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συνοδικός

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January 24 / January 11
2018 （7526）
Afterfeast of the Theophany

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• "THE CHERNIGOV-ELETS" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1060)
The Elets Icon of the Mother of God appeared in the year 1060. It received its name because it appeared in a cathedral church dedicated to the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God in the city of Elets, Orlov province. January 11 was appointed as the feastday of this icon.
• KAZAN’ Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
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• Synaxis of THE MYRIANGELON (Myriads of Holy Angels)
Σύναξις τῶν Μυρίων Ἁγίων Ἀγγέλων
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• MM FELICITAS, AGENTUS, Priest DONATUS, MORASITUS, PHILO and others in Spain
• Sisters Virgins ETHNEA (also Eithne, Ethenea, Ethna or Ethenia) 埃特尼亚 and FIDELMA (also Fedelmia, Fedelma or Fethlima) 菲德尔麦, Princesses and Nuns (433) Daughters of King Laoghaire of Connaught in Ireland and among the first converts of St Patrick, they became nuns and reposed in holiness
• Brothers Venerables PALDO (720), TASO (729) and TATO (739) born in Benevento in Italy, who became monks at Farfa and eventually founded the monastery of San Vincenzo at the headwaters of the Volturno. Of this they successively became abbots
• Martyrs PETER, SEVERIUS and LEUCIUS of Alexandria
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Πέτρος, Σεβέριος καὶ Λεύκιος οἱ Μάρτυρες
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NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• New Hieromartyr NICHOLAS 尼科罗斯 Matsyevskij, presbiter, priest (1919) day of martyrdom, shoted at Perm after guilty tortures and cruel mockery
• New Hieromartyr THEODOR 特奥多雷 Antipin, presbiter, priest (1919) day of martyrdom, shoted at Perm after guilty tortures and cruel mockery
• New Hieromartyr VLADIMIR 沃拉蒂米尔 Fokin, presbiter, priest (1919) of Krasnoyarsk
• Hieroconfessor VLADIMIR 沃拉蒂米尔 Khirasko, presbiter, archpriest of Minsk (1874-1932) day of death in Gzhatsk of Smolensk, died of a health disorder undermined in prison
• Venerable LAURENTIUS of Chernigov (1950)
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• Venerable archmandrite AGAPIUS 阿伽彼 of Apamea in Syria (306)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀγάπιος ὁ Ἀρχιμανδρίτης
• Hieromartyr ALEXANDER bishop of Fermo; born in Fermo near Ancona in Italy, he became bishop of his native city and was martyred under Decius. His relics are enshrined in the Cathedral
• AMPHADHAN (Anfadan, Amphianus) Bishop of Glendalough, County of Wicklow
• Venerabless Sister Reverend Grand Duchess ANASTASIA (Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Russia, Duchess of Oldenburg, of Romanovs) of Kiev (1838-1900) foundress of St Pokrov Monastery women convent at the Lukianovka in Kiev; patron saint of all divorced men and women // DEC 22/JAN 4 // APR 23/MAY 6 // APR 13 / 26 DIED AT KIEVO PECHERSKY MONASTERY IN KIEV // JAN 11/24 FOUND OF ST POKROV MONASTERY //
Alexandra became a nun, as Sister Anastasia, taking Holy Orders on 3 November 1889 in Kiev. For the rest of her life, she worked at the hospital performing nursing duties, helping contagious patents and cleaning infected wounds. She often assisted in surgeries.
• Venerable ANASTASIUS (570) a notary of the Roman church, he became monk and Abbot of Castel Sant' Elia in Italy. St Gregory the Great narrates that St Anastasius and his monks reposed, at the call of an angel, in quick succession
• Venerable Hermit BOADIN born in Ireland, he lived as a monk in France
• Venerable abbot BRANDAN (Beandan, Breandan) (5th c.) born in Ireland, he took refuge from Pelagianism in Britain and then in France, at a monastery where he became abbot
• EGWIN Bishop in England, Confessor (717)
• ERNAN of Cluaindeochra; for him Colum Cille composed the prophecy // JAN 11 //
He was most probably the same as Ernan, for some time abbot of Torey Island, to whom, in 640, the Roman clergy, after the death of Pope Severinus, and during the vacancy of the Holy See, addressed a letter regarding the Paschal controversy and the Pelagian heresy.
• ERNAN son of Caomhan // JAN 11 //
• ERNAN son of Eoghan // JAN 1 // • ERNAIN of Tegh Ernan // JAN 17 // • Bishop ERNAIN // JAN 26 // • ERNIN Cass, of Lethghlinn // FEB 23 // • ERNIN // FEB 28 // • Bishop ERNIN // APR 12 // • ERNIN // MAY 12 // • ERNAIN son of Aedh // MAY 16 // • ERNIN of Creamhchoill // MAY 31 // • ERNIN of Cluain // JUN 14 // • ERNIN of Cluain-finn // JUN 28 // • ERNIN // JUL 1 // • ERNIN of Inis-caoin // JUL 13 // • ERNIN of Cluain-Railgheach // AUG 5 // • ERNAIN // AUG 17 // • ERNIN, i.e., Memog, of Rath-noi // AUG 18 // • ERNIN Ua Briuin // SEP 27 // • ERNAN of Miodhluachra // OCT 26 // • ERNAN // OCT 27 // • ERNIN Abbot of Lethghlinn // NOV 12 // • ERNIN son of Dubh // NOV 13 // • ERNIN son of Senach // DEC 14 // • ERNIN // DEC 23 //
• Repose of Blessed Nun EUPRAXIA of Teliakov Village, Kostroma (1823)
Ἡ Ὁσία Εὐπραξία ἐκ Ρωσίας
• HONORATA, Nun of St Vincent’s at Pavia, Italy (500) the sister of St Epiphanius, Bishop of Pavia in Italy. She was a nun at Pavia when Odoacer, King of the Heruli, captured her. She was ransomed by her brother and returned to Pavia
• Hieromartyr HYGINUS 伊吉诺 (140) Pope of Rome from c 138 to 140
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ὑγίνος Ἐπίσκοπος Ρώμης
• Venerable JOB of Manyava, Igumen of Manyava Skete (1621)
• JOSEPH 约熙福 the New of Cappadocia (1860)
• LEUCIUS of Brindisi (180) venerated as the 1st Bishop of Brindisi in Italy where he had come as a missionary from Alexandria
• Martyr MAIRUS 马里乌斯
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάϊρος
• Blessed Venerable MICHAEL 米迦勒 of the Klopsk Monastery near Novgorod, Fool for Christ (1453-1456)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μιχαὴλ ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός καὶ Θαυματουργὸς
On a sandy spot Saint Michael summoned forth a spring of water, having written upon the earth: "I will take the cup of salvation, let the well-spring show forth on this spot." And during a time of famine, the supplies of bread at the Monastery granary did not diminish, though they distributed grain abundantly to the hungry.
• New Martyr NIKEPHOROS of Crete, by hanging, for renouncing Islam and confessing his faith in Christ (1832)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικηφόρος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐκ Κρήτης
• ROMILOS 罗弥洛 the Hermit of Veddin (1375)
• Martyr SALVIUS in North Africa, eulogized by St Augustine
• SALVIUS (Sauve) Bishop of Amiens (7th c.)
• Martyr STEPHAN
• STEPHEN 斯特梵 of Placidian near Constantinople
• SUIBHNE (Suineus) Abbot of Iona (7th c.)
• Martyr TERENTIUS
• Venerable THEODORE of Constantinople (538)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεόδωρος
• Venerable THEODOSIUS 德奥多西 of Antioch (412)
• Venerable THEODOSIUS 德奥多西 the Great, the Cenobiarch, the first founder and organizer of the cenobitic way of monastic life (529)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοδόσιος ὁ Κοινοβιάρχης καὶ Καθηγητὴς τῆς Ἐρήμου
• Sainted THEODOSIUS 德奥多西 of Mt Athos, metropolitan of Trebizond (1392)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοδόσιος Ἐπίσκοπος Τραπεζοῦντος
• VITALIS 维塔里 of the monastery of Abba Serid (Seridos) at Gaza (609/620)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Βιτάλιος
He lived for many years as a monk in Palestine, then went to Alexandria to labor for the salvation of women living as prostitutes. He worked with his hands by day, keeping only a tenth of his earnings for himself. By night, he would take the rest of his earnings to the prostitutes' quarter and offer his money to one of them, on condition that she would not give herself up to sin that night, but instead stay with him, praying all night for his salvation. When he left her, he would make her promise to tell no one of this arrangement. Not surprisingly, complaints soon reached the Patriarch, St John the Merciful (November 12) about this monk who was causing scandal by his immoral life; but the Patriarch, discerning Vitalis' heart, did nothing. When St Vitalis died, a writing tablet was found near his body, on which was written: "Inhabitants of Alexandria, judge not before the time, until the coming of the Day of the Lord." Then many women who had been converted from an immoral life by the Saint came forward and told of his good deeds. The people of Alexandria honored him with a lavish funeral.
Saint Vitalis shows us in at least two ways that the wisdom of the holy is foolishness to the world: He never sought to justify himself in the eyes of the world, but on the contrary did everything he could to hide his virtues; and, for all his holiness, he counted himself more sinful than the "fallen", asking them to pray for his salvation.

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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.