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2018 (7526)
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DAY 25
• Appearance at the Kolomenskoye of "REIGNING" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1917)
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Ἐνθρόνου
The "Enthroned" or "Reigning" Icon, which belongs to the Panachranta type, shows the Theotokos seated on a throne with Her Son.
The Icon of the Mother of God, named "The Powerful", appeared on 2 March 1917 in the village of Kolomensk near Moscow. A service and akathist to it were composed with the assistance of His Holiness Sainted Patriarch Tikhon (1925) (25 March, 26 September, Sunday following 25 January; glorified 1989).
(5th c.) // OCT 9 //
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀνδρόνικος καὶ Ἀθανασία
Saint Andronicus and his wife Athanasia of Egypt lived in Antioch in the fifth century. Saint Andronicus was a craftsman who divided his earnings into three portions. One part he gave to the Church, the second to the poor, and the third he used for his family. When the Lord took the son and daughter of Andronicus and Athanasia, the pious couple decided to devote themselves fully to the service of God, helping the poor and the sick. Soon the saintly spouses set out for Alexandria, where Andronicus entered a skete monastery, and Athanasia entered the women’s Tabennisiota monastery. After twelve years of ascetic life Saint Andronicus went to Jerusalem to pray at the holy places. He met a co-pilgrim, Saint Athanasia, who, foreseeing the difficulties of the journey, had donned men’s attire. They did not recognize each other, since long ascetic effort had altered their appearance. When they returned from Jerusalem, both monks settled into a single cell and for many years lived the ascetic life in silence. Saint Athanasia wrote a note to be read after her death, revealing her secret.. Saint Andronicus died soon after Saint Athanasia.
• A large number of Martyrs slain under Emperor Alexander Severus and the prefect Ulpian at Rome (219)
• Hieromartyrs NESTOR 奈斯托 the bishop and TRIBIMIUS 特里维弥辅祭 the deacon of Perga in Pamphylia (250)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Νέστωρ καὶ Τριβιμίνος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Martyrs JOVINUS and BASILEUS (258) suffered in Rome under Gallienus and Valerian and were buried on the Latin Way
• MM PAUL, HERACLIUS, SECUNDOLIA (Secundilla), JANUARIA and LUCIOSA (Lucilia) (305) suffered under Diocletian at Porto Romano at the mouth of the Tiber in Italy
• 40 Nun Martyrs killed by the Ethiopians at Assiut
• Martyrs of Campania slain by the Lombards in Italy (6th c.)
• 440 Martyrs of Italy (579) slain by the Lombards; among those that perished, there are known by name the presbyter SANCTULUS and the hermit HOSPICIUS They were killed by the Lombards in Italy about the year 579 A.D. St Gregory Dialogues writes about them. In one place, 40 of them were beheaded. At another place, 400 of them were also beheaded, all because they refused to eat of the sacrifices of the idols. Additionally, these 400 refused to dance around the heads of the goats offered to the demons as a sacrifice by the pagans, as was the custom of the Lombards.
• 80 Martyrs under the Lombards (579) in Campania in Italy
• Venerables monk SABBATIUS 萨瓦提 of Tver (1434) and his disciple St EUPHROSYNUS 艾弗福若西诺 (1460)
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Σαββάτιος καὶ Εὐφρόσυνος ἐκ Ρωσίας
Saint Sabbatius of Tver pursued asceticism with the blessing of Saint Arsenius, Bishop of Tver, at a distance 15 versts from Tver. Saint Sabbatius established a monastery there, known for the strictness and holiness of its rule. Such ascetics as Saint Joseph of Volokolamsk (September 9) and Saint Cornelius of Komel (May 19) went there to be instructed in monasticism. The chains found in the cave where Saint Sabbatius practiced silence testify to his ascetic deeds. He died no later than the year 1434.
• Venerables abbots BARSANUPHIUS 瓦尔萨努斐 (1459) and SABBAS 萨瓦 (1467) of Tver
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Βαρσανούφιος καὶ Σάββας ἐκ Ρωσίας
• Day of martyrdom of parishioners MM SERGIUS Mefodijev, NICHOLAS Malkov, AVKSENTY Kalashnikov and Martyress ANASTASIA (1922) killed during the dispersal of believers who protested against the expropriation of church values, in Shuja at Vladimir (today of Ivanovo)
• Holy Archpriest AMBROSE (born as Besarion Khelaia) the Confessor, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1861-1927)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀμβρόσιος Πατριάρχης Γεωργίας
• Righteous Papa NICHOLAS 尼科拉 Planas, priest in Athens (1851-1932) // FEB 17 // MAR 2 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Πλανᾶς
St Nicholas was a simple parish priest in Athens, humble, poor, and barely literate. He was born on Naxos in 1851 to moderately prosperous parents; but when his father died, his mother was reduced to near-poverty, and moved the family to Athens. St Nicholas married at the age of seventeen, but his wife died after a short time, leaving him with one son. He served the Divine Liturgy daily, never missing a day for fifty years, despite illness, storms, and war. His liturgies unfailingly lasted for several hours, mostly due to the hundreds of commemorations that he included. The faithful would give him sheets of paper containing names to be commemorated; he would carry all the sheets with him in bulging satchels. A few of his spiritual children made it their task to go through the papers secretly and discard the oldest and most worn, so that the commemorations would not increase without limit. In his conversation, the Saint had a simple and childlike (his detractors would say childish) manner, and he was widely despised by more sophisticated laymen, priests and hierarchs, never being appointed to any but the smallest and poorest parishes. Many, however, discerned his holiness, and a large synodia of spiritual children slowly gathered around him. Once, a very young altar boy ran out from the altar while Fr Nicholas was serving and, trembling with fear, cried to his mother, "Mama, Father Nicholas is floating in the air!" His mother, trying to comfort him, said "Don't be afraid, all priests do that when they serve the Liturgy." St. Nicholas was often in difficulties with the hierarchy because he continued to keep the feasts according to the Old Calendar after the Church in Greece had adopted the New Calendar. Nonetheless, he never broke commumnion with the national church (nor they with him): his humility left no room for Church politics. Like St John Maximovich, his holiness has transcended the canonical disputes that bedevil the Church. He reposed in peace in 1932.
• Martyr NICHOLAS Kopninskij, secretary of the church's audit council (1876-1938) day of death in Taganka prison, Moskow
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀβράμιος ἐκ Ρωσίας
• Venerable AGATHON 阿伽佗 of skete monastery, a great Egyptian ascetic (435)
• Venerable ARETHA the Recluse of Kiev Caves (1409)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρέθας ὁ Ἔγκλειστος
• Sainted ARSENIUS 阿尔塞尼 bishop of Tver (1409)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρσένιος ἐκ Ρωσίας
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀρσένιος Ἐπίσκοπος Τβὲρ τῆς Ρωσίας
• Hieromartyr bishop ATHENODOROS
• CHAD (Ceadda) 察德 bishop of Lichtfield, England (672)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Τσὰντ ἐκ Σκωτίας
Brother of St Cedd bishop of London, he was a monk at Lindisfarne with St Aidan and in Ireland. On returning to England, he became Abbot of Lastingham. He became Bishop of York, but then out of humility agreed to go to Mercia as bishop. He lived in Lichfield and reposed there. His relics are preserved in the Cathedral dedicated to him in Birmingham.
• CYNIBIL (Cynibild) (7th c.) brother of Sts Chad and Cedd who helped enlighten England
• Martyress EUTHALIA 艾弗塔利亚 at Lentini (Leontini) near Syracuse in Sicily (257) Ἡ Ἁγία Εὐθαλία ἡ Παρθενομάρτυς
• FERGNA the White (Fergna Britt) (637) a relative and disciple of St Columba of Ireland and was his successor as Abbot of Iona (Ia, Hy) in Scotland
• Confessor GISTILIAN (Gistlian) (5-6th c.) the uncle of St David and a monk at Menevia, or St Davids, in Wales
• Martyr HESYCHIUS 伊息赫 the Palatine of Antioch (304)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἡσύχιος ὁ Συγκλητικὸς
A palatine or palatinus (in Latin; plural palatini; cf. derivative spellings below) is a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times.
• Martyr HILARIUS
• Repose of Venerable JOACHIM 约雅敬 Papoulakis (born Ioannis Patrikios) of Vatopedi, Mt Athos and Ithaca (1786-1868) // MAR 2 // MAY 23 //
Άγιος Ιωακείμ εξ Ιθάκης
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωακεὶμ ὁ Ἰθακήσιος
• Bishop JOAVAN of Leon (570)
This Romano-Briton saint was a fervent disciple of St Paul of Leon, in Great Britain, his own country, accompanied him into Armorica, led an anchoretical life near him in the country of Ack, and afterwards in the isle of Baz. That great saint chose him coadjutor in his bishopric, when he retired a little before his death. St Joavan survived him only one year. He is titular saint of two parish churches in the diocess of St Paul of Leon.
• JOSEPH
• Finding of and First Tr. Rel. of VM MACRA (also Magra) at Reims, France (297)
• Bishop and Confessor MARNAN (620)
To his holy prayers Aidan, king of the Scots, ascribed a wonderful victory which he gained over Ethelfrid, the pagan king of the Northumbrian English; and by his councils Eugenius IV who succeeded his father Aidan in the kingdom soon after this battle, treated all the prisoners with the utmost humanity and generosity, by which they were gained to the Christian faith. The Northumbrian princes, Oswald and Oswi, were instructed in our holy religion, and grounded in its spirit by St Marnan, who died in Annandale, in the year 620. His head was kept with singular devotion at Moravia, and was carried in processions attended by the whole clan of the Innis’s, which from the earliest times was much devoted to this saint.
• Hieromartyr Apostle PARMENAS of Seven Deacons (98) // JUL 28 //
• Repose of Blessed PHILARETA of Ufa, Abbesss of Convent of Feast of the
Annunication (1890)
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Philareta, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
• QUINTUS (Cointus) 库因特 of Phrygia, Confessor and Wonderworker (283)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Κοΐντος ὁ Μάρτυρας Ὁμολογητὴς καὶ Θαυματουργὸς
• Pope and Confessor SIMPLICIUS (5th c.)
• SLEBHENE (Slebhine) (767) a monk from Ireland, he became Abbot of Iona in Scotland from 752 to 767
• New Martyr THEODORE 德奥多若 Sladich of Komogovina (1788) a Serbian Orthodox saint (holy martyr), who served as a monk in the monasteries of Komogovina and Mostanica. When the Ottomans burned Moštanica, they killed many monks, including Teodor whom they burnt alive after he refused to renounce his Christian faith, as well as a large number of Serbs from surrounding villages
• Hieromartyr THEODOTUS 德奥多特 Bishop of Kyrenia on the island of Cyprus, hieroconfessor (326)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόδοτος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Κυρηνείας Κύπρου
• Holy Martyr TROADIUS 特若亚迪 of Neocaesarea (250)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Τρωάδιος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Abbot WILLEIC of Kaiserwerth in Germany (726)
A disciple of St Swithbert (March 1) who made him prior of the abbey at Kaiserwerth near Duesseldorf, Germany. Willeic held this position until his death.
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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