St Pior

When they called him to a council to judge a brother who had committed a sin, Pior arrived carrying a sack of sand on his back and a small bag of sand on his chest. Asked what it meant, the saint replied: “The sack of sand on my back represents my sins, which I do not see, the bag of sand on my chest represents the sins of my brother, whom I have to judge.” All the brothers were then ashamed and cried out: “This is the path of salvation!”

Pior lived to be a hundred years old and reposed in the Lord in the fourth century. Feast day: June 17th.

Taken from The Prologue of Ohrid by St Nikolai Velimirovic.