• συνοδικός • January 21 / January 8 •

συνοδικός

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January 21 / January 8
2018 （7526）
Afterfeast of the Theophany

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• "THE LIFEGIVING WELL" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
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• Martyrs LUCIAN, MAXIMIAN and JULIAN (290) in Beauvais in the north of France
• Hieromartyr THEOPHILUS 德奥斐罗 the Deacon and Martyr HELLADIUS 艾拉迪 in Libya (305) after being tortured they were beaten with stones
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Θεόφιλος καὶ Ἑλλάδιος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Holy Hosiosmartyr Abbot JULIAN 犹利安 and his wife Hosiosmartyress Abbess BASILISSA 瓦西利萨; hieromartyr presbiter ANTHONY 安托尼; Hosiosmartyr ANASTASIUS 阿纳斯塔西 who was raised from the dead by M Julian; Martyress MARCIONILLA (also Marcianilla, Marionilla or Maronilla) 玛尔基奥尼拉, Matr., and her son Martyr CELSUS (also Celsius) 凯尔稣; 20 Soldiers; 7 children and others at Antinoe in Egypt (313)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰουλιανός, Βασίλισσα, Κέλσιος, Ἀναστάσιος καὶ Ἀντώνιος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Venerabless DOMNICA (also Domnica, Dominica, Domnkike, Dohmne, Domnina, Keriake or Kyriaki) 多穆尼卡 the Righteous of Constantinople, Dcn., Abs., together with the women in her community: DOROTHEA, EVANTHIA, NONNA and TIMOTHEA (474)
Ἡ Ὁσία Δομνίκη
• Martyrs EUGEN and THEOPHILOS
• Hieromartyr presbiter ISIDORE 伊西多若 and 72 companions at Yuriev (Dorpats) in Estonia, slain by the Latins (1472)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῶ 72 Μάρτυρες
The Hieromartyr Isidor was priest of the Nikol'sk church in the city of Yur'ev (Derpto, at present Taru in Estonia). According to the terms of a treaty concluded in 1463 between the Moscow Greatprince Ivan III and the Livonian knights, the latter were obligated to extend to the Orthodox at Derpto every protection. But the Livonian knights broke the treaty and began to try forcing the Orthodox into the Unia. Presbyter Isidor bravely stood forth in defense of Orthodoxy. He preferred to accept a martyr's crown rather than submit to the Catholics. Blessed Isidor together with 72 of his parishioners were drowned in the ice-hole, cut open on the feast of Theophany after the blessing of waters in the River Amovzha (or Emaiyga, now Emajogi). In Spring, during a time of flooding, the undecayed bodies of the holy martyrs, and among them the fully-vested body of the PriestMartyr Isidor, were found by Russian merchants journeying along the River bank. They buried the saints around the Nikol'sk church.
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NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Venerable Elder ISAIAH of Valaam Monastery (1914)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἡσαΐας
• New Hieromartyr VIKTOR Usov, presbiter, priest (1937)
• New Hieromartyr DIMITRIJ Plyshevskij, presbiter, priest (1938)
• New Hieromartyr VLADIMIR Pasternatskij, presbiter, archpriest (1885-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted after prison in Roslavl’ of Smolensk
• Hosiosmartyr PAFNUTIJ Kostin, Hieromonk of Optina Monastery (1866-1938)
• Martyr MICHAEL Novoselov (1938)
• New Hieromartyr BASIL Archangelskij, presbiter, priest (1939)
• Martyr JOHN Malyshev (1940)
• Hieroconfessor MICHAEL Rozov, presbiter, priest (1889-1941) day of death in Jaroslavl’
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• Martyr ABO 阿博 the Perfumer of Baghdad, who suffered at Tbilisi, Georgia (786)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀβὼ ὁ Μάρτυρας
• AGATHON 阿伽陀 of Egypt, monk (4th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀγάθων
• Sainted ALBERT of Cashel (700) Patron-saint of Cashel in Ireland. According to some, he had been born in England, laboured in Ireland and later preached in Bavaria. He then went to Jerusalem and on his return reposed and was buried in Regensburg
• Claudius APOLLINARIS the Apologist (175) bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia
• Martyr ARTSCHIL II King of Georgia (787)
• Bishop ATHELHELM (Athelm) (923) Paternal uncle of St Dunstan. A monk and then Abbot of Glastonbury in England, he became 1st Bishop of Wells in Somerset and 21st Archbishop of Canterbury in 923
• Sainted Archbishop ATTICUS 阿提科 patriarch of Constantinople (425)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀττικὸς Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως
• Hieromartyr presbiter CARTERIUS (Karterios) 喀尔特里 of Caesarea in Cappadocia (304) suffered severely for his confession of faith in and preaching about Jesus Christ. After heavy torture he died from the spear of the guilt of the Jews
Ὁ Ἅγιος Καρτέριος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
• COCCA (also Cuac, Coc, Cuaca, Cuach, Cuccha, Cucca or Ladoca), Pat. of Kilcock, Co. Kildare
• Sainted CYRUS (Kyros) 基若 patriarch of Constantinople (714)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Κύρος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως

• EDGAR the Peaceable, King of England
• Venerable ELIAS 伊利亚 the Hermit of Egypt (371)
• Hieroconfessor EMILIAN 埃弥利安 Bishop of Cyzicus (815-820)
For veneration of holy icons, the hierarch Emilian underwent "much and cruel tribulations" and in the year 815 he was imprisoned. And he died there.
• ERCNAT (also Ergnat, Ergnad, Ercnacta, Ercnata, Ercnait, Ernacua or Ernacuagh) 厄格娜德 of Tamlacht, Co. Armagh and of Duneane, Co. Antrim (460-480) born in Ulster in Ireland, she was made a nun by St Patrick
• Sainted Bishop ERHARD (Albert, Erhart) 艾尔哈德 of Ratisbon (Regensburg) (686/715) born in Ireland, he preached the Gospel as a bishop in Bavaria in Germany, mainly around Regensburg
• Hieromartyr EUGENIAN Bishop of Autun in France (340) a staunch defender of Orthodoxy against Arianism, for which he was martyred
• FRODOBERT (673) a monk at Luxeuil in France, he founded the monastery of Moutier-la-Celle near Troyes, where he led a life of unceasing prayer and asceticism
• GARIBALDUS (762) 1st Bishop of Regensburg in Germany. He was consecrated by St Boniface in 740. He had probably been Abbot of St Emmeran in Regensburg before this
• Venerable GEORGE 格奥尔基 the Chozibite (625) of the coenubium of the Most Holy Theotokos, called Chozeba, on the left of the route which leads from Jerusalem to Jericho
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεώργιος ὁ Χοζεβίτης
• GREGORY 格里高利 the Wise, Bishop of Ohrid (1012) and of Moesia
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Ἐπίσκοπος Μοισίας
• Hosiosmartyr GREGORY 格里高利 Wonderworker of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1093) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Antony Near Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας καὶ Θαυματουργός
One time, when the monk went to the Dneipr River for water, young fellows marching off on a campaign with prince Rostislav, caught sight of the elder and began rudely to laugh and mock at him. The saint answered them: "Children, it becometh ye to be contrite and ask for my prayers, since over you is already decided the judgement of God. All ye together with your prince will find death in the water". By orders of the enraged prince Rostislav, the monk was bound hand and foot and with a stone about his neck he was drowned in the Dneipr. But his prediction came true. Rostislav did not return from the campaign. In that same year of 1093 the twenty year old prince drowned in view of his brother, Vladimir Monomakh, trying to save himself in flight from the Polovetsians.
• Venerable GREGORY 格里高利 the Recluse, hermit of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1316) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Theodosy Far Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Ἔγκλειστος
In the "Accounts of the Lives of the Saints, Reposed in the Cave of the Monk Theodosii", it says, that uncooked grass served as the food of the Monk Gregory all his life. He gave this grass to those coming to him, and the sick were healed.
• Righteous Virgin GUDULA 谷杜拉 of Brussels (also Gudule, Goole, Goule, Ergoule or Goelen) Pat. of Brussels in Belgium (712) Daughter of St Amelberga, she spent much time with St Gertrude at Nivelles and afterwards lived a life of holiness
Gudula was educated at Nivelle, under the care of St Gertrude, her cousin and god-mother; after whose death, in 664, she returned to the house of count Witger, her father, and having by vow consecrated her virginity to God, led there a most austere holy life, in watching, fasting, and prayer. By her profuse alms, in which she bestowed her whole revenue on the poor, she was truly the mother of all the distressed; though her father’s castle was two miles from the church of our Saviour at Morzelle, she went thither early every morning, with a maid to carry a lantern before her; and the wax taper being once put out, is said to have miraculously lighted again at her prayers, whence she is usually represented in pictures with a lantern.
• New Martyress KYRANNA of Thessalonica (Thessalonike) (1751) // SUNDAY AFTER JAN 8 //
• Martyr LUCIAN Apostle of Beauvais, in France (290)
• Venerable MACARIUS 玛喀里 Makris of Mt Athos (1431) igumen of the Monastery of the Pantocrator, and chaplain to the Emperor Manuel II Paleologos
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μακάριος Μακρής
• Sainted MAXIMUS I Bishop of Pavia in Italy (265/511) attended Councils in Rome under Pope Symmachus
• MOLIBBA (Libba) Bishop of Glendalough, County of Wicklow
• NATHALAN Bishop of Aberdeenshire, Scotland (7th c.)
• NEACHTAIN of Dungiven, County Derry (679)
• Venerable Abbot PAISIUS 帕伊西 of Uglich (1504)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Παΐσιος ἐκ Ρωσίας
• New Martyress PARTHENA of Edessa in Macedonia (1375) graved alive
• PATIENS (2nd c.) venerated as the 4h Bishop and patron-saint of Metz in France
• Virgin PEGA (also Pee), Anchoress of Peakirk (719) The sister of St Guthlac of Crowland in England. She too lived as an anchoress. The village of Peakirk (Pega's church) in Northamptonshire is called after her
• SARAN of Cuil-Creamha
• Venerable SEVERINUS 塞维理诺 (482) an Eastern monk who enlightened Noricum Ripense, now in Austria. He founded several monasteries, notably one on the Danube near Vienna, where he organised help for those afflicted by the invasions of Attila and the Huns and where he reposed. Six years after his repose, the monks were driven out and took his relics to Naples in Italy, where the monastery of San Severino was built to enshrine them
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σεβερίνος
• Prophet SHEMAIAH (Semeias) man of God (10th c. B.C.)
Ὁ Προφήτης Σαμέας
Furthermore, this Prophet should not be confused with Shemaiah the Nehelamite in Jeremiah 29:24, who was a false prophet. This confusion is often made when the Prophet Shemaiah is referred to as "the Elamite".
• Venerable THEODORE 德奥多若 of Constantinople (568/595) Founder and Abbot of Chora Monastery; uncle of Empress Theodora, wife of Emperor Justinian
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεόδωρος Κτήτορας καὶ Ἡγούμενος τῆς μονῆς τῆς Χώρας
• Bishop WULSIN (Vulsin, Wulfsin, Wulfsige) of Sherborne (Shireburn) (1005) a monk whom St Dunstan loved as a son and made Abbot of Westminster in 980. In 993 he became Bishop of Sherborne
• ZOTIKOS

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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.