Saint Clement of Rome +++ Свети Климент Римски

THE HIEROMARTYR CLEMENT, BISHOP OF ROME

Clement was born in Rome of royal lineage and was a contemporary of the holy apostles. His mother and two brothers, traveling on the sea, were carried by a storm to different places. His father then went to find his wife and two sons and he, too, became lost. Clement, being twenty-four years old, then set out for the east to seek his parents and brothers. In Alexandria, he made the acquaintance of the Apostle Barnabas and, afterward, joined the Apostle Peter whom his two brothers, Faustinus and Faustinian, were already following. By God’s providence, the Apostle Peter came upon Clement’s mother as an aged beggar woman, and then found his father as well. Thus, the whole family was united, and all returned to Rome as Christians. Clement did not separate himself from the great apostle, who appointed him as bishop before his death. After Peter’s martyrdom, Linus was Bishop of Rome, then Cletus–both of them for a short time–and then Clement. Clement governed the Church of God with flaming zeal, and from day to day brought a great number of unbelievers to the Christian Faith. In addition, he ordered seven scribes to write the lives of the Christian martyrs who were suffering at that time for their Lord. The Emperor Trajan banished him to Cherson, where Clement found about two thousand exiled Christians. All were occupied with the difficult job of hewing stones in a waterless land. The Christians received Clement with great joy and he was a living source of comfort to them. By his prayer, he brought forth water from the ground and converted so many of the unbelieving natives to Christianity that, in one year, seventy-five churches were built there. To prevent his spreading the Christian Faith even more, the authorities condemned Clement to death, and drowned him in the sea with a stone around his neck in the year 101 A.D. His miracle-working relics were removed from the sea only in the time of Saints Cyril and Methodius.

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СВЕШТЕНОМУЧЕНИК КЛИМЕНТ ЕПИСКОП РИМСКИ

Рођен у Риму од царскога рода: савременик светих апостола. Мајка му и два брата, пловећи по, мору буду занесени буром у разне стране; отац му оде да тражи жену и синове, па се и он изгуби. Тада Климент, будући 24 године стар, пође на исток да тражи своје родитеље и браћу. У Александрији упозна апостола Варнаву, по том се придружи апостолу Петру, коме већ следоваху његова два брата, Фаустин и Фаустинијан. Промислом Божјим апостол Петар наиђе на мајку Климентову, као старицу просјакињу, а по том и на оца. И тако се опет састави цела породица, и сви као хришћани врате се у Рим. Климент се није одвајао од великог апостола, који га постави за епископа пре своје смрти. После мученичке смрти Петрове епископ у Риму беше Лин, потом Клит, – обојица за кратко време – па онда Климент. Са пламеном ревношћу управљаше Климент црквом Божјом, и обраћаше у веру Христову из дана у дан велики број неверних. Још одреди он седам брзописаца, да пишу житија хришћана мученика, који у то време страдаху за свога Господа. Цар Трајан протера га у Херсон, где Климент нађе око 2000 изгнаних хришћана. Сви беху запослени на тешком послу тесања камена на једном безводном месту. Климента примише хришћани с великом радошћу, и он им беше живи извор утехе. Молитвом својом изведе воду из земље, и обрати у хришћанство толики број неверних мештана, да за једну годину подиже се на том месту 75 цркава. Да не би даље ширио веру Христову, Климент би осуђен на смрт и утопљен у море с каменом о врату, 101. године. Мошти његове чудотворне извађене су из мора тек у време св. Кирила и Методија.