συνοδικός
June 28 / June 15
2019 (7527)
PROPHET AMOS (8TH C. B.C.). MARTYRS VITUS, MODESTUS, AND CRESCENTIA AT LUCANIA (303). MARTYR DULAS OF CILICIA (305-313). VEN. DULAS THE PASSION-BEARER OF EGYPT. ST. JEROME (HIERONYMUS) OF STRIDONIUM (420). BLESSED AUGUSTINE, BISHOP OF HIPPO (430). ST. MICHAEL, FIRST METROPOLITAN OF KYIV (992)
• Icon of the Mother of God "MARIANICA" (13th c.) 玛利亚尼喀
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου πέραν ἐν τοῖς Μαρανικίου ἢ Μαρινακίου
Σύναξις τῶν Ἁγίων Σέρβων Νεομαρτύρων
Humbly addressing You about most previously of the New Martyrs of the 20th century in Serbia, within the region of Kosovo, especially the martyrdom of two Hieromartyrs (monastic priest) that took place 1990's in the Serbian Orthodox Church, in the region of Kosovo. The crowing of a these holy New Martyrs of Serbia in this report is not the first time the Serbian Orthodox Christians in Serbia, have witnessed martyrs. MORE THEN 750 000 ORTHODOX SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE DEFENSE OF THE FAITH DURING THE TIME OF BOTH WORLD WAR I, AND WORLD WAR II. Similar tribulations took place during the heroic struggle of the Serbs for national liberation at the beginning of the 19th century. Hundreds of noble Serbian clergymen were impaled at the fields of Kalemegdan in Belgrade, or were killed outright in prison camps. Throughout these ordeals the constant cry which united and comforted the Serbs was the five-century-old rallying cry of Kosovo, "For the Honorable Cross and Golden Freedom," a Christian plea based on the triumphant struggle of Jesus Christ on the Cross. For the Serbs at this time, to die for Christ and the Orthodox Faith was an honor, a holy privilege which they believed would be recompensed with eternal blessed life. For, as all pious Orthodox Christians believe, the Cross was the first step in the Lord's final victory over the devil and his power; and the Lord's Resurrection, the summit of this victory, granted true freedom to all those who endured. Hence the Christian Serbs were happy to "lay down their lives" for Christ in behalf of their family, friends and nation. During the first quarter of the 20th century, specifically during the years 1913, 1914 and 1915, the terrible assaults of the evil one rose up again against the Serbian Church. These years have been recorded as the first years of her martyrdom in modern times. Besieged by the Germans, Hungarians, Bulgarians and Albanians, the Serbian Church suffered bitterly during this time. For example, Metropolitan Vincent of Skoplje (Macedonia) was burned alive in the Gorge of Surdulica along with 157 Serbian priests. Later, during the 1930's, the Serbs suffered tremendously under the infamous Concordat, which sought to limit their religious and civil rights. The Concordat was an attempt by the overly conciliatory government to sign an agreement with the Vatican that would have given the Roman Church a privileged position in Yugoslavia. It was finally defeated in 1937, thanks in large part to the heroic witness of Patriarch Varnava, who reposed during the heat of the controversy, and was thought by many to have been poisoned. But of all the persecutions in the history of the Serbian Orthodox nation, none was more excruciating and terrifying than those which began in 1941. The Serbs and the Serbian Church were forced to undergo some of the worst atrocities the world has ever known. It has been said that these Christians were tortured even more than the Hebrews were by the Egyptians as recorded in the Book of Exodus; worse than the barbarous annihilations in ancient Carthage and the exterminations of the Christians in Nubia, North Africa, and even worse than the Holocaust victims in Nazi Germany during World War II. In all, there were OVER 800 000 SERBS BUTCHERED AND SLAIN BY THE REGIME OF ANTE PAVELICH IN THE "FREE CROATIAN STATE" DURING WORLD WAR II. In addition, many thousands of Serbs were forced to convert to Roman Catholicism under pain of death.
Many were simply asked to make the sign of the Cross, and if they did so in Orthodox fashion - from right to left - they were tortured on the spot.
Besides these, there were over 300 000 civilians killed by the Germans, Bulgarians, Hungarians and Albanians, many being sent to concentration camps to starve to death. In the end, the death toll of SERBIAN MARTYRS AMOUNTED TO OVER ONE-AND-HALF-MILLION, or more than one third of the entire Serbian people, OVER THE SPAN OF THIRTY YEARS (1914-1944, FROM WORLD WAR I TO WORLD WAR II).
Must we provide the horrible details of these atrocities? Pregnant women's wombs were ripped open; men were roasted on rotisserie spits used to cook animals (there were cases in which people were forced to eat the roasted bodies of members of their own families). Malicious medical experiments were performed. People were impaled, had their eyes gouged out, were sawn in two. Hearts were cut out of innocent victims and eaten by their adversaries. Slow, agonizing deaths could last for weeks and weeks. Every manner of torture that the devil could instill in people to use on their fellow human beings was on full display during those years of tribulation.
During these persecutions the leaders of the Serbian Orthodox Church were the first to suffer and lay down their lives for their people. Bishop PLATON of Banja Luka (Bosnia) was murdered in an incredibly bestial manner: he was taken by the Ustashas, along with the previously arrested priest, Fr DUSAN Jovanovich, to the village of Vrbanja, where their beards were shaved with a blunt knife, their eyes were gouged out, their noses and ears were cut off, and a fire was lit on their chests. Their bodies, together with the bodies of several other martyred clergymen, were thrown into the Vrbanja River. Croatian armed forces, formed by Hitler's Nazis to punish the Serbs for resisting him. Mostly Roman Catholic by faith, but including Moslems as well, they committed atrocities so horrible against the Orthodox Serbs that even the Nazi soldiers were appalled.
Many clergymen and monastics were executed right outside the walls of their churches and monasteries, in major cities such as Krushevac, Kragujevac, Mostar and Novi Sad. Here are but a few of the well-known examples of the torments Serbia has been subjected to:
• GLINA Region
Over 120 000 were killed by the Ustashas, as many as six hundred per evening being bludgeoned to death assembly-line style in the local Orthodox churches. The few that survived fled to the area of Petrova Gora.
• VRGIN MOST Region
On August 3 of 1941, 3 000 Serbs were massacred for refusing to convert to Roman Catholicism.
• VOJNICH Region
On July 29 of 1941, the chief of the Ustasha police in Zagreb, Bozidar Gervoski, arrived with a number of Ustasha police units. They rounded up some 3 000 Serbian Christians from Krnjak, Krstinje, Siroka Reka, Slunj, Rakovica and other villages, and after mocking and torturing them, led them to the village mill in Pavkovich, where they were butchered like cattle.
• KORDUN, SLUNJ, OGULIN, VRBOVSKO Region
The long list of bloody sacrifices began with the martyred priest Fr BRANKO Dobrosavljevich from Veljun. Fr BRANKO was ordered to read the canon for the departure of the soul from the body over his son, who was still alive. His son was then killed in his presence, and he was subsequently tortured and killed himself. There followed for several weeks mass executions of innocent Serbs, including women and children.
• CHURUG, NOVI SAD Region
On the Orthodox Feast of Christ's Nativity in 1942 about 1 200 Serbs, along with their parish priests, were cruelly murdered in Churug. At the end of the same month 1 300 more Serbs, including clergy, met the same fate in Novi Sad.
• SADILOVAC settlement in Croatia
On July 31 of 1942, the Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos was burned to the ground, along with 463 people, ranging in age from newborn babies to old men and women.
• ZHITOMISLICH MONASTERY
On June 26 of 1941, Croatian Ustashas tortured and murdered the entire monastery brotherhood, then threw their bodies into a pit. A Roman Catholic friar removed all the church valuables by tractor; the monastery church was subsequently demolished, and then the rest of the buildings were burnt down.
• JASENOVAC: The System of Ustasha Death Camps // SEP 13 //
This was one of the most horrible sites of the persecutions against Orthodox Serbs. The Ustashas, including Croats and Moslems from Hercegovinia, came with rifles, revolvers, axes and hammers, and brutally murdered the Serbs. To save ammunition, many Serbs were brought to the brick factory in Jasenovac and tossed into the fiery furnaces. As they were placed in single file the last person in line was shoved, creating enough force to thrust his fellow martyrs forward. Others were butchered along the Sava River and thrown into the water. The bloodthirsty Ustasha leader Ljubo Milosh boasted that he had killed over three thousand Serbs, each time jesting and crying out, "How sweet is Serbian blood!" One Orthodox Serb, Joca Divjak, was given to Milosh as a Christmas present. Martyr Joca's heart was torn out of his chest as other Serbs were forced to watch and laugh. Anyone who turned his head away from this abominable scene was killed on the spot. In all, over fifty thousand pious Serbian Orthodox Christians were martyred from August, 1941 to February, 1942 a period of seven months.
700 000 new martyrs of Serbia who were killed in the 1930's and 1940's.
There are many other lists of savageries which could be recounted - the record is truly astounding! These facts reveal that the Serbian Orthodox Church is in truth a Martyred Church. Her recent history demonstrates a courage and commitment to the Cross and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, which grants the Serbian Church a rightful and honorable place not only in Christian history but, more importantly, in the eyes of God Almighty Himself. So many - literally a million and a half innocent victims - upheld the belief in "laying down their lives" for the cause of Christ and His Holy Church. Their sacrifice for one another is an eternal witness and memorial, which should and must inspire all Orthodox Christians until the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And truly, at the great Day of Judgment they will all be crowned with an incorruptible crown of glory, received as a result of their love for truth and justice, and for carrying out the message of "the Honorable Cross and Golden Freedom."
• Archbishop DOSITHEI of Zagreb (Croatia)
• Bishop IRENEI of Dalmatia was also imprisoned and later transferred to an Italian concentration camp near Florence
• Patriarch GABRIEL (1937-1950)
• VUKASIN of Klepci // MAY 16 // JUN 15 //
• Hieromartyr JOANIKIJE of Montenegro (1945) // JUN 19 //
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Σέρβοι Νεομάρτυρες, οἱ ὁποῖοι ἑορτάζουν σήμερα, εἶναι: Οἱ Μητροπολίτες Ζάγκρεμπ Δοσίθεος, Μαυροβουνίου Ἰωαννίκιος, Σαράγιεβο Πέτρος, οἱ Ἐπίσκοποι Γκόνι – Κάρλοβιτς Σάββας, Μπαναλιούκας Πλάτων, οἱ ἱερομάρτυρες Ραφαὴλ ἐν Σισιβάτς (ἱερομόναχος), Μπράνκο Ντομπροσάλιεβιτς, Γεώργιος Μπόγκιτς, Δανιὴλ Μπάμπιτς, καὶ ὁ Μάρτυς Βουκαλὶν ἐξ Ἐρζεγοβίνης.
MARTYRED SERBIAN CLERGYMEN :
• ILIJA Ajdukovic, priest, Srednja Gora (Udbina)
• DJURO Alagic, archpriest, Gornja Dubrava (Ogulin)
• JOVAN Andric, priest, Tepljuv (Knin)
• DUŠAN Aškrobic, deacon, Mostar
• DANE Babic, priest, Svinjica (Petrinja)
• DJORDJE Babic, priest, Balajnice (Našice)
• NIKOLA Ban, archpriest, Bjelovar
• MILAN Banjac, priest, Drvar
• SIMO Banjac, priest, Kamen (Glamoc)
• Dr BRANKO Barac, archpriest, Sisak
• BRANKO Bilanovic, student of theology, Monastery Zitomislic
• JOVAN Bjegovic, priest, Bihac
• DUŠAN Blagoje, priest, Stolac
• DOBROSAV Blazevic, priest, Donji Vakug (Bugojno)
• DUŠAN Bobarevic, archpriest, Vlasenica
• DJORDJE (Georgie) Bogic, priest, Našice
• NIKOLA J. Bogunovic, priest, Donji Lapac
• MILAN Bozic, archpriest, Sarajevo
• DANIKO Brakuš, priest, Bjelo Polje (Korenica)
• BRANKO Brazin, priest, Bolcin (near Bjelovar)
• ILIJA Budimir, priest, Crni Lug (Bos. Grahovo)
• RISTO Catic, priest, Gubin (Livno)
• VLADIMIR Cejovic, archdeacon, Mostar
• ANTIN Culumovic, monk, Monastery Tavna
• ALEKSANDAR Cupovic, achpriest, Bracevci (Djakovo)
• STEVAN Curcic, priest, Ogulin
• JOVAN Cutilic, priest, Veliko Oborsko, Bijeljina
• DIMITRIJE Damjanovic, archpriest, Nišic (Sarajevo)
• ZIVKO Danilovic, archpriest, Ljubija
• ILARION Deretic, abbot, Monastery Zavale
• DUŠAN Diklic, priest, Plitvicka Jezera (Korenica)
• MILOŠ Diklic, priest, Kosinja (Perunišic)
• BOGDAN Djogovic, pastor, Kifino Selo (Nevesinje)
• IGNJATIJE Djukic, monk, Velika Kladuša
• MILAN Djukic, priest, Plaški
• VLADIMIR Djukic, archpriest, Srpske Moravice
• BRANKO Dobrosavljevic, archpriest, Veljun (Kordun)
• MILE Dokmanovic, archpriest, Plaški
• MILE Dokmanovic, priest, Perjasica (Vojnic)
• MILOJKO Došen, priest, Pocitelj (Gospic)
• GAVRILO Eklemovic, monk, Privina Glava
• ANTONIJE Gajic, monk, Mala Trešnjevica
• BOGOLJUB Gakovic, secretary of church court, Plaški
• PETAR Galogaza, archpriest, Petrinja
• DUŠAN Gavranovic, priest, Vagan (Knin)
• MILAN Golubovic, teacher of religion, Drvar
• DJORDJE Gospic, priest, Crnjeljevo (Bijeljina)
• JOVAN Grozdanic, priest, Ragun (Gospic)
• MIHAILO Gutovski, archpriest, Trebinje (Vojnic)
• VLADIMIR Gvozdenovic, archpriest, Mostar
• LJUBOMIR Hajdinovic, priest, Capljina
• ILIJA Ilic, archpriest, Plaški
• BRANKO Ivanovic, archpriest, Sid
• LJUBOMIR Jakšic, priest, Han Pijesak (Vlasenica)
• DIMITRIJE Jerkovic, priest, Siroka Kula (Gospic)
• EMILIJAN Josipovic, archpriest, Opatovac
• MIHAILO Jovanovic, priest, Jablanica (Brcko)
• MIHAILO (Mika) Jovanovic, priest, Brodac (Bijeljina)
• The Holy Hieromartyr PLATON Jovanovic, the third Serbian Orthodox bishop of Banja Luka
• SEVASTIJAN Jovic, monk, Drniš
• PAVLE Katanic, priest, Bijeljina
• JOVAN Knjazev, priest, Zovik (Brcko)
• SAVA Kojic, monk, Buhaca (Slunj)
• DJURO Kosanovic, archpriest, Plaški
• TEOFAN Kosanovic, monk, Gomirje
• RADOVAN Kovacevic, priest, Primišlje (Slunj)
• VASILIJE Kovacina, priest, Metkovic
• VOJISLAV Krnjevic, archpriest, Mostar
• LJUBOMIR Krnjic, priest, Brodac (Brcko)
• BOGDAN Lalic, archpriest, Sarajevo
• PANTELIJA Landup, priest, Kamensko (Pakrac)
• RADOVAN Lapcevic, archpriest, Blatuša (Vrgin Most)
• SPASA Lavrnja, priest, Licka Guvaja (Lapac)
• JOVAN Magarasevic, archpriest, Tuzla
• PETAR Majstorovic, archpriest, Licki Doljani (Lapac)
• DUŠAN Malobabic, archpriest, Kolarici (Vojnic)
• MILOŠ Mandic, archpriest, Gracac
• STAVRO Manistulic, priest, Pocrnje
• ADAM Marin, priest, Koprivnica
• DJURO Marjan, archpriest, Senj
• RISTO Markovic, priest, Lagon (Bijeljina)
• DRAGOMIR Maskijevic, priest, Derventa (Vlasenica)
• SIMEON Matic, archpriest, Trzic
• VOJISLAV Medan, priest, Dubac (Stolac)
• DJORDJE Milojevic, priest, Nova Pavljan (Bjelovar)
• MILADIN Minic, priest, Biljesevo (Zenica)
• RAFAILO Momcilovic, monk, Sisatovac // JUN 15 NEW MARTYRS OF SERBIA // SEP 3 //
• VDILIJE Nakarada, priest, Madzvine (Kordun)
• STANISLAV Nasadil, priest, Licke Jasenice (Ogulin)
• EMILIJAN Neric, monk, Monastery Tavna
• TIHOMIR Neskovic, priest, Janja
• PETAR Ninkovic, priest, Vojnic
• PAVLE (Paja) Obradovic, archpriest, Nebljuš
• NOVAK Okiljevic, novice, Monastery Zitomislic
• BOGDAN Opacic, priest, Bacuge (Glina)
• VUJADIN Panjkovic, priest, Debelo Brdo (Korenica)
• DIMITRIJE Pantelic, priest, Cadjevica (Bijeljina)
• ROMAN Pašcan, monk, Beocin
• ILIJA Pavlica, priest, Munjava (Ogulin)
• MAKARIJE Pejak, deacon, Monastery Zitomislic
• PETAR Pejanovic, priest, Mostar
• MILORAD Pekic, priest, Sibislica (Brcko)
• VUKAŠIN Petkovic, priest, Mostar
• MILOŠ Petrovic, priest, Zuzani (Derventa)
• MILE Peuraca, priest, Gornji Budacki (Vojnic)
• ILIJA Pintar, priest, Srpska Jasenica (Bos. Krupa)
• MARKO Popovic, archpriest, Blagaj (Bugojno)
• MILHAILO Popovic, priest, Poljaca (Knin)
• MILAN Popovic, priest, Rmanj
• MILENKO Popovic, deacon, teacher of religion, Bijeljina
• SAVO Popovic, priest, Brezovo Polje (Brcko)
• STEVAN Popovic, archpriest, Medjaši (Bijeljia)
• MARKO Prodanovic, student of theology, Monastery Zitomislic
• OGNJEN Radic, priest, Mostar
• NIKOLA Radmanovic, archpriest, Slušnica (Slunj)
• MILOŠ Rajcevic, archpriest, Plaški
• UROŠ Rajcevic, priest, Mogoric
• PETAR Rašeta, archpriest (Bunic)
• VOJISLAV Rašis, priest, Tupnjevac (Bjeljina)
• KIRPRIJAN Reljic, priest, Vera (Vukovar)
• DRAGO Ristanovic, student of theology, Ruplje (Trebinje)
• RODOLJUB Samardzic, priest, Dracevo
• BOZIDAR Šarenac, priest, Dracevo
• JANKO Savic, priest, Knezina (Vlasenica)
• MILOŠ Savic, priest, Milici (Vlasenica)
• ANDREJ Semilutski, priest, Majur (Djakovo)
• VUKOLAJ Skendzic, priest, Brinj
• LJUBOMIR Skoric, priest, Modrani (Bijeljina)
• DMITAR Skorupa, priest, Cvijanovic Brdo (Slunj)
• DOBROSAV Sokovic, priest, Sjeverin (Rudo)
• RELJA Spahic, priest, Blazuj (Sarajevo)
• KOSTA Stanišic, archpriest, Livno
• RADE Stanisavljevic, teacher of religion, Korenica
• RADIVOJE Stanisavljevic, priest, Korenica
• SPIRIDON Starovic, archpriest, Avtovac
• JAŠA Stepanov, priest, Plaški
• MATIJA Stijacic, archpriest, Smiljani (Gospic)
• MIRKO Stojasavljevic, priest, Glamoc
• DJURO Stojanovic, priest, Plaški
• JOVAN Stojanovic, archpriest, Pakrac
• DAMJAN Štrbac, priest (Bos. Grahovo)
• DOSITEJ Štulic, monk, Monastery Krupa
• METODIJE Subotin, monk, Gomirje
• DUSAN Subotic, archpriest, Bosanska Gradiška
• DUSAN Sušnjar, priest, Dunjac (Vojnic)
• KONSTANTIN Todorovic, priest, Ugljenik (Bijelnina)
• PETAR Tovirac, priest, Zabrdje (Bijeljina)
• MILAN Trišic, priest, Vrlika, Sinj
• VIDAK Višnjevac, archpriest, Gacko
• VOJISLAV Vojinovic, priest, Osijek
• BOGDAN Vranješevic, priest, Krupa na Vrbasu
• PETAR Vucinic, priest, Plaški
• NIKOLA Vuckovic, priest, Drljace
• KONSTANTIN Vucurevic, monk, Monastery Zitomislic (Mostar)
• JEFTO Vujevic, archpriest, Mostar
• MILOŠ Vujic, priest, Radovice (Slunj)
• DOSITEJ Vukicevic, monk, Monastery Zitomislic
• NIKOLA Zagorac, priest, Petrovo Selo (Korenica)
• JOVAN Zecivic, priest, Bozuca (Tepce)
• LAZAR Zivadinovic, archdeacon, Zagreb
• GLIGORIJE Zivkovic, archpriest, Baluga
• SLAVKO Zjalicc, priest, Paklenice (Novska)
• JOVAN Lazarevic, priest, Korduk, Zvornik
• SEVASTIJAN Milovanovic, priest, Duvno
• DRAGOMIR Ostojic, priest, Zvornik
• DIMITRIJE Rajakovic, priest, Nišic, Sarajevo
• NIKOLA Skakic, priest, Sarajevo
• LJUBOMIR Svitlic, priest, Bijeljina
• Hieromartyr SAVA Bishop of Gorno-Karlovats taken to the Velebit Mountain and thrown into a pit with numerous other Serbs
• MIHAILO Vasic, priest, Banja Luka
• Archbishop PETER Zimonich of Sarajevo (Bosnia) tortured and humiliated in every way conceivable, and then thrown into a pit to die, together with 55 Orthodox priests
HOLY NEW MARTYRS OF SERBIA during the SECOND WORLD WAR included 5 Bishops and at least 177 OTHER CLERGY MARTYRS in all BOTH CLERGY AND LAY THEY NUMBER ABOUT 750 000
During this war was the first holy New Martyr was the Hierarch VLADIMIR, who was bishop of Raska and Prizren, just as similar to the first holy New Martyr of Russia, in the 20th century was Hierarch Metropolitan Vladimir of Moscow. More then 10 000 Orthodox Christians in Kosovo where killed, and numerous churches destroyed during the Second War, in which where exposed to murders and terror by the Albanian extremists and nationalist. This list also includes dozens of priest, but also monks, as well as included the Bishop of Raska and Prizren Holy Hierarch (Bishop) VLADIMIR, who was sent to prison in Albania and killed in prison. Then again we had a holy New Martyr from the Decani Monastery which is located in Kosovo, which took place during the Second World War. The late Bishop Nikolaj (Velimirovic), over a quarter of a century ago, inscribed into the Church calendar by his own hand the following notation for the date Augst 31 (O.S.): "The 700 000 who suffered for the Orthodox faith at the hands of the Roman crusaders and Ustaši during the time of the Second World War. These are the New Serbian Martyrs."
MARTYRED AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR : Holy New Martyr Archdeacon GAVRILO (Gabriel) From The Decani Monanstery
HOLY NEW MARTYRS OF SERBIA IN THE 1990's In the region OF KOSOVO, Serbia: Holy New Hieromartyr STEFAN Puric of Serbia (1999) • Holy New Hieromartyr HARITON Lukic of Serbia (1960-1999)
The first hospice or monastery was the 9th century one at Bourg-Saint-Pierre mentioned for the first time around 812-820. This was destroyed by Saracen incursions in the mid-10th century, probably in 940, the date at which they also occupied Saint-Maurice.
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀχαϊκός, Στεφανᾶς καὶ Φουρτουνάτος οἱ Ἀπόστολοι ἐκ τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα
About the Holy Disciple Stephen the Holy Apostle Paul recollects in the 1st Epistle to the Corinthians (1 Cor. 16: 15-18). The Apostle Paul wrote: "I am joyful in the arrival of Stephen, Fortunatus and Achaecus: they have made up for me your deficiencies, wherefore they have set at rest both my spirit and your spirit. Respect such".
• Martyrs VITUS 维托 (Guy); MODESTUS (Modestos) 默德斯托 his tutor; and CRESCENTIA 克瑞森提亚 his attendant; at Lucania in Southern Italy (303)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Βίτος, Μόδεστος καὶ Κρησκεντία οἱ Μάρτυρες
殉道者圣维图斯、莫德斯特和克雷森蒂亚
圣维图斯出生于西西里的显赫之家，父母不是基督徒。莫德斯特是他的老师，而克雷森蒂亚是他的家庭教师。圣维图斯在年轻时就接受了浸礼，12岁那年隐退，过着禁欲生活。天使向他显现，引导他并使他在禁欲生活中得以强壮；而维图斯本人如同上帝的天使一样闪亮、美丽。曾经殴打维图斯的法官的手干枯了，但是维图斯通过祷告治愈了他的手。12个明亮的天使在他的屋子里显现，"天使的眼睛如同星星一样闪亮，脸象光一样"，维图斯的父亲看到这副景象之后眼睛失明了。维图斯通过祷告使父亲的眼睛重见光明。当他的父亲想杀害他的时候，一个天使向他显现，将他连同莫德斯特和克雷森蒂亚带到了斯拉里斯河畔的卢卡尼亚。在那里，维图斯治愈了不少病残者和精神病患者。应皇帝戴克里先的要求，维图斯来到了罗马，将魔鬼从皇帝的儿子身上驱赶出来；戴克里先非但没有报偿维图斯，反而对维图斯进行残忍的毒打，因为维图斯不敬拜那些不会说话的偶像。但是主使维图斯逃脱了一切的磨难，用其无形的手将维图斯带回到卢卡尼亚；维图斯、莫德斯特和克雷森蒂亚都在那里去世。圣维图斯的圣髑被安放在捷克的布拉格。
• VMM THEOCTISTA and JUSTINA, with M CAESARINUS, at Carthage in Africa
• 11 Martyrs of Lucania: ANTEON, CANDIDUS, CANTIANILLA, CANTIANUS, CHRYSOGONUS, JOCUNDUS, NIVITUS, PROTUS, QUINTIANUS, SILVIUS, THEODOLUS
• Martyr HESYCHIUS 伊西赫 the Soldier of Dorostolum a Roman soldier, was martyred at Dorostorum (Sillistria) in Moesia (Bulgaria) together with the veteran St JULIUS and others in Moesia (302)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἡσύχιος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Virgin Martyresses Sisters LEONIS (Leonida) 莱奥尼斯 and LIBYE (Lewbe, Livy, Lybe) 利维耶 and St EUTROPIA (Eftropia) 艾弗特若彼亚 together with her Mother who suffered in Palmyra at Nisibis (Sibapolis) of Syria (305)
Οἱ Ἁγίες Λεωνίς, Λιβύα καὶ Εὐτροπία οἱ Παρθενομάρτυρες
Lybe was beheaded; Leonis, her sister, died at the stake; and the 12 year-old slave girl, Eutropia, was used as a target for the soldiers to practice their shots. Their martyrdom took place under Diocletian at Palmyra in Syria.
• Blessed AUGUSTINE 奥古斯丁 bishop of Hippo (430) and his mother MONICA 妇莫尼卡 of Tagaste (387)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Αὐγουστίνος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἱππῶνος
有福的奥古斯丁，希帕的主教
奥古斯丁由异教徒被皈依为基督徒归咎于他的母亲莫尼卡的劝告、泪水和祷告。奥古斯丁是教会中一位伟大的导师和有影响力的作家，但是在他的教义中有一些未经教会同意的极端教条。奥古斯丁担任希帕的主教长达35年的时间，期间赞美上帝；奥古斯丁在世活了75岁（公元354－430年）。
• TAMADA (also Teemada, Ada or Timeda) and her CHILDREN, Together with St ARMENIUS and his mother St EMMADA in Egypt
• DOMITIAN and HADELIN (686) disciples of St Landelinus at Lobbes in Belgium Οἱ Ὅσιοι Δομετιανὸς καὶ Ἀδελίνος
• ELFLEDA (also Elflida or Ethelfleda) and ETHELHILDA Nuns at Winchester, Abs. at Romsey in Hampshire, England (1000)
• Translation (1524) of the relics of Hosiosmartyrs Abbot GREGORY 格里高利 and cellar CASSIAN 喀西安 of Avnezh, Vologda (1392)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Γρηγόριος καὶ Κασσιανὸς οἱ Ὁσιομάρτυρες καὶ Θαυματουργοί
• SERGIUS and BARBARA of Oyatsk, monastics, parents of St Alexander of Svir (1477-1480)
• New Hieromartyr VASILIJ Sitnikov, deacon (1850-1918)
• New Hieromartyr AMOS Ivanov, priest (1919) shot by the Bolsheviks
• Repose of INNOCENT Metropolitain of Peking (1931)
• Repose of Elder KOSMAS of Valaam and Riga (1968)
• JOB Kundria of Ugolka, Archimandrite (1985)
• MARTHA Pešić, Abbess in Wojwodina in Serbia (1989)
• Repose of Elder ANTHIMUS of St Anne's Skete, Mt Athos (1996)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀβραὰμ ὁ Θαυματουργός ὁ ἐν Γαλλίᾳ
While seeking to learn from hermits, Abraham was captured by bandits in Egypt, he was imprisoned and enslaved by them for five years before he could escape. Making his way to Europe, he lived as a hermit near Clermont, Gaul (modern France). Priest. Abbot of Saint Cyriacus abbey.
• Prophet先知 AMOS 阿摩斯 of the Twelve Minor Prophets (8th c. B.C.) Father of Prophet Jonah
Ὁ Προφήτης Ἀμώς
圣先知阿摩司
阿摩司出生于伯利恒附近的提哥亚村。阿摩司出身于普通的人家，过着简朴的生活。阿摩司为耶路撒冷的一富有人家饲养猪。而上帝并不从外表看人，而是看其心的洁净，上帝拣选了摩伊息斯和大卫作为人民的领导，上帝也同样拣选了阿摩司作为他的先知。阿摩司指责乌西雅王和他的异教司祭敬拜偶像，并说服伯特利的人们放弃敬拜金牛，教导他们敬拜唯一的活的上帝。当异教司祭领导对阿摩司进行迫害时，阿摩司预言说：亚述人将征服以色列，他们将杀死国王以及亚玛谢的儿子，亚述士兵将在亚玛谢面前奸污他的妻子，因为亚玛谢致使人们与偶像通奸。所有这些预言都兑现了。异教司祭的儿子用杖重重地击打了阿摩司的前额，阿摩司摔倒在地。阿摩司被带回他的村庄提哥亚，在那里将灵魂交给了上帝。阿摩司生活在公元前8世纪。
• Bishop BARDO of Mainz (1053)
• Martyress BENILDIS (Benilde) Matr., at Cordoba (853)
A woman of Cordoba in Spain who was so moved by the courage of the priest Athanasius during his martyrdom at the hands of the Moors, that she braved death at the stake on the following day. Her ashes were thrown into the Guadalquivir.
• BEOC of Wexford and Lan Veoc in Brittany (585)
• Bishop BERNARD of Menthon, Confessor (1008)
• CEDRONUS 凯德若诺 patriarch of Alexandria (107)
• COLMAN Son of Corodran, of Meelick, County of Monaghan
• CONSTANTINE (706) monk with St Philibert at Jumieges in France and then Bishop of Beauvais
Ὁ Ὅσιος Κωνσταντίνος Ἐπίσκοπος Μπεβαί Γαλλίας
• CYRILL the Wonderworker
Ὁ Ὅσιος Κύριλλος ὁ Θαυματουργός
• Martyr DULAS 杜拉斯 (Tatian) of Cilicia (300/313) who was scourged, burned, tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian after having undergone horrid tortures: disemboweled Zephyrinu, Cilicia, Asia Minor; his body was thrown into a ditch, and a sheepdog stood guard over it until local Christians could give him proper burial
Ὁ Ἅγιος Δουλᾶς ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Venerable DULAS the Passion-bearer of Egypt
Ὁ Ὅσιος Δουλᾶς ὁ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἀσκήσας
可敬的殉道者杜拉斯
杜拉斯在埃及的一座修道院中过着圣洁的生活。出于嫉妒，其中的一位兄弟指控他亵渎、偷窃教会的刊物。他们从无辜的杜拉斯身上脱去祭衣，并将他带到王子面前接受审讯。王子下令对他进行重惩，并想将他的双手切掉，按照当时的法律，犯这种罪要受这种刑罚；就在那时，那个兄弟感到懊悔，承认了杜拉斯的清白。20多年的流放生活以及遭受耻辱之后，杜拉斯重新回到了修道院，并在来到修道院的第三天去世，魂归天国，而他的尸体奇迹般地消失了。
• EADBURGA (Edburga, Edburgh or Eadburh) Nun of Winchester (960)
Daughter of King Edward the Elder and Edgiva of Kent; grand-daughter of King Alfred the Great. As a child she was placed in the convent of Nunnaminster, Winchester, England, which King Alfred's widow had founded. She lived her whole life there, a holy nun and abbess.
• Venerable EIGIL of Fulda Abbey, hegumen (822)
Born to the Bavarian nobility; nephew of St Sturmi of Fulda. Educated in Fulda, Germany in the monastery of his uncle Sturmi. Eigil became a Benedictine monk in Fulda. Priest. Teacher at the monastery school. Abbot of the monastery in 817, a house that was in decline at that point. He restored the community, built churches, founded another house, and trained his successor, St Rabanus Maurus.
• 艾弗冷 EPHRAIM II the Bulgarian, patriarch of Serbia (1400) // JUN 15 // AUG 30 SERBIAN HIERARCHS 13-14TH CC //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐφραὶμ Πατριάρχης Σερβίας
圣艾弗冷，塞尔维亚牧首
作为一位司祭的儿子，艾弗冷从小就渴望灵修和禁欲生活。当他的父母要他结婚时，他逃到了圣山阿托斯。后来，艾弗冷又返回了塞尔维亚，在伊巴尔峡谷和德卡尼修道院（科索沃）过着禁欲生活。当时国内为了争夺权势而发生了战争，不幸的是，也涉及到了教会，教务会议推选艾弗冷为牧首，接替1375年去世的萨瓦牧首。当他得知这个消息时痛哭流涕，但是又不能拒绝。艾弗冷于1382年为王子拉泽尔举行了加冕仪式，后来艾弗冷放弃了牧首职位，隐退到了旷野中，将牧首职位让给斯皮里顿。1388年斯皮里顿去世，拉泽尔沙皇要求艾弗冷继续接任牧首职位。艾弗冷管理塞尔维亚教会正值在科索沃战场上溃败的艰难时期（公元1389年），公元1400年艾弗冷去世，在88岁高龄之际得以进入他所爱的上帝的永生国度。艾弗冷的圣髑被保存在佩克修道院（科索沃）。
• Tr.Rel. to Constantinople in 363 of Hosiosmartyress FEBRONIA (Fevronia or Anahid) Virgin and Nun, Ascetic at Nisibis (Sibapolis) in Mesopotamia (305)
• Martyr GRACE
Ἡ Ἁγία Γραῦς ἡ Μάρτυς
• Hieromartyr HILARION of Espalion (793) Priest in Lévinhac, France
Beheaded c.793 in Perse, diocese of Rodez, France. Legend says that the body got up, washed the blood off the severated head, and then took it to his mother; he had jokingly promised he would do so every time she nagged him of the danger of passing through Muslim territory to being the Sacraments to the people of Perse.
• Martyr ISOECUS
• Venerable JEROME (Hieronymus) 耶若尼默 of Stridonium (420)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἱερώνυμος
• Sainted JONAH 约纳 metropolitan of Moscow (1461) // MAR 31 // MAY 27 TR REL // JUNE 15 // OCT 5 MOSCOW HIERARCHS //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωνᾶς Μητροπολίτης Μόσχας
• Repose of JONAH the Fool for Christ of Peshnosha Monastery (1838)
• JOSEPH 约熙福 monk of Bethlehem
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωσὴφ ὁ ἐν Βηθλεέμ
• Venerable LANDELINUS abbot of Crespin (Crepy) (625-686)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Λανδελίνος ὁ ἐν Γαλλίᾳ
Born near Bapaume, Landelinus lived for a time as a robber, but he repented and became a monk. He was later ordained and founded monasteries in France and Belgium, at Lobbes in 654, Aulne (656), Walers (657) and Crespin (Crepy) in 670. Worked with Saint Ursmar. Spiritual director of Saint Hadelin of Lobbes and Saint Domitian of Lobbes.
• Great Martyr Holy Nobleborn LAZAR 拉匝若 the Tsar of Serbia (1389)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Λάζαρος ὁ Μάρτυρας πρίγκιπας τῶν Σέρβων
圣殉道者拉泽尔（拉匝若），塞尔维亚王子br /> 拉泽尔是塞尔维亚贵族之一，在沙皇杜山去世后拉泽尔统治塞尔维亚帝国。沙皇乌罗什去世后，牧首艾弗冷加冕拉泽尔为塞尔维亚国王。拉泽尔派遣一个代表团同伊撒依亚修士一同前往君士坦丁堡，请求牧首为塞尔维亚人民解除咒逐。拉泽尔国王多次抗击土耳其人的势力。最后，于公元1389年6月15日在黑鸟地（科索沃－伯利耶）的战场上同土耳其苏丹阿姆拉特的军队进行交战，拉泽尔在那里遭到了斩首。他的尸体被运送到靠近库普里亚的拉瓦尼卡教堂进行安葬，拉瓦尼卡教堂是为纪念他而修建的，后来又被转送到斯热穆的拉瓦尼卡教堂。在第二次世界大战期间（1942年），他的圣髑被转移到贝尔格莱德的天使长圣弥哈伊尔大教堂内，时至今日，拉泽尔的圣髑仍没有腐坏，那些向他祷告的人都得到了安慰和治愈。（1989年是拉泽尔殉道600周年纪念，他的圣髑又被转移到库普里亚的拉瓦尼卡修道院）。圣拉泽尔在位期间修复了希兰达尔修道院（圣山阿托斯）和格尔尼亚克修道院。在拉泽尔在位期间还修建了拉瓦尼卡修道院和拉泽里卡修道院（在克鲁塞瓦克），同时还捐助了俄罗斯的圣潘塔里昂修道院（位于圣山阿托斯），以及其他许多教堂和修道院。
• Martyr LOLLIANUS
• LOTHARIUS of Séez (756) founded a monastery in the forest of Argentan, France; it was later named Saint-Loyer-des-Champs in his honour. Bishop of Séez, France for 32 years
• MELAN (549) Bishop of Viviers in France from 519 on
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μελανὸς Ἐπίσκοπος Βιβιέρ
Died after 549. Saint Melan was consecrated bishop of Viviers in 519. He was still bishop in 549, when he sent representatives to a council at Orléans.
• Sainted MICHAEL 弥哈伊尔 1st metropolitan of Kiev (992) // JUN 15 // SEP 30 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μιχαὴλ ὁ πρῶτος Μητροπολίτης Κιέβου καὶ πάσης Ρωσίας
• Martyr NERSES
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νερσῆς ὁ Μάρτυρας
• ORSIESIUS 奥尔谢西 the Cenobite, Abbot Hermit of Tabenna (368-380) disciple of St Pachomius the Great
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ὀρτίσιος
Orsiesius was a favorite disciple of St Pachomius at Tabennisi, and his assistant in drawing up the rules for the cenobites. He succeeded Pachomius as abbot. He was praised by Saint Antony and Saint Athanasius, but some 12 years before his death he was forced by his monks to resign because of the harshness of his rule. He resumed that office several years later. He is the author of an ascetical treatise that St Jerome translated into Latin.
• Translation of the relics of St PACHOMIOS the Great
• Venerable SABBAS 萨瓦 the Fool for Christ of Vatopedi, Mt Athos (1283-1349)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Σάββας ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός ὁ Βατοπαιδινός
• SYMEON 西麦翁 archbishop of Novgorod (1421)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Συμεὼν Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Νόβγκοροντ καὶ Πσκώφ
• SPYRIDON 斯彼里顿 patriarch of Serbia (1388)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σπυρίδων Πατριάρχης Σερβίας
• STEPHAN of Vologda (1542)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Στέφανος τοῦ Ὀζέρο καὶ Κομὲλ Ρωσίας
• STEPHANIE (Stefanie)
• Translation (9th c.) of the relics of Venerable THEODORE 德奥多若 the Sykeote 西凯奥提 (613) // APR 22 // JUN 15 //
The Relics of St Theodore the Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasioupolis were transferred from Galatea to Constantinople in the ninth century. His relics were seen in the year 1200 by the Russian pilgrim Anthony at the monastery of St George.
• Martyr THEODORITES
• Holy Schemamonk THEOPHANES (in the world Theodore Talunin) of the Roslavl Forests and Optina (1819)
• TRILLO (Drillo, Drel) (6th c.) Abbot of Llandrillo, Wales, Companion of St Cadfan of Wales
Ὁ Ἅγιος Τρίλλος Ἐπίσκοπος ἐν Οὐαλίᾳ
Trillo, son of a Breton chieftain, migrated to Wales with Saint Cadfan. He is the patron of two places named Llandrillo in Denbighshire (now Gwynedd) and Monmouth. At Gwynedd there is an ancient oratory in the Irish style built over a spring that is used for baptisms named after him. Another Llandrillo in Merionethshire (now Gwynedd) had a well where rheumatism was cured. Patron saint of two places in Gwynedd in Wales.
• VAUGE (Vorech) (585) Priest in the diocese of Armagh, Ireland. Retiring from public work, he settled in Brittany to live as a hermit near Lesneven, France
Died June 15, 585. He was a holy priest in the church of Armagh, Ireland, who, to fly the archiepiscopal dignity, retired into to Penmarch, Cornwall, when it appeared he was to be consecrated archbishop. He landed at Penmarch in that county, and being honourably received, built himself a hermitage, yet often went out to preach to the people, and kindle in their breasts the most ardent desire of Christian perfection. But that doesn't mean that he kept to himself: He often preached to the local people and instilled the desire for Christian perfection in their breasts. He was called to receive the recompense of his labours on the 15th of June, 585. Under the name of St Vorech he seems titular saint of Llanlivery in Cornwall.
• VOUGA (Vougar, Veho, Feock, Fiech) Bishop of Lesneven (6th c.)
A bishop from Ireland who settled in Brittany and lived there as a hermit near Lesneven.
• Elderly Woman Martyress
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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