St. Titus the Wonderworker lived in the late 8th – early 9th century. From his earliest childhood, he loved the Lord Jesus Christ, rejecting the vanity of the world and despising the lust of the flesh. Having reached the age of adolescence, the Monk Titus entered the Cenobitic monastery of Kinovia, where he was first a novice and then a monk. He passed through a narrow and difficult, but blessed monastic path, with patience and humility purifying his soul through virtues, gradually ascending to spiritual perfection.
The Studium Monastery near Constantinople, where St. Titus spent many years as a monk, was founded in the middle of the fifth century by a nobleman named Studius, who arrived from Rome to Constantinople.
The monastery was famous for its many devotees of piety, its courageous opposition to iconoclasm, and its strict monastic rule of community. Subsequently, it was the Studio Charter that was introduced in Russia by St. Theodosius of the Caves. Yielding to the urgent requests of the monastery's brethren, St. Titus was ordained a presbyter and led the brethren. Great meekness, love, and mercy earned St. Titus the fame of an ascetic worthy of his name.
The Lord endowed St. Titus with the gift of miracle-working. During the repeated persecutions of the holy icons and their worshippers, St. Titus proved himself to be a firm and unshakeable confessor and defender of icon veneration. Having left his disciples a worthy example of a prayerful and fasting life, St. Titus departed to the Lord in old age.

The Church remembers St. Titus, the Wonderworker
15.04.2025, 06:00