συνοδικός
November 13 / October 31
2018 (7527)
APOSTLES STACHYS, AMPLIAS, URBAN, NARCISSUS, APELLES, AND ARISTOBULUS OF THE SEVENTY (1ST C.). MARTYR EPIMACHUS OF PELUSIUM, WHO SUFFERED AT ALEXANDRIA (250). VEN MAURA OF CONSTANTINOPLE (436). VENN SPYRIDON AND NICODEMUS THE PROSPHORABAKERS OF THE KYIV CAVES (1148)
HALLOWE'EN also known as All Hallow's Eve
Eve of the Feast of All Hallows, that is, All Saints Day.
• Holy Apostles of the Seventy belonged to Rome's Christian community: STACHYS 斯塔赫斯 Bishop of Byzantium (54) an assistant to St Andrew the First-called • Hieromartyr AMPLIAS 安普利亚 of Odyssopolis (56) ordained bishop by St Andrew in Lydda of Odyssopolis in Judea put to death by pagans • Hieromartyr URBAN 邬尔班 of Macedonia (58) ordained bishop by St Andrew in Macedonia martyred by pagans and Jews of zeal in preaching the Gospel • NARCISSUS 纳尔基稣 of Athens (57) appointed Bishop of Athens by the Apostle Philip; after enduring torture was gloriously martyred for Christ • APELLES 阿佩勒 Bishop of Heraclea in Trachis (71) • ARISTOBULUS 阿里斯托弗洛 the 1st Bishop of Britain Ἅγιος Ἀριστόβουλος ἐπίσκοπος Βρετανίας, martyr and author of several writings (1st c.) brother of the Apostle Barnabas, preached the words of truth Christian Faith in Britain to the barbarians and brought many to Salvation and reposed peacefully there
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Στάχυς, Ἀπελλῆς, Ἀμπλίας, Οὐρβανός, καὶ Νάρκισσος οἱ Ἀπόστολοι ἐκ τῶν 70
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀριστόβουλος ὁ Ἀπόστολος
Saint Paul addresses a greeting to them at the end of his Epistle to the Romans (Romans 16:8-11).
• Virgin Martyress LUCILLA and her father Martyr NEMESIUS the Deacon, at Rome (254)
• Tr.Rel. of MM SYMPHRONIUS; OLYMPIUS a Tribune; his wife EXUPERIA; and their son THEODULUS; at Rome (3rd c.)
• MM SELEUCIUS (Selecus or Selefkos) and his wife STRATONICA (Stratonice or Stratonike) at Cyzicus in Mysia (309) myrrh-gushers
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Σέλευκος καὶ Στρατονίκη οἱ σύζυγοι
• Martyrs EPIMACHUS 埃彼玛霍 the Roman, and his companion GORDIANOS 革尔迪安 (361-363) by sword // OCT 31 // MAY 9 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐπίμαχος ὁ Ρωμαῖος
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γορδιανός ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Venerables SPYRIDON 斯彼里顿 (1148) and NICODEMUS 尼科迪默 monks and Prosphorabakers in the Monastery of the Kiev Caves from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (12th c.) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Antony Near Caves of the Lavra
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Σπυρίδων καὶ Νικόδημος οἱ ἐν τῷ Σπηλαίῳ
Though illiterate, Spyridon knew the entire Psalter by heart and worked many miracles during his lifetime. An instance is known, when he extinguished his mantle which had caught fire from the oven – the fire was put out, but the mantle remained whole. The fingers of the right hand of the Monk Spiridon are positioned together 3-fingered.
• 100 000 Martyrs of Tbilisi by the army of muslim attacked Georgia (1227) under Jalal al-Din
Words are powerless to convey the destruction that the enemy wrought: tearing infants from their mothers’ breasts, they beat their heads against the bridge, watching as their eyes dropped from their skulls... A river of blood flowed through the city. The Turkmen castrated young children, raped women, and stabbed mothers to death over their children’s lifeless bodies. The whole city shuddered at the sound of wailing and lamentation. The river and streets of the city were filled with death.
One hundred thousand Georgians sacrificed their lives to venerate the holy icons. One hundred thousand severed heads and headless bodies were carried by the bloody current down the Mtkvari River.
• Martyrs STEPHEN, BARNABAS, TROPHIMUS, DORYMEDON, COSMAS, DAMIAN, SABBAS, BASSA (Vasos), ABRAMIOS and other
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Στέφανος, Βαρνάβας, Τρόφιμος, Δορυμέδων, Κοσμᾶς, Δαμιανός, Σάββας, Βάσης, Ἀβράμιος καὶ ἡ συνοδεία αὐτῶν
• Martyrs ARSAKIOS, ARTEMIOS, GERMANOS, ROMANOS, NYSSIOS
• Holy 3 Martyrs of Melitene
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Τρεῖς Μάρτυρες οἱ ἐν Μελιτινῇ
• 12 Virginal Martyresses called Holy Twelve Daughters who were hanged in the middle of a portico
Οἱ Ἁγίες Δώδεκα Κόρες
• Holy Priestmartyr JOHN 约安 Kochurov of Chicago and St Petersburg (1871-1917) Missionary in America First Clergy and 1st Hieromartyr of the Russian Revolution of Russia's atheist yoke
He was born in Russia in 1871, and as a young priest was sent to America as a missionary. There he worked zealously (he was instrumental in the building of the Orthodox cathedral in Chicago) until he was called back to Russia just before the October Revolution in 1917. Only 6 days after the Bolsheviks seized power, he was beaten to death in the street by a gang of Bolshevik sailors in Tsarskoye Selo near St Petersburg. Thus he became the first of countless Priestmartyrs of Russia's atheist yoke.
• Hosiosmartyr LEONID (Lev Molchanov) Abbot of the Sovlvychegodsk Monastery, Vologda (1872-1918)
• Hieromartyr SERGIUS Archbishop of Yeletsky (1937)
• Hieromartyr VSEVOLOD Smirnov, presbiter, archpriest of Moscow (1874-1937) graved at Butovo
• Hieromartyr ALEXANDER Vozdvizhensky, presbiter, archpriest (1876-1937) graved at Butovo
• Hieromartyr SERGIUS Rozanov, presbiter, priest (1905-1937) graved at Butovo
• Hieromartyr ALEXIS Sibirsky, presbiter, priest, of Tver, and of Moscow (1870-1937)
• Hieromartyr BASIL Archangelsky, presbiter, archpriest (1864-1937) graved at Butovo
• Hieromartyr PETER Voskobojnikov, presbiter, archpriest (1867-1937) graved at Butovo
• Hieromartyr BASIL Kolokolov, presbiter, priest (1873-1937) graved at Butovo
• Hosiosmartyr ANATOLIUS Botvinnikov, Hieromonk, of Dubrovskoye, Tver (1881-1937)
• Hosiosmartyr EUPHROSYNUS Antonov, Hieromonk of the Seven Lakes Monastery, Kazan (1885-1937) graved at Butovo
• Martyr JACOB Blatov (1880-1937) graved at Butovo
• Hosiosmartyr INNOCENT Mazurin, Hierodeacon, of Buygorod, Volokolamsk (1874-1938) graved at Butovo
• ANTONINUS (660) called Fontana, he was Archbishop of Milan in Italy
• Martyr ARNULF (840) a monk at Novalese in Piedmont in Italy, martyred by the Saracens
• Venerable Virgin BEGA (Bega, Beez,Beya, Beag, Bees, Bee, Bega, Becga or Begh) of Bee, Anchoress of St Bee's Head Cumberland and Abs. of monastery in Cumberland; Founderess of a Monastery Near Whitehaven, Fndr. of monastery at Herietseu (or Hartlepool), England (681)
• BEGHA (Begga, Begh or Begu) of Hackness, Nun in Northumbria at Hacanes (Hackness) (now Yorkshire) near Whitby (660)
• COMÁN Ua Ciarain (grandson of Ciarain), Abbot of Lis-mor
• COLMAN Abbot of Lis-mor (702)
• Holy Martyr EPIMACHUS 埃彼玛霍 the New, of Pelusium who suffered at Alexandria (250) under Emperor Decius. After a long stay in prison where he suffered innumerable tortures, such as the pain of fire and whips, he was thrown into quicklime and was beheaded by the sword // OCT 31 // MAR 11 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐπίμαχος ὁ Αἰγύπτιος
Among the people watching the torture was a woman with infirmity of the eyes; a droplet of blood from the martyr healed her infirmity.
• ERTH (Erc, Ercus, Herygh, Urith) of Cornwall (of Slane) (6th c.) Brother of St Uny and St Ia (Ives). He went from Ireland to Cornwall, where a church is dedicated to him, and also gave his name to the village of St Erth
• Hosiosmartyr Abbot FOILLAN (Faolán) 佛伊兰 of Fosses (656) Irish missionary, of Burgh Castle in East Anglia, and Fosse in Gaul, enlightened Brabant but was killed by robbers; murdered in the forest near Nivelles, Belgium; bodies found three months later; buried at the abbey of Fosses, Belgium
• HERYGH of Cornwall
• JACOB 雅科弗 of Nisibis the Worderworker, Bishop of Antiochia Mygdoniae (4th c.) // OCT 31 // JAN 13 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰάκωβος Ἐπίσκοπος Μυγδονίας
• Widow LUCY a Solitary (3rd c.)
• Venerable Deaconess MAURA 玛弗拉 of Constantinople, Fndr. and Abs. of monastery at Constantinople (5th c.)
• Holy Martyr NICHOLAS 尼科拉 of Chios (1754) beheaded by the Turks
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἀπὸ τὴ Χῖο
• NICODEMUS monk from Kozhe Lake
• Venerable NOTBURGA (Noitburgis) of Cologne, Nun at Convent of St Mary in the Capitol in Cologne in Germany (712)
• Righteous PETRO Kalnyshevsky, Koshevoy-Commander of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1803)
After the destruction of the Zaporizhian Sich, Kalnyshevsky was arrested, tried and in July 1776 incarcerated at Solovetsky Monastery, with the strict prohibition of correspondence or socialization with anyone. In 1792, he was transferred to solitary confinement at the Povarnya jail, where he remained until 1802. Being pardoned by Emperor Alexander at the age of 110 years, Kalnyshevsky (already blind at that time) decided to remain in the monastery, where he died two years later in 1803.
• THEODOR the Merchant
• Martyr QUENTIN (Quintin) 昆廷 the Roman, enlightened the area round Amiens (285)
Son of a Roman senator. Convert to Christianity. Missionary to Gaul with Saint Lucian of Beauvais. Quentin's preaching and example won many converts in Amiens. Arrested in 286 by Prefect Rictius Varus during the Maximian persecution. Martyr. Tortured and beheaded at Augusta Veromanduorum, Gaul (now Saint-Quentin, France); body thrown in the river, but recovered and buried by people he had helped convert.
• Sainted WOLFGANG Bishop of Regensburg (994) a great benefactor of the poor
Educated by Benedictines at Reichenau, Switzerland. Spiritual student of Saint Romuald. Benedictine monk at Einsiedeln abbey, Switzerland in 964. Teacher; director of the abbey school. Abbey prior in 970. Evangelized the Magyars in modern Hungary. Missionary to Pannonia. Priest. Bishop of Ratisbon (modern Regensberg, Germany) in 972. Reformed clerical discipline and spirituality in his diocese. Noted for his preaching, his teaching abilities, his charity (hence the name Great Almoner) and his care for lay people in his diocese. Tutor to the future emperor Saint Henry II.
• Commemoration of an youth man the Confessor (363) in Antioch under Julian the Apostate
Μνήμη Ἀνώνυμου Ἀπολογητοῦ
• Holy Child Martyr also called Pais (i.o. child in greek) died when his head was smashed against a rock
Τὸ Ἅγιο Παιδὶ ὁ Μάρτυρας
Ἐγκαίνια τοῦ Πατριάρχου Εὐκτηρίων
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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