The life of St Myron the Wonderworker of Crete
One night thieves broke into his threshing floor meaning to make off with his grain, and rather than stop them Myron went further still, helping the men lift the heavy sack onto their own shoulders; tradition holds that the shame of such kindness did more to reform them than any punishment could have, and they gave up their old ways after that. His own townspeople of Raucia, moved by the same character, pressed him toward ordination, and the wider Cretan church later chose him as its bishop, an office he carried out with evident wisdom for the rest of an unusually long life.
Later tradition also credits him with a striking wonder during a flood on the River Triton, when he is said to have halted the rushing water and crossed it on foot as though it were dry land, later sending a man back with his own staff to command the river's return to its ordinary course.
He reposed at the age of one hundred, around the year 350, and his tomb, still said to carry a lasting fragrance, continues to draw pilgrims to Crete each year.
