Synaxarion: Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro

I sincerely had a lot of fun with this during the 1 hour it took me to finish it.

This is a neat way to experience the life of the saint. It is kind of an interactive storybook where you get to run around a little bit and look for hidden items and in-between you get the story of the saint's life.

Enjoyed this little experience. It's kind of like one of those later 90's PC story games but a concise version. Like the content. Hope more come out as this is a pretty good way for me to read it.

The Holy Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit1 was a soldier in the city of Amáseia in Pontus (Asia Minor) on the coast of the Euxine (Black) Sea, under the command of the Praepositus (regimental commander) Brincus. Saint Theodore was ordered to offer sacrifice to idols, but he proclaimed his faith in Christ the Savior in a loud voice. Brincus gave him a few days to think it over, during which time the Saint prayed. Theodore was accused of setting a pagan temple on fire and destroying the idol of Rhea, and so he was thrown into prison to be starved to death. The Lord Jesus Christ appeared to him there, comforting and encouraging him. When he was brought before the Governor Publius, Theodore boldly confessed his faith, for which he was subjected to new torments and condemned to be burnt alive. The Great Martyr Theodore mounted an enormous pyre, and after he made the Sign of the Cross, the wood was lit, but the Holy Spirit cooled the flames. Saint Theodore stood in the flames, praising and glorifying God. Then he gave his holy soul into God's hands, and the onlookers saw his soul ascending to Heaven, according to the author of his Life, who was also an eyewitness. This occurred in about the year 306 under the Roman Emperor Galerius (305-311). Unharmed by the fire, Saint Theodore's body was buried under a widow's house in the city of Eukháϊta, not far from Amáseia. Later, his relics were transferred to Constantinople, to the church which bears his name. His head is in the city of Gaeto, Italy. Fifty years after the Saint Theodore's martyrdom, Emperor Julian the Apostate (reigned 361-363), planned to commit an outrage upon the Christians during the first week of Great Lent. He ordered the city magistrate of Constantinople to sprinkle all the food in the marketplaces with blood which had been offered to idols. Saint Theodore appeared to Archbishop Eudoxios in a dream, and told him to inform all the Christians that no one should buy anything in the marketplaces, but to eat boiled wheat with honey (kolyva) instead. In remembrance of this occurrence, the Orthodox Church commemorates the holy Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit each year on the first Saturday of Great Lent. On Friday evening, at the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, after the prayer at the Ambo, the Canon to the Holy Great Martyr Theodore, composed by Saint John of Damascus, is sung. After this, kolyva is blessed and distributed to the faithful. The celebration of the Great Martyr Theodore on the first Saturday of Great Lent was established by Patriarch Nektarios of Constantinople (381-397). The Troparion to Saint Theodore is very similar to the Troparion for the Prophet Daniel and the Three Holy Youths (on the Sunday Before the Nativity of the Lord). The Kontakion to Saint Theodore, who suffered martyrdom by fire, reminds us that he also had faith as his breastplate (see I Thessalonians 5:8). In iconography, Saint Theodore the Recruit is depicted in four different ways: either alone in military garb, battling a large snake, or together with Saint Theodore the Commander, standing upright or riding horses. He always wears his military uniform. We pray to Saint Theodore the Recruit for the recovery of stolen articles. 1 His title comes from the Latin word tiro, because he was a newly-enlisted recruit, not because he came from the city of Tyre, as some misinformed persons imagine.

I can't figure out how to finish the game. But I got to collect an ikon of the pantocrator and got several komboskini. Enough komboskini to share with friends. What a glorious game, despite the impenetrable gameplay.

it is very awesome sauce

I do like the concept of the game, but the lack of video settings really hinders the experience on lower end PCs. If there was an update that added settings/performance boost, I will repurchase the game. God bless you.

Great Game, the family loved it

I couldn't finish the game because of missing square boulders.

Очень миленькая игра про православного святого Феодора (Фёдора на славянский манер). Особенного геймплея нет, самое ценное в игре это вкраплённое Житие святого Феодора, а между этими вкраплениями максимум - это примитивный платформер у которого не самое удобное управление в "открытом мире" из-за перспективы: чувствуется, что игра была портирована с консолей (в случае этой игры - со свитча). В помещениях перспектива исправляется из-за чего прыжки становятся удобнее. И при всем этом у игры вообще нет рамок перемещений, грубо говоря, перед игроком разбросали кучу коллекционных предметов по карте и единственное препятствие - это вода. И вот ты прыгаешь по горам под балканскую музыку и церковную греческую музыку по горам, по которым как будто ты не должен был бегать, но ты по ним скачешь и даже находишь запрятанные монетки, кресты или чётки. Это вместе с милым дизайном подкупает. Жалко только, что русского языка нет в игре даже в виде машинного перевода. Про перевод на церковнославянский и говорить нечего, тогда бы это был лютый вин. А так - милый арт-объект с элементами геймплея и повествования в духе новелл.