迦薩的波菲利傳 第 1 章 第 5/5 段

for of wine she partook not at all.

But on feast days she also partook of oil, and ate olives, but tasted nothing else of things cooked by fire;

and during the forty days of the fasts she ate, every other day, soaked pulse or light vegetables without bread;

and throughout the whole week of holy Pascha she persevered in fasting, partaking of nothing, except on Holy Thursday, after the holy communion, [she partook] of warm water.

And she so wasted her body away that those who saw her thought they beheld a mere shadow.

And she became an example also to many other women;

for they emulated the life and conduct of the holy girl Salaphtha, who to this day is said still to be alive.

for she has died to the world, but lives to Christ and is with him always;

of whose holy prayers may we have a share.

Let this much, then, be said concerning the devout maiden Salaphtha.

Now the most blessed bishop Porphyry, having established the ecclesiastical canon and the whole order of service, and having lived a few more years after consecrating the great church, fell into illness and drew up a pious testament, bequeathing legacies to many;

and having commended all the Christ-loving people to God, he fell asleep in peace with the saints, on the second day of the month Dystros, in the year four hundred and eighty according to the era of the Gazans, having been bishop twenty-four years, eleven months, and eight days, having finished the good contest against the idol-mad even to the day of his falling asleep.

And now he is in the paradise of delight, interceding together with all the saints on our behalf; by whose prayers may the Father and God have mercy upon us, together with the Son and the Holy Spirit, to whom be glory and dominion unto ages of ages.