Venerable Pambo the Obedient

(18/31 July)

While travelling on monastery obedience, St Pambo was captured by pagans. They kept him in chains and tortured him in an attempt to force him to reverence their idols. He responded to them, ‘Your gods are accursed, but I believe in Christ, the true God, Who created heaven and earth. He is the Lord, true and almighty. By prayers of the Cave Saints He will deliver me from your hands. And indeed, God’s angel freed him from his chains and led him safely from captivity back to the Cave Monastery.