• συνοδικός • January 22 / January 9 •

συνοδικός

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January 22 / January 9
2018 （7526）
Afterfeast of the Theophany

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• 12 Martyrs in North Africa: Bishop EPICTETUS, JUCUNDUS, SECUNDUS, VITALIS, FELIX and companions (250)
• Venerables BASIL and GREGORY the Wonderworkers of Monastery of Agauros, maternal uncles of Saint Eustratius (9th c.) shined forth in asceticism and virtue. Eustratios was therefore received by his uncles, and tonsured a monastic by them
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Βασίλειος καὶ Γρηγόριος οἱ Θαυματουργοί
• Martyrs NIKANDER and ZACHARIAH
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NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Repose of Venerable JONAH 约纳 (Ivan Miroshnichenko, Peter 彼得 in schema) founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev (1802-1902)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωνᾶς ὁ Γέροντας
• New Hieromartyr PAVEL Nikol’skij, presbiter, priest(1896-1943) day of death in V’atlag KZ of Kirov
• New Hieromartyr PAVEL Florensky
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• Abbot ADRIAN 阿德里安 of Canterbury an instructor of innumerable Saints (710) born in Africa; of his great learning and piety chosen as Abbot of Sts Peter and Paul, later called St Augustine's in Canterbury, England
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀδριανὸς Ἡγούμενος Καντουαρίας
• Martyress ANTONIA of Nicomedia, drowned in a sea
Ἡ Ἁγία Ἀντωνίνα ἡ Μάρτυς
• Schemanun BARSANUPHIA of Moscow (16th c.)
• BRITHWALD (Beorhtweald, Berctuald, Bertwald, Brihtwald) (731) he became a monk and the Abbot of Reculver in Kent in England. In 693 he became the 9th Archbishop of Canterbury
• VM EMRAISA (also Emrais or Irene) in Egypt
• Venerable Abbot EUSTRATIUS 艾弗斯特拉提 the Wonderworker of Tarsus (821)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐστράτιος ὁ Θαυματουργός
One day on the road, he came across a man who, in despair over his many sins, was preparing to hang himself. Saint Eustratios took the man's hand, placed it on his own neck, and said to him: "May the weight of your sins lie on me from now on, my child. On the day of Judgment, I myself will answer for them instead of you. All you have to do is throw away this rope and hope in God."
• FINIA (also Finnia), Abs. of Kildare (8th c.)
• FOELLAN (Foilan, Fillan) (8th c.) born in Ireland, he accompanied his mother, St Kentigerna, and his relative, St Comgan, to Scotland, where he lived as a monk. The place of repose is called Strathfillan // JAN 9/22 // AUG 26/SEP 8 //
They are water-washed stones from the river, and were used to heal different disorders by being placed on different parts of the body. Saint Fillan worked in the communities surrounding Loch Ness. One story says that he held up a cross and Nessie turned away from frighening worshippers. Saint Fillan is more famous for his healing stones which are still in use today. These stones resemble the organs they are said to heal: eyes, kidneys, liver, lungs, heart. The stones are at the Tweed Mill beside Dochart Falls near Killin. St Fillan was a follower of St Columba and came to Killin around the end of the 7th century. He taught here and as tradition demands, every Christmas Eve St Fillan's healing stones are given a fresh bed of straw and reeds from the riverbank. Still kept at the woollen mill in Killin are a set of river stones which were believed to have been given healing powers by St Fillan. A particular sequence of movements of an appropriate stone around the afflicted area was believed to result in a cure. Each stone cured a specific part of the body.
St Fillan is the Patron Saint of the mentally ill. For centuries after his death, the mentally ill were miraculously cured by being dipped in a fountain in the church at Gledochart.
• Translation (903) of the relics of JUDOC the Hermit of Ponthieu and Confessor (600-668) to Winchester, England
• Martyr LAWRENCE martyred in the arena, by the pagans
Ὁ Ἅγιος Λαυρέντιος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• VM MAHARATI at Antinoe in Egypt (3-4th c.)
• MARCELLINUS of Ancona (566) born in Ancona in Italy, he became bishop there in c 550
• VM MARCIANA of Mauritania, martyred at Caesarea (304)
A Virgin Martyress in Mauritania in North Africa. Accused of breaking a statue of a goddess, she was thrown to the wild beasts and gored to death by a bull.
• MAURONTUS (Maurontius, Mauruntius) (700) Founder of the monastery of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil on the Loire in France
• Martyr PANTELEIMON
• New Martyress PARTHENA 帕尔特纳 of Edessa in Macedonia (1375) graved alive
Ἡ Ἁγία Παρθένα ἡ Ἐδεσσαία
• VM PASCHASIA at Dijon (Clermont, France) (178)
• Sainted PETER 彼得 bishop of Sebaste in Armenia (392) and brother of St Basil the Great and St Gregory of Nyssa
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος Ἐπίσκοπος Σεβαστείας
He was the tenth and youngest child of a family of Saints, the brother of St Basil the Great, St Macrina and St Gregory of Nyssa. His father died shortly after his birth in 319, and he was reared mostly by his sister St Macrina. He was ordained to the priesthood by his brother St Basil in 370, and consecrated Bishop of Sebaste at the opening of the Second Ecumenical Council (381). Saint Peter took an active part in the Council, oversaw his flock wisely, and reposed in peace.
• Hieromartyr Sainted 腓力 PHILIP II Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (1507-1569)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Φίλιππος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
• Holy Martyr POLYEUCTUS 颇里艾弗克特 of Melitene in Armenia (259) venerated as a Patron Saint of vows and treaty agreements
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πολύευκτος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Prophet SHEMAIAH (Samaia, Semeias) 撒麦亚 man of God (970 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".
• Commemoration of STEFAN Yavorsky, Metropolitan of Ryazan and Murom (1722) defender of Orthodoxy
• SUIBSHECH (also Suabseg, Siubhsech or Suibsech) of Tirhugh Barony, Co. Donegal
• WANINGUS (Vaneng) (686) born near Rouen, he became a monk and helped St Wandrille found Fontenelle. Soon after he himself founded another important monastery in Fécamp in France
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• Commemoration of the great earthquake at Constantinople (869)
Μνήμη Μεγάλου Σεισμοῦ
On this day an earthquake caused some damage in the region of Constantinople, killing a number of people. The shock caused repairable damage to the west part of the dome of the Church of Hagia Sophia, and the Church of the Holy Apostles, which had been affected by the earthquake of 861, was once again damaged. The Church of the Archangel Michael and the Church of the Theotokos at the Sigma collapsed during the Divine Liturgy, killing all within, with the exception of a few people. The globes of the zodiac near the Forum fell and parts of the walls near the palace were damaged. A long series of aftershocks, some of them strong enough to cause additional damage in the city, continued for forty days. It is not known whether the earthquake caused damage elsewhere or how far away it was felt. The earthquake happened on Sunday, 9 January 869, on the Festival of Saint Polyeuktos, in the third year of Emperor Basil I the Macedonian (867-886), before the Synod of Constantinople convened on 5 October 869, that condemned Patriarch Photios and deposed him as patriarch on 23 November 869 and reinstated his predecessor Ignatios. Photios himself mentions the earthquake in a letter, where he says, "Constantinople, which was once a city, is now a tomb, and instead of psalmody, lamentation occupies not only private houses but also the churches." The event was annually commemorated by the Church. Leo the Grammarian says that the Church of the Theotokos at the Sigma collapsed, "so that all who were singing psalms there died. Leo the Philosopher happened to tell the singers to leave the church: those who were not persuaded died there. The philosopher himself was saved with two others since he was standing by a column under a structure, and five others who were sitting under the ambo." Emperor Basil I restored the churches upon which damages occurred.

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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.