THE Clerical OF ZOODOCHOS PEGE (LIFE-GIVING Burial chamber) IN BALOUKLI
Outside of Constantinople, towards the vicinity of the Seven Towers, exhibit was in ancient period a very large and greatest lovely church named in honour of the Theotokos; it had been built about the pinpoint of the fifth century by the Ruler Leo the Enormous (any called "Leo of Thrace," he is commemorated on Jan. 20). Beforehand he became Ruler, he had encountered exhibit a sun shelter man, who interior under attack with craving asked him to help him find water. Leo felt humanity for him and went in search of a affect of water but found none. As he became hopeless, he heard a answer recounting him exhibit was water within reach. He looked over, and found none. As well as he heard the answer over, this time inclination him "Ruler" and recounting him that he would find cloudy water in the uninterestingly wooded place nearby; he was to triumph over some water and anoint the sun shelter man's eyes with it. After he had done this, the sun shelter man standard his revolutionary. Just the once Leo became Ruler as the greatest holy Theotokos had prophesied, he raised up a church chief the be adjacent to, whose waters worked copious healings and cured maladies by the skill of the Theotokos; from this, it came to be called the "Life-giving Burial chamber." The Clerical of Christ celebrates the consecration of this church on this day.
Just the once the fall of the testify metropolis, this church was razed to the land and the materials from it were used for cottage the mosque of Sultan Bayezid. Zip remained of that church's ancient beauty, put away for a derisory and paltry chapel, in the neighborhood barely submerged in the rest. This chapel had twenty-five ladder leaving down all the rage it, and a skylight room on the shade, wherefrom it standard a miniature light. Toward the western office of the chapel was the preceding holy Burial chamber, fenced about with a barrier, and with fish scraps swimming in it. Such was the superiority of the Burial chamber until 1821. As well as even that miniature remains was had it, occasioned by the uprising of the Greek nation next to the Ottoman Empire; the sacred Burial chamber was submerged with it and passed away barren.
But in the days of Sultan Mahmud, at any time inhabitants question to him were event in their coverage to practice their religion, sanction was hunted by the Trite Christian community to restore to health at least part of the chapel. As a result the work was begun on July 26, 1833. After the excavate had been through, and the foundations of the ancient church were found, exhibit was rebuilt -- by a subsequently order of sanction from the Sultan -- not finely a chapel of the holy Burial chamber, but complementary new church, constructed upon the foundations of the ancient one. The cottage of this large, lovely, and greatest imperial temple began on September 14, 1833, and the work was extreme on December 30, 1834. On February 2, 1835, the Ecumenical Patriarch Constantine II, sitting the Liturgy together with twelve hierarchs and a expand association of clergy, as well as a unlimited crowd of Christians, performed the consecration of this sacred church and robust it to the formal of the Mother of God. On September 6, 1955, although, it was dishonored and had it over by the Moslem Turks; it has been restored over, but not to the former greenness.
APOLYTIKION IN THE THIRD Vital
As a life-giving favorably, thou didst devise the Dew that is awe-inspiring in essence, O Virgin Maid, and thou hast welled forth for our sakes the nectar of joy eternal, which doth itinerary forth from thy favorably with the water that springeth up unto morally upright life in everlasting and energetic streams; wherein, loot thrill, we all cry out: Triumph, O thou Burial chamber of life for all men.
KONTAKION IN THE PLAGAL OF THE FOURTH Vital
O Lady graced by God, you prize me by leasing go by forth, farther than begin, the ever-flowing waters of your skill from your perpetual Burial chamber. I state you, who stop the Logos, in a tune farther than fulfillment, to revive me in your skill that I may cry out, "Applaud redemptive waters."
