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Among the old Testament saints the prophet Elijah was the most significant contribution to the propagation of the faith.
Metropolitan Epiphanios congratulated the believers on the day of St. Elias / photo UNIAN
August 2, the Church honors the memory of St. Elijah, which for a thousand years before the birth of Christ carried the good news and denounced the vices of the people and their rulers, urging them to return to the faith.
About the day of Elijah wrote in his page in Facebook wrote the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphanios.
According to him, among old Testament saints, the prophet Elijah was the most significant contribution to the propagation of the faith.
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“Holy Church honors the memory of the great among the saints of the old Testament – Elijah the prophet of God. He was a man who had unshakable faith in God, the unlimited hope in Him, and devoted his life zealously to the service of Him. Elijah was a great prophet, a miracle worker who lived almost a thousand years before Christ, but boldly rebuked the then rulers and the people, their vices and passions, and instead encouraged to turn to the truth, to the true God, to the true faith,” explained the Metropolitan.