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January 13 / December 31
2018/2017（7526）
Apodosis of the Nativity of Christ
Ἀπόδοσις ἑορτῆς τῆς τοῦ Κυρίου μας Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ Γεννήσεως
Closing Day of the Feast of the Nativity according to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ
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• 10 Virgin Martyress of Nicomedia, blinded and their breasts were cutted
Οἱ Ἁγίες Δέκα Παρθένες
• MM DONATA, PAULINA, RUSTICA, NOMINANDA, HILARIA, SEROTINA (also Scorina) and companions at Rome
A group of Roman women martyred in one of the early persecutions. Their relics were enshrined in the catacombs of the Via Salaria.
• MM SABINIAN honoured as the 1st Bishop of Sens in France, and his successor POTENTIAN (300)
• Early Martyrs STEPHEN, PONTIAN, ATTALUS, FABIAN, CORNELIUS, SEXTUS, FLOS, QUINTIAN, MINERVINUS and SIMPLICIAN in Catania in Sicily
• LOCHAN and ENDA of Kilmanagh
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NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• New Hieromartyr MICHAEL Berezin, presbiter, priest (1889-1936/1937) day of martyrdom, shoted after KZ of Novosibirsk
• Martyr PETR Troitskij, psalmreader (1889-1937/1938) day of death in Medvezhjegorsk KZ, Karelia
• New Hieromartyr bishop THADDÄUS Uspenskij (1937)
• Holy Hieroconfessor DOSITHEUS Vasich, metropolitan of Zagreb (1944/1945) the Bishop and Confessor of Serbia
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• ANYSIOS Bishop of Thessaloniki (384-407)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀνύσιος Ἐπίσκοπος Θεσσαλονίκης
• BARBATIAN (5th c.) a priest from Antioch who went to Rome and there attracted the attention of the Empress, Placidia Augusta, through his wise counsel. She encouraged him to live in Ravenna in Italy near the imperial court, where a monastery was built
• BASILIUS Hegumenos of the monastery of Moldovitsa in Romania, Wonderworker (15th c.)
• Martyr BOA in Hierapolis in Phrygia under Emperor Aurelian
• Martyr BUSIRIS martyred by women with knitting needles
Ὁ Ἅγιος Βούσιρις ὁ Μάρτυρας
• VM COLUMBA of Sens, Martyred at Azon (273) Gaul
Born in Spain, she left her country to avoid being denounced as a Christian. She went to France with other Spanish Christians, but all of them were martyred near Meaux under Aurelian. Her shrine was in Sens.
• Venerable Ascetic CYRIACUS of Bisericani monastery and Simon Mountain (1660) Romania
• Venerable CYRIACUS of Mt Magura Tazlaului (1660) Romania
• Venerable monk GAIUS
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γάϊος
• Martyr GAUDENTIUS
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γαυδέντιος
• Venerable monk GELASIUS of Palestine (5th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γελάσιος
• Venerable GEORGE Machiaromenos (the Stabbed), Wonderworker, of Cyprus
Άγιος Γεώργιος ο Θαυματουργός ο λεγόμενος μαχαιρωμένος
• Martyr HERMES in Bononia, today's Vidin in Bulgaria (4th c.)
• Monk IRENEIUS
• JOHN of Râsca, Bishop of Huşi and of Roman in Moldova (1685)
• Martyress MARTINA
• Venerable MELANIA (Melania the Younger; also Malan, Melanthia, Melanthe, Melan, Melana or Melanie) the Roman, Matr., W., Dcn., Nun (383-439)
Ἡ Ὁσία Μελάνη ἡ Ρωμαία
Melania was the granddaughter of St Melania the Elder. Born in Rome, she married (probably her paternal cousin) Valerius Pinianus (Apinianus, Pinian) (379-471) at the age of 14. They had two children who died young. Apinianus was 24 years old and Melania 20 at the time of their remarkable and God-pleasing withdrawal from society. About the year 410 they left Rome, the former entering a monastery and the latter a convent in Jerusalem. Her cave hermitage on the Mount of Olives is still a place of pilgrimage and veneration.
• Greek Martyress NEMA (also Nemo, Neme, Nemea) by sword
Ἡ Ἁγία Νέμη ἡ Μάρτυς
• Martyress OLYMPIODORA by fire
Ἡ Ἁγία Ὀλυμπιοδώρα ἡ Μάρτυς
• PETER of Subiaco (1003) The 22nd Abbot of Subiaco in Italy. For defending his monastery, he was blinded and died in prison • Repose of Blessed Sainted PETER Mogila, metropolitan of Kiev (1646) Defender of the Orthodox faithful against subjugation to the Roman Papacy (Unia)
• RAPHAEL of Agapia, Romanian ascetic (16th c.)
• Venerabless SABIANA Abbess of Samtskhe (11th c.) Georgia
• SALAMINUS
• Hieromartyr Pope SILVESTER (335) came from Rome and served the Church as Pope from 314 to 335, helping convert St Constantine. Most of his relics are enshrined in San Silvestro in Capite in Rome
• VM SOPHIA at Cologne (4th c.)
• Martyr THEMISTOCLES of Myra, shepherd
• Blessed THEOPHYLACT Archbishop of Ohrid of the Bulgarian Church (12th c.)
• Venerable Hieromartyr ZOTICUS 佐提科 Orphanotrophos (Feeder of Orphans), of Constantinople, presbiter (337) Benefactor and Cherisher of the Poor and Servant of Lepers
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζωτικὸς ὁ Ὀρφανοτρόφος
An outbreak of leprosy in the new City became so severe that the Emperor ordered that all lepers, whatever their rank, be driven from the city or drowned in the sea. Zoticus, moved by compassion for these people, went to the Emperor and asked him for a large amount of gold to buy gems and pearls to enhance the glory of the city, "For, as Your Majesty knows, I am well-qualified in this field." The Saint then used the gold to ransom all those being led into exile or to drowning, and to establish for them a camp on the hill of Olivet on the opposite shore of the Bosphorus. There he brought the sick and provided for their care. One day, the emperor asked Zoticus for the promised pearls, and Zoticus brought him and showed him the infected men in his home, saying: "These, O Emperor, are the living pearls that I acquired with labor and money for your salvation." The enraged emperor condemned Zoticus to death. The astonished and repentant Emperor ordered the Martyr buried with honor, and commanded that a hospital for lepers be built there, staffed by the best physicians and caretakers. Saint Zoticus is also called Orphanotrophos, Cherisher of Orphans, because in later years a large orphanage was added to the leprosarium. The orphanage included a general hospital and a home for the aged. The Saint was honored throughout Byzantine history as the patron of the orphanage.

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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.