• 2022 • September 15 / September 2 • 7531 #συνοδικός since #2018

συνοδικός

---

FORGIVENESS IS BETTER THAN REVENGE
NO ONE HEALS HIMSELF BY WOUNDING ANOTHER
15.9.2022 oo:oo 83\204 #συνοδικός #synodikos WEDNESDAY
#₴ #συνοδικός

---

• συνοδικός • September 15 / September 2 • συνοδικός •
2022 (7531)
dedicated in honor of the DORMITION : 宿舍斋戒 : sùshè zhāijiè of the Most Holy Theotokos .
Let God’s will abide in everything, but we shall ask for His mercy towards us who are sinful .

---

FEASTS and MIRACLES of OUR VIRGIN MARY THE HOLY THEOTOKOS
●

• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of KALUGA (1748) 卡路伽. Remembrance of the deliverance from an ulcerous plague (1771)
The life of the Orthodox Church provides us with numerous examples of how Almighty God manifests His power through small and lifeless things-especially those things that serve as signs of the Incarnation, life and suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ. Such things include the Cross, icons of the Theotokos and the saints, holy water, oil, myrrh, and so forth. For example, a miracle was wrought through an icon of the Holy Mother of God in the year 1748, in the home of a boyar named Khitrov, near the Russian city of Kaluga. Two of the boyar's servants, rummaging in Khitrov's attic one day, came upon a rolled-up piece of cloth that depicted the beautiful image of a woman's face. The image emanated holiness and piety. One of the servants was humble and modest, while the other was vain and talkative. The former, looking at the image on the cloth, called it ``The Abbess.'' Evdokia-the vain and talkative one, whose name we know-did not honor this name, but coarsely mocked her humble companion. To give even more force to her vulgarity, she spat on the painting. At that instant Evdokia fell to the ground, writhing with her whole body, blind and dumb, and began foaming at the mouth. That night the Theotokos appeared to the parents of the unfortunate girl, and told them what had happened to their daughter. She told them to get a priest and have him pray before the image that had been found and sprinkle the girl with holy water, and then she would be healed. When this was done, Evdokia was healed, and from then on she amended her disposition and was more modest. Thus was a miracle-working icon of the Holy Theotokos discovered. This icon was taken to a church in Kaluga, where it can be found today, still working miracles.

• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of THE SIGN of Vologda (1571)

---

SAINT MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS before the 20th century
●

• Righteous ELEAZAR 埃勒阿匝尔 the second High Priest (16 cent. B.C.) son of Aaron, and Righteous PHINEAS 斐奈亚 son of Eleazar
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἐλεάζαρ καὶ Φινεὲς οἱ Δίκαιοι Ἱερεῖς

• Martyrs DIOMEDES, JULIAN, PHILIP, EUTYCHIAN, HESYCHIUS, LEONIDES, PHILADELPHUS, MENALIPPUS and PANTAGAPES suffered various forms of execution - burning at the stake, drowning, beheading, or crucifixion

• Martyr MAMAS 玛玛斯 of Caesarea in Cappadocia (275), his parents Martyrs Husband and Wife THEODOTUS 德奥多特 and RUFINA 卢斐纳 at Caesaria in Cappadocia (3rd c.) and Widow AMMIA (Ammiana) of Caesaria in Cappadocia, nurserymaid of Martyr Mamas
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάμας

• Martyrs AEITHALAS 阿伊塔拉 and AMMON 阿蒙 in Adrianopolis of Thraceу
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀειθαλᾶς καὶ Ἄμμων (ἢ Ἀμμοῦν) οἱ Μάρτυρες

• 3 628 Martyrs who suffered at Nicomedia (304)

• Saints ANTHONY 安托尼 and THEODOSIUS 德奥多西 — Founders of the Kiev Caves Lavra
According to the Primary Chronicle, in the early 11th century, Anthony, an Orthodox monk from Esphigmenon Monastery on Mount Athos, originally from Liubech of the Principality of Chernihiv, returned to Rus' and settled in Kiev as a missionary of monastic tradition to Kievan Rus'. He chose a cave at the Berestov Mount that overlooked the Dnieper River and a community of disciples soon grew. Prince Iziaslav I of Kiev ceded the whole mount to the Antonite monks who founded a monastery built by architects from Constantinople. This was the Kiev Caves Lavra. Saint Theodosius' greatest achievement has been the introducing of the monastic rule of Saint Theodore the Studite in the Monastery of the Caves whence it spread to all the monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church.

---

NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS before the 20th century
●

• Hieromartyr BARSUNUPHIUS 瓦尔桑努斐 (Vasilij Lebedev) bishop of Kyrilov (1871-1918)
• Hieromartyr IOANN Ivanov, presbiter, priest of Vologda (1864-1918)
• Hosiosmartyrissa SERAPHIMA 塞拉斐玛 (Yelizaveta Sulimova) Abbess of Therapontov Convent (1858-1918)
• ANATOLIY 阿纳托利 Barashkov, martyr of Vologda (1870-1918)
• NIKOLAY 尼科拉 Burlakov, martyr of Vologda (1889-1918)
• MICHAEL 米迦勒 Trubnikov, martyr of Vologda (1855-1918)
• PHILIP 腓力 Maryshev, martyr of Vologda (1864-1918)
• Hieromartyr NIKOLAY a Priest (1920)
• Hieromartyr DAMASCENE 达玛斯基诺 (Dimitrij Tsedrik) bishop of Starodub, Vicar of Chernihiv (1878-1937)
• Hieromartyr EVFIMIY Goryachev, presbiter, archpriest of Alma-Ata (1884-1937)
• Hieromartyr IOANN Mel’nichenko, presbiter, priest of Alma-Ata (1889-1937)
• Hieromartyr IOANN Smolichev, presbiter, priest of Alma-Ata (1889-1937)
• Hieromartyr VLADIMIR Morinskiy, presbiter, priest of Alma-Ata (1882-1937)
• Hieromartyr VICTOR Basov, presbiter, priest of Alma-Ata (1892-1937)
• Hieromartyr priest VASILIY Zelenskiy (1937)
• Hieromartyr THEODOT Shatokhin, presbiter, priest of Alma-Ata (1888-1937)
• Hieromartyr PETER Novosel’skiy, presbiter, priest of Alma-Ata (1883-1937)
• Hieromartyr STEFAN Yaroshevich, presbiter, priest (1883-1937)
• Virgin Martyrissa KSENIA (1937)
• Hieromartyr HERMAN 革尔曼 (Nikolay Ryashentcev) bishop of Vyaznikov (1883-1937)
• Hieromartyr STEPHEN 斯特梵 Yermolin, presbiter, priest (1891-1937)
• PAVEL Yel’kin, martyr (1876-1937)

---

MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS before the 20th century
●

• AGRICOLA (Agricolus) (630-700) Bishop of Avignon

• Venerable ANTHONY of the Caves, founder of monasticism in Rus, in Near Caves (1073) Co-founder Kiev Pechersk Lavra (Kiev Monastery of the Caves)

• ANTONINUS of Pamia, an early martyr in France (4th cent.)
Saint Antoninus was a young mason who cut the idols to pieces in an excess of apostolic fervor, for which the villagers, who believed in the idols, punished him with death in a church that he had built.

• CASTOR (420) Bishop of Apt in France

• COLUM Son of Blann

• Martyr DIOMEDES by sword
Ὁ Ἅγιος Διομήδης ὁ Μάρτυρας

• ELPIDIUS the Cappadocian, Abbot (4th cent.)

• ELPIDIUS (422) Bishop of Lyons in France

• ENAN Mac Ua Mago

• Martyr EUTYCHIUS crucified
Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐτύχιος ὁ Μάρτυρας

• Martyr EUTYCHIAN roasted on a grill
Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐτυχιανὸς ὁ Μάρτυρας

• HIEU (Heiu) 希埃邬 a nun and then Abbess of Tadcaster in Yorkshire in England, who was Tonsured by Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne

• Martyr HESYCHIUS hanged
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἡσύχιος ὁ Μάρτυρας

• Venerable JOHN 约安 the Faster 持斋者, patriarch of Constantinople (595)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Νηστευτὴς

• Martyr JULIAN his head was pierced with poles
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰουλιανὸς ὁ Μάρτυρας

• KOSMAS the Hermit and Confessor (658)

• Martyr LEONIDES burned in the fire
Ὁ Ἅγιος Λεωνίδης ὁ Μάρτυρας

• LOLANUS (1034) Bishop of Scotland

• Martyrissa MAXIMA (304) a Roman slave who was scourged to death in Rome during the persecution of Diocletian. She was condemned to death together with Saint Ansanus

• Martyr MELANIPPUS burned in the fire
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μελάνιππος ὁ Μάρτυρας

• Venerable NONNOSUS (560) prior at the San Silvestre monastery on Monte Soratte north of Rome and later a monk at Suppentonia, near Civita Castellana. He was a contemporary of Saint Benedict of Nursia

• Martyrissa PARTHAGAPE killed in the sea
Ἡ Ἁγία Παρθαγάπη ἡ Μάρτυς

• PAUL III the New, Patriarch of Constantinople from 687 to 693

• Martyr PHILIPP by sword
Ὁ Ἅγιος Φίλιππος (ἢ Θεόδοτος ἢ Θεόδωρος) ὁ Μάρτυρας

• Martyr PHILADELPHUS submerged with the stone on his neck submerged
Ὁ Ἅγιος Φιλάδελφος ὁ Μάρτυρας

• SEANAN of Laithrech-Briuin, now Laraghbrine, County of Kildare (6th cent.)

• STEPHEN I (István) King of Hungary, Confessor (1038)

• Martyr THEODOR

• Venerable THEODOSIUS of the Caves, Chief of community living, in Far Caves (1074) Co-founder Kiev Pechersk Lavra (Kiev Monastery of the Caves)

• Translation of the Relics (1796) of Venerable abbot THEODOSIUS of Totma (1568)

• VALENTINE (4th cent.) 4th Bishop of Strasbourg Alsace, France

• Repose of VLADIMIR archbishop of Kazan (1897)

• Virgin Martyr VOLFSIND of Reisbach in Bayern (719)

---

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 .

•
•
•

Blessed be God .