In memory of our reverend father Pavsikakius, bishop of Sinad.

He was born in Apameia, a city in southwestern Syria near the Orontes River, and was named after Apama, the wife of Seleucus I, the ruler of Syria. He came from noble, noble and zealous Christian parents. During his upbringing, while still a young man, he gave himself to strict fasting, prayer and other severe feats, and subsequently adopted a reputed paganism.

When he became a bishop, St. Pavsikos immediately cast out from his flock the church wolves [under the name of church wolves are understood heretics and freethinkers, as well as people who lead a shameful life and are persistent in their depravity and corrupt bodies, as the members of the body he had consecrated with his sword, and forbade them to do any harm to the members of his body, so that they would not be able to save him and his emperor in his journey there.]

He was then possessed, for which the emperor with a golden seal sent him to his city the reward he deserved in the amount of one liter of gold. When the monk was returning from Constantinople to the Synod, then, being in Silo, he prayed and drew out a spring of water from the ground, and his companions quenched their thirst. Having lived so piously and conveniently and having saved many, St. Pavsiakius left his life and retired to their beloved Lord.