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DAY 12
• The Weeping "TIKHVIN" 提赫文 Icon of Panagia DAKRIROOUSSA in the Prophet Elias Skete on Mt Athos (1877)
Panagia Dakrirooussa, otherwise known as the the Weeping Tikhvin Icon, is to be found at the Prophet Elias Skete at Mount Athos. On February 17, 1877 (Thursday of the Second Week of Lent) seven monks remained in the church after the Hours had been read. They were astonished to see tears flowing from the right eye of the icon, and collecting on the frame. Then a single large tear came from the left eye. The monks wiped the tears from the icon's face, then left the church and locked the doors behind them. Three hours later, they returned for Vespers and saw traces of tears on the icon, and a single tear in the left eye. Again they wiped the tears from the icon, but they did not reappear. Regarding this manifestation of tears as a sign of mercy from the Mother of God, the monks established an annual commemoration of the icon on February 17.
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ρωμύλος, Σεκουνδιανός, Δονάτος οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς
• 45 Martyrs including FAUSTINUS and Companions honoured in Rome
• 17 Martyrs in Syrien
• MM THEODULUS and JULIAN of Caesarea (308)
• Rightbelieving Emperor MARCIAN (also Marcianus) 玛尔基安皇帝 (457) and his wife Empress PULCHERIA (also Belkharia) 普尔赫里亚 (453) of Constantinople
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μαρκιανὸς καὶ Πουλχερία οἱ βασιλεῖς
• Venerable THEODOSIUS 德奥多西 the Bulgarian, monastic founder at Mt Kelifarevo (1362) and ROMAN 罗玛诺 his disciple, monks of Turnovo, Bulgaria
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ρωμανὸς ὁ ἐκ Τυρνόβου
• Venerable VARNAVA 瓦尔纳瓦 (Basil Merkulov) of Gethsemane, The Chernigovsky skete in Sergiev Posad of Trinity Lavra St Sergius (1831-1906) Ὁ Ὅσιος Βαρνάβας τῆς Γεθσημανῆ
In the late 19th century the skete became a top Orthodox monastery during Rev. Barnabas of Gethsemane who hosted people all over Russia with consolation. He took on serving sufferers and foretelling their future. This monastic elder also foresaw the Bolshevik terror and even the Russian Orthodox Church revival.
• Papa NICHOLAS 尼科拉 Planas, priest in Athens (1851-1932)
His focus for over 50 years was to serve daily the Divine Liturgy, vigils, and other services. He never missed a Liturgy and spent most of his time in the very small church of Church of St John the Hunter in Athens, Greece. The parish initially contained only eight families. He never refused to commemorate and pray for anyone when he served, and he carried in his pockets slips of paper containing thousands of names whom he would pray for during the proskomedia and the Liturgy. Numerous stories are told of his being lifted in prayer and of the acolytes seing him raised off the ground in front of the altar during the Liturgy. While he would begin Liturgy at eight in the morning, he typically would not finish until two or three in the afternoon. When he was not able to serve at the church of St John, he would always serve elsewhere. He was famously absent-minded and was also well known for giving to the poor anything that anyone might give him. He was not an educated man but was considered immensely enlightened, an example of great holiness and humility.
• New Hieromartyr MICHAEL Nikologorskij, presbiter, priest (1882-1938) day of death in Belbatlag NKVD KZ
• New Hieromartyr PAVEL Kosminkov, presbiter, archpriest (1875-1938)
• New Hieromartyr presbiter NICHOLAS Kandaurov (1886-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted // FEB 4 //
• Martyres ANNA Chetverikova (1873-1940)
• Repose of Schemamonk JOHN Shova, of Kolitsou Skete, Vatopaidi Monastery on Mt Athos (2009)
• Martyr AGATHANGELOS of Bitola (1727) in Constantinople
• AUXENTIUS
• Sainted AUXIBIUS 阿弗克西维 bishop of Soli in Cyprus (102)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Αὐξίβιος Ἐπίσκοπος Σόλων Κύπρου
It is said that Saint Auxibius was baptized by Saint Mark and consecrated by Saint Paul as the first bishop of Soli, Cyprus.
• Venerable Bishop AUXIBIUS II (Auxinios) disciple of Auxibius of Soli
• Sainted BONOSUS Bishop of Trier (374)
• EUXIPHIUS I Bishop and Wonderworker, listed in some synaxaria as one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (12th c.)
• FINAN 斐南 bishop of Lindisfarne (661)
Born in Ireland, he became a monk at Iona in Scotland and succeeded St Aidan in the Northumbrian Church. With St Cedd and others he enlightened parts of the south of England.
• Abbot FINTAN of Clonenagh (603) a disciple of St Columba, he led the life of a hermit in Clonenagh in Leix in Ireland. Soon numerous disciples attached themselves to this ascetic and he became their abbot
• FORTCHERN (Forkernus) (6th c.) Bishop of Trim in Ireland, he later lived as a hermit; a bishop among bell-founders of whom he is the patron
• Abbot GUEVROCK (Gueroc, Guevroc, Guivrok, Guirec, Kirecq, Kerric) of Saint-Pol-de-Leon (6th c.) a Briton who followed St Tudwal to Brittany and succeeded him as Abbot of Loc-Kirec. He also helped St Paul of Léon in the rule of the diocese
• Hieromartyr HABET-Deus (500) Bishop of Luna in Tuscany in Italy, a city now in ruins. He was probably martyred by the Arian Vandals
• Hieromartyr HERMOGENES 埃尔默艮 patriarch of Moscow and all Rus’ (1612)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐρμογένης ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Πατριάρχης Μόσχας
• Hieromonk JOSEPH Zograph (the Iconographer) of Dionysiou Monastery on Mt Athos // FEB 17 // SEP 14 // OCT 26 //
Saint Joseph was a monk of Dionysiou Monastery on Mt. Athos, where he shone forth with the virtues of monastic life. He was an iconographer, and he painted the icon of the holy Archangels on the iconostasis of Dionysiou's main church. In obedience to the instructions of Igumen Stephen, Saint Joseph traveled to Constantinople with Eudocimus, who had apostasized from Orthodoxy to become a Moslem. Eudocimus repented, and wished to wipe out his sin through martyrdom. When faced with torture and death, however, the unfortunate Eudocimus denied Christ again, blaming Joseph for turning him from Islam. Saint Joseph was arrested and threatened with death. In spite of many tortures, he refused to convert to Islam. This holy martyr of Christ was hanged on February 17, 1819, and so he obtained an incorruptible crown of glory.
• LOMAN (Luman) (450) a nephew of St Patrick and the first Bishop of Trim in Meath in Ireland
• Righteous MARIAMNE (also Mariamna, Mariam, Miriam or Maria) 玛利盎尼 Equal to the Apostles (85) sister of the Holy Apostle Philip
Ἡ Ἁγία Μαριάμνη ἡ Ἰσαπόστολος ἀδελφὴ τοῦ Ἁγίου Φιλίππου τοῦ Ἀποστόλου
Miriam was the sister of the Holy Apostle Philip. She traveled with her brother and together with him preached the Gospel in Hierapolis and in other places. Following the martyr's death of Philip, Miriam continued her missionary work in Lycaonia where she died.
• Uncovering (867-869) of the relics of Martyr MENAS 弥纳 Callicelados (the Melodius) 麦洛迪 of Alexandria (313)
Εὕρεσις Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Μηνᾶ τοῦ Καλλικέλαδος
During the time of the Constantinople emperor Basilios the Macedonian (867-886), by command of the saint himself who had appeared in a dream to a certain pious man, – his relics were discovered by the military commander Marcian.
The relics of the holy Martyrs were cast into the sea in an iron chest. Instead of the iron chest sinking to the floor of the sea, it floated to the area of Byzantium. When the iron chest arrived, an angel appeared to the Bishop and told him to welcome the relics of the holy Martyrs Menas and Hermogenes at the beach known as Acropolis, which had come from Alexandria. He summoned all the Christians he could at that hour, which was midnight, and they went to the seashore. There they beheld a great light on the open sea, like a column going up to heaven. Beside the light were two radiant men who reverently stood on either side, approaching the harbor. Though initially the Christians thought it was a galley, upon closer inspection they saw it was an iron chest moving fast on the sea above the water. When the chest arrived, the two angels instructed the Bishop how to preserve the chest until the death of Emperor Maximinus. The Christians venerated the relics and placed them in a certain church, as instructed by the angels. When Maximinus died, the Bishop interred the relics beneath the ground of the wall of Acropolis, so that the Saints may be the guardians of the city. Almost five hundred years later, during the reign of Emperor Basil I (867-886), Saint Menas appeared one night to a certain man named Philommatis, who was a soldier in the military corps of the Ikanaton (the palace guards), and he showed him the location of his sacred relics in the section of the shore known as Acropolis, pointing to it with his finger. The pious and faithful Philommatis rose up and revealed in detail his vision to his friend Markianos, who was the commander of the regiment of the Noumera, and he in turn told the emperor that at the seashore of Nicomedia, near the beach of Acropolis, the sacred relics of the Saint were hidden under the earth. He sent soldiers to that place, where they found an iron coffin which contained the sacred relics. A plaque was attached to the coffin, which indicated that it contained the relics of the Saint, as well as the location where they should be placed. It should be noted that the iron chest only contained the relics of Saint Menas. It is assumed Saint Hermogenes' relics were placed elsewhere. The sacred relics were transferred to Constantinople.
• New Martyr MICHAEL 米迦勒 Mavroeidis 玛弗若伊迪斯 of Adrianople (1490)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μιχαὴλ ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ ἐν Ἀδριανούπολει
• OSSAN Bishop of Rathossain, County of Meath (7th c.)
• PAPIAS
• Hieromartyr Bishop POLYCHRONIUS of Babylon (250)
• PORPHYRIOS
• Venerable Bishop SILVINUS (Silvin) of Auchy (720) reputed to be an Irish Bishop, at Alciac, or Auchy, in Belgium
A courtier who gave up his worldly life to preach the Gospel. He enlightened the area near Thérouanne in the north of France. After some 40 years of unceasing work in missionary activity, which included the ransoming of many slaves, he retired to the Benedictine abbey of Auchy-les-Moines, where he died worn out by evangelizing.
• Holy Great Martyr THEODORE 德奥多若 Tiro (i.o. "recruit" or "conscript") 新兵 (306)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόδωρος ὁ Μεγαλομάρτυρας ὁ Τήρων
The Saint did a great virtuous action, for he took an idol of Rhea, the mother of the gods, which played the Greeks for fools, and he threw it into the fire and burned it. Thus he was arrested and confessed that it was he who burned the idol. First he was hung up and scraped, then he was put in a flaming furnace, in which he was perfected, and received the crown of martyrdom. His Synaxis is held in his martyric Temple which is in Phorakion, on the Saturday of the first week of the Fast. This is when the miracle with the kollyva took place through him, by which he liberated the Orthodox Christian people from the polluted foods of the pagans.
• Venerable THEODORE monk of the Kievan Zverynetsky Monastery (1096)
• Venerable THEODORE 德奥多若 the Silent of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1244) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Theodosy Far Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεόδωρος
The Monk Feodor (Theodore) the Silent of Pechersk chose the exploit of silence, so as to dwell constantly in thought of God and to safeguard himself in temptation even in word. He was glorified by the Lord with a gift of wonderworking.
• New Martyr THEODORE 德奥多若 of Byzantium, at Mitylene (1795) Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόδωρος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Βυζαντινὸς
The Holy Martyr Theodore the Byzantine was a native of the settlement Neokhoreia near Constantinople. In childhood they seduced him into Mahometanism. For his return to the Christian faith he was hung by the Turks in the city of Mytilene in 1795.
THE PRAYER OF ST THEODORE: Lord Jesus Christ, the physician of my miserable soul, do not turn from me the sinner in disgust, but strengthen my weak and hardened heart, and warm it in its love for Your martyrdom. I denied You, my Maker and Benefactor, without being forced by anyone and became a servant of the vile devil and a plaything of demons, and found myself under their authority and subject to their will. Now aided by Your grace and unsurpassable forbearance, which has helped me to flee their traps, help me, who am a miserable and pitiful creature, unworthy of the Orthodox Christian calling, to confess You before rulers and tyrants. Yes, my Lord, yes Only-Begotten Son of God. Do not turn in disgust from your servant, but accept me in the choir of your martyrs, and find me worthy to gain their forgiveness. Amen.
• New Martyr THEODORE 德奥多若 hieromonk of Adjara, who suflfered under the Turks on Mt Athos (19th c.) • Martyr THEODOULOS at Caesarea Palestina (308)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόδουλος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Hosiosmartyr THEOCTERISTUS Abbot of the Monastery of Symboloi (Symbola) in Bithynia at Mount Olympus, of Pelecete Monastery near Prusa (8th c.) // NOV 10 // FEB 28 //
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοστήρικτος
聖索菲亞大教堂 是位于现今土耳其伊斯坦布尔的宗教建筑，有近一千五百年的漫長歷史，因其巨大的圓頂而闻名于世，是一幢「改變了建築史」的拜占庭式建築典範。 索菲亞在希腊语裡的意思是神聖智慧。其拉丁语名称则为Sancta Sophia，希臘語全名是「Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας」，解作「上帝聖智教堂」，教堂供奉在正教神學裡的耶稣。大教堂稱為「聖索菲亞」（Ἁγία Σοφία），是特別獻給天主聖智的那一位，即聖三中的聖言。這種對耶穌的稱呼可能源自保祿(保羅)對基督的描繪，格前1:24 「基督卻是天主的德能和天主的聖智（Σοφία）」。 在该教堂伫立的地点曾经存在过两座被暴乱摧毁的教堂，公元532年拜占庭皇帝查士丁尼一世下令建造第三所教堂。在拜占庭雄厚的国力支持之下，由物理學家米利都的伊西多爾（Isidore of Miletus）及數學家特拉勒斯的安提莫斯设计的这所教堂在公元537年便完成了其建造。刚竣工时的圣索菲亚大教堂是正教會牧首巴西利卡形制的大教堂，在1519年被塞維亞主教座堂取代之前聖索菲亞大教堂一直是世界上最大的教堂。聖索菲亞大教堂由360年落成直至1453年期間都是君士坦丁堡的大教堂。
The church was dedicated to the Wisdom of God, the Logos, the second person of the Trinity, its patronal feast taking place on 25 December, the commemoration of the birth of the incarnation of the Logos in Christ. Although sometimes referred to as Sancta Sophia (as though it were named after Sophia the Martyr), sophia being the phonetic spelling in Latin of the Greek word for wisdom, its full name in Greek is Ναός της Αγίας του Θεού Σοφίας, Naos tēs Hagias tou Theou Sophias, "Shrine of the Holy Wisdom of God".
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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