συνοδικός
May 1 / April 18
2018 (7526)
• "MAXIMOV" Icon of the Mother of God (1299)
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τοῦ Μαξίμου
The Maximovsk Icon of the Mother of God was written in the year 1299 through a vision to Sainted Maxim, Metropolitan of Vladimir (+ 1305, Comm. 6 December). On it is depicted the Mother of God in full stature with the Praeternal Christ-Child, and with Metropolitan Maxim on his knees accepting the hierarch's omophor. The icon was written in memory of the appearance of the Mother of God to Saint Maxim, when he arrived in Vladimir from Kiev. In the vision, the Mother of God entrusted to him the omophor with the words: "My servant Maxim, it is good that thou hast come to visit My city. Take this omophor and shepherd thou the flock in My city". When the saint awoke, in his hands lay the omophor. The appearance of the Mother of God was a signal of the Heavenly blessing of the metropolitanate from Kiev to Vladimir. The omophor, bestown by the Mother of God, was preserved at the Uspenie (Dormition) cathedral in Vladimir for 112 years. In the year 1412, during an incursion of the Tatars, the omophor was hidden by the cathedral doorsman Patrikii, martyred by the Tatars.
• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "GLYKOPHYLOUSA" ("Sweet-kissing") 甘饴之吻
Son of Saint Anthia of Illyria; his father died when the boy was very young. Educated by Bishop Dynamius. Bishop of Illyria, Dalmatia (in modern Croatia) at age 20. Arrested for bringing an imperial Roman official to Christianity. Martyred in the persecutions of Hadrian along with his mother and eleven other Christians whose names have not come down to us.
• Martyrs VICTOR 维克托尔, ZOTICUS 佐提科, ZENO 兹诺, ACINDYNUS 阿金迪诺 and SEVERIAN 塞维里安 of Nicomedia (303)
在戴克里先在位期间，这五位基督徒荣耀殉道。他们亲眼目睹了伟大的圣格里哥利的殉道，在此之前他们都是异教徒。当时，他们看到了荣耀的殉道者所受的痛苦和勇敢的精神，并亲眼目睹了许多奇迹。由此，他们全都皈依了基督，不久之后，他们全部荣耀殉道，得到了那荣耀的冠冕。
The Holy Martyrs Victor, Zoticus, Acindynus, Zeno, Severian and Caesarius suffered under the emperor Diocletian (284-305) when he began a fierce persecution against Christians. One of the first to suffer was the holy Great Martyr and Victory-Bearer George (April 23). Saint George's unshakable faith and bravery during his suffering led many pagans to Christ. The saints were struck with astonishment that Saint George suffered no harm from the wheel of torture, and they declared in the hearing of all that they also believed in Christ. At the judge's order, the holy martyrs were beheaded at Nicomedia in 303.
• BITHEUS and GENOCUS (6th c.) monks from Britain who accompanied St Finian of Clonard to Ireland and gained a reputation for holiness
• Sainted COSMAS 科斯玛 bishop of Chalcedon, and his fellow-ascetic St AUXENTIUS 阿弗克森提 (815-820)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Κοσμᾶς ὁ Ὁμολογητής Ἐπίσκοπος Χαλκηδόνος
Sainted Kozma, Bishop of Chalcedon, and his companion the Monk Auxentios, lived during the 9th century, at a time when the Iconoclasts oppressed the adherents of Orthodoxy. Saint Kozma while still in his youth had withdrawn to a monastery and accepted monastic tonsure. Afterwards he was ordained to the dignity of bishop of Chalcedon and he zealously defended the Orthodox faith against the Iconoclast heretics. The Monk Auxentios was an helper to the saint in this struggle. The Iconoclasts tried in manifold ways to sway the saint over to their side, but he remained faithful to Orthodoxy to the very end. Saint Kozma did not obey the decree of the emperor Leo the Armenian (813-820) about the discarding of holy icons from the churches. For this he was expelled from his cathedra-seat and exiled to prison. When the saint returned from exile, he continued with Saint Auxentios to defend the veneration of holy icons. At the mitigation of the persecution, Saint Kozma was weak in body, but remained all the more strong in spirit. Sainted Kozma (+ c. 815-820) and the Monk Auxentios to their very end steadfastly preserved the Orthodox faith.
• EUTHYMIUS 艾弗提弥 the Enlightener of Karelia (1435) and Sts ANTHONY 安托尼 and FELIX 斐利克斯 of St Nicholas Monastery in Karelia
Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐθύμιος ὁ Φωτιστὴς τῆς Καρελίας
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ἀντώνιος καὶ Φήλικος
Saints Euthymius, Anthony and Felix lived a life of asceticism in Karelia about the year 1410. Saint Euthymius founded the Karelian Nikolaev monastery. Hardly had he completed the church of Saint Nicholas and several cells, than Norwegians descended upon the monastery, burned the church and killed several of the monks in 1419. Saint Euthymius decided to rebuild. The noble Martha asked prayers at the monastery for her sons who died in 1418 (they were the sons of Martha’s first husband, Philip). Exploring the land, the young brothers perished at the mouth of the North Dvina River, and they were buried at the Karelian Nikolaev monastery. In life, they were distinguished for their works of charity. Their names were listed in the manuscript Lives of the Saints of the Karelian monastery. A chapel was built over the graves of the holy brothers, and in the year 1719, a church in honor of the Meeting of the Lord. Saint Euthymius was glorified for his apostolic labors in the enlightenment of the people of Karelia. He died in the year 1435, and his relics were uncovered in 1647. There is a service to Saints Euthymius, Anthony and Felix. Saint Euthymius is also listed under January 20 in the “Iconographic Originals” because of his namesake Saint Euthymius the Great.
• Monks JOHN and ATHANASIUS of Aegina
• Hosiosmartyrs CHRISTOPHORUS monk of Dionysiou of Mt Athos, suffered in Adrianopel (1818) and JOSEPH monk of Dionysiou of Mt Athos, suffered in Konstantinopel (1819)
• New Hieromartyr BESSARION 维萨里雍 Selinin, presbiter, priest (1876-1918) day of martyrdom, cut by sabers in the clash of the Procession (Krestnyj Hod) with the Bolshevik May Day demonstration; stanitsa Urdzhar of Lepsinskij, Semirechensk
• New Hieromartyr ALEXIS Krontenkov, Priest, of Ekaterinburg (1930)
• New Hieromartyr MICHAEL confessor, priest (1935)
• New Hieromartyrs Priests NICHOLAS 尼科拉 (1937) and BASIL 瓦西里 Derzhavin (1930) and lay people of the city of Gorodets, Nizhni-Novgorod
• Hosiosmartyress TAMARA 塔玛拉 (Maria Satsi) abbess of Vladimir Icon of Mother of God Monastery in Cheboksary (1876-1942) day of death in KZ №1 of ustition Narkomat, Alatyr’, Chuvashya
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀκάκιος Β’ Ἐπίσκοπος Μελιτηνὴς
• AYA (Aye, Agia, Aia or Austregilidis) Nun at Mons, Widow, Countess of Hainault (714) Belgium
Saint Agia was the wife of St Hidulphus of Hainault, who, like her husband, desired the religious life. She entered the convent of Mons (Castrilocus) and he joined the monks at Lobbes. Agia is especially venerated by the Beguines of Belgium. Legend says that she managed to avert an injustice by speaking from the tomb.
• APOLLONIUS the Apologist (190) a Roman senator, denounced as a Christian by one of his own slaves and condemned to be beheaded. His eloquent defence of Orthodoxy, delivered before the Senate at his trial is a priceless document of the Faith
• ARKADY Dorohobuzhsky (16th c.)disciple of St Gerasim of Pereyaslavl-Zalisski
• ATHANASIA (also Anastasia) 阿塔纳西亚 the Wonderworker of Aegina (also Aigina), Matr., W., Fndr. and Abs. of Timia Monastery (860)
Ἡ Ὁσία Ἀθανασία ἡ Θαυματουργός ἐξ Αἰγίνης
• BASIL 瓦西里 Ratishvili of the Holy Mountain, Georgia (13th c.) of Iveron Monastery, Mt Athos
Ὁ Ὅσιος Βασίλειος ὁ Θαυματουργός ἐκ Γεωργίας
• Martyr CALOCERUS of Brescia, an officer of the Emperor Hadrian martyred in Brescia in Italy
Reliable accounts of Saint Calocerus are unavailable because he acta belong to a much later period. These connect him with SS. Faustinus and Jovita, and make him an officer of Hadrian at Brescia, Lombardy, Italy.
• COGITOSUS of Kildare (8th c.) monk at Kildare in Ireland who probably wrote the Life of St Brigid
Saint Cogitosus may have been a monk at Kildare, Ireland. Traditionally, he is named as the author of the life of Saint Brigid, which provides the legends and miracles of Bride, although little that can be trusted as biographical fact. More importantly, the work details the monastic life at Kildare and description of the church during his life, including the separate accommodation made in the church for monks and nuns. The original manuscript is in the Dominican convent at Eichstadt in Bavaria.
• Martyr COREBUS of Messina (117-138) a prefect of Messina in Sicily, converted to Christ by St Eleutherius and martyred under the Emperor Hadrian
• Hieromartyr CYRIL VI of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (1821)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Κύριλλος ὁ ΣΤ’ ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
• DEICOLA (Dicul) (7th c.) born in Ireland, he preached Christ in England in Norfolk and in Sussex. Dickleburgh in Norfolk may be named after him
Founder of the abbey at Bosham, Sussex, England. He went there from Saint Fursey's Abbey at Burgcastle, East Anglia.
• Martyr ELPIDIUS of Melitene (4th c.) Armenian
• EUTHYMIUS the Wonderworker
Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐθύμιος ὁ Θαυματουργός
• EUSEBIUS of Fano (526) Bishop of Fano, Italy; died in prison at Ravenna, Italy
• Venerable JOHN 约翰 the Hesychast (820) disciple of St Gregory of Decapolis // APR 18 // APR 11 //
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ἡσυχαστής
He entered monastic life when young and became a disciple of St Gregory of Decapolis (November 20). In the days of the iconoclast heresy, he was privileged to be tortured along with his teacher St Gregory and St Joseph the Hymnographer (April 3) for their defense of the holy icons. When Gregory died, John became Abbot of the Decapolite monastery in Constantinople. He reposed in peace around 820; St Joseph buried him near St Gregory's grave.
在圣像破坏运动异端期间，皇帝亚美尼亚人莱翁将约安同他恩师德卡颇利的圣格里哥利和赞美诗作者约熙福一同进行迫害。当格里哥利离世后，约安成为君士坦丁堡的德卡颇利修道院的院长。在成为修道院院长后，约安对自己的修行生活更加严格，以便能够进入上帝的天国。约安于公元820年平安离世。在约安去世后，圣约熙福在靠近圣格里哥利的坟墓旁将他荣耀地安葬。
• Holy Martyr JOHN 约翰 the New of Ioannina (1526) of Epirus; died at Constantinople. A tailor of Janina, St John was buried alive for adhering to his faith // APR 18 // BRIGHT TUESDAY //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Ράπτης ἐξ Ἰωαννίνων
约安出生于约阿尼纳，皇帝毕罗斯曾经定都于此。当约安的贫穷的父母都去世后，他来到了君士坦丁堡，继续以原来从事的手工艺为生。此前不久，土耳其人包围了君士坦丁堡，许多基督徒出于恐惧都否认了基督改信伊斯兰教。圣约安的作坊就在这些皈依伊斯兰教的人当中。年轻的约安越是对基督充满爱，他也就越公开地在这些叛教者面前表白自己的基督信仰。约安开始同他们就信仰问题进行争论，最后约安斥责他们背叛基督。这些人将约安带到了法官面前，作假证指控约安，声称约安早先信仰伊斯兰较，现在又皈依了基督教。之后约安遭到了毒打，并被投入到监狱中。第二天就是复活节，他们又将约安带出去毒打，但是约安却高声歌唱：“基督从死里复活了！”约安勇敢地对他的施刑者说：“任凭你们作好了，以使我能够尽快地从这短暂的世间走向永生。我是基督的仆人，我追随基督，为基督而死，这样我将与他一起同生！”之后，约安被绑上铁链，被带到焚烧处。看到为他准备的熊熊大火，约安立即飞奔到那里，跃入到大火中。施刑者看到约安喜悦于受火刑，于是将约安从火中拉了出来，并将其宣判，进行斩首。约安被斩首之后，他们将约安的头和身体投入到火中。后来，一些基督徒来到刑场，收敛了约安的遗骨，并送到君士坦丁堡的大教堂中。由此，约阿尼纳的约安荣耀殉道，得到了天国荣耀的冠冕。他殉道的时间是公元1526年4月18日。
He moved as a young man to Constantinople to work as a craftsman. After the Turkish conquest of Constantinople, many Christians had denied Christ and embraced Islam. John spoke with many of these about the Faith and challenged them for their betrayal of Christ. Shamed and angered, some of them had him arrested, falsely stating that he had earlier accepted Islam and then returned to Christianity, which is punishable by death in Islamic law. He was tortured and cast into prison. When he was brought out for more torture on the day of Pascha, John came forward full of joy and singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" To his torturers he cried, "Do what you will to me, and send me as quickly as possible from this transient life into life eternal. I am Christ's servant; I follow Christ, and I die for Christ that I may live with Him." He has bound in chains and taken to be burned, but when he ran joyfully into the fire, his tormentors pulled him from the flames and beheaded him instead, then threw his head and body into the fire. Christians were able to gather a few of his wonderworking relics and bury them in the Great Church in Constantinople.
• Holy Martyr JOHN 约翰 Kulikos (1564)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Κουλικᾶς
• LASSAIR (also Lassar or Lasara) Virgin, daughter of Eoghan, of Maigin, possibly Moyne, in the County of Mayo (Donaghmoyne)
This holy female appears, in the Martyrology of Tallagh, at the 18th of April, as Lasar, daughter of Eccain of Maighin. This locality, perhaps, was identical with the present Moyne, in the barony of Tirawley, and county of Mayo. A conventual establishment for religious women may have existed there, previous to the foundation of a Franciscan Monastery, early in the 15th century....The Martyrology of Donegal, registers the name of Lassar, virgin, and daughter to Eoghan, of Maighin, as having veneration paid her, at this date.
• Bishop LASERIAN (Laisren, Molaisse, Lamliss) of Leighlin (639) Abbot of Inishmurray he founded the monastery and bishopric of Leighlin in Ireland
Son of Cairel. Student of Saint Murin of Fahan. Hermit on Holy Island, Lamlach bay. Ordained by Pope Saint Gregory the Great in Rome, Italy. Consecrated bishop by Pope Honorius I. Apostolic Legate to settle the question of the Easter observance.
• Venerable MATTHEW (Matthias) (850) acquaintance of St Athanasia the Wonderworker
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ματθαῖος (ἢ Ματθίας)
• MONNINE
• MONINNSEN of Mainistir
From the appendix to this proper name, we may assume, probably, that he was a monk, and belonging to some particular monastery. At this date, a festival is recorded, in the Martyrology of Tallagh in honour of a St. Moninnsen, of Manister. There are so many localities, in different parts of Ireland, compounded with the word Mainistir, signifying "a monastery' that in the absence of further accounts regarding this saint, it will be difficult to identify him, or his place of retreat. Quoting the Martyrology of Tallagh, as their authority, the Bollandists enter Monindus senex de monasterio; and if this be correct, we should probably infer, that the present holy recluse lived to an old age.
• NAUCRATIUS 纳弗克拉提 abbot of the Studion (848)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ναυκράτιος ὁ Ὁμολογητής ὁ Στουδίτης
• Hieromartyr PERFECTUS (851) a priest in Cordoba in Spain, martyred by Muslims on Easter Sunday
Accosted on the street one day by Moors who asked his opinion of Jesus and Mohammed, promising no harm to him no matter the answer. Perfecto explained the Jesus was the Son of God and our Savior, while Mohammed was a false prophet. When his questioners felt that enough time had passed that their promise has dissipated, they had Perfecto arrested, tried, and executed by a Muslim court for blasphemy.
• Sainted PETR patriarch pf Jerusalem (552)
• Martyr SABBAS 萨瓦 the Goth (372) at Buzau in Wallachia
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σάββας ὁ Στρατηλάτης
• Martyr TUNOM (Tounom) the Arab Emir who confessed Christ on seeing the Holy Fire in Jerusalem (1579)
• ULTAN (657) an Irish monk who later became an abbot. He was the brother of Saint Fursey and Foillan. He was a member of Fursey's mission from Ireland to East Anglia in 633, and lived there both as a monastic probationary and later alone as an anchorite. In 651 he accompanied his brother Foillan to Nivelles in Merovingian Gaul where they continued their monastic life together
Benedictine abbot.The brother of Sts Fursey and Foil Ian, he followed them into the monastic life, entering the community of monks at Burgh Castle, nearyarmouth, East Anglia, England. He subsequently went to France to escape the predations of the Mercians and was greeted with enthusiasm by St Gertrude of Nivelles. After serving as chaplain to Gertrude's nuns, be became the founding abbot of Fosses Monastery on land given to him by Sts Gertrude and Ita. He also ruled Peronne. In an apocryphal story, when a fleet of ships appeared on the coast to plunder a monastery, Ultan was holding something in his right hand so he made the sign of the cross with his left hand. Immediately all the ships sank, while the sailors attempting to swim ashore were turned into rocks. The story gave rise to the old Irish saying "May Ultan's left hand be against it".
• URSMAR of Lobbes (640-713) Abbot of the Benedictine abbey at Lobbes, Belgium c.689. Trained Saint Dodo. Missionary bishop. Helped found Aulne Abbey and the Abbey of Wallers-en-Faigne, France
• Virgin WALPURGA (Walburga, Wealdburg, Valpurga, Walpurga, Walpurgis, Valderburg) (710-779) an Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Frankish Empire; the patroness of Eichstätt and Weilburg, Germany; Oudenarde, Veurne, Antwerp, Belgium; and Zutphen the Netherlands; and she is invoked as special patroness against hydrophobia, and in storms, and also by sailors
Walburga was born in Devonshire England, around 710. She was the daughter of a West Saxon chieftain and the sister of St Willibald and Winebald. Walburga was educated at Wimborne Monastery in Dorset, where she became a nun. In 748, she was sent with St Lioba to Germany to help St Boniface in his missionary work. She spent two years at Bishofsheim, after which she became Abbess of the double monastery at Heidenheim founded by her brother Winebald. At the death of Winebald, St Walburga was appointed Abbess of both monasteries by her brother Willibald, who was then Bishop of Eichstadt. She remained superior of both men and women until her death in 779. She was buried first at Heidenheim, but later her body was interred next to that of her brother, St Winebald, at Eichstadt; at a small church called Holy Cross around which a group of canonesses were gathered.
• Sainted WICTERP (Wiho, Wicho) Bishop of Augsburg (749) Abbot of Ellwangen in Germany. He helped found monasteries at Fussen, Wessobrunn and Kempten, all of which became famous. He later became the 10th Bishop of Augsburg
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.
