Geronda, I often lose things and then lose a lot of time to find them.
— Why don’t you pray to Saint Mina, because that’s his specialty? Saint Mina immediately reveals what is lost, and it is completely undemanding! When I lived in a dormitory, I once lost the key to the cell — then we locked the cells, because in the monastery there were many different secular. “Nothing terrible,” I reason, “I will go to the carpenter.” Look, there’s no key to the carpenter. I was going to go to the workshop, where I was making a mulake saddle, but there was no key from it, «Where to go now?» — I think. He went and put a candle to St. Mina, and immediately found all the keys where he did not expect. One candle and order! And for one candle, the saints thank.
I did not know that Saint Mina was also depicted on icons on horseback. My mother, who had once seen Saint Mina and had received an answer to a question from him, told me that he was depicted on horseback. I stood my ground and told her that only Saint Demetrius and Saint George were written on horseback. “No,” she said, “the one I saw was riding a bay horse and told me that he was Saint Mina,” I asked. “St. George has a white horse, St. Demetrius has a red horse; and who are you?”
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