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January 5 / December 23
2018/2017（7526）
Nativity (St Philip's) Fast
Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ

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• Feast of Icon of the Mother of God "MARIA WILL GRACE WITH GOD" (19th c.) in St Spiridon Church of Monastery of Resurrection in Belogorsk
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• The 10 Holy Martyrs of Crete: THEODULUS 德奥杜洛, SATURNICUS 撒图尔尼诺, EUPORUS 艾弗颇若, GELASIUS 革拉西, EUNICIAN 艾弗尼基安, ZOTICUS 佐提科, POMPEIUS 庞佩, AGATHOPOUS 阿伽托普, BASILIDES 瓦西利迪 and EVARISTUS 埃瓦里斯特 (250) beheaded
Οἱ Ἅγιοι 10 Μάρτυρες οἱ ἐν Κρήτῃ
O Lord, forgive Thy servants and accept our blood, which is about to be shed, as an offering on our behalf and for our kinsmen and friends and for all of our fatherland, that all may be freed from the darkness of ignorance and may know Thee, the True Light, O Eternal King!
• Martyresses Sisters VICTORIA stabbed in the breast by an executioner, and ANATOLIA (250) of Rome, martyred at Reate in Italy for refusing to marry pagans
• MM MIGDONIUS and MARDONIUS (303) high officials at the imperial court in Rome. When persecution broke out under Diocletian in 303, they refused to renounce their Faith. Migdonius was burnt at the stake and Mardonius drowned in a wel
• Martyrdom of BEHNAM and his sister SARAH, children of Sennacherib, King of Persia, at Mount Alpeph near Mossul (4th c.)
• Greek Martyrs SCHINON (also Skhinon) by beheading, EUSUSIUS and AGATHA
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σχίνων ὁ Μάρτυρας
• The 12 Pilgrims of Inis Uachtair, from an island in Lough Sheelin, County Westmeath
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NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• New Hieromartyrs JOHN Piankov and NICOLOS Yakhontov priests (1918)
• New Hieromartyr BASIL Spasskij, presbiter, priest at Tver (1878-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted
• Hosiosmartyr MACARIOS Mironov, Hieromonk of Zavidovskaya Gorka in Tver (1878-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted
• Hosiosmartyr IONA (Ivan Smirnov), Hieromonk of Bolshoye Mikhailovskoye in Tver (1870-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted after Kashyn prison • NM ANNA Sreznevskaja (1958)
• Venerable Father THEOPHAN Rikhlovsky, of the Nizhyn Eparchy (1977)
• New Hieromartyr PAUL Kratirov, bishop of Starobelsk
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• Martyr CHRYSOGONOS (Chrysogonus) former eparch of Thessaloniki
• CUMANIA (also Cuman) (6th c.)
• M DAGOBERT II (679) The King of Austrasia in the east of France, he was exiled to a monastery in 656, recalled in 675 and martyred by the tyrant Ebroin
• Martyr DAVID 达维德 of Dvin, of Echmiadzin in Armenia (693)
• EGBERT 埃格博特 (Ecgberht of Ripon) of Rathmelsigi Abbey, who organised the mission to Frisia (729) Netherland
• Repose of Eldress EUDOCIA Rodionova of Leushino Monastery, Fool for Christ (1886)
• FRITHBERT of Hexham (766) the successor of St Acca as Bishop of Hexham, where he served for 34 years
• Hieromartyr Priest GREGORY of Spoleto (303)
• Sainted GAUBALD 1st Bishop of Regensburg (761)
• MAZOTA (also Mayoca, Maik, Mayote or Mayota) of Abernethy (8th c.) the leader of a group of 19 Holy Virgins who went from Ireland to Scotland and founded a monastery at Abernethy on the Tay
• Equal of the Apostles Venerable NAHUM 纳翁 Wonderworker of Ohrid (10th c.) a disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and one of the 5 Companions who most zealously labored with these Apostles to the Slavs, enlightener of the Bulgarians
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ναοὺμ ὁ Θαυματουργός καὶ Θεοφόρος
• Venerable NIPHON 尼丰 the Wonderworker, bishop of the town of Constantia on Cyprus (374)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Νήφων Ἐπίσκοπος Κωνσταντιανὴς
• Monk NIPHON
• Venerable Hieroconfessor Father PAUL 保罗 Archbishop of Neocaesarea (336)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Παῦλος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Νεοκαισαρείας
• POMPIOS
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πομπίος
• VM SANDUKHTA (also Sanducht) of Armenia (166-200)
• SERVULUS (590) a righteous man who was a cripple and used to beg for alms at the door of the church of St Clement in Rome, sharing what he received with other beggars
• TEMNIÓC of Clonfert i.e. from Clúain ferta Molua, i.e. the cook of Molua of Clúain ferta
• Repose of Sainted THEOKTIST 德奥克提斯特 Archbishop of Novgorod (1310) // DEC 23 // JAN 23 //
• VINTILA (890) a monk who reposed as a hermit in Pugino in Galicia in Spain
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• Commemoration of the consecration and re-dedication of the Holy and Great Church of Christ, the HAGIA SOPHIA, by Patriarch Eutychius (562)
Μνήμη Ἐγκαινίων τῆς Ἁγίας Σοφίας (562 μ.Χ.)

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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.
愿上帝怜恤我罪人
O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,
for the sake of the prayers
of Thy most pure Mother,
our holy and God-bearing fathers and all the saints, have mercy on us.
Amen.
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Blessed be God.