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DAY 22
• Holy Martyr JULIAN 犹利安 suffered severely from gout so much so that he was neither able to stand nor walk. Because of his faith in Christ, he was brought on a pallet before the judge. He was burned alive at the stake in Alexandria with his disciple Martyr CRONYON 赫若尼 (Eunos); and Martyrs BESAS (Beza, Bisos) the Soldier and MEKAROS of Lebanon; during the reign of Emperor Decius (249-251) at Alexandria
When the persecution of Decius filled the city of Alexandria with dread and terror, many, especially among the nobles, the rich, and those who held any places in the state, sacrificed to idols, but pale and trembling, so as to show they had neither courage to die, nor heart to sacrifice. Several generous soldiers repaired the scandal given by these cowards. Julian who was grievously afflicted with the gout, and one of his servants, called Chronion, were set on the backs of camels, and cruelly scourged through the whole city, and at length were consumed by fire. Because he tried to defend the holy martyrs from insult, Besas, a soldier, was beheaded by the sword. Mekaros of Lebanon was also burned.
• Martyrs ABUNDIUS, ALEXANDER, ANTIGONUS, CALANUS, JANUARIUS, MAKARIOS, SEVERIANUS, TITIANUS and FORTUNATUS, and those martyred with them (284-305)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀβουδάντιος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀντίγονος, Καλανός, Ἰανουάριος, Μακάριος, Σεβηριανός, Τιτιανός, Φορτουνίων οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς Μαρτυρήσαντες
• Venerables ASCLEPIUS 阿斯克 (436) and JAMES 雅各 (437) of Antioch, Syria, monks and desert-dwellers of Nimouza, near Cyrrhus
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ἀσκληπιὸς καὶ Ἰάκωβος
• M SYMPHORIANUS and VMM EULALIA and IRENE at Antwerp
• 12 Holy Greek Architects of the Kiev Caves Lavra
• Sainted RAPHAEL 拉法伊尔 Hawaweeny (1860-1915) bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn, vicar of the Northern-American diocese, and head of the Antiochian Levantine Christian Greek Orthodox mission. He was the first Orthodox Christian bishop consecrated on American soil; Good Shepherd of the Lost Sheep in America // Repose FEB 14 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ραφαὴλ Ἐπίσκοπος Μπρούκλυν
He is also commemorated with the Synaxis of Saints of North America on the Second Sunday after Pentecost. The Patriarchate of Antioch also commemorates him on Saturday before the Synaxis of the Archangels (November 8).
• New Hieromartyr SERGIUS Uvitskij, presbiter, priest (1881-1932) day of death in prison in Belbatlag KZ
• New Hieromartyr PETR 彼得 Uspenskij, presbiter, priest (1876-1938) day of death in Taganka prison, Moskow
• Martyr MICHAEL 米迦勒 Markov, psalmist (1884-1938) day of death in Mariinsk KZ of Siblag OGPU, Kemerovo; died of starvation
• Repose of Venerable Elder JUSTINIAN Serebr’akov, Hieromonk of Valaam Monastery (1966)
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Justinian, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
• Repose of Archimandrite ALIPIY Voronov, of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1975) May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Alipiy, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
• Repose of Monk ANTHONY of Valaam Monastery (1848)
• BALDOMERUS (Galmier) (650) by trade a locksmith in Lyons in France, he entered the monastery of St Justus
• COMGAN (i.e. Diarmaid; Cowan) (565) Abbot of Glenthsen (Gleann Ussen, today Killeshin) County Laois in Ireland
• COMMAN Mac Ua Theimhne
• New Martyr ELIAS of Trebizond (1749)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἠλίας ὁ Νεομάρτυρας
The Holy Neomartyr Elias was the son of a priest named Constantine and hailed from the village of Kryonero in Trebizond of Pontus, Asia Minor. For reasons unknown to us, he was apprehended by Muslims and underwent extremely painful torture in Molos (Mum Hani) to force him to convert to Islam. Refusing to abandon his faith in Christ, he was sentenced to be hanged in 1749. Christians took up his sacred relics and buried them at the Monastery of Panagia Theoskepastos in Trebizond.
• Martyr GELASIUS 格拉息 the Actor of Heliopolis (303)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γελάσιος ὁ Μάρτυρας
We commemorate the Holy Martyr Gelasios who was formerly a mime, who was ordered to parody Holy Baptism, and was truly baptized and perfected by the sword.
Gelasios, of the village Mariamne near Damascus, was an actor. In a performance at Heliopolis of Syria, he played the part of a catechumen in a dramatized parody of the Christian's Mystery of Holy Baptism. As he was immersed in the waters, the audience laughed. Divine Grace, however, wrought a miracle, and Gelasios emerged from those waters transformed. As the play continued and he was garbed in the white gown of the newly-illumined, he declared before the crowd, "I am a Christian. When I was under those waters, I was awestruck by the glory that I beheld. I am now ready to be slain on behalf of Christ!" The rest of the cast, knowing that these lines were not in the script, were aghast. The audience soon understood that Gelasios was not jesting but instead meant every word of his public confession. Roused to fury, the audience came down upon Gelasios, who was still clad in white, and dragged him out of the theatre and stoned him. Christians who witnessed the stoning, afterward took up his honorable relics and returned with them to their own country. A church was built over the martyrs tomb.
Very similar accounts of the conversion of actors are found in the lives of Saints Porphyrios (September 15, November 4), Ardalion (April 14), Genesios of Rome (August 25) and Glaukos.
• Venerable GERONTIUS
• Hieromartyr HEREFRITH Bishop of Lincolnshire and Lindsey (869)
The relics of this Bishop of Lindsey, probably martyred by the Danes, were venerated at Thorney in Cambridgeshire in England.
• Translation (912) of relics of VM HONORINA (also Honorine, Honoria or Honora) from Graville to Confians (or Conflans) near Pontoise (or Paris) in France; martyred at Melomare near Harfleur, Normandy (300)
An early martyr in the north of France. Her relics are still venerated in Conflans Ste Honorine near Paris.
• Abbot JOHN of Gorze (975)
Born in Vandières near Metz in the east of France, after some years in the world, he made a pilgrimage to Rome. On his return he restored and entered the monastery of Gorze in Lorraine in 933. Emperor Otto I sent him as his ambassador to the Caliph Abd-er-Rahman of Cordoba, where he stayed for two years. In 960 he became Abbot of Gorze.
• Sainted LEANDER Archbishop of Seville and Apostle of Spain (596)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Λέανδρος Ἐπίσκοπος Σεβίλλης
The elder brother of Sts Fulgentius, Isidore and Florentina. He entered a monastery in his early youth and was later sent to Constantinople on a diplomatic mission. There he met St Gregory the Great, who became a close friend. On his return to Spain, Leander became Archbishop of Seville. He revised and unified the Spanish liturgy, converted St Hermenegild and helped convert the Visigoths from Arianism. He was responsible for holding two national Councils at Toledo in 589 and 590.
• MACARIUS 玛喀里 bishop of Jerusalem (333)
• Our God-bearing Father MARCIAN Bishop of Nakua
• Venerable MARKWARD Abbot of Prüm (853)
• Hieromartyr NESTOR Bishop of Sida in Pamphylia (250)
• Martyr NESIUS by whipping
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νήσιος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Virgin ODA of Rhoda, Belgium (8th c.)
She was daughter to a king, and patroness of this place. Othbert, the Bishop, raised her precious remains, in 1103, to a place of honour. It is said, by Dempster, that she was daughter to Eugene V King of the Scots, and a virgin, who led a most holy life. However, the authorities quoted by him, only make her daughter to a King of the Scots. It is thought, she flourished, about the year 500, although another more probable statement has 700, and 713. She was seized with blindness, but going to the tomb of St Lambert, Bishop and Martyr, at Liege, she there prayed and recovered her sight. Through gratitude, she then vowed her virginity to God; nor, afterwards, could her father persuade her to marry. Following a Divine impulse, Odda went to Taxandria, and by her residence, she sanctified the whole Rhodan territory. It is related, that while she secretly prayed in a wood, a magpie betrayed this secret to men. Hence, in art, she is painted with a magpie. Renowned for her virtues and miracles, she was called, at last, to the nuptials of her Divine Spouse, and her body was deposited in a collegiate church at Rhoda, where she is commemorated as chief patroness. We are told, that her memory was greatly venerated, and that churches were erected to her honour, in various parts of the kingdom of Scotland.
• Venerable Archimandrite PHOTIUS of the Yuriev Monastery, Novgorod (1838)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Φώτιος ἐκ Ρωσίας
• Sainted PITIRIM 彼提林 bishop of Tambov (1698) // JUL 28 //
• Venerable PROCOPIUS 普若科彼 Decapolit, Hosiosconfessor (750)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Προκόπιος ὁ Ὁμολογητής ὁ Δεκαπολίτης
When the Emperor Leo the Isaurian began his persecution of the holy icons, Procopius, who had previously spent his life in hiddenness and silence, boldly stood forth to defend the true Orthodox veneration of the icons. For this he was cruelly tortured and imprisoned. When the cruel Leo died and the icons were restored to the churches, Procopius returned to his monastery, where he lived in peace to a great old age. In old age, he was translated into the kingdom of God where he gazes with joy upon the living angels and saints, whose images on icons he honored on earth.
• SIMON of Cyrene, who bore the cross of Christ
• Venerable STEPHEN 斯特梵 of Constantinople (614) a palace clerk of Emperor Maurice. After that he resigned his palace duties and, driven by love for Christ, Stephen built a hospice of charity for the aged in Constantinople
Ὁ Ὅσιος Στέφανος
• Venerable Syrian ascetic THALELAEUS 塔勒莱 a Cilician (460)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θαλλέλαιος
He lived a recluse on a mountain in Syria, and shut himself up ten years in an open cage of wood. Theodoret asked him why he had chosen so singular a practice? The penitent answered: "I punish my criminal body, that God seeing my affliction for my sins, may be moved to pardon them, and to deliver me from, or at least to mitigate, the excessive torments of the world to come, which I have deserved. " John Mosch in the Spiritual Meadow, relates that Thalilæus the Cilician, spent sixty years in an ascetic life, weeping almost without intermission; and that he used to say to those who came to him: "Time is allowed us by the divine mercy for repentance and satisfaction, and wo to us if we neglect it. "
• Venerable monk TIMOTHY 提摩太 of Caesarea
Ὁ Ὅσιος Τιμόθεος ὁ ἐν Καισαρείᾳ
• Venerable TITUS 提托 a Presbyter, of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1190) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Anthony Near Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Τίτος
Titus was a presbyter and had a sincere Christian love for Deacon Evgarius as a brother for a brother. As much as their love in the beginning was true, later it became a mutual blood-feud and hatred sown by the devil. They hated each other so much that when one was censing in the church, the other turned around and walked out of the church. Titus attempted many times to reconcile with his opponent but in vain. Titus became ill and everyone thought that he was going to die. He begged them to bring Evgarius to him in order to forgive him. Forcefully, they dragged Evgarius to the bedside of Titus, but Evgarius broke free and fled saying that he will not forgive Titus either in this world or the other world. As soon as he said this, he fell to the ground and died. Titus arose from his bed healthy and related how the demons were hovering around him until he forgave Evgarius and when he forgave him, the demons fled and attached Evgarius and angels of God surrounded Titus. He died in the year 1190 A.D.
• Venerable TITUS 提托 the Warrior, monk of the Kiev Caves в of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1349) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Theodosy Far Caves of the Lavra
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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