Myron of Crete, called Saint Myron the Wonder Worker (Άγιος Μύρων ο Θαυματουργός), was a bishop from Rhaukos,

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and ...

who became

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of Crete. He is said to have been born in Aurakia, near

Knossos Knossos (also Cnossos, both pronounced ; grc, Κνωσός, Knōsós, ; Linear B: ''Ko-no-so'') is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and has been called Europe's oldest city. Settled as early as the Neolithic period, the na ...

, to have flourished during the reign of

Decius Gaius Messius Quintus Traianus Decius ( 201 ADJune 251 AD), sometimes translated as Trajan Decius or Decius, was the emperor of the Roman Empire from 249 to 251. A distinguished politician during the reign of Philip the Arab, Decius was procla ...

(3rd century), and have died in 350, at the age of 100 years. He was a farmer and "very charitable to the poor". Although he is called a holy martyr, he apparently "died a natural and quiet death".{{Cite book , last=Pashley , first=Robert , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PzM8AAAAMAAJ&q=rhaucos , title=Travels in Crete , date=1837 , publisher=J. Murray , location=Cambridge and London , pages=234 , language=en One story told about his generosity recounts that he surprised thieves who had broken in to his threshing floor, and then helped them lift a sack of grain on their shoulders, which shamed the thieves to the point that they began to lead honorable lives. One of many miracles he was said to have performed was to stop a flood of the

Triton River The Triton River in Boeotia, Greece ran into Lake Copais. The towns of Athenae and Eleusis were located on the river and were both destroyed in an inundation. A temple to Athena Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ...

and walk on it "as upon dry land".Orthodox Church in America, "Saint Myron the Wonderworker, Bishop of Crete", https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/08/08/102233-saint-myron-the-wonderworker-bishop-of-crete The village of Rhaukos was renamed

Agios Myron Agios Myronas (Άγιος Μύρωνας, formerly Άγιος Μύρων ''Agios Myron'') is a village in the Heraklion regional unit of Crete, Greece named for Saint Myron of Crete. In 2011, its population was 612. Agios Myronas is built on two ...

'Saint Myron' in his honor. The Holy Neot (9th century) named a village in

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for him, as well as Eynesbury,

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, which purportedly had acquired the body of the saint about 100 years after his death. Myron is venerated on August 8.

Other Saints named Myron

* Marcellus, Dasius, and Myro, martyrs venerated on

July 18 Events Pre-1600 * 477 BC – Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army. * 387 BC – Roman- Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, l ...

. * A Cretan

New Martyr The title of New Martyr or Neomartyr ( el, νεο-, ''neo''-, the prefix for "new"; and μάρτυς, ''martys'', "witness") is conferred in some denominations of Christianity to distinguish more recent martyrs and confessors from the old martyr ...

killed in 1793 for refusing to convert to Islam. Venerated on

March 20 Events Pre-1600 * 673 – Emperor Emperor Tenmu, Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Asuka, Yamato#Imperial Palaces, Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka, Yamato, Asuka. *1206 – Michael IV of Constantinople, Michael IV Au ...

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3rd-century archbishops 3rd-century Christian saints Religious leaders from Crete Miracle workers