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September 27 / September 14
2018 (7527)
The UNIVERSAL EXALTATION of the Precious and Life-Giving CROSS of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (629) 普世举扬尊贵施生命之十字圣架
Ὕψωσις τοῦ Τιμίου καὶ Ζωοποιοῦ Σταυροῦ
The feast was celebrated in Rome before the end of the 7th century. Its purpose is to commemorate the recovering of that portion of the Holy Cross which was preserved at Jerusalem, and which had fallen into the hands of the Persians. Emperor Heraclius recovered this precious relic and brought it back to Jerusalem on 3 May 629.
Fast Day on whatever day the Feast falls.

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• Icon of the Mother of God of LESNA (1683) 莱斯纳
The Lesna Icon was found on 14 September 1683 by a shepherd, Alexander Stelmashuk, of the town of Lesna, Bel'sky uezd, Grodnenskaya guberniya, in a thick forest on a pear tree surrounded by a brightness. The holy icon did not stay with the shepherd. It was confiscated by a Catholic Polish landowner. Misfortunes which then befell him moved him to give the icon to an Orthodox church in the town of Bukovich, near Lesna. Then again it was taken away by Catholics and placed in a Catholic church, which, in 1863, was handed over to the Orthodox faithful. At the same time the holy icon was returned. The icon is carved into a dark red oval stone. Some 500 miracles from it have been counted. It's feast day is on Pentecost, and on 8 September. The Icon is kept in France, at Lesna Convent in Provemont. Only once did it leave the Convent ― on the 1000-year anniversary of the Baptism of Russia in Paris.
● • Commemoration of the SIXTH ECUMENICAL SYNOD
Μνήμη Ἁγίας ΣΤ’ Οἰκουμενικῆς Συνόδου
• Holy 170 Fathers of the SEVENTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL (681) 纪念第七次神圣普世大公会议之诸位圣父师
● • MM CACREALIS (Cerealis) a Soldier and his wife SALLUSTIA, at Rome (251) under Decius
• MM CRESCENTIAN (Crescentianus), VICTOR, ROSULA and GENERALIS in North Africa (258) who suffered at the same time and place as St Cyprian
• Uncovering (2000) of Relics of ALEXANDRA 亚历山德拉 (1789), MARTHA 玛尔塔 (1829) and HELENA 艾莱尼 (1832) of Diveyevo
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Hieromartyr presbiter ALEKSANDER Lübimov (1884-1918)
• Hieromartyr deacon VLADIMIR Dvinskij (1858-1918)
• Hieromartyr priest JOHN (1918)
• Hosiosmartyr IGNATIUS (Ivan Birükov) (1865-1932) Archimandrite of Voronezh
• Hieromartyr DEMETRIUS Ignatenko, Protopresbyter of Moscow (1935)
• Hieromartyr iconographer JOHN Borozdin, Protopresbyter of Moscow (1878-1937) at Butovo
• Hieromartyr archpriest DIMITRIJ Ignatenko (1872-1935) of Crimea
• Martyress LUDMILA Petrova (1879-1937)
• Hosiosmartyress MARY Rykova (1892-1937) nun in Chimkent
• Hieromartyr presbiter PETER Petrikov (1903-1937) at Butovo
• Hieromartyr archpriest NIKOLAJ Skvortsov (1875-1937) at Butovo
• Hieromartyr deacon NIKOLAJ Tsvetkov (1879-1937) at Butovo
• Repose of SERGIUS Siderov of Kiev, Archpriest (1937)
• Repose of MICHAEL Schik of Moscow, priest (1937)
• Repose of Bishop ARSENIUS Zhadanovsky (1937) of Serpukhov
• Blessed JOANNA Sanina, Schema-Abbess, and LYDIA Afanasievna (1998)
● • Repose of Hieromartyr ANTHIMUS of Iberia, Bishop of Georgia, “the chosen among chosen abbots of Wallachia”, metropolitan of Hungro-Wallachia (1716) martyred by a band of Turkish soldiers stabbed him to death on the bank of the Tundzha (Tunca) River where it flows through Adrianople, not far from Gallipoli, and cast his butchered remains into the river
• CELEDABHAILL the Abbot of Bangor, County of Down (868-927)
• King CORMAC (908) the 1st Bishop of Cashel in Ireland. The 'Psalter of Cashel' compiled by him still exists
Friend of Saint Columba. First bishop of Cashel, Ireland. Wrote a glossary of the Irish language. The Psalter of Cashel he compiled survives to today.
• Martyr CORNELIUS (253) Pope under Emperors Gallus and Volusian
• Child-martyr CRESCENTIUS of Rome (300) the son of St Euthymius, he was Aged only eleven when he was brought from Perugia to Rome, bravely confessed Christ under torture and was beheaded under Diocletian
• Hieromartyr CYPRIAN the Bishop of Carthage (200-258)
• GERASIMOS the New (1740) founder of the sacred monastery of the Holy Trinity in Sourvia, near Makrinitsa
• Repose of Sainted JOHN 约安 CHRYSOSTOM (407)
• Hosiosmartyr JOSEPH a monk in the monastery Dionysiou on the Athos
• Hosiosmartyr monk MACARIUS of Dionysiou on Mt Athos
• Hieromartyr MAKARIOS 玛喀里 of Thessaloniki (1507) disciple of Niphon the Patriarch of Constantinople
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μακάριος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Νέος
• Venerabless MARIA 玛利亚 of Tarsus, Wonderworker, Pen. (607)
• Sainted MATERNUS II, Bishop of Cologne (325)
Early bishop of Cologne, Germany. Fought against the Donatist heresy. Old legend says he was born in Palestine and sent to the Cologne region by Saint Peter the Apostle, but he worked centuries later.
• Martyr PAPAS 帕帕斯 of Lycaonia (305) his suffering began in the city of Loranda, extended in Diocese, ended in Selevka's Isavrian. The Holy Pope is tortured in many ways: his forks are broken; they hung him, and scraped with iron nails; he finally got his boots with iron spikes inside, and made him run in them
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πάπας ὁ Μάρτυρας
• PELAGIOS the Bishop of Lefkada, who took part in the Sixth Ecumenical Council (7th c.)
• PLACILLA 普拉基拉 (Plakilla, Flaccilla, Flacilla or Aelia Flavia Flaccilla) Empress of Constantinople (386) Wife of Emperor Theodosius the Great
Ἡ Ὁσία Πλακίλλα ἡ Εὐσεβέστατη Βασίλισσα
To distribute money belongs to the imperial dignity, but I offer up for the imperial dignity itself personal service to the Giver. - Saint Aelia
• Birthday (1806) of Venerable SERAPHIMA (Eufimija Morgachova) (schemanun Eufimija) of Sezenovo, Abbess (1877)
• Martyr THEOCLES ended up of a sword
Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεοκλὴς ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Child-Martyr VALERIAN (305) was cut down with a sword
Ὁ Ἅγιος Βαλεριανὸς τὸ νήπιο

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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.