συνοδικός
November 6 / October 24
2018 (7527)
MARTYR ARETHAS OF OMIR AND WITH HIM 4299 MARTYRS, INCLUDING MARTYR SYNCLETICA AND HER TWO DAUGHTERS (523). MARTYR VICTORIA. BLESSED ELESBAAN, KING OF ETHIOPIA (553). MARTYR SYNCLETIA AND HER 2 DAUGHTERS (6TH C.). VENERABLES ARETHA (12TH C.), SISOIS (13TH C.) AND THEOPHIL (12TH-13TH C.), HERMITS OF THE KYIV CAVES, NEAR CAVES
THE HOLY WEEK SERVICES OF ST DEMETRIOS THE MYRRH-STREAMER
Thus, they begin on October 19th ("Palm Sunday") and proceed to the feast of St Demetrios on October 26th ("Pascha")
• The Icon of the Holy Theotokos "JOY OF ALL WHO SORROW'' (1688) 众哀伤者之欢乐
The Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” is a Theotokos image without a single compositional pattern which is encountered in many versions. Many icons of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” are miraculous. The icons of the “Joy of All Who Sorrow” appeared not later than the 1680's. Russian chronicles say that in 1683 the royal artist I.A. Bezmin painted an icon “Joy of All Who Sorrow”, but say nothing of the icon composition. A similar icon was also housed in the Saint Alexis Monastery in Arzamas and, according to a 1686 inventory, featured the Mother of God with two angels.
The icon became widespread after an icon of Joy of All Who Sorrow from the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior on Ordynka Street in Moscow miraculously healed in 1688 a sister of the Patriarch Joachim, the widow Euphemia Petrovna Papina, from a wound in her side and illness. The doctors failed in their treatments, so she prayed with tears to the Most Holy Theotokos. Then, she heard a voice: "Euphemia, go to the Church of the Transfiguration of my Son; there you will find the icon, 'Joy of All Who Sorrow.' Have the priest serve a moleben and sanctification of the waters before this icon and you will be healed." Euphemia did so, and was immediately made well. This occurred on October 24, 1688.
This icon probably dated to 1685, when the Church of the Transfiguration of Ordynka was built. The original icon is believed to be lost, and no one knows exactly what it looked like. However, an 1862 lithograph reproduced the icon of “Joy of All Who Sorrow” that the Princess Natalia Alexeevna, sister of Peter the Great, took with her when the court was moving from Moscow to St. Petersburg in 1711. According to some accounts, this is the very icon that miraculously healed Euphemia Papina, while other sources maintain that this is an exact copy of the miraculous icon. The Savior is shown blessing with the right hand and holding beads in his left. The Mother of God is also portrayed holding beads with her right hand. Her hand is turned left and inclined slightly downwards. The Mother of God stands on the Moon, with her head surmounted by the crown. Above the Mother of God is the Lord Sabaoth with the half-figures of saints on the margins. It is probably based on the Roman Catholic image of Our Lady of the Rosary.
Another icon, painted by Alexis Kvashnin in 1710, is also a precise replica of the icon from the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior on Ordynka street (now kept in the Andrei Rublev Museum collections). This icon, just as the icon taken by the Princess Natalia Alexeevna, features a full-length image of the Mother of God with the Child Christ on her left hand against the background of the shining glory in the crown. Her head is also turned left and slightly downwards. On this particular icon, however, the Theotokos is portrayed without beads, Her right hand is shown in a blessing gesture pointed to the Child Christ. The Mother of God is shown standing on the clouds. In the upper part of the icon is an image of the Synthronos (the New Testament Trinity), in the bottom field is a cartouche with the kondak inscribed thereupon. However, what distinguishes the Kvashnin replica from the lithography is three groups of sufferers standing to either side of the Mother of God, above whom are four full-figures of saints: Sergius of Radonezh, Theodor Sykeon, Gregory the Decapolite and Barlaam of Khutyn. Above the saints were the images of two saints with ripidises, two more angels are comforting the sufferers.
N.I. Komashko suggests that the original miraculous icon had the same composition as the one taken by Princess Natalia Alexeevna to St. Petersburg. Alexis Kvashnin is believed to have copied another icon that had been painted for the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior on Ordynka Street soon after the miraculous healing of Euphemia Papina. The original composition was changed by adding more sufferers and removing beads as a Roman Catholic attribute. The images of sufferers in Russian art have been known since the 17th century from the icons of the Theotokos of the Life-Giving Spring which became widespread under Patriarch Nikon.
Under Soviet power, the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior on Ordynka Street was closed and turned into a storage facility of the State Tretyakov Gallery. According to some reports, the icon that was stored there disappeared without a trace. The icon that is now stored in Ordynka, according to one version, is the contribution of Patriarch Alexy I who gave it to the church when services were resumed in it in 1948. This is an exact copy from the original icon, created, apparently, in the second half of the 18th century. According to another version, this is the icon that was there before the closing of the church.
Therefore on this day, October 24th, was established the commemoration of this miraculous icon, which, in contrast to other icons of the Theotokos, is depicted in a special manner. The Most Holy Mother of God is shown in full height with a crown on her head and with the Pre-eternal Infant sitting on Her left arm. At the top of the icon, above the Theotokos’ head, the Lord is seen giving His blessing, angels and saints are on the sides, and at the bottom we see sorrowing and suffering people, to whom the Mother of God kindly stretches out Her hand.
• The Icon of the Holy Theotokos "Joy Of All Who Sorrow'' of LAVRA (1109) • of PRILUTSK (1977) • of KIEV • of VORONEZH • of IVANOVO • of TVER • of TOBOLSK • of VOLOGDA • of NIZHEGORODSK • of KIRSANOVO • of TSARSKOJE SELO • of RESHNEVO
• The Icon of Mother of God of Tambov named "Comforter of sorrowers"
• The Icon "OF 7 ARROWS" (Luke 2:12) of Mother of God of Vasilkovo (15th c.) in Poland
• The Icon "The SORROWER" (Luke 2:12) of Mother of God of Simferopol and all Crimea (1998)
• Holy Martyr ARETHAS (Harith or Aretas) 阿瑞塔 the eparch in the town of Nagran, in the southern Arabian land of Omir, and other 4 299 martyrs of Nagran (523) including priests, monks, nuns, women, children and maid servants, together with SYNCLETICA 辛克利提基 (Ruma, Ruhm, Ruhayma, Rhwm or Rwhm), W., and her 2 daughters at Najran in Himyar (now North Yemen) (523)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀρέθας ὁ Μεγαλομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Γυναίκα καὶ τὸ Βρέφος της
"If I make renunciation, who then wilt deliver me from eternal death?" – replied the saint. In a rage the tormentor gave orders first to kill the daughters of Saint Syncletia and force their blood on her, and then to behead the mother with a sword.
• A holy woman martyr and her child, together with Martyr Arethas of Omir and his companions (523)
• MM MARK, SOTIRICUS and VALENTINOS of Ephesus, from Asia Minor, by being dragged over sharp stones near Ephesus, Asia Minor (in modern Turkey); relics enshrined on the island of Tasos
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μᾶρκος, Σωτήριχος καὶ Οὐαλεντῖνος οἱ Μάρτυρες
Also, in the Menologion of Basil II, Valentina is given a female name, while in the Synaxarion of Constantinople it is the male name Valentino.
• Hieromartyr LAURENCE 主教劳伦提 (Eugene Knyazev) bishop of Balakhninsk (1877-1918)
• Hieromartyr ALEXIS 阿莱克西 Porfir’jev, presbiter,archpriest (1856-1918)
• Martyr ALEXIS Neidhardt (1863-1918)
• Venerable Hieroconfessor ARETHA (Alexander Mitrenin), Hieromonk of Valaam (1879-1932)
• Hieromartyr JOHN Smirnov, presbiter, priest (1884-1937)
• Hieromartyr NICHOLAS Nikolsky, presbiter, priest (1882-1937)
• Hieromartyr PETER Bogorodsky, presbiter, priest (1878-1938)
• Venerable Elder and New Confessor GEORGE Karslidis, of Drama in Greece (1901-1959)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀκάκιος ὁ Πρεσβύτερος
• Venerable ARETHAS 阿瑞塔 the Recluse of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1190) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Antony Near Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρέθας ὁ ἐν τῷ Σπηλαίῳ
• Sainted ATHANASIAS 阿塔纳西 I Patriarch of Constantinople (1315)
• Venerable CADFARCH of Wales, Monk of Montgomery (6th c.) a disciple of St Iltyd, he founded churches in Penegoes and Abererch in Wales
• COLMAN of Ireland
• Hieromartyr EBREGISLUS (Ebergesilus, Evergislus) bishop of Cologne (5th c)
A bishop of Cologne and martyr at the hands of heathen robbers. Very probably he died at a much later period and not as a martyr.
• Blessed recluse ELESBAAN 埃勒斯巴安 (Caleb) King of Ethiopia (555)
• ERC a Sinell’s daughter, of Imliuch
• Repose of Blessed EVDOKIA Eldress of Ryazan, Fool for Christ (1890)
• Martyr EVERGISLUS (Ebregesilus) Bishop of Cologne in Germany (594) martyred by heathen robbers
• Martyress EUTROPIA (Evtropia) at Alexandria (220)
• Hieromartyr FELIX bishop of Thibiuca in north Africa (303)
• Venerable FROMUNDUS of Rouen, Monk, Abbot and then Bishop of Coutances in France (690)
• Venerable JOHN 约安 Hermit of Pskov (1616)
• Martyr HERACLIANUS
• Venerable MAGLORIUS (Maelor, Magloire) of Sark on Channel Islands (575) Bishop of Dol-de-Bretagne in Brittany
• MANEGUNDA the 1st Abs. of St Peter’s in Tours (6th c.)
• Venerable MARCIUS (Mark, Martin) (679) a hermit at Montecassino in Italy. He lived in a cave on Mount Massicus (Mondragone) where he reposed
• Venerable MARTIN of Vertou (601) Founder of the monastery of Vertou near Nantes in France, also of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes and other monasteries
• Martyr NERDONUS by fire
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νέρδων ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Sainted PAPAS Bishop of Skythereia (357) in Cyprus
• PROCLUS Archbishop of Constantinople, Confessor (447)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πρόκλος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως A man full of piety, perfectly skilled in ecclesiastical discipline, and a strict observer of the canons. - Saint Cyril of Alexandria on Saint Proclus
• PROKLOS monk
• RAPHAEL the Archangel
• Translation (9th c.) of Relics ofSainted REGNOBERT (Ragnobert) Bishop of Bayeux (6-7th c.)
• Hosiosmartyr RAZA
• Great Martyr SEBASTIAN of Rome (288)
• Martyress SEBASTIANA (Sebastiane or Sevastiane) 塞瓦斯提亚纳 of Heraclea, Ap., disciple of Apostol Paul, Martyred at Markianopolis in Thrace (82) under Dometian
Ἡ Ἁγία Σεβαστιανὴ ἡ Μάρτυς
• Venerable hieromonk SENOCH 塞诺赫 the Healer, Abbot (576) of Tours in Gaul
Died 576 in his at Varennes (modern Saint-Senoch), Indre-et-Loire, Touraine, France from a fever that lasted three days; relics transferred to Sassenay, Burgundy, France in the 9th century to protect them from Norman invaders.
• Venerable SISOIS the Recluse of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1216) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Antony Near Caves of the Lavra
• Venerable THEOPHIL the Silent, the Recluse of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1236) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Antony Near Caves of the Lavra
• Translation (1170) of Relics of Sainted VALERIUS of Valencia, Bishop of Zaragoza (315)
• Martyress VICTORIA of Nicomedia
• Venerable schemamonk ZOSIMAS 佐西玛 Verkhovsky, Elder of Siberia (1833)
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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