Admin: This story is taken from the classic and very famous book, Everyday saints and other stories, authored by Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov. I highly recommend this book to everyone! Its style provides a wonderful balance in spiritual depth, humor, edification, alternating chapter lengths, and mainly unrelated chapter contents (meaning you can almost read from anywhere). Many people report a very positive and edifying vibe after reading this book.

In a town in Byzantium, there was once a bishop who was very much beloved by the townsfolk, but then something terrible happened:  whether through his own weakness or light-heartedness or through the conniving of the devil, this bishop fell into the sin of fornication.