He was elected bishop in the city of Patara in Lycia. Seeing the errors of those people who had fallen into the heresy of the famous church writer from Alexandria, Origen, about the Holy Trinity, angels, creation and the soul, Saint Methodius did not remain idle. As a good shepherd, he burned Origen's heresy with the divine fire of his teaching. He was a very learned philosopher and theologian. Then the servants of the good-hater, pagans and idolaters, became angry with him, seized him and put him to torture. In the end, they cut off his head with a sword. It was in Chalcis, Syria, in the year 311. He left behind several valuable writings, the most famous of which is “The Feast of the Ten Virgins”.

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