The Orthodox Church dedicates this day to St. Naum of Ohrid, a disciple of Ss. Cyril and Methodius and one of the Five Followers the zealous fellowmen with these apostles to the Slavic tribes to whom they spread Christianity.
St. Naum travelled to Rome, where he was renowned both for his wonderworking power and his great learning. At the time of his return from Rome, he settled, with the help of the Emperor Boris, on the shores of Lake Ohrid. While St. Clement was working in Ohrid as bishop, St. Naum built a monastery on the southern shore of the lake that adorns that shore till this day as the name of St. Naum adorns the history of Slav Christianity.
Many monks from all over the Balkans gathered round St. Naum, who was a wise teacher, a strict ascetic, a wonderworker and a man of prayer.
A tireless worker, St. Naum laboured especially to translate the Holy Scriptures from Greek into Old Slavonic. He worked wonders both during his lifetime and after his death, and his wonderworking relics to this day perform many marvels, particularly healing from grave illness and from madness. He entered into rest in the first half of the tenth century, and went to the joy of his beloved Christ, and is still considered a protector and healer of people, especially the illnesses of the mind.