Today, the Orthodox Church honors St. Ephraim. He very young went to the desert and became a monk. Wrote numerous works, including interpretations of the entire Holy Scriptures.
He founded a school in Edessa, from which many famous teachers of the Syrian Church have emerged. Ordained deacon and priest. According to his will, out of modesty, he was buried at the end of the city cemetery, where strangers were buried.
St. Rev. Ephrem the Syrian was a native of Edessa, Syria – the son of pious parents. Young went to the wilderness; became a monk and spent time in exploits.
Wrote many words and teachings. He founded a school in Edessa, from which many famous teachers of the Syrian Church have emerged.
Ordained deacon by St. Basil the Great, without knowing the Greek language, spoke that language wonderfully; he was also ordained a priest by him.
According to his will, out of modesty, he was buried at the end of the city cemetery, where strangers were buried, in 373.
St. Ephrem the Syrian was a divinely inspired church writer and exegete, who left numerous works, among them interpretations of the entire Holy Scriptures.
The struggle with sin and repentance is a major theme in his writings and sermons. It is no coincidence that the prayer “Lord and Master of my life” by this “preacher of repentance” is the basis of the Orthodox liturgy during Great Lent. In various literary and homiletical forms, St. Ephrem examines other basic moral-ascetic questions.
St. Ephrem the Syrian fought against heresies and affirmed the Orthodox faith, and many of his dogmatic-polemical writings have survived.
Everyone who bears the name Ephraim celebrates.
