The life of St Tycho of Amathus
He entered the ranks of the clergy as a reader, was ordained deacon by Bishop Mnemonios, and, on that bishop's death, was chosen by the common voice of the church to succeed him, consecrated by the notable Cypriot bishop Epiphanius. As bishop of Amathus, Tychon worked to root out what remained of the island's older paganism, tearing down at least one pagan shrine, and was known for a household kept open to all who came to him. He was remembered too as a man close to the soil: tradition holds that dried vine cuttings brought to him by a gardener took root and bore unusually sweet fruit after his prayer over them. Foreseeing his own death, he reposed in the year 425, leaving behind the reputation of a wonderworker as much at home tending vines as tending souls.
