St. Philoumenos: The Guardian of Jacob's Well
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- Опубліковано 2 січ 2020
- #orthodoxsaint #orthodoxmartyr
Our video is about St. Philoumenos, the guardian of Jacob’s Well. St. Philoumenos was the Igumen of the Orthodox monastery of Jacob's Well near the city of Samaria, now called Nablus (Neapolis), in the West Bank, and was martyred on Nov. 16th,1979. His life is a reminder that martyrdom for Christ is not of the past from the Pagan Roman period, ottoman, or even Communist times, but is a reality even today. The Lord allows for the creation of martyrs, even during these modern times, and preserves their bodies incorrupt and fragrant, thus declaring to us that He is present in our lives even now, performing wondrous works according to His divine will and mercy.
O Martyr of Christ, pray for us to the Lord that we too may be saved!
Apolytikion (Fourth Tone)
At Jacob's Well you were proved well named:
loving Christ, confessing Him, pouring out your sacred blood.
Being faithful in small things you were set over great.
Worshipping in Spirit and in Truth,
you are now Guardian of the Holy Places forever.
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Coming from a protestant background, and having discovered Orthodoxy online, the internet remains the main source of learning about the true Church and the Saints. Especially since there is not an Orthodox church where I live. My soul hungers for your video teachings. I am very thankful for these videos. All that I learn from your videos I have never heard before. I give thanks to God for you and these teachings.
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@Bert Clayton thank you:)
Get and read many great orthodox books as well!
@Bert Clayton My Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me a sinner. Most Holy Theotokos save us. Glory be to God for all things!
Ohhhhh dear Nancy!!! You should obtain some books perhaps....that describe the life of Saints...i would highly recommend the book of St Silouan the Athonite, written by Archimandrite Sophrony, now St Sophrony the Athonite, who was Disciple of St St Silouan, whilst in Mount Athos. St Sophrony, in later years, established the Monastery of St John the Baptist in Essex, England, in the UK, in 1959. He passed away in 1993. The life of St Silouan the Athonite is a beautiful book!😊
I was so blessed in 1974 to sit with this glorious martyr,receive his blessing, receive a cool cup of water from Jacob.s well.
What a great blessing! Glory to God!
That's so lovely! What a beautiful blessing indeed!
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St. Philoumenos of Jacob's Well please pray for us 🙏
I'd never heard or read about this blessed saint's life and I am deeply moved. Thank you for telling us about this new martyr.
St Philoumenos pray for us! ☦️
SAINT PHILOUMENOUS, 💓🕊️
pray for us and for ORTHODOX CHURCH ☦️💒🦅🏳️
AMEN 🙏
Pray for me, Saint Philoumenos! Thank you for this most beautiful video.
Thank you for this beautiful video! We are blessed at our monastery of St Sabbas in Michigan to have his sacred relics. Holy Martyr pray for us ...and all Orthodox people in Palestine - Holy Land
What a great blessing to have St. Philoumenos' relics. I hope we can venerate his relics there some day. Thank you for your support for our work Most Reverent Father.
I was blessed to meet Saint Philoumenos at Jacob's Well in June 1979, on the eve of leave taking of Pascha.
I cherish these memories since then.
As a Roman Catholic Christian who has been studying Eastern Orthodoxy for ten years, I love your videos and learn from every video! Bravo!
I absolutely adore this channel, dude. I can’t get over how well done it is and how inspirational it is in my own journey. God bless you, Trisagion films.
Absolutely beautiful and inspiring! Lord have mercy on us all. May St. Philoumenos pray for us!
St phyloumenus please pray for peace in Jerusalem and pray protection for us poor people living under the power of demonic posesed dictators on this earthly Earth. Please protect us and take those demons and send them to the pigs to dye drown in the sea. Just like Jesus Christ did before he died in the cross. Thank you Jesus for your sacrifice for our redemption and salvation. Amen
I was so pleased to discover this video as my son is baptized Philomenon. What a lovely story. Certainly noteworthy as a history and theology lesson. God bless!
Your videos are reviving the live of saints back to our poor world. God bless your work to make more movies .
Thank-you for this beautiful video. When I was Chrismated into the Orthodox Church two years ago, I took the Saint's name as my patron saint. Though I am unworthy of that name, I was drafted into the IDF at the same time as Saint Philoumenos was sent to Jacob's Well. I feel a strong connection to his story, and that of Saint Photine for whose legacy he was martyred. I venerate them daily.
i visited in the summer of '99...
wow, that is amazing water !!
.....it tastes better than any other in Israel
Saint Philomenous pray for us
St. John Chapter 14 Verse 1...." Let not your heart be troubled."
Amin🙏
May the Saint's Memory be Eternal.
May the Lord grant me such faith.
Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on me a sinner
St Pholoumenos .pray for us 🙏🙏🙏
The Orthodox Church is the true Israel. (Romans 9,8 Galatians 3,16 Hosea 2,23)
Beautiful. May we have his prayers!
Thank you for the testimony at the end.
It was a nice touch
What beautiful lives these saints have lived! Through their lives, martyrdom and prayers our faith lives on.
Lovely video, sorry to have missed the premiere!
Many thanks for all these incredible videos, May you and your beautiful work be always very blessed
Obrigada por compartilhar a vida de Saint Philoumenos! Tão inspiradora! Reze por nós, Santo Philoumenos! 🙏☦☦☦
الله يرحم الشهداء ويحفظ اهل الأرض المقدسة. صلي عنا يا القديس الشهيد فيلومينوس واتذكر شعبك المظلوم في فلسطين
Amen
من اين انت يا اخي بضبط ☦️☦️☦️
Thanks so much for another great presentation. Holy Father St Philoumenos please pray for us! ☦
Beautiful!!!! Simple and deeply touching! May our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ bless you for this outstanding work! 💕💕
Thank you for your kind words and prayers!
Such a dear Saint to me, along with Saint Photini my Patron saint. They are great helpers through our struggles. Thank you for this video
my the holy spirit over shadow you ,so that we can drink from you work ,Perfectly presented.
I specially like to those short videos ,stories from the desert father,you don't know who much they inspired me.Thanksssssss.!!!!!!
So glad to hear that our work inspirer's you! God bless you!
Glorious is the Lord in His Saints! Holy St. Philoumenos, pray for us! +
I love this channel so much and and am always learning .Thank you so much ‘
Im cristean ortodox ☦️ from holy land isreal and i now many holy and prophets in old history becouse it's holy land in old times have many holy saints than today i now some but not all holy saint's from modern history in holy land isreal but i now in the cristean world many saint's in all the times old and new history becouse we all cristean people are very small today in holy land because the war and im very sad because our holy land didn't have many cristean ortodox people today and the saint's in all the world ☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️
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Beautiful. Thank you. God bless
Glory To God !
another great video !
Thank you! :)
Excellent. ☦️🙏🏻
Thank you 🙏
Praise the Lord our God 🙏 Amen
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Wonderful saint
Amen
9:23
Every Single Time!
I LIKE IT.
What is the chant in the 11 minute margin. Thanks for sharing its really inspiring, thank you I appreciate it .I was going through alot of things right now you don't know much this humbled me.
I slipped from the walk of Christ from my sins but I was doing but I will get back up stringer thank you!
From Misión Cruz Hermitage, "I will give you living water"
Selam 😍😍😍
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I was inspired by this story as a newly illumined Orthodox Christian, but looking for more information on the matter, I came to an article that caused doubt in me. It’s titled “The ‘Martyrdom’ of Saint Philoumenos: the anatomy of a modern antisemitic ritual murder libel” by David Gurevich. Now, don’t get me wrong, I believe the Church is the New Israel, and even when I was a Protestant I never accepted Dispensationalism or “Christian” Zionism, but if the article is right the criminal records tell a different story than what is normally told about the martyrdom of the saint. I would like some guidance on this...
I am not an expert on what happened, but I can say this. The Israeli authorities don't want bad press, and from personal experience, I can tell you that they tend to spread propaganda about themselves. He was killed because of that man's hatred for Christians who had attacked nuns in the past, if I am not mistaken. St. Philoumenos was a holy man as well. I wouldn't blindly(and I am not saying you are) believe whatever the Israeli authorities produce. It may sound conspiratorial, but I'm afraid that's how it is. I do think some Orthodox sources exaggerated the story of what happened too. But it is also a fact that his body did not decay until decades later; father Panayiotis saw it with his own eyes. This man proved to be a holy man who was killed because of his beliefs and because the site is owned by the Orthodox and not by the Jews. I hope my answer helps you.
3:55, the martyrdom of St.Phyluminus
Please please have faith in Jesus s healing only He will do this work yrs a
Dear brother please show us the incorrupt face of the saint. Kindly oblige. It's my humble request.
Unfortunately we couldn't find any photos of it... But I can confirm that our very own fr. Panayiotis saw his incorrupt body in the 80s. Today his body is no longer incorrupt it has decayed and all that remain are the bones. Its possible they didn't allow photos of it for all the years it was incorrupt... and if photos do exist we haven't seen them.
@@Trisagionfilms Thank u so much brother for the sincere and swift reply. God bless ur venture and may St. Phioumenos intercede for us.
@@Trisagionfilms I happen to be acquaintances with one of the nephews of st. Philoumenos, who so happens to have at least one of his chopped of fingers. I can't tell about the body, which I have never seen, but I saw the finger about 2 years ago, and it was still incorrupt. A bit darkened but nonetheless preseving its flesh and skin. Again, I haven't seen the body, I just write what I saw.
Can someone tell me where I ca find a book with the biographies of the Orthodox Saints? Name and author?
An interesting video. But I have 3 questions:
1- Why didn't the video name the assailant and his affiliation?
2- Why is the flag of modern Greece on the church? Does Greece own the site? If not then what is the point of placing the modern day Greek flag on the church? Wouldn't the flag of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem be more appropriate?
3- There was no coverage of the local Christians. Are there local Christians? If yes, are they Orthodox? If yes, are they playing any role in this specific church?
Your questions are very good.
Firstly we couldn't find any information about the identity of the perpetrator and as far as his affiliation I assume you mean his religion? He was a Jew.
In the holy land you will see the Greek flag quite often along side the flag of the patriarchate of Jerusalem which we did show in this video (You also see the Roman double headed eagle as well) The reason for the Greek flag is that many if not the vast majority of the guardians (monks who oversee the holy sites) are from Greece or Cyprus.
We did not mention the local population as they play no role in the narrative, we are not sure what the Orthodox population of Nablus is but we are sure a quick google search will tell you. Most of the money that helped build this church probably came from Greece and Cyprus... but a lot of money also came from the Palestinian Government.
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"The reason for the Greek flag is that many if not the vast majority of the guardians are from Greece or Cyprus"
Are they there in the name of Orthodoxy or in the name of their national country? If you ask me, I am against raising national flags in any Orthodox church or a Holy site. Frankly it saddens me whenever I see acts that politicize Orthodoxy. National politics should be left out of the church.
It is an issue in the holy land... Unfortunately the Patriarchate of Jerusalem has had a traditionally "Greek" ideological stance... it is worse than just waving national flags... We can report that some of the Guardians (not all) are very nationalistic... and it is sad that they are all from Greece or Cyprus... Not allowing the local population to take on a bigger role in their own church which alienates them... It's complicated. There is one native (Palestinian born) Bishop today and hopefully the Patriarchate of Jerusalem slowly stops having a nationalistically centred attitude.
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Agreed
The good news is that in some ways they are moving in the right direction.. A lot more Arabic is used today than in the past and MANY of the Bishops including the Patriarch speak Arabic fluently. St. Philoumenos was a bit ahead of his time learning Arabic fluently!
Just wondering why some of the monks in the Holy Land (And specifically in St. Gerasimos
‘ Monastery) were light blue-grey cassocks?
Gray or blue is acceptable in summer due to climatic conditions.
Any additional information about Elder Elpidios?
Cosette Just google “Elder Elpidios of Nea (New) Skete and you will find some articles on his life.
Here is the link for Elder Elpidios of New Skete, the twin brother of St. Philoumenos: pemptousia.com/2015/11/elder-elpidios-of-nea-new-skete-holy-mount-athos/
رجاء الترجمه الي العربيه
What's the instrument at 0:14?
It is a "Politiki lyra"(meaning "constantinople Lyra") in Greek. Essentially an ancient "Byzantine" pair shaped fiddle. We have references back to the 10th and 11th centuries of it if i am not mistaken.
Its also known in Turkish as "Klasik kemençe"(Meaning "classical Small fiddle")
Was his murderer a Jew or a Muslim?
He was a Jew.
This narrator is south african