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December 17 / December 4
2018 (7527)
GREAT-MARTYR BARBARA AND MARTYR JULIANA AT HELIAPOLIS IN SYRIA (306). VEN JOHN DAMASCENE (776). VEN JOHN, BISHOP OF POLYBOTUM (716)
Nativity (St Philip's) Fast
• The Panagia TRICHEROUSA Icon of the Mother of God of Damascus also known as "OF THE THREE HANDS" (9th c.)
Παναγία Τριχερούσα
Μνήμη τῶν Δώδεκα Προφητῶν
Ἡ Ἁγία Βαρβάρα ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς
Ἡ Ἁγία Ἰουλιανὴ ἡ Μάρτυς
Miracle-working relics of St Barbara rest in Kiev, Ukraine.
Saint Juliana, a virtuous woman of Heliopolis, was in the crowd when Saint Barbara was tortured. Her heart was filled with sympathy for the voluntary martyrdom of the beautiful and illustrious maiden. Wishing to suffer for Christ, Juliana denounced the torturers in a loud voice, and they seized her. For a long while they tortured both holy martyrs: they raked and tore their bodies with hooks, and then led them naked through the city amidst derision and jeers. Through the prayers of Saint Barbara the Lord sent an Angel who covered the nakedness of the holy martyrs with a splendid robe. The steadfast confessors of faith in Christ, Saints Barbara and Juliana, were then beheaded.
• Martyress CHRISTODULA (Christodule) and Martyr CHRISTODULUS by the sword
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Χριστόδουλος καὶ Χριστοδούλη οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Hieromartyr ALEXIS Saburov, presbiter, archpriest (1918) day of martyrdom
Shoted in Perm. Or according to the information of the granddaughter - at night, Father Alexis was taken out of bed, in one linen, barefoot on the snow with a noose around his neck, led to Kama river, and drowned, tied to an iron bed.
• Hieromartyr JOHN Pjankov, presbiter, archpriest (1850-1918) day of martyrdom, drowned in Kama river at Perm, bandaged with priest Nicholas Jakhontov
• Hieromartyr ALEXANDER Posokhin, presbiter, priest (1918) day of martyrdom, drowned in Kama river at Perm after cruel tortures
• Hieromartyr NICHOLAS Jakhontov, presbiter, priest (1918) day of martyrdom, drowned in Kama river at Perm, bandaged with priest John Pjankov
• Day of Martyrdom of Hieromartyr deacon BASIL Kashyn (1918) and shoted with him 10 Martyrs of Sylvino-Troitskoje of Perm (1918)
• Hieromartyr DIMITRIUS Nevedomskij, presbiter, archpriest of Tver (1882-1937) day of death in KZ
• Hosiosmartyress novice ANASTASIA Titova (1873-1937) day of death in Ivdel’lag KZ of Sverdlovsk
• Martyress CATHERINE Arskaja, of St Alexander Nevskij Brotherhood of Sankt-Peterburg of Russia, novice (1875-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted in Novgorod
• Martyress Princess CYRA Obolenskaja (1889-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted in Borovichi of Novgorod
• Hieromartyr DAMASCENE bishop of Glukhov (1935) and his father priest NICHOLAS Tsedrik
• Glorification of the Priestmartyr ALEXANDER Hotovitzky (1872-1937) hieromartyr of the Bolshevik yoke, Missionary of America
Saint Alexander was a Ukrainian who came to the United States in the 1890s as a lay missionary and was ordained to the priesthood while there. He was active as a missionary among the emigrated Uniates in the northeastern United States before being ordered back to Europe 1914. He was to become vicar of the congregation of the Russian Embassy in Berlin. Because of the outbreak of the 1st World War he was instead made vicar of the Orthodox congregation in Helsinki, Finland, then a part of imperial Russia. In 1917 he was assigned to Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. After the Bolshevik coup he was subjected to many cruelties by the revolutionaries as he defended the Orthodox faith, his people, and church property. Subjected to many arrests and exile Father Alexander serviced his beloved Church as best he could through these tumultuous times until after a final arrest he was executed during the Great Purge on August 19, 1937.
• Venerable Hieroconfessor ALEXEI (Alexander Kabalük) the Carpathian, Enlightener of the area around Iza in Austria-Hungary (1877-1947)
Niece of Saint Engelbert; Ada's whole family was known for its piety. Nun at Soissons, France. Abbess at Saint Julien-des-Prés abbey, Le Mans, France.
• ADELMANN (Adalmann, Hildeman) of Beauvais (846)
Benedictine monk of Corbie Abbey, Amiens, France. Spiritual student of Saint Adelhard. Bishop of Beauvaus, France in 821; he served for 25 years. Signed and supported the decrees of the Council of Pris. Ministered to his people during Norman invasions.
• APRO (Apri) (7th c.) Priest. Hermit. Died at Lyons, Gaul (modern France)
• BEARCHAN (Ferdaleithe) Bishop and Apostle of God, of Cluain-sosta, in Ui-Failghe (8th c.) Scottish bishop, poet and prophet
• BERTOARA (Berthoaria) Nun, Fndr. and Abbess of Notre-Dame-de-Sales, Diocese of Bourges, France (614-689)
• Venerable CASSIAN (Kassianos) the Martyr, one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (12th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Κασσιανὸς ὁ Μάρτυρας
• CLEMENT of Alexandria (Titus Flavius Clemens) (150-215) a Christian theologian who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria
Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς
Teacher at the Catechetical School in Alexandria, Egypt. He trained the famous theologian and teacher Origen. Writer and confessor of the faith. During the persecutions of 202, Clement fled to Caesarea, Cappadocia where he governed the diocese during the imprisonment of his student, Bishop Alexander.
• Apostle CRISPUS of the 70 Apostles, Bishop of Chalcedon (1st c.)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Κρύσπος ὁ Ἀπόστολος ἐκ τῶν 70
• CYRAN of Brenne (7th c.) hermit in the forests of Brenne, France
• DÂMASO of Portugal
Ὁ Ἅγιος Δαμᾶσος
• FELIX of Bologna (429) a deacon of the Church of Milan in Italy with St Ambrose and later the 5th Bishop of Bologna
• Sainted GENNADIUS 艮纳迪 Archbishop of Novgorod (1505) a distinguished writer, a champion of truth, and one who suffered for the truth of Christ. He gathered the various books of Sacred Scripture into one book and compiled the key for determining the date of Pascha (the Paschalion) for the next 532 years
In his theological explanation of the Paschalion, based upon the word of God and the holy Fathers, the saint wrote: "It is proper not to fear the end of the world, but rather to await the coming of Christ at every moment. For just as God might deign to end the world, so also might He deign to prolong the course of time."
• GERMAN Archbishop of Novgorod
• GURIAS Archbishop of Novgorod (1563)
• HERACLAS of Alexandria (247)
Brother of Saint Plutarch of Alexandria. Spiritual student of Origen. Succeeded Origen as the head of the catechetical school at Alexandria, Egypt. Patriarch of Alexandria in 231.
• Venerable JOHN 约翰 Damascene 达玛斯基诺 (780) a great monk, hymnographer, theologian and soldier for the truth of Christ
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Δαμασκηνός
Show me the icons that you venerate, that I may be able to understand your faith. - Saint John of Damascus
Because of his ardent defense of the veneration of icons during the reign of the iconoclastic Emperor Leo the Isaurian, John was maligned by the emperor to the Caliph, who cut off his right hand. John fell down in prayer before the icon of the Most-holy Theotokos, and his hand was rejoined and miraculously healed. Seeing this miracle the Caliph repented, but John no longer desired to remain with him as a nobleman. Instead, he withdrew to a monastery, where, from the beginning, he was a model to the monks in humility, obedience and all the prescribed rules of monastic asceticism. John composed the Funeral Hymns and compiled the Octoechos (The Book of Eight Tones), the Irmologion, the Menologion and the Paschal Canon, and he wrote many theological works of inspiration and profundity.
Saint John of Damascus was a theologian and a zealous defender of Orthodoxy. His most important book is the Fount of Knowledge. The third section of this work, "On the Orthodox Faith," is a summary of Orthodox doctrine and a refutation of heresy. Since he was known as a hymnographer, we pray to Saint John for help in the study of church singing.
• Venerable JOHN 约安 bishop of Polybotum in Phyrgia (716) was granted by the Lord the gift to heal the infirm and cast out evil spirits
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Θαυματουργός Ἐπίσκοπος Πολυβότου
• Ascet JOHN Dermokaites
• MARUTHAS Bishop of Tagrit in Mesopotamia and Confessor (4th c.) an illustrious father of the Syriac church
• MELITUS (Meletus, Meletius) of Pontus (295)
Late 3rd-century bishop in Pontus (in modern Turkey); known as an eloquent speaker. He was frequently abused for his faith during the persecutions of Diocletian, but there are no records of him being a martyr.
• PETER Chrysologus, Archbishop of Ravenna, Confessor (450)
• Hieromonk SERAPHIM 塞拉芬 Bishop of the Phanar (1601) For his refusal to accept Islam, he was beaten and impaled by the Turks
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σεραφεὶμ ὁ Νέος Ἱερομάρτυρας
• SIRAN (Cyran, Sigiramnus, Sigirannus, Sigram, Siran) Abbot in Berry, Confessor (655)
• Righteous Presbiter and Hermit SOLA (Sol, Solus, Suolo) of Fulda (794) a monk and priest from England who followed St Boniface to Germany and lived as a hermit first near Fulda later near Eichstätt. Finally he settled on a piece of land where he founded the monastery called Solnhofen as a dependency of Fulda
• Martyr THEOPHANES (815)
Officer in the Byzantine imperial court of Leo the Armenian. He was arrested with three others officers for treason because they opposed Leo's Iconoclasm. The other survived the torture and imprisonment and became monks, but Theophanes did not.
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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