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February 22 / February 9
2018 （7526）
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DAY 4
• Hieromartyrs MARCELLUS 玛尔凯洛 bishop of Sicily (101); PHILAGRIUS 斐拉格里 bishop of Cyprus (91); and PANCRATIUS 庞克拉提 bishop of Taormina (1st c.) disciples of Apostle Peter
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μάρκελλος καὶ Παγκράτιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
Ὁ Ἅγιος Φιλάγριος Ἐπίσκοπος Κύπρου
The Priestmartyrs Marcellus, Philagrios and Pankratios were disciples of the Holy Foremost of the Apostles Peter and were made bishops by him: Saint Marcellus – of Sicily, Philagrios – of Cyprus, and Pankratios – of Tauromeneia. Saint Markellos was the father according to the flesh of Saint Pankratios, and while our Lord Jesus Christ was still alive physically on the earth and worked wonders, he heard of His miracles, and taking his son Pankratios and his wife they went from Antioch to Jerusalem to see the Lord, but since He already Ascended to Heaven, they were thus baptized by the Apostle Peter. Markellos and Pankratios then became disciples of the Apostle Peter. Saint Pankratios was consecrated by the Apostle Peter as Bishop of the Sicilian city of Taormina. There he preached the word of Christ, and was secretly killed by the Montanists. He is also celebrated by the Church on July 9th. Saint Markellos was ordained Bishop of Sicily, and converted many Greek pagans to the Lord. He completed his life in peace. Saint Philagrios was ordained Bishop of Cyprus, where he taught and preached the name of Christ. After enduring many trials and temptations on behalf of the true faith, he departed to the Lord.
• VM APOLLONIA 阿颇罗尼亚 a deaconess, with METRAS, QUINTA, and SERAPION and others at Alexandria (249)
Saint Apollonia was an elderly virgin and deaconess of Alexandria, whose martyrdom was described by Saint Dionysius of Alexandria (October 5) in one of his letters. When Decius became emperor in 249, he launched the greatest attack upon Christianity up to that time, becoming the first emperor to call for its total extermination. Saint Dionysius says that the persecution started at Alexandria a year before it began in other places, incited by a certain "prophet and poet of evil," who stirred up the people against the Christians. Backed by the power of the government, the pagans massacred Christians, believing that they were serving their false gods by doing so. The "aged and excellent virgin Apollonia" was seized and struck in the face until all her teeth were knocked out. The mob built a fire outside the city and threatened to burn her alive unless she agreed to worship the idols and sacrifice to the emperor’s genius. Saint Apollonia asked the pagans to let go of her for a moment so that she could pray. As soon as they did, she leaped into the flames and was consumed, receiving a double crown of martyrdom and virginity.
Persecutors seized that marvelous aged virgin Apollonia, broke out all her teeth with blows on her jaws, and piling up a bonfire before the city, threatened to burn her alive if she refused to recite with them their blasphemous sayings. But she asked for a brief delay. . . . Because of the nature of her torments, Saint Apollonia is pictured holding a tooth (sometimes gold) with a pair of pincers or with a golden tooth hanging from a necklace. She may be shown after her teeth were pulled out or simply with a book and pincers. She is invoked by those suffering from toothache. If she does not have the pincers, she usually wears a necklace made of her own teeth. She is the patron of dentists.
• Martyr ALEXANDER of Rome who was accompanied in his confession and death by 38 others
• 44 Christians martyred in Membressa in Africa including AMMON, EMILIAN, LASSA and Companions
• Martyrs ALEXANDER and AMMONIUS and other 20 martyred at Soli, Cyprus (249)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἄμμων καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος οἱ Μάρτυρες ἐκ Κύπρου
• Hieromartyrs deacons PRIMUS and DONATUS (362) in Lavallum in North Africa martyred by Donatists
Deacons Primus and Donatus were slain by Donatists during a struggle for control of the Church at Lavallum in northwest Africa.
• Venerabless ATTRACTA (also Adhracht, Athracta, Araght, Athracht, Athrachta, Tarahata, Taraghta or Adrochta) of Ireland, Anchoress and Healer (494) Fndr. of monastery of Killaracht (Cell of Adhracht) near Boyle and Lake Techet (now Lough Cara or Gara), Coolavin, Co. Sligo; and her maiden St MITAIN (5-6th c.)
Attracta received the veil from St Patrick, and lived at a place called from her Kill-Attracta to this day, in Connaught.
• Brother and Sister VM SUSANNA and M VICTOR at Mouzon on the Meuse above the Sedan
• Venerable AEMILIANUS 埃弥利亚诺 of Tours, Hermit in Pionsat (590) Clermont-Ferrand in France; and BRACCHIO 弗拉克希 of Tours (576) a Hunter who got caught in the trap of a hermit
• Uncovering (1992) of the relics of New Hieroconfessor Sainted TIKHON (Basil Belavin) Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus (1865-1925) and Enlightener of North America // APR 7 REPOSE // OCT 9 GLORIFICATION //
Εὕρεσις Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Ἰννοκεντίου ἐκ Ρωσίας
• New Hieromartyr BASIL Izmajlov, presbiter, archpriest (1885-1930) day of death in Solovki KZ
• New Hieromartyr PETR Metropolitain of Kruticy (1937)
• New Hieromartyr IOANN 約安 Fr’azinov, presbiter, priest (1938) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo, Moskow
• New Hieromartyr Priest DEMETRIUS (Dimitri) Klepinine, of Paris, Martyred in Buchenwald and come to death in Dora Mittelbau KZ (1904-1944) Mittelbau-Dora (also Dora-Mittelbau and Nordhausen-Dora) was a German Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. It was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, supplying slave labour from many countries occupied by Germany (including Italian POWs and evacuated survivors of eastern extermination camps), for extending the nearby tunnels in the Kohnstein and for manufacturing the V-2 rocket and the V-1 flying bomb. In the summer of 1944, Mittelbau became an independent concentration camp with numerous subcamps of its own. In 1945, most of the surviving inmates were evacuated by the SS. On 11 April 1945, US troops freed the remaining prisoners. Around one in three of the roughly 60 000 prisoners who were sent to Mittelbau did not survive.
Born in Ireland, he went to Germany and settled as a hermit in a forest near Augsburg. There he founded a monastery, now called Altomünster after him.
• Bishop ANSBERT (Aubert) of Fontenelle (700) from being Chancellor at the Court of Clotaire III he became a monk at Fontenelle in the north of France. He was chosen 3rd abbot and in 683 became Bishop of Rouen
• CAIRECH Dergain (also Caireach, Carissa or Cairec) of Cluain Boirinn (or Bairenn in Húa Maine on the brink of the Shannon) (present day Clonburren Parish) at Moore, Co. Roscommon (6th c.)
• CRONAN the Wise (8th c.)
The Irish Bishop Saint Cronan is called "the wise" because he systematized Irish canon law. He was a lover of liturgy and modesty. Cronan may be the same person as Bishop Saint Ronan of Lismore.
• CUARAN (Curvinus, Cronan) the Wise (700) Irish bishop known for his wisdom, who concealed his episcopal status in order to become a simple monk at Iona, where he was recognised by St Columba
• Hermit EINGAN (Einganor Eneon, Einion, Eneon, Anianus, Eneon Bhrenin) of Llanengan (6th c.) a British (or Scotus) prince who left Cumberland for Wales, he finished his days as a hermit at Llanengan near Bangor
He is said to have been a son of the chieftain Cunedda, whose family claims no less than 50 saints.
• Abbot and Confessor ERHARD (called by Mersæus and other Germans, Eberhardus) of Scotland (8th c.)
He was a Scotchman by birth, and being well instructed in the scriptures, went into Germany to preach the gospel, with two brothers. He taught the sacred sciences at Triers, when St Hydulphus was bishop of that city, whom Welser and some other take for a Scot, and one of our saint’s brothers. When St Hydulphus resigned his bishopric to end his days in retirement in 753, St Erhard withdrew to Ratisbon, where he founded a small monastery, and is said to have been honoured with miracles, both living and after his death, which happened in that city. He was commemorated on this day in Scotland, but in Germany, on the 8th of January.
• Venerable GENNADIUS 艮纳迪 monk of Vazhe Lake (Vazhejezersk), Vologda (1516)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεννάδιος
The Monk Gennadii of Vazheozersk was the son of rich parents but, having given away everything, he became a disciple and novice under the monk Alexander of Svir' and pursued asceticism with him as an hermit at the river Svira. Afterwards, with blessing of the monk Alexander, he went to Vazheozersk, located 12 versts from the Svir' monastery. And here, having built a cell, he spent his solitary ascetic life with two of his disciples. Before death the monk Gennadii told his disciple: "At this place shalt be a church and monastery". The ascetic reposed on 8 January 1516.
• Uncovering (1805) of the relics of Sainted INNOCENT 髑纪念日 (Ioann Kul'chitsky) bishop of Irkutsk (1731)
In 1764, the body of Saint Innocent of Irkutsk was discovered incorrupt during restoration work on the Ascension monastery’s Tikhvin church. Many miracles occurred not only at Irkutsk, but also in remote places of Siberia, for those who flocked to the saint with prayer. This moved the Most Holy Synod to uncover the relics and to glorify the saint in the year 1800. In 1804, a feastday was established to celebrate his memory throughout all Russia on November 26, since the Icon of the Mother of God "Of The Sign" is commemorated on the actual day of his repose (November 27). Today we commemorate the uncovering of his relics in 1805.
• Repose of Blessed MARIA of Olonets, the Desert Dweller of the Northern Forests (1860) offers an extraordinary account of one woman’s solitary struggle in the Russian forests. Maria’s life is a witness to the world of the reality of Christ’s otherworldly Kingdom
• NEBRIDIUS (527) Bishop of Egara near Barcelona in Spain, a city since destroyed
• Holy Martyr NICEPHORUS 尼基佛若 of Antioch (257)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικηφόρος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Venerable NICEPHORUS 尼基佛若 monk of Vazhe Lake (Vazhejezersk), Vologda (1557)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικηφόρος
The Monk Nikiphor of Vazheozersk came to the monk Alexander of Svir' (17 April) in the year 1510 and was warmly received by him. In 1518 he made a visit, with the blessing of his mentor, to Kirill of Novoezersk (Comm. 4 February). When Nikiphor approached New-Lake (ie. Novo-ezero), he was fatigued by his long journey and laid down in the darkness and fell asleep. Saint Kirill through his perspicacity hastened by boat to row across the lake and awoke him. The monk Nikiphor spent eight days in spiritual conversation with the saint. Nikiphor then journeyed to Kiev to venerate the relics of the Pechersk saints. Upon his return, and with the blessing of the monk Alexander, he settled at Vazheozersk, – there where the monk Gennadii pursued asceticism. Saint Nikiphor raised up the Church of the Transfiguration and a monastery there, in which he established community life, and pursued asceticism until his own death. In the second half of the 19th Century in the Zadne-Nikiforovsk wilderness was built a church in the name of the monks Nikiphor and Gennadii of Vazheozersk. The relics of the saints were put to rest under a concealed place in the monastery established by them.
• ONCHO of Clonmore, the Poet // FEB 8 //
• Venerable PANCRATIUS 庞克拉提 the Recluse, hieromonk of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1294) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Theodosy Far Caves of the Lavra
The holy hieromonk Pancratius performed the divine services with much grace, and received the gift of working miracles. He shared his gifts with those who asked, healing the sick with fasting, prayer, and anointing with holy oil.
• Hieromartyr PETER 彼得 Damaskin 达玛斯基诺 (715) bishop of Damascus
Ὁ Ὅσιος Πέτρος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ὁ Δαμασκηνὸς
• PETER of Damascus, Hesychast (12th c.)
Little is known of him except by his writings in the Philokalia . Saint Nikodemos, compiler of the Philokalia, writes that his work is "a recapitulation of holy watchfulness... a circle within a circle, a concentrated Philokalia within the more extended Philokalia".
• Venerable ROMANUS 罗玛诺 the Wonderworker of Cilicia (400)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ρωμανὸς τοῦ Κίλικος
• SABINUS (566) Bishop of Canosa in Apulia in Italy and a friend of St Benedict. He was entrusted with an embassy (535-536) to the Emperor Justinian. He is the patron saint of Bari where his relics are now enshrined
• Venerable SHIO Mgvime of Georgia (6th c.) // MAY 9 //
Saint Shio was one of the twelve disciples of Saint John Zedazeni. They were holy Syrian (Cappadocian) ascetics, the founders of Georgian monasticism, who arrived in Georgia from Cappadocia in the mid-sixth century. The holy Thirteen Cappadocian Fathers were actually Georgians, who received their spiritual schooling at the renowned Lavra of Saint Simeon the Stylite and at other monasteries of Syria and Mesopotamia, intending to return to their native land and assist in its Christian enlightenment.
• Venerable bishop and abbot TEILO (also known as Teilio, Teilus, Thelian, Teilan, Teilou, Dillo, Dillon, Elidius, Eliud) 提洛 of Llandaff in Wales (580)
Probably born in Penally near Tenby in Wales. He was a disciple of St Dyfrig and a friend of Sts David and Samson. He founded Llandaff monastery (Landeio Fawr) in Dyfed where he was buried.
Through the prayers of St Teilo and of all the Saints of Wales, Christ our God, have mercy on us and save us!
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.
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