Saint Ephrem

Saint Ephrem

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  • Description / Title of the Saint : Deacon

Saint Ephrem

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  • Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Ephrem: July 9
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Deacon
  • Date of Birth: Saint Ephrem was born 306
  • Date of Death: Saint Ephrem died 373
 
 

The Story and History of Saint Ephrem
The story and history of Saint Ephrem. Saint Ephrem is the light and glory of the Syriac Church. A mere youth, he entered on the religious life at Nisibis, his native place. Long years of retirement taught him the science of the Saints, and then God called him to Edessa, there to teach what he had learned so well. He defended the Faith against heresies, in books which have made him known as the Prophet of the Syrians. Crowds hung upon his words. Tears used to stop his voice when he preached. He trembled and made his hearers tremble at the thought of God's judgments; but he found in compunction and humility the way to peace, and he rested with unshaken confidence in the mercy of our blessed Lord. "I am setting out," he says, speaking of his own death, "I am setting out on a journey hard and dangerous. Thee, O Son of God, I have taken for my Viaticum. When I am hungry, I will feed on Thee. The infernal fire will not venture near me, for it cannot bear the fragrance of Thy Body and Thy Blood." His hymns won the hearts of the people, drove out the hymns of the Gnostic heretics, and gained for him the title which he bears in the Syriac Liturgy to this day - "the Harp of the Holy Ghost." Passionate as he was by nature, from the time he entered religion no one ever saw him angry. Abounding in labors till the last, he toiled for the suffering poor at Edessa in the famine of 378, and there lay down to die in extreme old age. What was the secret of success so various and so complete? Humility, which made him distrust himself and trust God. Till his death, he wept for the slight sins committed in the thoughtlessness of boyhood. He refused the dignity of the priesthood. "I," he told St. Basil, whom he went to see at the bidding of the Holy Spirit, "I am that Ephrem who has wandered from the path of
heaven." Then bursting into tears, he cried out, "O my father, have pity on a sinful wretch, and lead me on the narrow way."

Feast Day of Saint Ephrem
The Feast Day of Saint Ephrem is July 9. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven.

 

Saint Ephrem

  • Short, concise biography of Saint Ephrem
  • History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
  • Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Ephrem
  • Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Ephrem - July 9
  • History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
  • Date of Death: 373
  • Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Ephrem
  • Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Deacon
 
 

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Saint Ephrem