From the Prologue of Ochrid
He was instructed in the Christian faith and baptized in the name of the Most Holy and Life-giving Trinity by the Archangel Michael himself. And until his very death this Commander-in-Chief of God's hosts accompanied him invisibly. He was enlightened and strengthened by the grace of the Holy Spirit, so that his heart was drawn to nothing worldly, but only to the spiritual and heavenly. When his parents forcibly gave him in marriage, on the first evening he took a candle and placed it beneath a vessel, then asked his bride: which is better, light or darkness? She answered: light. He then began to speak to her of the Christian faith and of the spiritual life as better and more beautiful than the bodily. And so he succeeded in bringing her, and then his parents, to the Christian faith. And he and his wife lived as brother and sister. Soon both his parents and his wife died, and he withdrew entirely from worldly life and gave himself to prayer, fasting, and contemplation of God. He performed great miracles by which he converted many to Christianity. Among other things, he compelled evil spirits to serve him. During a persecution he was seized and tortured, and stabbed all over with knives. The sick were anointed with his blood and healed. He lived for two more years in his city after that and departed to the Lord. This wondrous saint lived and suffered in the second century.
