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συνοδικός

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January 3 / December 21
2018/2017（7526）
Nativity (St Philip's) Fast
Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ

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• Holy Virgin Martyress JULIANA (also Juliane, Julia or Gillian) 犹利亚纳 and 630 Martyrs: 500 men and 130 women with her, from among the pagans confessed Christ (304) in Nicomedia
Ἡ Ἁγία Ἰουλιανὴ ἡ Παρθενομάρτυς
Οἱ Ἅγιοι 500 Μάρτυρες
Οἱ Ἁγίες 130 Γυναῖκες
She was 18 years old when she won the Martyr's crown. God's punishment quickly befell Eleusius: as he was sailing on the sea, his ship broke up and he fell into the water. He did not find death in the water, but swam to an island, where dogs tore him to pieces and devoured him.
• Martyrs JOHN and FESTUS honoured in Tuscany in Italy
• Venerable GEORGE 格奥尔吉 the Scribe 抄写员, and SAVA 萨瓦 of Khakhuli Monastery in Georgia (11th c.) brothers of Jacob, the father of Saint George of the Holy Mountain
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NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• New Hieromartyr MICHAEL Kis’elöv, presbiter, archpriest (1855-1918) day of martyrdom, guilty murdered by bayonet in Majkorskij Zavod of Solikamsk at Perm, together with presbiter Alexander Fedosejev of Theophany temple and others; graved in common grave of Church
• New Hieromartyr deacon SERGIUS Tsvetkov (1884-1937) day of death
• Hosiosmartyr NIKITA (Nicholas Pribytkov) bishop of Bijsk and Belev (1859-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted near Tula together with 18 clergy men and 1 physican, graved at Tesnitsa forest, on the 162th kilometer of the highway Moskow-Simferopol
• Repose of Blessed PETER "the Nose", of Kama (1938)
• Repose of Schemamonk MICHAEL of Harbin (1939)
• New Hieromartyr deacon LEONTIJ Strotsük (1878-1941) day of death in lazaret Malaja Nükzha of 1st department of Bamlag at Amur region
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• BAUDACARIUS (650) a monk at Bobbio in the north of Italy
• BERNWALD (Beornwald) (8th c.) a righteous priest in Bampton in Oxfordshire in England
• Virgin EDBURGE of St Mary’s , daughter of King Alfred projected the foundation of the New-Minster at Winchester
She was yet a child when her father, King Edward, laid before her on one hand precious royal ornaments, on the other a penitential religious habit, bidding her take her choice. The royal virgin with great joy took up the latter: whereupon her parents put her in the nunnery of St. Mary, to be educated under the care of the Abbess Etheldreda, where she afterwards became a nun, and having served God with great fervour, died of a fever.
Name Edburge signifies "happy city".
• Finding (1950) of Relics of Monk Martyr EPHRAIM of Nea Makri (1426)
• ETHELGIVA (also Aethelgifa, Algyva, Aelgytha, Aelfgifu, Elgiva of Shaftesbury) the adviser and ennobler of the whole kingdom, Abs. of Monastery of Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire (971) mother of Kings Edwy and Saint Edgar the Peaceful and wife of King Edmund of Wessex
• Sainted HONORATUS of Toulouse (250) born in Spain, he succeeded St Saturninus as Bishop of Toulouse in France
• JOHN Vincent (1012) born in Ravenna in Italy, he became a monk at St Michael in Chiusa and then a hermit on Monte Caprario. Finally he became bishop nearby
• Righteous JULIANA 犹利亚纳, Matr. (1384)
• Holy Nobleborn Righteous Martyress JULIANA (also Juliania) 犹利亚纳 Princess of V’az’ma and Novyj Torg (1406)
• Righteous Virgin JULIANA 犹利亚纳 of Sol’vychegodsk (1671) Vologda
• Venerable MACARIUS 玛喀里 the Faster 持斋者, abbot of Khakhuli Monastery in southern Georgia (1034) a great ascetic, teacher, and prophet he shone like the morning sunrise and guided the spiritual activity and secular life of the entire Tao-Klarjeti region
• PAISIUS Velichkovskij, Abbot in Moldova
• Repose of Sainted PETER 裴特若 the Wonderworker, Metropolitan of Moskow and all Russia (1326) // OCT 5 TR REL // DEC 21 // AUG 24 TR REL //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ Θαυματουργός Μητροπολίτης πάσης Ρωσίας
• Blessed PROCOPIUS 普若科彼 of V’atka, Fool for Christ (1627) endured hunger, cold, mocking and insults. The Lord glorified him with the gift of perspicacity
• Sainted PHILARET 斐拉瑞特 (Theodosius 德奥多西 in schema) metropolitan of Kiev (1857)
• SEVERINUS (300) Bishop of Trier in Germany
• SIOLLAN Bishop of Lismore (Lis-mór)
• Holy Martyr THEMISTOCLES 德奥弥斯托克利 a shepherd of Myra in Lycia (251) tortured and beheaded
Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεμιστοκλῆς ὁ Μάρτυρας
• THEOPHAN Bishop of Monembaseia
• Holy Apostle THOMAS of 12 Disciples

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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.