On Saturday of the first week of Lent, March 8, 2025, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem commemorated the boiled wheat miracle of Saint Theodore the Tyron at his Holy Monastery in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The miracle in question was performed by Saint Theodore the Tyron, who appeared in a dream to Archbishop Eudoxius of Constantinople, informing him that Julian the Apostate was attempting to contaminate the food of Christians with items sacrificed to idols. Saint Theodore instructed the Bishop to advise the faithful to consume kollyva (boiled wheat) as a protective measure, as it was customarily prepared in his hometown of Euchaita.
The Christians followed the Saint’s advice, consuming the kollyva and remaining uncontaminated.
Since then, it has been a tradition to use kollyva on the Saturday of the first week of Lent in honor of the Martyr.
The feast and celebration were overseen by Metropolitan Hesychios of Capitolias, who led Vespers, the Small Compline, and the Akathist Hymn in the evening, as well as the Matins and Divine Liturgy on the feast day itself. He was assisted by Archimandrites Stephanos, Claudius, and Amphilochios, Priest Fr. Nektarios, and Archdeacon Mark, with the chanting of Hierodeacon Dositheos and the participation of a large congregation of monks, nuns, faithful from Jerusalem, and a few pilgrims.
During the Divine Liturgy, Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem, accompanied by the Fathers of the Holy Sepulchre, visited the Monastery for veneration.
Following the Divine Liturgy, the Patriarchal and Episcopal groups, along with the devout congregation, were welcomed at the Monastery’s Rectory and courtyard by the Hegumen and renovator of the Monastery, as well as the Typikon overseer of the Holy Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, Archimandrite Alexios.
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