• συνοδικός • February 28 / February 15 •

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February 28 / February 15
2018 （7526）
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DAY 10

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• Transfer (1495) of The VILNO ("Vilensk") Icon of the Mother of God to Vilnüs
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Βιλὲνσκ
The Vilensk Icon of the Mother of God was written by the holy Evangelist Luke. For a long time it was in the family of the Greek emperors at Constantinople. In 1472 Sophia Paleologa, spouse of the Moscow GreatPrince Ivan III (1462-1505), transferred the icon to Moscow. In 1495 the GreatPrince blessed his daughter Elena with this icon before giving her in marriage to the Lithuanian king Alexander. In honour of the transfer of the icon to Vilna a feast was established 15 February. Later on they placed the holy icon in the John the ForeRunner church, in which princess Elena was buried. And afterwards they transferred the icon to the Vilensk Holy Trinity monastery.
• The "Vienna that in the Ugra" Icon of the Mother of God (1570)
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Βένσκ
Appearence of the Vienna icon, which was in Ugra, followed in 1570. Only her name makes one think that it was brought from the West. In contradiction with this, apparently, is the fact that the image of the Virgin on the Vienna icon is made in the Eastern Orthodox style, and not in the Western; it resembles the icon of the Holy Virgin icon of the Theotokos of St Eliah (March 10). But the contradiction is only apparent. Undoubtedly, there were a lot of Orthodox Christians in Vienna and Hungary. From them, the Vienna icon and could move to Russia, even after the separation of the Western Church from the Eastern. According to some accounts the icon of the Virgin "Vienna, that in the Ugra" passed to us in Russia is not direct from Hungary, but through Athos, where she was for some time in the monastery of St Dionysius. From Russia, she was later returned to Athos.
• DALMATIAN Icon of the Mother of God (1646)
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Δαλματίᾳ
This icon is in the Dalmatian Dormition Monastery, Perm Province. Also the monk Dalmatus, founder of the monastery, brought the icon here in 1644. Depicted on the icon is the Dormition of the Mother of God.
● • MM FAUSTINUS and JOVITA (121) two brothers, belonging to the nobility of Brescia in Italy, zealous preachers of Orthodoxy, they were beheaded in their native city under Hadrian
• MM CRATO, his wife, children and servants, at Rome (273)
Converted to Christ by St Valentine, Bishop of Terni. He was martyred in Rome together with his wife and family.
• MM SATURNINUS, CASTULUS, MAGNUS and LUCIUS (273) belonged to the flock of St Valentine, Bishop of Terni in Italy. They were buried at Passae (Rocca San Zenone)
• Venerable monk PAPHNUTIUS (455), and his daughter Nun EUPHROSYNE (also Evphrosyne, Euphrosia or Euphrasia) who dressed in men’s attire at the age of 18 and entered a men's monastery under the name of the eunuch Smaragdus (445) of Alexandria
• Hosiosmartyrs WINAMAN, UNAMAN and SUNAMAN (1040) Monks and nephews of St Sigfrid whom they followed to Sweden. They were martyred by pagans This trio of nephews of Saint Sigfrid of Wexlow, followed their uncle to the Swedish mission. The monks were martyred at Wexlow (Vaxjo) by beheading. Their bodies were buried deep in the forest but the heads, which had been thrown into the nearby lake, were recovered and enshrined in the church at Vaxjo until the impious Lutherans removed them. These three are venerated in Sweden.
• Hieromartyr deacon JOSEPH (Josippus)of Antioch, with 7 others said to have suffered martyrdom at Antioch
• 2 Soldier Martyrs in Thrakien, by stoning
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• New Hieromartyr MICHAEL P’atajev, presbiter, priest (1891-1930) day of martyrdom, shoted in Kainsk of Akmolinsk (today kujbyshev of Novosibirsk)
Then they were ruthlessly tortured in prison. Golden teeth were torn off with mites from mouth of alive people, executors tore off rings from fingers, they beat mercilessly, so many of the defendants had their teeth and ribs broken. The investigator of the OGPU severely beat priests during interrogations, and once mockingly ordered the contents of the parasha (of prison closet) to be poured on Mikhael. On February 28, Fr Mikhail was given a meeting with eldest daughter Anna. The meeting was through the bars. Michael asked: "Anna, give me your tress." Anna stretched the tress through the grate, and all of it was then wet. "Dad, why are you crying?" "It's very hard for me, because there are so many of you and you are left alone." The same night Anna saw in a dream, as the Mother of God give Communion from the golden cup to Michael. Anna woke up with the thought that her father would be released. Joyful, she hurried to prison with a package, but it turned out because Michael had already been shot. Executors buried shoted priests in a common grave near the prison. Later on this place a zavod was built, and the graves were destroyed.
• New Hieromartyr IOANN Kuminov, presbiter, priest (1865-1930) day of martyrdom, shoted in Kainsk of Akmolinsk (today kujbyshev of Novosibirsk)
• New Hieromartyr NICHOLAS Morkovin, presbiter, priest (1889-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted at Tver
• New Hieromartyr ALEXIS Nikitskij, presbiter, priest (1891-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo, Moskow
• New Hieromartyr ALEXIS Smirnov, presbiter, priest (1867-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo, Moskow
• New Hieromartyr deacon SIMEON Kyl’amin of St Trinity church in Udel’naja at Moskow (1874-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo, Moskow
• Hosiosmartyr hieromonk PAVEL (Petr Kozlov) of Nilova Pustyn’, at Tver (1879-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted at Tver
• Hosiosmartyress novice SOFIA Seliverstova in Moskow (1871-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo, Moskow
• Venerable ANTHIMOS (Argyrios K. Vagianos) of Chios (1869-1960)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἄνθιμος ἀπὸ τὴν Χίο
• Repose of Schemamonk NIKODIM of Karoulia (1984)
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Nicodim, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
• Repose of Monk MARCU Dumitru (Dumitrescu) of Sihastria, Romania (1999)
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Marcu, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
● • VM AGAPE at Interamna (Terni), Nun (273)
TA virgin martyress in Terni in Italy. She belonged to a group of virgins formed by St Valentine into a community.
• Translation (942) of Relics of Sainted AQUILINUS Bishop of Évreux (690)
• Hosiosmartyr monk ARSENIOS
• Hieromartyr bishop ATHANASIAS
• Abbot BERACH (Barachias, Berachius, Barry) of Cluain Coirpthe in Connachta (6th c.) patron of Kilbarry, County Roscommon
From his birth he was cared for by his uncle St Freoch. A number of Lives of this saint have survived and they show him to have been a disciple of Saint Kevin of Glendalough. His first teacher was Saint Daigh (Dageus) of Iniscaoin, County Louth, and it was while a student there that Saint Berach worked one of his most famous miracles, as recorded by the Martyrology of Donegal. When he was a disciple to Bishop Daigh, son of Cairell, Daigh sent him to a certain mill in Magh Muirtheimhne with a sack of wheat to grind it, and he found a woman and a boy of the people of the territory before him at the mill, they having with them a sack of oats to grind it; and Berach asked of them their turn of the mill, but they did not give it to him, and they put together the oats and the wheat into the mill, and a division was made between them in the mill through the miracles of God and of Berach, so that the wheat was on one side and the oats on the other side without the admixture of the meal of the one with that of the other, as is evident in his life, in which many miracles and signs are read of.
Afterwards he became a disciple of St Kevin and founded a monastery at Clusin-Coirpte in Connaught. He is the Patron Saint of Kilbarry near Dublin in Ireland.
• DALMATUS abbot and founder of the Dormition Monastery in Siberia (1697)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Δαλμάτιος ὁ ἐκ Σιβηρίας
The Saint received a blessing from the Bishop of Tobolsk to build a wooden chapel and some cells. This was the beginning of the great Monastery of the Dormition (also called the Monastery of St Dalmatius). Over the years the brethren endured many tribulations. Once the Tatar Prince of the region, provoked by false rumors, planned to destroy the monastery and kill all the monks. The night before the attack, the holy Mother of God appeared to the prince in resplendent clothes, holding a flaming sword in one hand and a scourge in the other. She forbade the Prince to harm the monastery or the brethren, and commanded him to give them a permanent concession over the region. Convinced by this vision, the Prince made peace with the monks and became the Monastery's protector, though he was a Muslim. In the succeeding years the Monastery was repeatedly burned down by the fierce pagan tribes which inhabited the area; once all the monks except St Dalmatius himself were butchered, but always the monastery was rebuilt. The Saint reposed in peace in 1697, and was succeeded as abbot by his own son Isaac, who built a stone shrine at the Monastery to house the relics of the Saint and the icon of the Mother of God which he had kept with him throughout his monastic life.
• DECOROSUS (695) Bishop of Capua in Italy
Decorosus was bishop of Capua, Italy, for 30 years. He was one of the prelates who assisted at the council of Rome in 680 under Pope Saint Agatho.
• DOCHOW (Dochau, Dogwyn) (473) travelled from Wales to Cornwall and founded a monastery there and may have become a bishop
According to the life of Saint Samson, Dochow travelled from Wales to Cornwall and founded a monastery there. In the Ulster Annal, he is styled bishop. Saint Dochtwy appears to be another saint altogether.
• Venerable DRUTHMAR (1046) a monk at Lorsch, in 1014 he became Abbot of Corvey in Saxony in Germany
• Venerable EUSEBIUS a Syrian Hermit (439)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐσέβιος
An anchorite in Aschia, Syria, Saint Eusebius is venerated in the East.
• FARANNAN of Alternan and Iona (590) Confessor, and Patron of Allfarannan, now Alternan, Parish of Easkey, County of Sligo; a disciple of St Columba at Iona in Scotland. Eventually he returned to Ireland to lead the life of a hermit at All-Farannan, now Allernan, in Sligo
• FAUSTUS of Glanfeuil (6th c.) a disciple of St Benedict at Montecassino in Italy
• GEORGIA an Anchoress near Clermont in Auvergne, France (5th c.)
• New Martyr JOHN the Koulakiotis, of Thessaloniki (1776)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ ἐκ Θεσσαλονίκης
The Holy New Martyr John came from a village near Thessaloniki called Koulakia, now known as Halastra (or Pyrgos) and he was a teacher. For a certain period of time he went to Mount Athos, where he had a subordinate named Argyris. When John was in Thessaloniki, during a conversation with certain Turks, an argument ensued where the Turks accused John of wanting at one time to become a Muslim. John categorically denied their claim, so they led him to the bazaar, probably the central market of the city, and they executed him without trial by hanging him. This took place on Tuesday, at 4:00 AM, on the 15th of February in 1776. After he was hung, the Turks threw his relic into the sea.
• MABYN (also Mabenna or Mabon), Abs., Pat. of St. Mabyn’s Church, Cornwall (6th c.)
• Martyr MAJOR of Gaza (297)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μαΐωρ ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Holy Hieromartyr Apostle ONESIMUS of the Seventy Lesser Apostles (109)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ὀνήσιμος ὁ Ἀπόστολος μαθητὴς τοῦ Ἀποστόλου Παύλου
Saint Onesimos was Saint Philemon's slave, to whom the Apostle Saint Paul wrote a letter. He was a disciple of Saint Paul and helped him for some time. At the Apostle's death, he was seized and brought before President Tertullus, who sent him to Puteoli in Campania. Later, however, the President went to Puteoli and finding the Saint persevering in Christ's faith, ordered that he be cruelly beaten with rods and that his limbs be broken. He thus left this transitory life.
• OSWY king of Northumbria (670)
• Venerable PAPHNUTIUS the Recluse of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1202) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Theodosy Far Caves of the Lavra
Saint Paphnutius had the gift of tears, which Saint John of the Ladder says (Step 6:1) is preceded by the remembrance of death. For worldly people, this remembrance may lead to fear and distress, but for Saint Paphnutius it led to constant prayer and the guarding of his mind. By remembering the hour of death and God’s judgment, Saint Paphnutius was able to free himself from worldly distractions and passions through prayer, repentance and fasting. This, in turn, led to tears.
• QUINIDIUS of Vaison (579) after living as a hermit in Aix in Provence, he became Bishop of Vaison in France
• SEVERUS of Androcca (530) a priest from the Abruzzi in Italy. St Gregory the Great relates that he brought a dead man back to life so that he could receive communion and unction
The relics of Severus were translated to Muenster-Maifeld, diocese of Trier, Germany, in the 10th century.
• Bishop SIGFRID (Sigfrid Växjö) of Wexlow (1045) a priest and monk, probably at Glastonbury in England. He went to enlighten Sweden and was based in Vaxjo. One of his converts was King Olaf of Sweden
• Repose of Bessed STOJNA (also Stoina, Jefimija, Yefimia or Euphemia) Nun of Dević (Devich) Monastery – Kosovo Region (1895) • Hosiosmartyr TANCO (Tancho, Tatta, Tatto) of Werden (808)
Irish Saint Tanco became abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Amalbarich in Saxony passing into Germany to preach the gospel, and being chosen bishop of Werden. He died at the hands of a pagan mob whose savage customs he had denounced: a barbarous mob was so enraged as fiercely to assault him; and one of them, stabbing him with a lance, procured him the glorious crown of martyrdom.
• Sainted THEOGNIUS bishop of Bethelia near Gaza (523)
• Venerable WALFRID (Gualfredo, Galfrido) della Gherardesca (765) from Adelsgeschlecht der Gherardesca, Abbot in Monteverdi Marittimo
Born in Pisa in Italy, he married and had five sons and one daughter. In later life he joined two other married men in founding the monastery of Palazzuolo and a convent nearby for their wives and Walfrid's daughter. Walfrid was the first abbot and was succeeded by one of his sons.
● • Synaxis of St John the Theologian at Diaconissa Σύναξις Ἁγίου Ἀποστόλου καὶ Εὐαγγελιστοῦ Ἰωάννου ἐν τοῖς Διακονίσσης
• A Festival of Holy Martyrs in the Félire Oengusso
Óengus mac Óengobann, better known as Saint Óengus of Tallaght or Óengus the Culdee, was an Irish bishop, reformer and writer, who flourished in the first quarter of the 9th century and is held to be the author of the Félire Óengusso ("Martyrology of Óengus") and possibly the Martyrology of Tallaght.

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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.

• συνοδικός • February 27 / February 14 •

συνοδικός

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February 27 / February 14
2018 （7526）
Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή • GREAT 40 DAYS • Μεγάλη Νηστεία • GREAT FAST
DAY 9

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• The VILNO (Vilnüs) Icon of the Mother of God
● • Martyrs PROCULUS, EPHEBUS and APOLLONIUS in Terni in Italy (273) devoted disciples of Saint Valentine
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Πρόκλος, Ἀπολλώνιος καὶ Ἐφήβιος οἱ Μάρτυρες
Protectors of the body of Saint Valentine of Terni (Interamna) according to his untrustworthy acta, martyred by decapitation.
• Translation of relics of Hieromartyrs KILIAN Bishop of Würzburg, Priest KOLONAT (Colmán) and Deacon TOTNAN (689)
Saint Kilian, also spelled Killian (or alternatively Irish: Cillian; Latin: Kilianus), was an Irish missionary bishop and the Apostle of Franconia (nowadays the northern part of Bavaria), where he began his labours towards the end of the 7th century. Kilian told the Duke that he was in violation of sacred scripture by being married to his brother's widow, Geilana. When Geilana, whom Kilian had failed to convert to Christianity, heard of Kilian's words against her marriage, she was so angry that, in the absence of the duke, she had her soldiers sent to the main square of Würzburg, where Kilian and his colleagues were preaching, and had him beheaded, along with two of his companions, Colmán and Totnan.
St Kilian is one of the patron saints for sufferers of rheumatism.
• 12 Greek Master Builders of the Dormition Cathedral in the Lavra of the Monastery of the Kiev Caves (1091) in Kiev, Ukraine
The Kiev Caves Icon of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos (May 3) is one of the most ancient icons in the Russian Orthodox Church. The Mother of God entrusted it to four Byzantine architects, who in 1073 brought the icon to Saints Anthony and Theodosius of the Caves. The architects arrived at the monks' cave and asked, "Where do you want to build the church?" The saints answered, "Go, the Lord will point out the place".
"How is it that you, who are about to die, have still not designated the place?" the architects wondered. "And they gave us much gold." Then the monks summoned all the brethren and they began to question the Greeks, saying, "Tell us the truth. Who sent you, and how did you end up here?" The architects answered, "One day, when each of us was asleep in his own home, handsome youths came to us at sunrise, and said, "The Queen summons you to Blachernae." We all arrived at the same time and, questioning one another we learned that each of us had heard this command of the Queen, and that the youths had come to each of us. Finally, we beheld the Queen of Heaven with a multitude of warriors. We bowed down to Her, and She said, "I want to build Myself a Church in Rus, at Kiev, and so I ask you to do this. Take enough gold for three years." We bowed down and asked, "Lady Queen! You are sending us to a foreign land. To whom are we sent?" She answered, "I send you to the monks Anthony and Theodosius." We wondered, "Why then, Lady, do You give us gold for three years? Tell us that which concerns us, what we shall eat and what we shall drink, and tell us also what You know about it." The Queen replied, "Anthony will merely give the blessing, then depart from this world to eternal repose. The other one, Theodosius, will follow him after two years. Therefore, take enough gold. Moreover, no one can do what I shall do to honor you. I shall give you what eye has not seen, what ear has not heard, and what has not entered into the heart of man (1 Cor.2:9). I, Myself, shall come to look upon the church and I shall dwell within it." She also gave us relics of the holy martyrs Menignus, Polyeuctus, Leontius, Acacius, Arethas, James, and Theodore, saying, "Place these within the foundation." We took more than enough gold, and She said, "Come out and see the resplendant church." We went out and saw a church in the air. Coming inside again, we bowed down and said, "Lady Queen, what will be the name of the church?" She answered, "I wish to call it by My own name." We did not dare to ask what Her name was, but She said again, "It will be the church of the Mother of God." After giving us this icon, She said, "This will be placed within." We bowed down to Her and went to our own homes, taking with us the icon we received from the hands of the Queen."
After hearing this account, everyone glorified God, and Saint Anthony said, "My children, we never left this place. Those handsome youths summoning you were holy angels, and the Queen in Blachernae was the Most Holy Theotokos. As for those who appeared to be us, and the gold they gave you, the Lord only knows how He deigned to do this with His servants. Blessed be your arrival! You are in good company: the venerable icon of the Lady." For three days Saint Anthony prayed that the Lord would show him the place for the church.
After the first night there was a dew throughout all the land, but it was dry on the holy spot. On the second morning throughout all the land it was dry, but on the holy spot it was wet with dew. On the third morning, they prayed and blessed the place, and measured the width and length of the church with a golden sash. This sash had been brought long ago by the Varangian Shimon, who had a vision about the building of a church. A bolt of lightning, falling from heaven by the prayer of Saint Anthony, indicated that this spot was pleasing to God. So the foundation of the church was laid.
The icon of the Mother of God was glorified by numerous miracles.
Built in the 11th century, the main church of the monastery was destroyed during the World War II couple of months after the Nazi Germany troops occupied the city of Kiev and the controversial 1941 Khreshchatyk explosions that destroyed the city's main street. According to the Soviet authorities, the temple was destroyed by the advancing German troops, while at the same time German authorities hanged the blame onto the withdrawing Soviet troops who did practiced the tactics of scorched earth and blew up all the Kiev bridges over Dnieper as well as being accused in the 1941 Khreshchatyk explosions. It should be noted that since 1928 the monastery was converted into a museum park by the Soviet authorities and after its return no efforts were provided to restore the church. The temple was finally restored in 1995 after Ukraine obtained its independence and the construction was accomplished in two years. The new Dormition Church was consecrated in 2000.
• Translation (1578) of the relics of Martyrs Rightbelieving Prince MICHAEL 米迦勒 of Chernigov (1245) and his counselor (bojarin) THEODORE 德奥多若 of Chernigov (1245)
The translation of the relics of the rightly believing Prince Michael of Chernigov and his boyar Theodore, tortured by Batu of the Golden Horde on September 20, 1244. At first, pious Russian Christians secretly held their relics. First they were transferred to Vladimir, and then to Chernigov, and from there, after the transfer of Chernigov to the authority of the Poles in the year 1572. On February 14, Tsar Ivan Vasiljevich the Terrible transferred them to Moscow. Now they repose (since 1774) in a secret place in the Moscow Holy Archangels Cathedral in the Kremlin.
• MM VITALIS, FELICULA (also Fechula) and ZENO at Rome
• ISIDORE and his sister MATRONA known as the Companions of Sana
• MM BASSUS, ANTONY & PROTOLICUS cast into the sea at Alexandria, Egypt. Some ancient accounts add 9 fellow-sufferers to this group
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Βάσσιος, Ἀντώνιος καὶ Πρωτόλικος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• MM CYRION a priest, BASSIAN a lector, AGATHO an exorcist, and MOSES a layman, of Alexandria; listed together because all perished at the stake
• MM DIONYSIUS and AMMONIUS beheaded, probably at Alexandria, Egypt
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Sainted RAPHAEL 拉法伊尔 Hawaweeny (1860-1915) bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn, vicar of the Northern-American diocese, and head of the Antiochian Levantine Christian Greek Orthodox mission. He was the first Orthodox Christian bishop consecrated on American soil
• New Hieromartyr NIKOLAOS of Trebizond, Bishop of Amisos (1920)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ἐκ Τραπεζούντας
• New Hieromartyr ONISIMUS 阿尼西母 (Michael Pylajev) bishop of Tula (1876-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted in Archangelsk
• New Hieromartyr deacon TRIFON 特里丰 Rodonezhskij (1938)
• Repose of Archimandrite BARSANUPHIUS of Valaam and Morocco (1952)
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Barsanuphius, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
• Repose of Righteous BARBARA Arkhangelskaya, the Recluse of Ufa (1966)
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Barbara, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
• Repose of Elder EPHRAIM of Katounakia (1998)
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Ephraim, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
● • Sainted ABRAHAM (Abraames) 亚伯拉罕 bishop of Charres in Mesopotamia (5th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀβραάμης
• Hieromartyr AGATHON of Alexandria
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀγάθων ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
• Venerable hermit ANTONINUS of Sorrento (830)
A monk in one of the daughter monasteries of Montecassino in Italy. Forced to leave his monastery by the wars raging in the country, he became a hermit, until he was invited by the people of Sorrento to live among them. He did so as Abbot of St Agrippinus. He is now venerated as the patron saint of that town.
• Venerable AUXENTIUS 阿弗克森提 monk of Bithynia, hermit, presbiter (470)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Αὐξέντιος ὁ ἐν τῷ Ὄρει
He settled on Mount Skopa, which later came to be called Mount St Auxentius. The place of the saint’s efforts was discovered by shepherds seeking their lost sheep. They told others about him, and people began to come to him for healing. Saint Auxentius healed many of the sick and the infirm in the name of the Lord. His disciples built him a tiny wooden hut with one small window through which he could converse with his steady stream of visitors. In the year 451 Saint Auxentius was invited to the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon, where he denounced the Eutychian and Nestorian heresies. Familiar with Holy Scripture and learned in theology, Saint Auxentius easily bested those opponents who disputed with him. After the end of the Council, Saint Auxentius returned to his solitary cell on the mountain. With his spiritual sight he saw the repose of Saint Simeon the Stylite (459) from a great distance. He reposed in peace in 470. A great crowd gathered for his funeral, and his holy relics were taken into the care of a women's monastery whose spiritual Father he had been. He was buried in the Monastery of Saint Hypatius at Rufiananas, Syria. Mount St Auxentius soon became a center of hesychastic life, with seven monasteries.
• Venerable AUXENTIOS the Ascetic, of Mount Katirlion near Nicomedia on the Propontis, Wonderworker (1757)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Αὐξέντιος ὁ ἐν Καρτιλίῳ ἀσκήσας
• Holy bishop CONRAN apostle of the Orkney Islands, especially of Kirkwall (7th c.)
• Repose of Equal to the Apostles CYRIL 基里尔 (named Constantine – upon his assuming of the Schema) the Philosoph, teacher of the Slavs (869)
In the year 862 began the chief exploit of the holy brothers. At the request of Prince Rostislav, the emperor sent them to Moravia to preach Christianity in the Slavic language. Saints Cyril and Methodius by a revelation from God compiled a Slavonic alphabet and translated the Gospel, Epistles, the Psalter and many Service books into the Slavonic language. They introduced divine services in Slavonic. Even today the liturgical language of the Russians, Serbians, Ukranians, and Bulgars is that designed by Cyril and Methodius the two brothers.
• Hosiosmartyr Monk DAMIAN 达弥安 the New of Philotheou, who suffered at Kissavos, Larissa (1568)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Δαμιανὸς ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας
• ELEUCHADIUS Bishop of Ravenna (2rd c.)
A Greek, he was converted by St Apollinaris of Ravenna in Italy and succeeded St Adheritus as third Bishop of that city.
• New Martyr GEORGE 格奥尔吉 the Tailor also called Paizan, of Mitylene, put to death in Constantinople (1693) refused to abandon his Orthodox Christian faith and submit to Islam
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεώργιος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐκ Μυτιλήνης
• Martyr HYACINTH (Agios Yakinthos) of Crete, a Patron Saint of love, youth and loving couples, the Saint of emotions, remembrance and expectation // JUL 3 //
Agios Yakinthos (Saint Hyacinth) was born in Caesaria of Cappadocia around 98 AD. The ruler of the mighty Roman Empire was Trajan, who fought against the spread of Christianity. Yakinthos worked in Trajan’s service as a cubicularius or chamberlain. When Trajan unleashed his persecution of the Christians, Yakinthos gathered up the courage to reveal to his lord and master that he had embraced the Christian faith. This was to cost him dearly. Trajan considered this a monstrous ingratitude by his hitherto trusted servant Yakinthos, and had him imprisoned. Yakinthos would be released if he ate idol meat, i.e. meat which had been offered in sacrifice to an idol ― in other words if he renounced Christianity. Yakinthos withstood 40 days in prison without food, until on the 41st he departed this life as a Christian martyr, at just 20 years of age.
The saint’s life does not seem to have any direct connection to love or lovers. But let us not forget that the young Yakinthos was martyred for his great love of Christ, Divine Love as it is described in religious writings.
• Venerable hieroschemamonk HILARION 伊拉里雍 the Georgian of Imeretia and Mt Athos (1864)
• Venerable ISAAKIJ 伊撒克 the Recluse of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1090) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Anthony Near Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰσαάκιος ὁ Ἔγκλειστος ὁ ἐκ Ρωσίας
The first person in northern lands to live as a Fool for Christ.
• LIENNE (Leone) of Poitiers (4th c.) Confidant of Saint Hilary
• MANCHAN of Mohill
• Venerable MARON (Maro of Beit-Marun) 玛隆 hermit of Syria, desert dweller and Abbot (433) glorified by a gift of healing the sick and casting out devils
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μάρων
• Holy Newly Revealed New Martyr NICHOLAS 尼科拉 of Corinth (1554)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ ἐξ Ἰχθύος τῆς Κορινθίας
• NOSTRIANUS (450) Bishop of Naples in Italy and a valiant opponent of Arianism and Pelagianism
• PAULIEN (660) First bishop of Frankish birth
• Sainted 彼得 PETER II patriarch of Alexandria (380)
• Hosiosmartyr PHILEMON (Philipp) 腓利门 bishop of Gaza (952) who was cast into the midst of a fiery furnace
Ὁ Ἅγιος Φιλήμων ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
• SINEACH of Srath
His place is called Stratha Irenn. There are many names of places in Ireland compounded with Srath or Strath, meaning "a river bottom" or "valley".
• THEODOSIUS (554) Bishop of Vaison in France and predecessor of St Quinidius
• Hieromartyr VALENTINE (270) a priest and doctor in Rome martyred probably under Claudius the Goth and buried on the Flaminian Way. In 350 a church was built over his tomb // JUL 6 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Οὐαλεντίνος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
• Hieromartyr VALENTINE (273) Bishop of Terni (Interamna Nahars) in Italy martyred under Claudius the Goth; the patron of beekeepers, engaged couples, travellers, and young people. He is invoked against epilepsy, fainting, plague, and for a happy marriage // JUL 30 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Οὐαλεντίνος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Τέρνι
Though his memory shines in the darkest age of persecution as one who helped the followers of Jesus, as one who proclaimed the Good News. Out of the night would come a secret message or through the darkness an unknown hand, bringing hope and comfort. We can imagine what it would mean to some imprisoned or tormented spirit, and the thrill it would bring, that someone loved and cared. Valentine was that unknown benefactor, the secret friend of the martyrs, who gloried in the work of their rescue.

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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.

• συνοδικός • February 26 / February 13 •

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February 26 / February 13
2018 （7526）
Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή • GREAT 40 DAYS • Μεγάλη Νηστεία • GREAT FAST
DAY 8

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• The Hodegitria Icon of Theotokos of DOLISS in France, wept blood tears before WWII
A weeping statue is a statue which has been claimed to be shedding tears or weeping by supernatural means. Statues weeping tears of a substance which appears to be blood, oil, and scented liquids have all been reported. Other claimed phenomena are sometimes associated with weeping statues such as miraculous healing, the formation of figures in the tear lines, and the scent of roses. Weeping paintings or icons are a related phenomenon. As with weeping statues, the tears exuded are often said to be of a substance which appears to be similar to blood.
● Synaxis of All Saints of OMSK Metropolia (2015)
• New Hieromartyr SILVESTER 斯尔维斯特 (Iustin Olshevsky) archbishop of Omsk and Pavlodar (1860-1920)
• Martyr NICHOLAS Tsykura (1918) kelejnik of Hieromartyr Silvester and the steward of House of Bishop
• New Hieromartyr SERAPHIM (Nicholas Zvezdinskij) bishop of Dmitrov (1883-1937)
• New Hieromartyr presbiter MICHAEL P’atajev (1891-1930)
• New Hieromartyr presbiter IOANN Kuminov (1865-1930)
• Martyr DIMITRIJ Volkov (1942)
• Martyr NIKITA Sukharev (1942)
● • Martyr AQUILA (also Akyla) 阿桂拉 Apostle of the Seventy, and his wife Martyress PRISCILLA (also Prisca) 普里斯基拉, Dcn., of Asia Minor (1st c.) // JAN 4 // FEB 13 // JUL 14 //
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀκύλας καὶ Πρίσκιλλα οἱ Ἀπόστολοι
Aquila and his wife Priscilla (or Prisca) were Jews from Pontus who settled in Rome, where they worked as tent-makers. When the Emperor Claudius expelled all Jews from Rome in 49-50, they moved to Corinth. They may already have been Christians; at that time the Empire made no distinction between Christians and Jews. In Corinth they hosted the Apostle Paul, who lived and worked with them for awhile (Acts 18:1-3). They worked diligently with the Apostle, traveled with him, and were considered worthy to bring Apollos (December 8) to a full knowledge of the Faith (Acts 18:26). Priscilla and Aquila returned to Rome around 58, and later went to Ephesus; they were living there when St Paul asked his disciple Timothy, Bishop of Ephesus, to greet them (2 Tim. 4:19). It was probably in Ephesus that they were martyred by the pagans.
• VMM 15 years old FUSCA, and her nurse MAURA (also Mara), at Ravenna (3rd c.)
In art these saints are recognized as a young girl and her nurse each pierced with a sword.
• Holy 2 Martyrs: father and son, by crucifixion (306)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Πατὴρ καὶ Υἱὸς οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Martyrdom of the Saints ABAKIR, JOHN, the Three Virgins and their Mother, to wit: MM ANASTASIA (also Athanasia) and her daughters THEOCTISTE (also Theopista, Theoctista, Theopisti or Theophana); THEODOTIA (also Theodota or Theodora), and EUDOXIA (also Eudocia, Theodosia or Theodoxia); at Canopus in Egypt (311)
• Venerable SIMEON 西面 (Stefan Nemanja, Great Zupan of the Serbian people) the Myrrh-Gusher, i.o. from whose relics flowed myrrh – chrism; Ktetor of Hilendar Monastery, Mt Athos (1200), and his wife ANA (in monasticism Anastasia or Anastasija) (12-13th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Συμεὼν ὁ Μυροβλήτης Κτήτορας τῆς Μονῆς Χιλανδαρίου Ἁγίου Ὄρους
The Synaxarion says "From Saint Symeon's empty tomb at Chilandar, a vine miraculously sprang up whose dried grape seeds are to this day sent all over the world as a blessing for childless married couples".
Ktetor (Greek: κτήτωρ) or ktitor, meaning "founder", was a title given in the Middle Ages to the provider of funds for construction or reconstruction of an Orthodox church or monastery, for the addition of icons, frescos, and other works of art. It was used in the Byzantine sphere. An equivalent of the term is a donator. As part of founding the ktetor often issued typika, and was illustrated on frescoes ("ktetor portrait"). The female form is ktetorissa (Greek: κτητόρισσα) or ktitoritsa.
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NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• New Hieromartyrs BASIL 瓦西里 Triumfov, presbiter, priest (1848-1919) and GAVRIIL 加百列 Preobrazhenskij, presbiter, priest (1878-1919) day of martyrdom, shoted in Novorzhev, Pskov
• New Hieromartyr ZOSIMA 佐息玛 Trubachov, presbiter, archpriest (1893-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo of Moskow
• New Hieromartyr NICHOLAS 尼科拉 Dobrolübov, presbiter, priest (1875-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo of Moskow
• New Hieromartyr BASIL 瓦西里 Gorbachov, presbiter, priest (1885-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo of Moskow
• New Hieromartyr IOANN 约翰 Pokrovskij, presbiter, archpriest (1938)
• New Hieromartyr LEONTIJ 利安迪 Grimal’skij, presbiter, archpriest (1869-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo of Moskow
• New Hieromartyr VLADIMIR 弗拉迪弥尔 Pokrovskij, presbiter, priest (1938)
• New Hieromartyr PARFENIJ 帕尔特尼 Gruzinov, presbiter, priest (1874-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo of Moskow
• New Hieromartyr IOANN 约翰 Klabukhov, presbiter, priest (1873-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo of Moskow
• New Hieromartyr IOANN 约翰 Kosinskij, presbiter, priest (1887-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo of Moskow
• New Hieromartyr MICHAEL 米迦勒 Popov, presbiter, priest (1872-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo of Moskow
• New Hieromartyr deacon EUGENE Nikol’skij (1938)
• Hosiosmartyress nun ANNA 亚纳 Korneeva, member of church council (1880-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo of Moskow
• Hosiosmartyress nun VERA 维拉 Morozova (1870-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo of Moskow
• Hosiosmartyress nun IRINA 伊利纳 Khvostova (1882-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo of Moskow
• Martyr PAVEL 保罗 Sokolov, psalmer (1892-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo of Moskow
• Sainted SERAPHIM (Nicholas Sobolev) archbishop of Bogychary, and Wonderworker of Sofia in Bulgary (1881-1950)
• Repose of MARCU Dumitrescu, priest of Romania (1999)
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Marcu, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
● • ABRAHAM of Cyrrhus, Ascetic (4th c.)
• Venerable AKEPSIMAS (4th c.)
• Martyr AGABUS the Prophet (1st c.)
A Jewish-Christian prophet from Jerusalem, Agabus came to Antioch and predicted a famine throughout the Roman Empire (Acts 11:28-29), which actually occurred in 49 AD during the reign of Emperor Claudius. He is probably the same Agabus who predicted Paul's imprisonment in Jerusalem (Acts 21:10). According to tradition, he died a martyr at Antioch.
• AIMO (Aimonius) of Meda (790) Graf of Turbio, Founder of the convent of St Victor in Meda in the archdiocese of Milan, in the north of Italy
• ARTEMON of Palestine
• Hieromartyr BENIGNUS (303) a priest of Todi in Umbria in Italy martyred under Diocletian
• Righteous CASTOR of Karden, presbiter and hermit (389/400) 1st monk of Germany
• CUACHNAT of Ross-Raithe
• DARCUS
• DYFNOG (7th c.) born in Wales, he was much venerated in Clwyd
Dyfnog was a Welsh saint of the family of Caradog. He was formerly held in local veneration in Denbighshire.
• Translation of the relics of Saint EDWARD the Martyr, King of England
• Sainted EKKEHARD (Egward, Gorman) Confessor in Holstein, Bishop of Oldenburg and of Schleswig (1026)
• ERMEN
• ERMENGILD (also Ermengilda, Ermenhild, Ermenilda, Ermenhilda, Erminilda, Eormenhilde or Hermynhild), Qu., Abs. at Minster-on-Sheppey and Abs. at Ely (700)
Daughter of King Erconbert of Kent and St Saxburgh. She married Wulfhere, the King of Mercia. On his death, she joined her mother at Minster-in-Sheppey, eventually succeeding her as abbess. She then went to Ely where she also became abbess.
• Sainted Patriarch EULOGIUS 艾弗罗吉 archbishop of Alexandria (607-608)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐλόγιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ἀλεξάνδρειας
• FIONAN said to have been of Druim-Neoid, or Dromhabrad
• FULCRAN of Lodève (1006) Penitent Bishop of Lodève in Languedoc in France, famous for his asceticism. He was consecrated in 949 and ruled his diocese for more than a half century
• Sainted GEORGE (Yurij Konissky) Archbishop of Mogilev in Belorussia (1795)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεώργιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Λευκορωσίας
• GILBERT Bishop of Meaux (1009)
• Sainted GOSBERT the 4th Bishop of Osnabruck (859/874) in Germany and a disciple of St Ansgar
His was a particularly laborious episcopate.
• Pope and Confessor GREGORY II (731)
• HERLINDA (also Harlindis or Herlindis) Nun at Valenciennes, Fndr. and Abs. of Maeseyck (also Maaseyck or Maaseik) in Belgium (750)
• HUNA (690) a monk-priest in Ely in England under St Audrey (Etheldred) whom he helped in her last moments. He ended his life as a hermit in the fens near Chatteris, at a place now called Honey Farm after him
• JOSEPH 约熙福 of Volokolamsk (1515) founder of Volokolamsk (Volotsk) Monastery
• Martyr JULIAN of Lyons venerated in Lyons in France
The Roman Martyrology says that he suffered at Lyons, France, though many maintain that he was martyred at Nicomedia.
• JULIANA of Turin, Matr. (9th c.)
• JUSTINIAN
• LUCINUS (Lezin) (618) Bishop of Angers in France
• MAIUMAS an Ascetic
• Righteous MARTIN the Merciful
He was from the time of his youth distinguished by his benevolent heart and great pity for the poor. At age 20, before even he had accepted Baptism, he began to give away all his subsistence to the needy, and soon he himself remained with but only one set of clothes and a knife. It was winter, and bitterly cold, and he saw a beggar begging alms at the city gates, but no one gave him anything but instead just passed right by. Saint Martin was deeply distressed at seeing this. Finally he took his tunic off himself, cut it in half with his knife and gave the beggar the one half, while the other half he used to cover his own nakedness. Many scoffed at the saint, seeing how he was dressed. At night, shivering in the cold, he saw in a dream our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, dressed in half of the tunic ― that very one he had given to the beggar. The Lord said to the Angels while pointing to this tattered cloth: "Martin even before his Baptism hath covered Me with this cloth, and I shalt clothe him in glory, and at death I shalt call him into My Kingdom". Having awakened, the saint immediately went and was baptised. The rest of his life he spent incessantly working at charity, and he was vouchsafed the gift of wonderworking.
• Venerable monk MARTINIAN 玛尔提尼安 of Palestinian Caesarea (422)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μαρτινιανός
• MODOMNOC (Domnoc, Dominic) 摩多穆诺克 O'Neill, bishop of Ossory (550) the Patron Saint of bees
A disciple of St David in Wales and later a hermit in Tibraghny in Ireland.
• NIKANDER
• ONYSIMOS the Faster
• Venerabless PHOTINA (Photinia, Photeine, Photini, Photine, Fotina or Svetlana) 佛提纳 of Palestinian Caesarea (422/426)
The Blessed Maiden Photinia stayed living on the island, where she spent 6 years in solitude, and then she gave up her soul to God. Everything about her end was reported by that same sailor who brought her food, just as he had also previously for the Monk Martinian. By the winds of the sea St Photina was cast on the island where St Martinian had isolated himself. Martinian immediately fled the island and Photina remained there in fasting and prayer where she died. The sailor conveyed the body of Blessed Photinia to Palestinian Caesarea, where it was solemnly buried by the bishop and clergy.
• Martyr POLYEUCTUS of Melitene (250-259) in the Lesser Armenia
• Repose of Venerabless Abbesss SERAPHIMA of Sezenovo (1877)
Ἡ Ὁσία Σεραφείμα ἐκ Ρωσίας
• STEPHEN of Lyons (512) Bishop of Lyons in France, he was active in converting the Arian Burgundians to Orthodoxy
• STEPHEN of Rieti (590) Abbot in Rieti in Italy whom St Gregory the Great describes as Rude of Speech But Of Cultured Life
• Sainted 提摩泰 TIMOTHY I patriarch of Alexandria (385)
• Sainted WIHO Bishop of Osnabrück (804)
• Venerabless ZOE (also Zoa or Zoë) 佐伊 of Bethlehem, Pen. (428)
At first Zoe was a prostitute and a temptress of St Martinian. When she saw this ascetic leap into the fire in order to subdue in himself all lust, she bitterly repented, retreated to a convent in Bethlehem where, as an ascetic and recluse, heroically lived a life of mortification. Repenting of all her sins, she received from God the gift of working miracles.

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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.

• συνοδικός • February 25 / February 12 •

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February 25 / February 12
2018 （7526）
Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή • GREAT 40 DAYS • Μεγάλη Νηστεία • GREAT FAST
DAY 7
First Sunday of the Great Lent: TRIUMPH OF ORTHODOXY
On the same day, the First Sunday of the Fast, we commemorate the restoration of the Holy and Honorable Icons, which was brought about by the ever-memorable Emperors of Constantinople, Michael and his mother Theodora, during the Patriarchate of the Holy Confessor Methodios.

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• Appearance of The Hodegetria Icon PANAGIA PORTAITISSA ("Gate-Keeper") of the IVERON Mother of God, Mt Athos (9th c.) glorified by the Lord with many miracles
Παναγία Πορταΐτισσα
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Ἰβηριτίσσης
The original of this image is found in the Georgian Iviron monastery on Mount Athos in Greece, where it is believed to have been since the year 999. The synaxis (feast day) for this icon is on February 12, as well as on Bright Tuesday, and also on October 13 for the translation to Moscow of the copy of Iveron icon. A unique characteristic of this icon is what appears to be a scar on the Virgin Mary's right cheek or her chin. A number of different traditions exist to explain this, but the one most commonly held by Orthodox Christians is that the icon was stabbed by a soldier in Nicaea during the period of Byzantine iconoclasm under the Emperor Theophilus (829–842). According to tradition, when the icon was stabbed, blood miraculously flowed out of the wound.
• "CYPRUS" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos from the village Stromyn, Moscow region (1841) // movable holiday on the 1st Sunday of the Great Lent // JUL 9 //
The Cypriot Icon of the Mother of God appears thus: the Mother of God sits upon a throne with the Divine Infant in Her arms, and at Her sides are two angels, holding branches. The holy icon manifest itself in the year 392 on the Island of Cyprus, and is situated there in a monastery. Reknown venerable copies from it are at the Moscow Uspensky cathedral, and in the Nikolo-Golutvinsk church in the village of Stromyna, Moscow diocese.
• Panagia YPSENI in Rhodes // APR 18 // BRIGHT WEDNESDAY AFTER PASCHA //
The holy and most-honored icon of the Panagia "Ypsenis" was hidden beneath an olive tree in the eponymous village of Lardos, which was the site of an old Monastery of the Most-Holy Theotokos. In that place was often found in asceticism and prayer our Holy Father Meletios (February 12), who one night became an eye-witness to a marvelous spectacle. A column of light came down from the sky lighting up the tree and surrounding area. Surprised he approached and found an old looking icon of the Mother of God. The next night the Theotokos appeared to him in a dream telling him to build in her name a temple at the place where he found the icon, in order to place the icon, and to establish a monastery, to continue in his asceticism.
At the same time she showed him a place near the area where she told him to dig to find the necessary money for such a large project. The Saint obeyed the command of the Panagia, dug at the place suggested, and found the buried treasure by which he managed to meet the costs of building. He built the temple in which he treasured the Holy Icon, and refounded the ruined monastery, where he lived in asceticism till the end of his earthly life. The miraculous icon is treasured until now in the homonymous monastery and is honored by the faithful and is a source of many miracles to those who approach with faith and reverence.
• Consecration of the Church of the Theotokos in Pousgin (1002)
Ἐγκαίνια Ναοῦ Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου εἰς Πούσγην
● • Martyrs MODESTUS and JULIAN at Carthage (2nd c.)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰουλιανὸς καὶ Μόδεστος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Venerabless MARIA (also Maria, Mary, Mariam, Marinus, Marinos, Marius or Maryana) 玛利亚 of Bithynia, who dressed in men’s attire as monk Marinos 玛利诺 (527); and her father EUGENE (also Eugenius or Evgenios) 艾弗革尼 Monk of Alexandria (502)
Ἡ Ὁσία Μαρία ἡ μετονομασθείσα Μαρίνος
Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐγένιος
Her sex was finally revealed at her death, when of course all concerned in the affair were filled with remorse. The brethren arriving saw the deceased "monk" and the boy crying over "him". When they began to dress the saint for burial, her secret was revealed. The hegumen of the monastery tearfully besought forgiveness of the departed, and the inn-keeper too followed his example. The body of Saint Maria was reverently buried in the monastery. The daughter of the inn-keeper came to the grave of the saint and openly confessed her sin, in connection with which she was healed from a demonic illness. The boy whom the saint was raising afterwards became a monk. The relics of the saint were transferred to Constantinople, and from there in 1113 were carried off to Venice.
• MM SATURNINUS and PLUTINUS
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• New Hieromartyr ALEXIUS 阿莱克西 (Semeon Buy) bishop of Voronezh (1892-1930) shoted 3 November 1937 in urochishche Sandomorkh near Medvezhjegorsk, Karelia // OCT 21 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Βορονὲζ
• New Hieromartyr archpriest MITROPHAN (1931)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μητροφάνης ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ἐκ Ρωσίας
• Martyr EUGENE Posel’anin (Evgeny Nikolayevich Pogozhev) religious writer, essayist and journalist (1870-1931) day of martyrdom // JAN 30 //
Among his best known books are: Starets Ilarion Troyekurovsky (1895), Poetry of Faith. A.N. Maykov, the Poet of Russia and Russian Orthodoxy (1898), Sacred Sites of the Russian Land (1899), Konstantin Nikolayevich Leontyev (1900), The Tale of Saint Leaders of the Russian Land (1900), Christ's Warriors. Tales From the Lives of Saints (1902), Petersburg Relics (1903), Letters on Monastic Life (1911).
● • Sainted ALEXIS 阿莱克西 metropolitan of Moscow and wonderworker of all Russia (1378) // FEB 12 // MAY 20 UNCOV REL // OCT 5 //
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀλέξιος ὁ Θαυματουργός Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Μόσχας
• Sainted 安托尼 ANTONY II Kauleas (829-901) Patriarch of Constantinople
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως
Patriarch Anthony II was a pious man who generously endowed monastic foundations and founded or re-founded the Kaulea Monastery (more accurately called "Kalliou") with the support of the emperor ― a monastery over the relics of Saint Kallia (February 12).
• ANTONIUS III Studites (980/983) Patriarch of Constantinople
• Blessed ATHANASIA (also Anastasia) Logacheva, Cave-Dweller, Hermitess (1875)
• Venerable BASSIAN 瓦西安 abbot of Ryabovsky Forest Monastery, Uglich (1509) disciple of St Paisius of Uglich
Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασιανὸς τοῦ Οὔγκλιχ
• Venerable Abbot BENEDICT of Aniane (750-821)
• BENEDICT Revelli (900) a monk at Santa Maria dei Fonti in Italy and then a hermit on the island of Gallinaria in the Gulf of Genoa. In 870 he became Bishop of Albenga
• Hieromartyr Bishop BLAISE (also known as Blase, Blasien, Blasius, Biagio) 瓦莱西 of Sebaste in Armenia (316); Languished in prison with Hieromartyr Bishop Blaise: 7 Holy Women and 2 Children beheaded at Sebaste (316)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Βλάσιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Σεβαστείας
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Δύο παῖδες καὶ Ἑπτὰ γυναῖκες οἱ συναθλητὲς τοῦ Ἁγίου Βλασίου
• Righteous Martyress CALLIA 卡利亚, Matr. (9th c.)
• Martyr DAMIAN in Rome whose relics were found in the catacombs of St Callistus and sent to Salamanca in Spain
• Martyr DAMIAN a soldier martyred in Africa, probably at Alexandria
• Sainted ETHILWOLD (Ethelwald, Aethelweald, Aedilauld) 埃提尔瓦尔德 Bishop of Lindisfarne (740) a disciple of St Cuthbert, he was Abbot of Melrose in Scotland before becoming Bishop of Lindisfarne in England
• VM EULALIA (also Aulaire, Aulazie or Olalla) of Barcelona, Pat. of Barcelona (Catalonia or Cataluña) (303) invoked against miscarriage, for or against rain and for calm waters
Saint Eulalia is represented in art as a maiden with a cross, stake, and dove.
• Archbishop FETHGNA of Armagh (9th c.) successor of Patrick and son of Nechtan of the Clann Eclidagh
• FORANNAN Abbot of Clonard, County of Meath (9th c.)
• Tr.Rel. of St FRIDESWIDE (also Frideswida or Fridespida) of Oxford, Abs. and Solitary, Pat. of Oxford (735)
• GAUDENTIUS of Verona (465) Bishop of Verona in Italy. His relics are enshrined in the ancient basilica of St Stephen in Verona
• M GERASINA near Cologne (5th c.)
• GERTRUDE 格尔特路德 Abbess of Nivelles (Nijvel), in Brabant (659)
Benedictine abbess, the daughter of Blessed Pepin of Landen and Blessed Itta of Ida. Itta founded Nivelles Abbey and installed Gertrude as abbess in 639. Gertrude was a mystic, gifted with visions. She befriended the Irish saints Foillian and Ultan. The legend of Gertrude's vision of the ocean voyage led her to be as well the patron saint of travelers. In memory of this event, medieval travelers drank a so-called "Sinte Geerts Minne" or "Gertrudenminte" before setting out on their journey. Her attention to the care of her garden led her assistance to be invoked by gardeners, and also against rats and mental illness.
• Sainted HELMWARD Bishop of Minden (958)
• Venerable Hieromartyr Bishop JOHN the Sinaite (1091)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Σιναΐτης
• JULIAN the Hospitaller also called "the Poor Man"
Tradition says that Julian killed his own parents in error. This was predicted one day while the nobleman was hunting. A deer reproached Julian for hunting him and said that in the future he would commit the crime. Afraid of committing such a terrible crime, Julian migrated to a far land and served the king there so well that he was knighted and given a rich widow in marriage with a castle for her dowry. One day he returned to his castle and went to the bedroom. Unknown to him, his parents had arrived unexpectedly, and being tired had got into Julian's own bed. Julian saw two figures there and not recognizing them under the bedclothes, he supposed them to be intruders and impetuously stabbed them both to death. He suspected that another man had been in bed with Julian's own wife. However, he met her as she was returning home from church. Distraught with grief and guilt, he told her he was about to leave her, no longer fit to live with decent people. She refused to abandon him. Together they set out to attempt to make amends for his crime. They forsook their fine castle and journeyed first to Rome to obtain absolution, then as far as a swiftly flowing, wide river where they built a hospital for the poor and an inn for travellers. In addition to this work, they did penance for Julian's crime by helping travellers across the swift river. After many years Julian was awakened one freezing night by a voice from the other side of the river crying for help. He got up, crossed over, and discovered a man almost frozen to death. Julian carried the man across the river and warmed him back to life in his own bed. The poor sufferer appeared to be a leper, but this did not stop Julian. And when the man recovered, he revealed himself to be a special messenger from God, sent to test the saint's kindness. "Julian," the leper said, "Our Lord sends you word that He has accepted your penance".
He is the patron of boatmen, ferrymen, innkeepers, musicians, travellers, and wandering minstrels.
• LUGAIDH of Cuil-Ruscach ("rushy-corner") in Breifne
• New Hosiosmartyr LUKE 路加 Mukhaidze, monk of Jerusalem (1277)
• The Holy New Martyr KRISTO (Chrestos) 克里斯托 the Gardener of Albania (1748) 赫里斯托
Ο Άγιος Νεομάρτυς Χρήστος ο Κηπουρός
Ὁ Ἅγιος Χρῆστος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Κηπουρός
• Sainted Patriarch MELETIUS 麦勒提 archbishop of Antioch (381)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μελέτιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ἀντιοχείας τῆς μεγάλης
• Venerable MELETIOS of Lardos (1855) builder of the sacred and revered Monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos of Ypseni (April 18) in Rhodes, in 1855
• Sainted MELETIUS 麦勒提 archbishop of Kharkov (1840)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μελέτιος Ἐπίσκοπος Χαρκώβ
• Martyr MODESTUS (2nd c.) martyred in Carthage in North Africa and venerated as the Patron Saint of Cartagena in Spain.
• Hieromartyr MODESTUS (304) a deacon, born in Sardinia and martyred under Diocletian. His relics were brought to Benevento in Italy in 785
• New Hosiosmartyr NICHOLAS 尼科拉 Dvali 德瓦利, monk of Jerusalem (1314)
• PROCHORUS 普若霍尔 of Georgia (11th c.) builder of Holy Cross Monastery near Jerusalem
Ὁ Ὅσιος Πρόχορος ἐκ Γεωργίας
• SIADHAL (Sedulius, Seadhal, Siadal) (5th c.) an Irish priest
• SISINNIOS the Bishop of God (919-944) in the region of the Metropolis of Ephesus
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σισίννιος Ἐπίσκοπος τοῦ Θεοῦ • Hieromartyr URBANUS 邬尔班 bishop of Rome (223-230)

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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.

• συνοδικός • February 24 / February 11 •

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February 24 / February 11
2018 （7526）
Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή • GREAT 40 DAYS • Μεγάλη Νηστεία • GREAT FAST
DAY 6

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• Our Lady of Lourdes
• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of PARGA in Nikopolis (1603)
● • Martyrs of Northwest Africa (303) known as the Guardians of the Holy Scriptures. They preferred martyrdom to giving up the sacred books to be burnt. They suffered under Diocletian persecutions rather than to deliver the sacred books to be burned. Saint Augustine of Hippo mentions especially those of Numidia
• Hieromartyr Presbyter SATURNINUS of Abitine, and his 4 children: Nun VM MARIA (also Mary), Lectors MM SATURNINUS and FELIX, and the younger son HILARION (also Hilarianus); together with approximately 46 Christians: Martyresses THELICA, EVA, VICTORIA, REGIOLA (Regula), POMPONIA, SECUNDA, JANUARIA, SATURNINA, MARGARITA, HONORATA, MATRONA, CAECILIA, RESTITUTA, BEREDINA, PRIMA (Primäva); MM DATIVA (also Dativus), ROGATIAN, Lector AMPELIUS, Lector EMERITUS, FELIX, ROGATIANUS, ROGATUS, JANUARIUS, CASSIANUS, VICTORIANUS, VINCENTIUS, CAECILIANUS, ROGATIANUS, JULIUS, ROGATUS, MARTINUS, DANTUS, FELIX, MAIOR, VICTORINUS, PELUSIUS, FAUSTUS, DACIANUS, QUINT, MAXIMIAN, GIVALIUS, CLAVT, FELIX and others; at Carthage (Albitina, Abitina or Abitine) in Africa (304)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Πρίμα, Ἀμπλίας, Δάτιβος, Πλωτίνος, Σατορνίνος, Φάβιος, Φῆλιξ οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς
A group of 46 martyrs in Albitina in North Africa. They were arrested at the liturgy and sent to Carthage for examination. Saturninus was a priest, and with him suffered his 4 children, Saturninus and Felix, readers, Mary, a virgin, and Hilarion, a young child. Dativus and another Felix were senators. Other names from this group which have come down to us are: Thelica, Ampelius, Emeritus, Rogatian and Victoria, a holy virgin of undaunted courage. The child Hilarion, when threatened by the magistrates while his companions were being tortured, replied: "Yes, torture me too; anyhow, I am a Christian". They all died in prison.
• Hieromartyr Bishop BLAISE (also known as Blase, Blasien, Blasius, Biagio) 瓦莱西 of Sebaste in Armenia (316); Languished in prison with Hieromartyr Bishop Blaise: 7 Holy Women and 2 Children beheaded at Sebaste (316)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Βλάσιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Σεβαστείας
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Δύο παῖδες καὶ Ἑπτὰ γυναῖκες οἱ συναθλητὲς τοῦ Ἁγίου Βλασίου
Saint Blaise, the Patron of wild animals, physicians, sick cattle, wax-chandlers, and woolcombers, invoked for diseases of the throat, the Bishop of Sebastea, Armenia, lived under Emperor Licinius. He had retired to a grotto on a mountain side where he lived peacefully amidst savage beasts tamed by his blessing. Very skilled in medicine, he performed numerous healings. He received the gift of miracles from God. He was captured and brought before President Agricola. He confessed Christ's name and for this was cruelly struck with rods, then suspended and thrashed... Seven women went along behind and gathered up the drops of blood. These they arrested and tried to compel them to worship the idols. The women in pretending to consent to this said, that they needed cleansing beforehand in the waters of a lake. They took along the idols and submerged them in a very deep portion of the lake, and after this the Christians were fiercely tortured. The saints stoically endured the torments, strengthened by the grace of God, their bodies were transformed and became white like snow, and together with the blood there flowed what seemed like milk. One of the women had two young sons, who implored their mother that she help them attain the Kingdom of Heaven and she entrusted them into the care of Saint Blaise. The seven holy women were then beheaded.
Cast to the bottom of a pond, Blaise was brought back to shore and beheaded at the same time as two children who were in prison with him.
• Hieromartyr LUCIUS Bishop of Adrianople, and Companions (350)
Lucius, who succeeded Eutropius as bishop of Adrianople, was driven from his see to Gaul for having opposed Arianism. He played a leading role in the Council of Sardica in 347. Under the protection of Pope Saint Julius I, he returned to Adrianople, but refused to be in communion with the Arian bishops condemned at Sardica. On this account he was arrested and died in prison. A group of his faithful Christians, who had been siezed with him, were beheaded by order of the Emperor Constantius.
• MM PRISCUS a bishop of Capua in North Africa, his priests CASTRENSIS, TAMMARUS, ROSIUS, HERACLIUS, SECUNDINUS, ADJUTOR, MARK, AUGUSTUS, ELPIDIUS, CANION and VINDONIUS (5th c.)
Priscus, a bishop in North Africa, and his priests were cast adrift in a boat by the Arian Vandals. They reached the south of Italy, where eventually Priscus became Bishop of Capua.
• Venerabless MARIA (also Maria, Mary, Mariam, Marinus, Marinos, Marius or Maryana) 玛利亚 of Bithynia, who dressed in men’s attire as monk Marinos 玛利诺 (527); and her father EUGENE (also Eugenius or Evgenios) 艾弗革尼 Monk of Alexandria (502)
• Hieromartyr Abbot BLAISE of Kiafa-Sklavena in Acarnania (1006) together with 2 Hieromonks and 3 Monks and others
Ὁ Ἅγιος Βλάσιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ἐξ Ἀκαρνανίας
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Repose of Archbishop SIMON Vinogradov, of Shanghai and Peking (1933)
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Simon, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
● • VM APOLLONIA 阿颇罗尼亚 a deaconess, at Alexandria (249) // FEB 9 //
Persecutors seized that marvelous aged virgin Apollonia, broke out all her teeth with blows on her jaws, and piling up a bonfire before the city, threatened to burn her alive if she refused to recite with them their blasphemous sayings. But she asked for a brief delay. . . . Because of the nature of her torments, Saint Apollonia is pictured holding a tooth (sometimes gold) with a pair of pincers or with a golden tooth hanging from a necklace. She may be shown after her teeth were pulled out or simply with a book and pincers. She is invoked by those suffering from toothache. If she does not have the pincers, she usually wears a necklace made of her own teeth. She is the patron of dentists.
• Venerable Abbot BENEDICT 文奈迪克特 of Aniane (750-821)
A Visigoth, by name Witiza, he was born in Languedoc in France. In 773 he became a monk at Saint-Seine near Dijon and in 779 founded a monastery in Languedoc by a stream called Aniane. The Emperor asked him to oversee monasteries in Languedoc, Provence and Gascony and eventually all those in French and Germany.
• BRIGID
• Monk CAEDMON 凯德蒙 of Whitby, Father of English Poetry (680) a Northumbrian, who worked at the monastery of Whitby in England as a farm-labourer. He was the first Englishman to write Orthodox hymns. Disciple of Saint Hilda
• CALOCERUS (130) a disciple of St Apollinaris, whom he succeeded as Bishop of Ravenna in Italy
• Venerable CASSIAN the Barefoot (in the world Kosmas) ascetic of the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery (1532)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Κασσιανὸς ἐκ Ρωσίας
• Bishop CASTRENSIS of Capua (5th c.)
Saint Castrensis has a second feast day on September 1 together with Priscus, an African bishop, and his priests (Tamarus, Rosius, Heraclius, Secundinus, Adjutor, Mark, Augustus, Elpidius, Canion, and Vindonius) who were cast adrift in a rudderless boat by the Arian Vandals. They reached southern Italy, where eventually Priscus became bishop of Capua and several of the others were promoted to other sees. The Acta, however, are untrustworthy. It seems that the companions of Saint Priscus are Campanian (Italian) saints unconnected with the story in the Roman Martyrology. One opinion interprets Priscus Castrensis as meaning "Priscus formerly bishop of Castra in northern Africa".
• COGHNAT (also Cognat) of Earnaidhe (Urney) in Tyrone, Cavan, King’s County
• DESIDERATUS (Désiré) (6th c.) successor of St Avitus as Bishop of Clermont in Auvergne in France
• DESIDERIUS (608) born in Autun he became Bishop of Vienne in France. He defended Orthodox values and was murdered for this at the place now called Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne
• Venerable DEMETRIUS 迪弥特里 monk of Priluki, Vologda (1392) // FEB 11 // JUN 3 //
Ὁ Ὅσιος Δημήτριος ἐκ Ρωσίας
• ETCHEN (Etchenius, Ecian or Echen) of Clonfad, bishop and patron of Clonfad, County Westmeath, Ireland
• Translation (879) of relics of Hieromartyr EUGENE 1st Bishop of Toledo (646)
• GEORGE Abbot in Serbia
• Holy Martyr GEORGE 格奥尔吉 of Kratovo (1515) burned at the stake, suffered in Sofia, Bulgaria
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεώργιος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐκ Σερβίας
• GOBNAIT 格博奈特 (also Gobnat, Gobnata, Gopnat, Gobnet or Deborah) of Münster, Abs. of Ballyvourney (Burneagh), Co. Cork; Fndr. of Kilgobnet (Gobnait’s Church), as well as a monastery in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford; Pat. of Bees (5–6th c.) Patron Saint of beekeepers
Abbess of a convent in Ballyvourney in Co. Cork in Ireland. A holy well named after her still exists there.
St Abigail is an Irish saint from the 5th century. St Abigail gailic name is Gobnait, and in England she was known as St Deborah, denoting honeybee.
St Gobnata was born in County Clare, Ireland at the end of the fifth, or beginning of the sixth, century. An angel appeared to her one day and told her to leave and to keep walking until she found nine white deer. Eventually, she saw three white deer at Clondrohid, County Cork, and decided to follow them. Then, at Ballymakeera, she saw six white deer. Finally, at Ballyvourney, she came upon nine white deer grazing in a wood. There, she was given land for a women’s monastery by her spiritual Father, St Abban of Kilabban, and he installed her as abbess. St Gobnata was renowned for her gift of healing, and there is a story of how she kept the plague from Ballyvourney. She is also famous for her skill as a bee-keeper. One day, St Gobnata was watching from a hill overlooking a valley as an invading chieftain and his army came through, destroying crops and driving off cattle. She sent the bees to attack them, and the army was thrown into such confusion that they left without their plunder. The holy virgin St Gobnata fell asleep in the Lord on February 11. The exact year of her death is not known, but it probably occurred in the sixth century. Although she is regarded as the patron saint of Ballyvourney, she is venerated throughout southern Ireland. There are churches dedicated to her in Waterford and Kerry, and she is also revered in Scotland.
• GREGORY II Pope of Rome (669-731)
Born in Rome, he was librarian and archivist of the Roman Church, when he was chosen Pope in 715. He is famous for encouraging the spreading of the Gospel among the Germanic peoples, to whom he sent St Boniface and St Corbinian. He restored several Italian monasteries, notably Montecassino. He also opposed Iconoclasm and checked the advancing Lombards.
• Venerable GREGORY of Sinai (1346) a great neptic father and teacher of noetic prayer to Mount Athos and the Balkan people // NOV 27 // FEB 11 // APR 6 //
• Hermit JONAS the Gardener of Demeskenyanos (4th c.)
Saint Jonas was an Egyptian monk of Demeskenyanos under Saint Pachomius. He was the gardener for the community for 85 years, working in this capacity during the day, and at night plaiting ropes and singing Psalms.
• LAZARUS of Milan (450) Archbishop of Milan in Italy, he defended his flock from the Ostrogoths
• Hieromartyr LUCIUS 路基 of Adrianopolis in Thrace (348)
• PASCHAL I Pope of Rome (824) supported missionary activities in Denmark
Paschal loved religious art even though he lived at a time when many people in the Eastern churches were breaking up sacred pictures in the belief that these were idolatrous images. Fanatics would even murder those who supported the use of fine art to decorate Christian churches and foster the spirit of worship. Though he was unsuccessful in ending the iconoclast heresy of Emperor Leo V, Pascal did his best to help Eastern Christians who were fighting to stop this destruction of great religious art. He sent his aides to try to secure the release of Abbot Theodore the Studite, who had been imprisoned for defending sacred icons, and encouraged Saint Nicephorus. And Paschal gave shelter to many Greek monks who had fled from the east in fear of those who were destroying what they held to be precious aids to the Christian life. While Pascal did not succeed in ending this strife, the influence of Eastern artists can be seen in the work done between 817 and 824 (while he was pope) to embellish Rome. Pascal, for instance, rebuilt the Roman church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, and made it into a fitting shrine for the bones of Saint Cecilia. This church has been considerably rebuilt since then, but another church in Rome, Santa Maria in Domnica, remains substantially as it was after Pascal had restored it and shows his deeply held beliefs.
• Monk PORPHYRIOS Fool for Christ
• Great Martyr THEODORE Tyro (306) // MOVABLE HOLIDAY ON SATURDAY OF THE 1ST WEEK OF THE GREAT LENT //
50 years after the martyr's death of Saint Theodore, the emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363), wanting to commit an outrage upon the christians, commanded the city-commander of Constantinople during the first week of Great Lent to sprinkle all the food provisions in the market-places with the blood of idol-sacrifices. Saint Theodore, having appeared in a dream to archbishop Eudoxios, ordered him to inform all the christians, ― that no one should buy anything at the market-places, but rather to eat cooked wheat with honey ― kolivo ( kut'ya or sochivo). In memory of this occurrence the Orthodox Church annually makes celebration of the holy Great Martyr Theodore of Tyre on Saturday of the first week of Great Lent.
• Righteous THEODORA 妇德奥多拉 a Greek Empress of Constantinople (867) Restored the Veneration of Icons
Ἡ Ἁγία Θεοδώρα ἡ Βασίλισσα
Theodora, a Greek empress, was the wife of the nefarious Emperor Theophilus the Iconoclast. After the death of Theophilus, Theodora became the ruling empress and reigned together with her son Michael III. At the Council in Constantinople (842 A.D.), she immediately restored the veneration of icons. This holy and meritorious woman of the Church gave up her soul to God on February 11, 867 A.D. It was at that time, by the divine and wonderful Providence of God, at the solemn triumph of Orthodoxy over all heresies, that St Cyril and St Methodius were sent as Christian missionaries to the Slavs. Together with Saint Methodius, Theodora instituted the Feast of Orthodoxy on the first Sunday in Lent, which celebrates the restoration of holy images for veneration.
There is a much-debated story that, when Theophilus was dying, the Empress, moved by compassion for him, brought an icon of the Mother of God out of hiding and laid it on his face; and that Theophilus, coming to himself, kissed the holy icon and confessed the true Faith before giving up his soul. Other accounts say that the Emperor died in heresy. It seems possible that the holy Empress circulated the story to ensure that her departed husband would be remembered in the Church's prayers.
• SEVERINUS of Agaunum (507) a Burgundian who became the Abbot of Agaunum in Switzerland
• Holy Nobleborn VSEVOLOD 维塞佛洛德 (in holy baptism Gabriel 为加百列) Prince and Wonderworker of Pskov (1138) // FEB 11 // APR 22 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γαβριὴλ ὁ βασιλέας
• Uncovering (415) of the relics of Righteous Prophet ZECHARIAH (3) the father of St John the Baptist
Εὕρεσις Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Ζαχαρίου Πατρὸς Ἰωάννου Προδρόμου
• A Mother martyred in Sebaste (4th c.)

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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.

• συνοδικός • February 23 / February 10 •

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February 23 / February 10
2018 （7526）
Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή • GREAT 40 DAYS • Μεγάλη Νηστεία • GREAT FAST
DAY 5

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• The Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Areovindus 火焰神视 "THE FIERY VISION" (598)
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν τοῖς Ἀρεοβίνδου
The icon of the Mother of God is depicted with the face turned to the right side, without the Child Jesus. The bright red color of her outer garment inspired the name Areovindus, or "Fire Appearing" ("Fiery Vision").
● Synaxis of NOVGOROD Hierarchs (1439) // FEBRUARY 10 HOLY NOBLEBORN VENERABLESS ANNA OF NOVGOROD, GRAND DUCHESS OF KIEV, NUN (1056) MOTHER OF VLADIMIR PRINCE OF NOVGOROD // OCTOBER 4 HOLY RIGHTBELIEVING WONDERWORKER VLADIMIR PRINCE OF NOVGOROD (1052) SON OF PRINCE YAROSLAV // 3RD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST //
Οἱ Ἅγιοι πάντες Ἱεράρχες ἐν Νόβγκοροντ τῆς Ρωσίας
• JOACHIM 约雅敬 of Korsun, 1st bishop of Novgorod (988-1030)
Ἰωακεὶμ
• Bishop LUKE 路加 Zhyd'ata (the Jew) (1060) bishop of Novgorod // OCT 15 //
Λουκᾶς
• GERMANUS 革尔曼 bishop of Novgorod (1078-1096)
Γερμανὸς
• ARCADIUS 阿尔卡迪 bishop of Novgorod (1157-1162) // SEP 18 //
Ἀρκάδιος
• GREGORY 格奥尔吉 archbishop of Novgorod (1193) // MAY 24 //
Γρηγόριος
• MARTYRIUS 玛尔提里 archbishop of Novgorod (1199) // AUG 24 //
Μαρτύριος
• ANTHONY 安托尼 archbishop of Novgorod (1231) // OCT 8 //
Ἀντώνιος
• BASIL 瓦西里 Kalika (the Lame) (1352) archbishop of Novgorod // JUL 3
Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασίλειος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Νόβγκοροντ τῆς Ρωσίας
• SIMEON 西面 archbishop of Novgorod (1421) // JUN 15 //
Συμεὼν
• GENNADIUS 艮纳迪 archbishop of Novgorod (1504) // DEC 4 //
Γεννάδιος
• PIMEN 彼敏 archbishop of Novgorod (1553-1571)
Ποιμὴν
• APHTHONIUS 阿佗尼 metropolitan of Novgorod (1653) // APR 6 //
Ἀφφώνιος
• Bishop NIKITA the Recluse (1108) // JAN 31 //
• NIPHON bishop (1156) // APR 8 //
• JOHN archbishop (1186) // SEP 7 //
• THEOCTISTUS archbishop (1310) // DEC 23 //
• MOSES 摩西 archbishop (1362) // JAN 25 //
• EUTHYMIUS archbishop (1458) // MAR 11 //
• JONAH archbishop (1470) // NOV 5 //
• SERAPION archbishop (1516) // MAR 16 //
● • MM ANDREW and APONIUS (1st c.) martyred at Bethlehem during the persecution mentioned in Acts 12, in which Saint James the Great was put to death
• A group of 10 soldiers: ZOTICUS, IRENAEUS, HYACINTH, AMANTIUS and Companions (120) martyred in Rome and buried on the Via Lavicana
• Hieromartyr HARALAMBOS 哈拉兰彼 bishop of Magnesia in Thessaly (202) as well as MM soldiers PORPHYRIUS 颇尔斐里 and BAPTUS 瓦普特; 3 Holy Martyresses of Magnesia; and Righteous Martyress GALLINA (also Galina) W., Turkey (3rd c.)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Χαράλαμπος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Βάπτος καὶ Πορφύριος οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ τρεῖς πιστεύσαντες γυναῖκες
Saint Charalampos, a priest, lived in Magnesia under Emperor Septimus Severus (193-211) and President Lucian. Because he taught the true life, he was seized and stripped of his priestly robe. His skin was flayed. Irritated by the Saint's endurance, the President insisted on scraping his body with his own hands. On the spot, he had his hands cut off and thrown on the martyr's body. Then he implored the Saint to heal him, which he did. Upon seeing this, two men, Dauctus and Porphyrios, the executioners, repudiated the idols and believed in Christ, as well as did three women who were in the crowd. Although miraculously cured the President persisted in his impiety and had all of them seized. After many tortures, he cruelly ordered them to be beheaded.
• 10 Soldiers martyred on the Via Lavicana in Rome (250)
• MM ZOTICUS, IRENÄUS, HYAZINTHUS, AMANTIUS of Rome (304)
• MM ENNATHA 恩纳塔, VALENTINA (also Alevtina) 瓦伦提纳 and PAULA 帕弗拉 at Caesarea of Palestine (308)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἐνναθᾶ, Οὐαλεντίνα καὶ Παῦλος οἱ Παρθενομάρτυρες
• Archimandrite RAPHAEL (1765) and Hieromonk IOANNICIUS (1882) of Svatogorsk Monastery
• MARKUS and JOHANNES
• PAULUS and VALENTINA and THEA
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• New Hieromartyr PETR 裴特若 Grudinskij, presbiter, priest (1877-1930) day of martyrdom, shoted at Minsk
• New Hieromartyr VALERIAN 瓦莱里安 Novitskij, presbiter, priest (1897-1930) day of martyrdom, shoted; graved at Timkovichi forest, at Nesvizhsk of Minsk
• New Hieromartyr ANATOLE 阿纳托利 Grisük, metropolitan of Odessa (1938)
● • AIRENNAN Bishop of Tallagh, County of Dublin (9th c.)
• Sainted 阿纳斯塔西 ANASTASIUS II archbishop of Jerusalem (705)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀναστάσιος Πατριάρχης Ἱεροσολύμων
• ANASTASIUS Patriarch of Constantinople (754)
• Holy Nobleborn Venerabless ANNA 安纳 of Novgorod, Grand Duchess of Kiev, Nun (1056) wife of Yaroslav I of Novgorod and Kiev, mother of Vladimir Prince of Novgorod
Ἡ Ὁσία Ἄννα ἡ Πριγκίπισσα
The Nobleborn Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden, Princess Anna of Novgorod, spouse of Great Prince Yaroslav the Wise, gave a true Christian upbringing to her children, marked by a strong faith in God, love of work, integrity and learning. Her son Mstislav became afterwards GreatPrince of Kiev, and her daughter ― queen of a West-European realm. The princess herself, having left the world, went into a monastery, where she finished her days in strict obedience and prayer in the year 1056.
• ANNA of Kashin
• AUSTREBERTA(also Eustreberta or Austrebertha), Abs. of Pavilly, Diocese of Rouen (Flanders) (630-704)
Born near Thérouanne, Artois, France, 630; died in Normandy, 704. Austreberta (means "wheat of God"), was the daughter of Saint Framechildis and the Count Palatine Badefrid. She received the veil from Saint Omer in the convent of Abbeville (Port-sur-Somme), where she later became abbess. She left the convent at Port to direct and reform a new and laxly established garret of 25 nuns in Parvilly.
• BALDEGUNDIS an Abbess of Saint-Croix in Poitiers (580) France, one of the most ancient of French convents
• Virgin BECGA (also Begga) Daughter of Gabhran (5th c.)
• CAEDMON the Father of English Poetry (670)
• Martyr CARPUS
• CRONAN (Mochua) of Clashmore, County Waterford, a spiritual son of the great Saint Carthage of Lismore
Mochua is a diminutive form of the name Cronan.
• DERLUGHA (also Derlua) of Lemmagh (present day Lawny), Cavan
• DESIDERATUS (Désiré) (6th c.) successor of St Avitus as Bishop of Clermont in Auvergne in France
• Hieromartyr ERLUPH (830) born in Ireland, he became Bishop of Werden in Germany and was martyred by pagans
This Saint must not be confounded with Ernulph, a most holy man, the apostle of Iceland, who flourished in the year 890.
• Venerable JOHN 约翰 Chimchimeli, the Philosopher, of Bachkovo and Gremi (1204) a great translator, philosopher, and defender of the Georgian Christian Faith
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Φιλόσοφος
Saint John translated many exegetical compositions, including two commentaries on the Book of Ecclesiastes, one by Metrophanes of Smyrna (Metropolitan of Smyrna (857-880); his Commentary on Ecclesiastes is preserved only in Georgian) and the other by Olympiodorus of Alexandria (a 6th-century deacon who wrote a series of commentaries on the books of the Bible, not to be confused with the neoplatonist philosopher also of the 6th century). He also translated “An Explanation of the Gospel According to Saint Mark” and “An Explanation of the Gospel According to Saint Luke”, both by Blessed Theophylactus of Bulgaria. The works of our Holy Father John of Chimchimeli are fundamental to the canon of Georgian theological literature.
• Venerable hieromonk LONGINUS 隆吉诺 of Koryazhemsk, Vologda (1540)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Λογγίνος ὁ Ἐρημίτης
• Venerabless MERWINNA (also Merewenna, Morwenna, Merwenna or Mervinna), 1st Abbess of Romsey, a convent in Hampshire in the south of England (970/ 993)
• Venerable PROCHORUS 普若霍尔 the Orach-eater (pigweed-eater) of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1107) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Anthony Near Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Πρόχορος ἐκ Ρωσίας
Prochorus was a miracle-worker of the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev. He is called the Orach-Eater because during the time that he lived in the Monastery of the Caves he did not taste of bread, rather he fed on orach, mixing it in his own way and from it prepared a type of bread. Whenever he would give someone his orach bread with a blessing, the bread tasted sweet as though prepared from honey; if someone stole the bread, it was as bitter as wormwood. One time when there was a shortage of salt in Russia, Prochorus distributed ashes to the people as though it were salt. The ashes, which he distributed with his blessing, were as salt. However, the ashes which someone would take on their own, was as ordinary ashes. Prince Svyatopolk ordered all the ashes from Prochorus' cell be taken to his palace without the permission and the blessing of the monk, Prochorus. When the ashes were removed, those who tasted of it were convinced that it was ashes and not salt. Then Prochorus told the people who came to him for salt to go to the emperor's palace and when the prince tosses out the ashes from his residence, to take them and carry them home as though they were salt. The people did so and again, the ashes were as salt. Believing in this, the prince himself was filled with respect and love toward the holy Prochorus, so that when he died in the year 1107 A.D., the prince, with his own hands, placed Prochorus in the tomb along side the great Russian Saints Anthony and Theodosius.
• PROTHADIUS (Protagius) (624) succeeded Saint Nicetius in the see of Besançon, where Clothaire II consulted him on all important matters
• SALVIUS (962) Abbot of Albelda in the north of Spain
This Benedictine monk of Albelda, northern Spain, was a prudent adviser at the courts of Navarre and Castile during the time of the reconquest. • Venerabless SCHOLASTICA 斯霍拉斯提卡 of Nursia, Fndr. and Abs. of Plombariola (480- 543) the twin sister of St Benedict of Nursia, Italy Sister of St Benedict and his constant fellow-laborer in the vineyard of Christ. The siblings were quite close. She was as devoted to Christ as she was to her brother. She became a nun and lived near Montecassino. They lived in neighboring monasteries; though they loved one another dearly, they met only once a year, spending the day in prayer and spiritual conversation, then parting after sharing a simple meal. At their meeting in 543, she prevailed on her brother (and the monk who accompanied him) to break his own monastic rule and stay with her in vigil through the night. Three days later, as Benedict looked out his cell window, he saw his sister's soul in the form of a dove ascending to heaven.
• SILVANUS Bishop of Terracina in Italy
Bishop Silvanus of Terracina is described in the Roman Martyrology as a Confessor, which would mean that he had suffered for the faith by imprisonment, torture or, perhaps, even death.
• VM SOTERIS (also Soteria) at Rome (304)
As a young Christian woman of Rome, Soteris, intent upon protecting her chastity with modesty, renounced the wearing of any finery that would have drawn attention to her exceptional beauty. During one of the many waves of persecution under the pagan Roman emperors, Soteris was arrested for her faith. After refusing to deny Christ before the judge interrogating her, she was repeatedly struck in the face. The Church Father Saint Ambrose, who was proud to be a descendant of Soteris' family, relates that, as Soteris was undergoing this torment, "she did not bend her head, did not turn her face away, did not emit a sigh or tear". Rather, Soteris considered herself honored to suffer what Christ had suffered when in his Passion he was struck in the face. Other tortures were also inflicted, but nothing was able to undermine Soteris' constancy. In the end, the judge ordered her to be beheaded.
• Sainted TRUMWIN (Trumma) of Whitby, Bishop of Abercorn (705)
Appointed in 681 by St Theodore and King Edfrid as Bishop of the Southern Picts in Scotland, he set up his diocese at the monastery of Abercorn on the Firth of Forth. In 685 King Egfrid was killed by the Picts and St Trumwin and all his monks had to flee. He retired to Whitby in England and lived an exemplary monastic life there.
• Holy Rightbelieving Wonderworker VLADIMIR Prince of Novgorod (1052) son of Prince Yaroslav (11th cent.)
• Venerable Righteous ZENO the Letter Carrier, hermit at Antioch, the Postman of Emperor Valens (4th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ζήνων ὁ Ταχυδρόμος
● • Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Zakynthos from the plague by Saint Charalampus (1728)
Μνήμη Θαύματος ἀπαλλαγῆς νήσου Ζακύνθου ἐκ τῆς πανώλης
Following the fall of various Venetian-occupied cities and forts in mainland Greece and the fall of Crete in 1669, Zakynthos became a key port for Venetian trade from and towards the Levant and Constantinople - where the Ottoman Turkish authorities lagged western Europe in disease prevention and control. Additionally, Zakynthos was only a short distance from the Peloponnese where again the Ottoman Turkish authorities were lax in enacting policies to prevent disease and building appropriate infrastructure to improve sanitary conditions and the health of the inhabitants of the area. Consequently, many merchants and sailors entered and exited the port of Zakynthos from Ottoman Turkish controlled ports - these merchants and sailors were sometimes unwilling to undergo the increasingly strict measures Zakynthos enacted to avoid plague, pestilence, cholera and other disease outbreaks. Therefore, the people of Zakynthos were at significant risk of being impacted by the plague, pestilence and other disease epidemics. Zakynthos did suffer from serious outbreaks of the plague in 1617, 1646, 1692 and 1728 and also smallpox in 1713, 1748 and 1778. One of the most famous victims of the 1728 plague was the painter and sometime doctor, Hieronymous Plakotos. He and his son died in his doctor's clinic and the local authorities decided to burn it, including his paintings, fearing a further outbreak. From the beginning of the 18th century the sanitary measures taken by the Venetian authorities and enacted by local Cittadini such as strict control of population movements and quarantine, improved lazarettos, better trained public health offices and coastal garrisons, reduced the incidences of outbreaks in the 18th century.
In the year 1728 George Xenos of Zakynthos had a dream in which he saw Saint Haralambos thwarting off the deadly plague. Immediately after this vision the spread of the horrible disease began to subsist, and the population of Zakynthos appealed to the Venetian authorities to ratify the building of a new stone church dedicated to Saint Haralambos in Potami. Permission was granted and a beautiful church was erected. Annually a procession took place on February 10th to commemorate the deliverance of Zakynthos from the plague of 1728 by Saint Haralambos. In 1732 the iconographer Nicholas Kallergis, who painted most of the images of the church, painted a processional icon depicting the deliverance of Zakynthos from the plague by Saint Haralambos, and this image was coated in silver in 1743.

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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.

• συνοδικός • February 22 / February 9 •

συνοδικός

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February 22 / February 9
2018 （7526）
Leavetaking of the Meeting of Our Lord
Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή • GREAT 40 DAYS • Μεγάλη Νηστεία • GREAT FAST
DAY 4

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• Hieromartyrs MARCELLUS 玛尔凯洛 bishop of Sicily (101); PHILAGRIUS 斐拉格里 bishop of Cyprus (91); and PANCRATIUS 庞克拉提 bishop of Taormina (1st c.) disciples of Apostle Peter
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μάρκελλος καὶ Παγκράτιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
Ὁ Ἅγιος Φιλάγριος Ἐπίσκοπος Κύπρου
The Priestmartyrs Marcellus, Philagrios and Pankratios were disciples of the Holy Foremost of the Apostles Peter and were made bishops by him: Saint Marcellus – of Sicily, Philagrios – of Cyprus, and Pankratios – of Tauromeneia. Saint Markellos was the father according to the flesh of Saint Pankratios, and while our Lord Jesus Christ was still alive physically on the earth and worked wonders, he heard of His miracles, and taking his son Pankratios and his wife they went from Antioch to Jerusalem to see the Lord, but since He already Ascended to Heaven, they were thus baptized by the Apostle Peter. Markellos and Pankratios then became disciples of the Apostle Peter. Saint Pankratios was consecrated by the Apostle Peter as Bishop of the Sicilian city of Taormina. There he preached the word of Christ, and was secretly killed by the Montanists. He is also celebrated by the Church on July 9th. Saint Markellos was ordained Bishop of Sicily, and converted many Greek pagans to the Lord. He completed his life in peace. Saint Philagrios was ordained Bishop of Cyprus, where he taught and preached the name of Christ. After enduring many trials and temptations on behalf of the true faith, he departed to the Lord.
• VM APOLLONIA 阿颇罗尼亚 a deaconess, with METRAS, QUINTA, and SERAPION and others at Alexandria (249)
Saint Apollonia was an elderly virgin and deaconess of Alexandria, whose martyrdom was described by Saint Dionysius of Alexandria (October 5) in one of his letters. When Decius became emperor in 249, he launched the greatest attack upon Christianity up to that time, becoming the first emperor to call for its total extermination. Saint Dionysius says that the persecution started at Alexandria a year before it began in other places, incited by a certain "prophet and poet of evil," who stirred up the people against the Christians. Backed by the power of the government, the pagans massacred Christians, believing that they were serving their false gods by doing so. The "aged and excellent virgin Apollonia" was seized and struck in the face until all her teeth were knocked out. The mob built a fire outside the city and threatened to burn her alive unless she agreed to worship the idols and sacrifice to the emperor’s genius. Saint Apollonia asked the pagans to let go of her for a moment so that she could pray. As soon as they did, she leaped into the flames and was consumed, receiving a double crown of martyrdom and virginity.
Persecutors seized that marvelous aged virgin Apollonia, broke out all her teeth with blows on her jaws, and piling up a bonfire before the city, threatened to burn her alive if she refused to recite with them their blasphemous sayings. But she asked for a brief delay. . . . Because of the nature of her torments, Saint Apollonia is pictured holding a tooth (sometimes gold) with a pair of pincers or with a golden tooth hanging from a necklace. She may be shown after her teeth were pulled out or simply with a book and pincers. She is invoked by those suffering from toothache. If she does not have the pincers, she usually wears a necklace made of her own teeth. She is the patron of dentists.
• Martyr ALEXANDER of Rome who was accompanied in his confession and death by 38 others
• 44 Christians martyred in Membressa in Africa including AMMON, EMILIAN, LASSA and Companions
• Martyrs ALEXANDER and AMMONIUS and other 20 martyred at Soli, Cyprus (249)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἄμμων καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος οἱ Μάρτυρες ἐκ Κύπρου
• Hieromartyrs deacons PRIMUS and DONATUS (362) in Lavallum in North Africa martyred by Donatists
Deacons Primus and Donatus were slain by Donatists during a struggle for control of the Church at Lavallum in northwest Africa.
• Venerabless ATTRACTA (also Adhracht, Athracta, Araght, Athracht, Athrachta, Tarahata, Taraghta or Adrochta) of Ireland, Anchoress and Healer (494) Fndr. of monastery of Killaracht (Cell of Adhracht) near Boyle and Lake Techet (now Lough Cara or Gara), Coolavin, Co. Sligo; and her maiden St MITAIN (5-6th c.)
Attracta received the veil from St Patrick, and lived at a place called from her Kill-Attracta to this day, in Connaught.
• Brother and Sister VM SUSANNA and M VICTOR at Mouzon on the Meuse above the Sedan
• Venerable AEMILIANUS 埃弥利亚诺 of Tours, Hermit in Pionsat (590) Clermont-Ferrand in France; and BRACCHIO 弗拉克希 of Tours (576) a Hunter who got caught in the trap of a hermit
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Uncovering (1992) of the relics of New Hieroconfessor Sainted TIKHON (Basil Belavin) Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus (1865-1925) and Enlightener of North America // APR 7 REPOSE // OCT 9 GLORIFICATION //
Εὕρεσις Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Ἰννοκεντίου ἐκ Ρωσίας
• New Hieromartyr BASIL Izmajlov, presbiter, archpriest (1885-1930) day of death in Solovki KZ
• New Hieromartyr PETR Metropolitain of Kruticy (1937)
• New Hieromartyr IOANN 約安 Fr’azinov, presbiter, priest (1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo, Moskow
• New Hieromartyr Priest DEMETRIUS (Dimitri) Klepinine, of Paris, Martyred in Buchenwald and come to death in Dora Mittelbau KZ (1904-1944) Mittelbau-Dora (also Dora-Mittelbau and Nordhausen-Dora) was a German Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. It was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, supplying slave labour from many countries occupied by Germany (including Italian POWs and evacuated survivors of eastern extermination camps), for extending the nearby tunnels in the Kohnstein and for manufacturing the V-2 rocket and the V-1 flying bomb. In the summer of 1944, Mittelbau became an independent concentration camp with numerous subcamps of its own. In 1945, most of the surviving inmates were evacuated by the SS. On 11 April 1945, US troops freed the remaining prisoners. Around one in three of the roughly 60 000 prisoners who were sent to Mittelbau did not survive.
● • Venerable ALTO abbot of Altomünster (760)
Born in Ireland, he went to Germany and settled as a hermit in a forest near Augsburg. There he founded a monastery, now called Altomünster after him.
• Bishop ANSBERT (Aubert) of Fontenelle (700) from being Chancellor at the Court of Clotaire III he became a monk at Fontenelle in the north of France. He was chosen 3rd abbot and in 683 became Bishop of Rouen
• CAIRECH Dergain (also Caireach, Carissa or Cairec) of Cluain Boirinn (or Bairenn in Húa Maine on the brink of the Shannon) (present day Clonburren Parish) at Moore, Co. Roscommon (6th c.)
• CRONAN the Wise (8th c.)
The Irish Bishop Saint Cronan is called "the wise" because he systematized Irish canon law. He was a lover of liturgy and modesty. Cronan may be the same person as Bishop Saint Ronan of Lismore.
• CUARAN (Curvinus, Cronan) the Wise (700) Irish bishop known for his wisdom, who concealed his episcopal status in order to become a simple monk at Iona, where he was recognised by St Columba
• Hermit EINGAN (Einganor Eneon, Einion, Eneon, Anianus, Eneon Bhrenin) of Llanengan (6th c.) a British (or Scotus) prince who left Cumberland for Wales, he finished his days as a hermit at Llanengan near Bangor
He is said to have been a son of the chieftain Cunedda, whose family claims no less than 50 saints.
• Abbot and Confessor ERHARD (called by Mersæus and other Germans, Eberhardus) of Scotland (8th c.)
He was a Scotchman by birth, and being well instructed in the scriptures, went into Germany to preach the gospel, with two brothers. He taught the sacred sciences at Triers, when St Hydulphus was bishop of that city, whom Welser and some other take for a Scot, and one of our saint’s brothers. When St Hydulphus resigned his bishopric to end his days in retirement in 753, St Erhard withdrew to Ratisbon, where he founded a small monastery, and is said to have been honoured with miracles, both living and after his death, which happened in that city. He was commemorated on this day in Scotland, but in Germany, on the 8th of January.
• Venerable GENNADIUS 艮纳迪 monk of Vazhe Lake (Vazhejezersk), Vologda (1516)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεννάδιος
The Monk Gennadii of Vazheozersk was the son of rich parents but, having given away everything, he became a disciple and novice under the monk Alexander of Svir' and pursued asceticism with him as an hermit at the river Svira. Afterwards, with blessing of the monk Alexander, he went to Vazheozersk, located 12 versts from the Svir' monastery. And here, having built a cell, he spent his solitary ascetic life with two of his disciples. Before death the monk Gennadii told his disciple: "At this place shalt be a church and monastery". The ascetic reposed on 8 January 1516.
• Uncovering (1805) of the relics of Sainted INNOCENT 髑纪念日 (Ioann Kul'chitsky) bishop of Irkutsk (1731)
In 1764, the body of Saint Innocent of Irkutsk was discovered incorrupt during restoration work on the Ascension monastery’s Tikhvin church. Many miracles occurred not only at Irkutsk, but also in remote places of Siberia, for those who flocked to the saint with prayer. This moved the Most Holy Synod to uncover the relics and to glorify the saint in the year 1800. In 1804, a feastday was established to celebrate his memory throughout all Russia on November 26, since the Icon of the Mother of God "Of The Sign" is commemorated on the actual day of his repose (November 27). Today we commemorate the uncovering of his relics in 1805.
• Repose of Blessed MARIA of Olonets, the Desert Dweller of the Northern Forests (1860) offers an extraordinary account of one woman’s solitary struggle in the Russian forests. Maria’s life is a witness to the world of the reality of Christ’s otherworldly Kingdom
• NEBRIDIUS (527) Bishop of Egara near Barcelona in Spain, a city since destroyed
• Holy Martyr NICEPHORUS 尼基佛若 of Antioch (257)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικηφόρος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Venerable NICEPHORUS 尼基佛若 monk of Vazhe Lake (Vazhejezersk), Vologda (1557)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικηφόρος
The Monk Nikiphor of Vazheozersk came to the monk Alexander of Svir' (17 April) in the year 1510 and was warmly received by him. In 1518 he made a visit, with the blessing of his mentor, to Kirill of Novoezersk (Comm. 4 February). When Nikiphor approached New-Lake (ie. Novo-ezero), he was fatigued by his long journey and laid down in the darkness and fell asleep. Saint Kirill through his perspicacity hastened by boat to row across the lake and awoke him. The monk Nikiphor spent eight days in spiritual conversation with the saint. Nikiphor then journeyed to Kiev to venerate the relics of the Pechersk saints. Upon his return, and with the blessing of the monk Alexander, he settled at Vazheozersk, – there where the monk Gennadii pursued asceticism. Saint Nikiphor raised up the Church of the Transfiguration and a monastery there, in which he established community life, and pursued asceticism until his own death. In the second half of the 19th Century in the Zadne-Nikiforovsk wilderness was built a church in the name of the monks Nikiphor and Gennadii of Vazheozersk. The relics of the saints were put to rest under a concealed place in the monastery established by them.
• ONCHO of Clonmore, the Poet // FEB 8 //
• Venerable PANCRATIUS 庞克拉提 the Recluse, hieromonk of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1294) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Theodosy Far Caves of the Lavra
The holy hieromonk Pancratius performed the divine services with much grace, and received the gift of working miracles. He shared his gifts with those who asked, healing the sick with fasting, prayer, and anointing with holy oil.
• Hieromartyr PETER 彼得 Damaskin 达玛斯基诺 (715) bishop of Damascus
Ὁ Ὅσιος Πέτρος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ὁ Δαμασκηνὸς
• PETER of Damascus, Hesychast (12th c.)
Little is known of him except by his writings in the Philokalia . Saint Nikodemos, compiler of the Philokalia, writes that his work is "a recapitulation of holy watchfulness... a circle within a circle, a concentrated Philokalia within the more extended Philokalia".
• Venerable ROMANUS 罗玛诺 the Wonderworker of Cilicia (400)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ρωμανὸς τοῦ Κίλικος
• SABINUS (566) Bishop of Canosa in Apulia in Italy and a friend of St Benedict. He was entrusted with an embassy (535-536) to the Emperor Justinian. He is the patron saint of Bari where his relics are now enshrined
• Venerable SHIO Mgvime of Georgia (6th c.) // MAY 9 //
Saint Shio was one of the twelve disciples of Saint John Zedazeni. They were holy Syrian (Cappadocian) ascetics, the founders of Georgian monasticism, who arrived in Georgia from Cappadocia in the mid-sixth century. The holy Thirteen Cappadocian Fathers were actually Georgians, who received their spiritual schooling at the renowned Lavra of Saint Simeon the Stylite and at other monasteries of Syria and Mesopotamia, intending to return to their native land and assist in its Christian enlightenment.
• Venerable bishop and abbot TEILO (also known as Teilio, Teilus, Thelian, Teilan, Teilou, Dillo, Dillon, Elidius, Eliud) 提洛 of Llandaff in Wales (580)
Probably born in Penally near Tenby in Wales. He was a disciple of St Dyfrig and a friend of Sts David and Samson. He founded Llandaff monastery (Landeio Fawr) in Dyfed where he was buried.
Through the prayers of St Teilo and of all the Saints of Wales, Christ our God, have mercy on us and save us!

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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.

Blessed be God.