συνοδικός
September 4 / August 22
2018 (7526)
Afterfeast of Dormition of the Mother of God
• IVERON ICON (Georgian) of the Most Holy Theotokos at the Monastery of St Alexis of Moscow (1650)
The Gruzinian (Georgian) Icon of the mother of God: In 1622 the Persian shah Abbas conquered Gruzia. Many Christian holy things were plundered and many such were sold to the Russian merchants that were in Persia. Thus, the Gruzinian Icon of the Mother of God came the way of a certain merchant named Stefan, who piously kept it. During this time in Yaroslavl' the merchant Georgii Lytkin – on whose trade-business Stefan was in Persia – received in a dream a revelation about the holy article found by Stefan, and he was commanded to send it off to the Chernogorsk monastery in the Arkhangelsk diocese, founded in 1603. When Stefan returned home in 1629 and showed the icon to Georgii Lytkin, who remembered about his vision and he set off to the Dvina outskirts to the Chernogorsk monastery (called such since it was built on an hilly and somber place, and from of old had been named "Black Mount" ("Chernaya Gora"), but afterwards the monastery was changed in name to "Pretty Hill" ("Krasnaya Gora"). The icon was glorified there by miracles. In 1654 during the time of a pestilential plague the icon was transferred to Moscow, and those praying before it escaped the deadly plague. The many copies of the icon testifies to its deep veneration. In 1658, with the blessing of Patriarch Nikon, there was established an annual feastday of the Gruzinian Icon of the Mother of God. The service was compiled in 1698 under the supervision of Feodor Polikarpov of the Moscow printing-office.
• Panagia PROUSIOTISSA Icon of the All-Holy Mother of God of Prousa (829) in Turkey
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν τῷ Πυρσῷ τῆς Εὐρυτανίας
The story goes back a thousand years to the time when the heresy against the holy icons, Iconoclasm, was raging all over the Christian world. The Byzantine Emperor Theophilos had ordered, all holy icons be removed from the churches and burned. The Orthodox people were protecting and hiding the holy icons. They put themselves at risk of exile and even death for those icons. In the year 829 this Holy Icon of the Theotokos, which according to tradition was painted by the hand of St. Luke the Evangelist, was kept in a beautiful church in the renowned city of Proussa. Today the church still stands in the city named Brusa, which is in Turkey near Constantinople. Many miracles have taken place in this Church. As soon as the decree of the Emperor reached the city of Proussa, a godly man, the son of an officer of the royal court, decided to disobey the Emperor's order. He took the Holy Icon and fled to the mainland of Greece, because the persecution was less violent there. The young man was on his way to the city of Callipolis, (today Gallipoli or Gelibolu.) On his way to the city he lost the Holy Icon. His sorrow was great. “Alas, to me the wretched one”, he wailed. “The Lady Theotokos left me because of my sins”. However, he wouldn't turn back. He could not endure living amongst the enemies of the icons. He continued his journey and settled in the city of New Patre, near the northwest end of Peloponnesus. Time went by, and then one day he heard news about some miraculous events, which happened in an area of Aitola, Greece. This area was completely unknown and inaccessible at that time. The terrain was very rugged, with steep rocky mountains and deep chasms and abysses between them. Not even a small village was there, except for a couple of shelters for the shepherds. The area was not suitable to build villages. Even domesticated animals survived with difficulty. However, Christians sometimes would hide in these remote mountains trying to escape persecution by heretics or oppression by Emperors and Kings. According to the news, a child of one of the above-mentioned shepherds was keeping watch over his father's flock. One night the child was sleeping opposite the place where the cemetery of the monastery is now located. Suddenly solemn and sweet chanting woke him. The chanting came from a cave that was behind him. Fearful, he looked around and saw a pillar of light coming out of the cave and reaching up to heaven. At first he thought that this could be a rainbow. By God's Providence it came to him that he would not die of fear or go out of his mind. He thought that this couldn't be a rainbow because it was straight and also it hadn't rained. In great fear he went and told his father what he had witnessed. His father thought it was the child's imagination. He told him not to be afraid of things that weren't real and not to be frightened by his own shadow. The child insisted that what he had heard and seen was real. Therefore, the next night, the child took his Christian father to the same place he had seen the pillar of light, to verify and confirm the vision. There, he saw what the child had told him, but would not dare go and see what was in the cave. The next day he took with him some other people and returned again. All saw the vision. Afterwards they searched the area and found the Holy Icon in the cave, radiant and shinning. They then venerated the Icon, and being joyful on finding this treasure, they arranged the area in order to keep the Icon there as a blessing. Everyday they brought candles and incense. How the icon came there is known only to him who took Prophet Abbacum from Jerusalem to Babylon, where Prophet Daniel was, and then brought him back. This is the first great miracle of the Lady Theotokos, the finding of Her Holy Icon. Soon, the young man who had lost the Icon, and was now living in New Patre, heard that an Icon of the Theotokos was discovered by the vision of a pillar of light. Not wasting time he took his servants and after two days arrived at the cave of the Icon. Upon seeing the Icon he knew it was the one he had lost. After kissing and venerating the Icon, he gave gifts to the shepherds and headed back to New Patre with The Holy Icon. The shepherds’ joy turned to sorrow because of this deprivation and they pleaded with the young man to leave the Holy Icon behind. He explained that the Icon belonged to him, and that he had given them rich gifts. He also told them that the area was unsuitable to build a church and accommodate pilgrims Having said this, he took the Icon and left. When he and his company were tired and needed to rest from their long journey they stopped in a certain place. They soon fell asleep and when they woke, they couldn't find the Icon. Thinking that the shepherds stole it while they slept, they turned back. Arriving at a narrow spot near the river, the young man heard a voice, Oh young man, be saved, go in peace and do not toil any more. I am pleased to remain here in this rugged wilderness with the shepherds and peasants and not to be in the cities with people who preach heresies: and if you wish to stay with me come where you had found me. This will be good for you. Only the young man heard the voice. Obedient to the divine calling, he freed his servants, abandoned all his possessions, and with one of his servants, who decided to stay with him, went back to the cave where he had found the Holy Icon. He was certain that the will of the Lady Theotokos was that she lives there. The young man built a chapel in the cave for the Holy Icon. He and his servants were both tonsured monks by the Priest monk Raphael who was from the nearby hermitage of St. Demetrios. He received the name Demetrios and his servant received the name Timothy. Afterward he built a cell opposite the chapel in a quiet place away from the noisy pilgrims. He peacefully reposed there having lived a life pleasing to God. His disciple Timothy in the church he had built buried his body, and his blessed soul flew to heaven. This was the beginning of the Monastery of the All-Holy Mother of God of Prousa (or Prousiotissa).
The Monastery has existed for one thousand years and still stands today. It has withstood the ravages of natural and manmade disasters. The main church, dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos, is in the cave. The ancient and incense-darkened Icon remains in the inner cave, surrounded by countless precious offerings. The offerings are truthful witnesses to innumerable miracles of times past and present. The village of Proussos has been built near the Monastery. The Icon awaits the crowds of pilgrims who flock there from the 15th to the 22nd of August, which are the days of the feast. In olden times the quiet of the mountains was disturbed by the voices of groups of people going to the feast. They had to walk on goat paths, among ancient chestnut, fir and plane trees. The journey was 15 hours long and the people carried baskets of food and bundles of blankets balanced on their heads. Riding on horseback was reserved for the old and the infirm. Some of them could be seen walking barefoot or crawling on their knees, fulfilling a promise given for a miraculous healing. The pilgrims would go there, light their candles of faith and stay overnight in the monastery's guesthouse or out in the open. In the morning people would attend a very early church service and then depart hoping to return next year. Today the monastery is accessible by car. The car inches patiently along the winding dirt road, which is carved on the steep mountain slope. The road from the south comes to an elevated area called Stavros, from there the monastery can be seen perched on a recess of a precipice at the northwest corner of a narrow valley surrounded by mountain peaks. The pilgrim's patience is rewarded with a great blessing, the veneration of the Icon of the All-Holy Mother of God of Prousa.
• Hieromartyr ATHANASIUS 阿塔纳西 (270-275) bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, Venerabless ANTHUSA 安图萨 (Anthousa, Thousa or Anthe) of Seleucia in Syria, Solitary (298) and her servants Martyrs CHARISIMOS 哈瑞西默 and NEOPHYTUS 奈奥斐特 of Tarsus (270-275)
Ἡ Ὁσία Ἀνθοῦσα καὶ σὺν αὐτῇ
οἱ δυὸ ὑπηρέτες της Χαρίσιμος καὶ Νεόφυτος
Anthusa 是女兒富裕但是從在敘利亞的 Seleucia 的異教徙父母。了解合[利爾]斯托。斯基督, Anthusa 與所有的她的心相信了他並且秘密地去了主教 Athanasius 給某人施洗禮了她的。在她的浸禮的時間，上帝的天神在她看來了。在那以後， Anthusa 出發荒地生活禁欲主義的生活因為她害怕回到她的父母。Anthusa 生活了在有 23 年的時間的荒地的禁欲主義的生活。當向上帝祈禱時, 她放棄了在在下面的一塊石頭上下跪的靈魂, 根據她的最後一篇遺囑，她希望了被埋葬。主教 Athanasius 並且 2 個 Anthusa 的仆人， Charismus 和 Neophytus , 關於一年在皇帝纈草屬植物的時間在合[利爾]斯托。斯基督因為他們的信念在那以後被殺死他們都值得尊敬地死了並且與花環被使圓滿的 257 A.D 。
• VM MAPRILIS (Aprilis or Aurelius) and MM MARTILALIS (Martial), SATURNINUS, EPICTETUS, FELIX the Pilgrim and companions at Porto Romano, Martyrs with AUREA honoured in Ostia in Italy (300)
• VM EULALIA 艾弗拉利亚 (Aulaire, Aulazie or Olalla) of Barcelona, Pat. of Barcelona (Catalonia or Cataluña) and Martyr FELIX (303)
在對在西班牙的合[利爾]斯托。斯基督教的可怕的迫害的時間期間, 生活了在那裡一童女 Eulalia , 出生在巴賽隆納的鎮的克裡斯琴父母。完全作為她的新郎奉獻了給合[利爾]斯托。斯基督, 完全在神聖的經書沉浸了, Eulalia 不停地 disciplined 她自己在身體和神的自愿的禁欲。甚麼時候大夏的 torturer 無情地在整個西班牙殺死了合[利爾]斯托。斯基督教並且然後來到了巴賽隆納, Eulalia 在晚上滑倒了離開她的父母，在 torturer 前並且面對許多人來了為屠殺斥責了他無罪的人, 與這嘲笑一起死聖像並且公開地在合[利爾]斯托。斯基督承認她的信念生活主。激怒大夏命令了 Eulalia 與杆被脫衣服並且跳動。但是神聖的童女表示了她沒為她的合[利爾]斯托。斯基督感到折磨的疼痛。torturer 然後把她綁了在一以一個十字形式的木頭並且命令了她的身體與火炬被燒。然後 torturer 問她︰“你的救你的合[利爾]斯托。斯基督現在在哪兒？”Eulalia 回答了︰“他與我一起在這裡但是你是不能的因為你的雜質看見他。”在大疼痛 Eulalia 放棄了她的靈魂到上帝。當她死了時，人民看見了一只白鴿子從她的嘴出現。在那片刻，雪出人意料地掉落了並且作為一件白服裝蓋住了殉教者的裸體的身體。第 3 天, 聖菲利克斯來了並且悲傷地在 Eulalia 的家前哭泣了掛身體並且在聖人的死臉上出現了在那裡一個微笑。她的父母來了並且, 和另外的合[利爾]斯托。斯基督教，值得尊敬地埋葬了這個神聖的童女的身體。Eulalia 為她的主受苦了並且死並且在第四個世紀的開始進入了永久的快樂。
• Martyr AGATHONICUS 阿伽塔尼科 of Nicomedia and his companions: Martyrs ZOTICUS 佐提科, THEOPREPIUS 德奥普瑞彼, ACINDYNUS 阿金迪诺, SEVERIAN 塞维里安, ZENO 兹诺, PRINCEPS (Prigipas) and others, who suffered under Maximian (305-311)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀγαθόνικος ὁ Μάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ
Ζωτικός, Ζήνων, Θεοπρέπιος, Ἀκίνδυνος, Σεβηριανὸς καὶ Πρίγκιπας (στὸ ἀξίωμα)
聖 Agathonicus 是由信念的 Nicomedia 和一克裡斯琴的一個公民。與大熱情他從聖像崇拜變換了古希臘人並且在真實的費思指示了他們。奉皇帝 Maximian 之命，皇帝的代理人殘忍地迫害了合[利爾]斯托。斯基督教。在迫害期間，在一個地方的副捕獲的聖 Zoticus 叫了 Carpe , 把他的門徙釘在十字架上了並且把 Zoticus 帶了到他也捕獲了並且綁了聖 Agathonicus 的 Nicomedia , Princeps , Theoprepius ,( Bogoljepa ), Acindynus , Severianus ，Zeno 和許多其它。安全地固定, 他們都被帶去拜占庭。然而, 方法，聖人 Zoticus ， Theoprepius 和 Acindynus 死於了他們的許多創傷和疲勞。他們在 Chalcedon 附近殺死了 Severianus 並且, 與其它的 Agathonicus 被帶去巴爾干半島東部的古代國家到 Silybria 的鎮, 在在皇帝前的折磨以後他自己, 他們被斬並且進入了永久的生活並且進他們的主的快樂。
• Martyrs IRENAEUS a deacon, HOROS (Or) and HOROPSES (Oropsus)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εἰρηναῖος, Ὢρ καὶ Ὀρόψις οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Martyrs FABRICIAN and PHILIBERT in Toledo in Spain
• ELIZABETH (Jelisawjeta) Feodorovna, Great Duchess and VARVARA (Barbara)
Elizabeth spent all the days before the burial in ceaseless prayer. On her husband's tombstone she wrote: "Father, release them, they know not what they do." She understood the words of the Gospels heart and soul, and on the eve of the funeral she demanded to be taken to the prison where Kalyayev was being held. Brought into his cell, she asked, "Why did you kill my husband?" he answer that he killed Sergei Alexandrovich because Sergei was a weapon of tyranny. It was taking revenge for the people. "Do not listen to your pride. Repent... and I will beg the Sovereign to give you your life. I will ask him for you. I myself have already forgiven you." On the eve of revolution, she had already found a way out; forgiveness! Forgive through the impossible pain and blood -- and thereby stop it then, at the beginning, this bloody wheel. By her example, poor Ella appealed to society, calling upon the people to live in Christian faith. "No!" replied Kalyayev. "I do not repent. I must die for my deed and I will... My death will be more useful to my cause than Sergei Alexandrovich's death." Kalyayev was sentenced to death. "I am pleased with your sentence," he told the judges. "I hope that you will carry it out just as openly and publicly as I carried out the sentence of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. Learn to look the advancing revolution right in the face." • New Hieromartyr MACARIUS Gnewushev, bishop of Orel (1918)
• New Hieromartyr JOHN Bojarschinow, presbiter, Priest of Perm (1918)
• New Martyrs EPHRAIM Kuznetsov, bishop of Selenginsk and Priest JOHN Vostorgov (1918)
• New Hieromartyr ALEXIS Naumov, presbiter, Priest of Perm (1918)
• Righteous ALEXIS Medvedkov of Ugine, presbiter, priest (1934)
• New Hieromartyr ANDREW 安德列 Ukhtomsky, bishop of Ufa (1937)
• New Hieromartyr THEODORE (Vladimir Smirnov) , bishop of Penza (1891-1937)
• New Hieromartyr BASIL Smirnov, presbiter, priest of Penza (1889-1937)
• New Hieromartyr GABRIEL Archangelsky, presbiter, priest of Penza (1890-1937)
• New Hieromartyr JOHN Trojansky, bishop of Velikiye Luki (1862-1937)
• New Hieromartyr ALEXIS Orlov, archbishop of Omsk (1862-1937)
• New Hieromartyr ALEXANDER Rat’kowsky, presbiter, priest of Tver (1870-1937)
• New Hieromartyr MICHAEL Lyubertsev, presbiter, priest of Tver (1883-1937)
• New Hieromartyr THEODORE Malyarowsky, priest of Chimkent (1885-1937)
• Hieromartyr HILARION (Rodion Tsurikov), Hieromonch of Chimkent (1856-1937)
• Hieromartyr JOHN (Flavian Laba), Hieromonch of Chimkent (1863-1937)
• Hieromartyr HIEROTHEUS (Nikander Glazkov), Hieromonch of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1889-1937)
• Martyr GORAZD 格拉兹德 (Matej Pavlík) of Prague, Bohemia and Moravo-Cilezsk (1879-1942)
Born to the Irish nobility. Brother of Saint Bridget the Younger. Educated by Saint Donatus of Fiesoli, and made a pilgimage to Rome, Italy with him in 816. When Donatus was miraculously chosen bishop of Fiesole, Italy, Andrew was ordained as archdeacon. He served for 47 years, restored the church of Saint Martin and founded a monastery in Mensola, Italy where he may have lived for a while as a monk. He was known as "the Scot", common in that day when speaking of some one from Ireland. Legend says that as he lay dying, his sister was brought to him his bedside by an angel for a final farewell. Little is known of his life, which caused many later writers to fill in the details with pious fiction.
• ANTONINUS (186) a converted executioner in Rome
Saint Antoninus is mentioned in the passio of Saints Eusebius, Pontian, Vincent, and Peregrinus. He is said to be a Roman executioner under Commodus who converted to the faith.
• ARIADNE (Ariane or Arianna) Byzantine Empress
Ἡ Ἁγία Ἀριάδνη ἡ Βασίλισσα
• ARNULF of Eynesbury, Hermit (9th c.)
• Tr.Rel. of VM AUGUSTA at Serravalle in Venetia (Venezia)
• BEOGHNA Abbot of Bangor, County of Down (6-7th c.)
• Schemamonk BOGOLEP 博格莱普 a baker of bread (16th c.) of St Paisius of Uglich Monastery
His memory is made on 22 August, the day of memory of the same-named Martyr Theoprepios (which in Russian translation is "Bogolep" meaning "God-worthy").
• ETHELGITHA of Northumbria, Abbess (720)
• GUNIFORT a pilgrim, perhaps from England, who was martyred in Pavia in Italy (4-5th c.)
• GWENDOLINE (Gwendolen, Gwendolyn or Gwyddelan) Abs., Pat. of Llanwyddelan and Pat. of Dolwyddelan (7th c.)
• Hieromartyr HIPPOLYTUS of Porto (236) Bishop of Porto in Italy, martyred by drowning under Alexander
• Martyr IONE
• Venerable Elder 伊撒克长者 ISAAC I (Ivan Antimonov) of Optina (1810-1894)
• M JULIAN of Heliopolis in Syria (361)
• MAELRUBHA (722) Abbot of Applecross, Isle of Skye, Scotland
• Martyr PARTHENIUS abbot of Kiziltaschski (1867)
• Archbishop PHILARET (Dmitri Humilevsky) of Chernigov (1805-1866)
• PHILIBERT 1st Abbot of Jumieges and Nermoutier (684)
• Hieromartyr POTHINUS
• Martyr SEBASTIAN
• SEDRACH a Bishop
• SIGFRID 西格弗里德 Abbot of Wearmouth in England (688) monk and disciple of St Benedict Biscop
Benedictine monk. Spiritual student of Saint Benedict Biscop, and brother monk to Saint Esterwine of Wearmouth and Saint Ceolfrid. Biblical scholar. Co-adjutor abbot of Jarrow Abbey. Abbot in Wearmouth, England in 686.
• Finding of the Holy Skull of St SYMEON the Barefoot and Single-Tunicked (1594) // APR 19 //
• Martyr SYMPHORIAN 辛佛里安 of Autun (200) member of a senatorial family in Autun in France, he was martyred under Marcus Aurelius for refusing to sacrifice to a pagan goddess
Born to the imperial Roman nobility, the son of Senator Faustus and Blessed Augusta. Covert Christian. As a young man he studied at Autun, Gaul (in modern France). There he was arrested by provincial governor Heraclius for not worshipping the pagan goddess Cybele, he asked for tools to destroy the statue. Arrested and flogged for heresy. Because he was from a noble family, he was given a chance to recant, and was even offered bribes to do so; he declined. Martyred in the presence of his mother.
• SINCHE of Queen’s Co.
• THEODORA Xerotissa of Xerocyra
• Martyr TIMOTHY (311) in Rome under Diocletian
Priest in Antioch, Syria. He re-located to Rome, Italy where he became a noted preacher.
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.
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