Originally from the island of Cyprus, St. Spiridon was a shepherd of sheep in childhood, and later married and had children. Soon his wife died, and he served the Lord through good deeds and the care of the poor. He received the gift of doing miracles, healing all sorts of illnesses and banishing the evil spirits. For these, he was elected Bishop of Trimitunde, a famous citadel of Cyprus.

With dryness and great drought, the people began to starve, and the hierarch prayed to God, but although the clouds gathered, it did not rain immediately, but only after St. Spiridon began to pray again, clearly as it is not human. A few years later famine returned to the city because of the sins of the people. And there was a wheat seller waiting for the hunger to be even bigger to sell his wheat more expensive. Not pitying for a poor man, the latter went to Saint Spyridon to ask for his help, and for the hierarch’s prayers, there was great rain, the merchant’s barns were thrown down, and wheat came to the courtyards of men after the prophecy of the Holy One.

But the vendor had some barns, and when he was again famished, he did not yet mercy, asking for his wheat gold. Then a plowman went to St. Spiridon to ask him to help him, and received a golden horn from the hierarch to give it to the vendor, and bring it back after the wheat had been redeemed. Then the hierarch, through the work of the Lord, commanded the gold to return to its former form, and the plowman saw how the gold turned into a snake and entered the earth.

Another time, a friend of the Baptist was condemned to death without being guilty, and asking the Saint to save him, commanded a river to drown in order to reach his friend, and the river immediately heard him hear the judge, released the unjustly convicted man. The hierarch saw the hidden ones of men, for she wanted a lamb to wash her feet, rebuked her for her sins, and the woman, washing her feet with tears, straightened her livelihood.

Gathering in Nicaea a holy parish of the Holy Fathers to condemn Arie, the one who said that the Son of God is still one with a creature, came to St. Spiridon a philosopher, a supporter of Arie. To demonstrate to the philosopher that the kingdom of the Lord stands in power, and not in the word, with the sign of the Holy Cross, he shows how only a clay remains from the brick, with the fire rising and the water flowing. Then the philosopher received the Christian faith and, being overcome by Arie, Saint Spiridon returned to his home.

Murdling Irina, his daughter, came to the hierarch a woman crying for giving Irina a golden odor to hide it, and now she did not know where he was. St. Spiridon went to the funeral, and as he asked Irina as a living man where the odor was, the dead responded to the amazement of all, leaving the Blessed man resting. In the face of Emperor Constantius, God showed him in vision that his healers were two bishops, one of whom he had not yet been called. Trying the Emperor to find out who they are, he called several bishops to him, but he did not find them.

By pointing out to the Spyridon in the vision what happened to the king, he went to him with his trainee, Trifilie, the hierarch being clothed in simple clothes. When he arrived in Antioch, one of the emperor’s servants laughed at him and hit him over the cheek without letting him in. The hierarch returned the other cheek, knowing the servant that he was a hierarch and asking for forgiveness, he became the Saint to the Emperor who immediately recognized him. As the bridegroom touched the king’s coat, he made him healthy.

Leaving the Saint, was received into the house of a Christ-loving one, who put her dead son in her arms, weeping, in order to raise him up. Laughing Blessed and praying, she raised her son, but the woman died with joy! Returning to prayer, he raised it again, through the grace of the Lord, and commanded not to tell anyone what had happened. His deacon Artemidot told them after moving to the eternal ones of the Saint.

Many were the miracles of the Blessed One, for once at the time of the Vespers, not being a people in the Church, he began to serve, and at every ecstasy there was heard a divine song from above. Once, when the oil was finished in the Church, it sprang from a candle until all the vessels were filled. Those who wanted to steal from him linked them with unseen ties until they confessed their sins, and when the heretics cut the heads of the two horses that headed for the Synod of the First of Nicaea, they stuck in their place, and horses have risen for the prayers of the Holy One.

When Saint Spiridon worked at the time of the harvest, being burned, a dew came down on his head, and the head brushes changed, becoming black, some yellow and some white. Then the Saint knew that the time of his separation from the flesh had come, and after a few days he gave his soul into the hands of the Lord. He was buried in the Church of the Holy Apostles in Trimitunda, with many miracles at his grave.