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DAY 31
• Commemoration of Miracle (1898) of The Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God "OF THE SIGN" (13th c.) // MAR 8 // SEP 8 // NOV 27 // ON THE 9TH FRIDAY OF PASCHA //
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τοῦ Σημείου ἐν Κοὺρσκ τῆς Ρωσίας
In March of 1898 a group of anarchists, desiring to undermine the faith of the people in the wonderworking power of the icon, decided to destroy it. They placed a time bomb in the Cathedral of the Sign, and at two o'clock in the morning a horrendous explosion rent the air and all the walls of the monastery were shaken. The frightened monastic brethren rushed immediately to the cathedral, where they beheld a scene of horrible devastation. The force of the blast had shattered the gilded canopy above the icon. The heavy marble base, constructed of several massive steps, had been jolted out of position and split into several pieces. A huge metal candlestick which stood before the icon and been blown to the opposite side of the cathedral. A door of cast iron located near the icon had been torn from its hinges and cast outside, where it smashed against a wall and caused a deep crack. All the windows in the cathedral and even those in the dome above were shattered. Amid the general devastation, the holy icon remained intact and even the glass within the frame remained whole. Thinking to destroy the icon, the anarchists had, on the contrary, become the cause of its greater glorification.
The Icon of Our Lady of the Sign (Panagia or Παναγία) is the term for a particular type of icon of the Theotokos, facing the viewer directly, depicted either full length or half, with her hands raised in the orans position, and with the image of the Child Jesus depicted within a round aureole upon her breast. The icon depicts the Theotokos during the Annunciation at the moment of saying, "May it be done to me according to your word."(Luke 1:38). The image of the Christ child represents him at the moment of his conception in the womb of the Virgin. The term Virgin of the Sign or Our Lady of the Sign is a reference to the prophecy of Isaiah 7:14: "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel". This type of icon is also sometimes called the Platytéra (Greek: Πλατυτέρα, literally wider or more spacious); poetically, by containing the Creator of the Universe in her womb, Mary has become Platytera ton ouranon (Πλατυτέρα των Ουρανών): "More spacious than the heavens".
• MM ARIANUS governor of Thebes, THEOTICUS & and 3 others Companions (311) converted to Christianity on witnessing at Alexandria the martyrdom of SS Apollonius and Philemon. The judge ordered them to be drowned in the sea
• MM CYRIL (also Cyrillus) a Bishop, ROGATUS, FELIX, SILVANUS, URBAN and others, together with VMM BEATA, HERENIA (also Irene) and FELICITAS of Northwestern Africa
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Φηλικίτη, Ἑρένια, Ρογάτος, Φίλιξ, Ρογάτος, Βεάτος, Οὐρβανός, Σιλβάνος καὶ Μάμμιλος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Martyrs QUINTILIAN 库因提利安 and CAPATOLINUS 卡帕托利诺 in Nicomedia
• 1000 Martyrs in Saboreia in Persia
• HELEN Frushka (also Jelena or Elena) (in monasticism Elizabeth), Qu., Wife of Uroš I of Serbia, Nun (1314), and her sons King STEPHEN Milutin (1320) and St DRAGUTIN (in monasticism Theoctistus) (1316)
• New Hieromartyr IOANN 约翰 Znamenskij, presbiter, priest (1868-1923) day of martyrdom, shoted in selo Taldy-Kurgan (Taldykorgan) of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
• Martyr VLADIMIR 弗拉迪弥尔 Ushkov, psalmist and chorister (1885-1942) day of martyrdom
• Repose of Archbishop VITALY (Vasily Maximenko) of Eastern America and Jersey City (1873-1960)
He is connected with the history of the formation and development of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York. Upon his arrival in America in 1934, he entered the monastery brotherhood. The new monastic building was consecrated by Bishop Vitaly (Maximenko) on June 17, 1935. However, at the very end of the divine liturgy the smell of burning wood filled the air. Crying, "the church is afire!" in Russian, Vitaly and the other monks helped get the assembled worshippers to safety. The uninsured building, valued at $10 000, burnt to the ground. Sheltered in a wagon shed, the monks refused to despair and decided to build an even better structure. The small brotherhood soon bought another, larger house nearby, bought another 200 acres of land, and began farming and dairy operations. They also obtained a printing press and a linotype machine and began publishing spiritual works. They also interacted with the local community: a few of the monks held a concert at an Episcopalian parish in Richfield Springs, and members of the nearby Baptist church visited the monastery for a service. Dec. 15. 1946, by the invitation of Vitaly, from Ladomirov moved the brotherhood of St Job of Pochaev to Jordanville Mon-ry, who resumed printing work in Jordanville. Later, Vitaly achieved the move to monastery of the inhabitants of the monastery of St Job near Munich and the monks from other places, thereby increasing the number of monk brothers up to 50 people. In the years 1947-1950 by diligence Vitaly was carried out the construction of the Trinity Mon-ry Cathedral. May 16, 1948 the first rector of which became Vitaly, when the Bishop opened the Holy Trinity. Since 1948 the Archbishop Vitaly was the Abbot of the monastery.
The roots of the monastery's strong publishing division can be traced to the Pochayiv Lavra in modern-day Ukraine. There, Archimandrite Vitaly (Maximenko) had run the printing press, which included 150 monastic workers and 8 printing presses. With the outbreak of World War I and the Russian Revolution publishing operations came to a halt. Archimandrite Vitaly escaped to Ladomirová, Czechoslovakia, where he founded a new monastic brotherhood, the Brotherhood of St Job of Pochaev, to continue the work of the Lavra. This new brotherhood, under the authority of ROCOR, began publishing many new publications, including the periodicals Pravoslavnaia Rus, Pravoslavnyi Put, and the Pravoslavnyi Kalendar, which contains the rubrics for all the Sundays and major feasts of the church calendar. All three of these publications are still being published by Holy Trinity Monastery. By 1934, the brotherhood was publishing three-quarters of all ROCOR publications, which were being read in 45 countries. However, with the advance of the Soviet Army in 1944, the brotherhood fled Czechoslovakia. Half the brotherhood, under the leadership of Archimandrite Seraphim (Ivanov), emigrated to the United States, where they joined the Jordanville brotherhood, which had already been printing books on a small scale. At Jordanville, the Brotherhood of St Job of Pochaev began publishing on the same level as they had in Czechoslovakia. In addition to Orthodox periodicals, they published service books, multi-volume editions of the lives of the saints, and many other religious works. Publishing became one of the major sources of income for the monastery. During the Cold War, the monastery was the largest publisher of Russian religious literature outside of the Soviet Union, and according to the monastery’s publication website many behind the Iron Curtain remembered Jordanville as being practically their only source of Orthodox books. To supplement in-house printing, the monastery also outsourced some titles to be published in New York and Japan. The monastery has now stopped all in-house printing due to costs and is outsourcing all publishing to outside printers. However, it is still continuing to translate, edit, and publish new works in both print and digital formats. According to the publications website, the monastery hopes to publish four to eight new titles a year. Recent titles include the Psalter for Prayer, a new translation of the Psalter from Church Slavonic, stylistically based on Myles Coverdale’s translation of the psalms in the Book of Common Prayer. In addition to publishing work, the monastery also operates a bookstore which began operation in 1990 with the expansion of the monastery building. It sells (both in-store and online) both monastery publications and books and other media from Orthodox suppliers from around the world.
According to the will, Vitaly buried in a temple built on his initiative in honor of Equal to Apostles prince Vladimir, in Jackson of New Jersey.
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Vitaly, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
• Repose of ANDRONICUS Lukash, Schemaarchimandrite of Tbilisi, Georgia, Elder of Glinsk Hermitage (1974)
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Andronicus, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
• Venerable ATHANASIUS 阿塔纳西 Abbot of Olonets, of Murman Island, Onega Lake (1459)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀθανάσιος ἐκ Ρωσίας
• BEOADH (Beatus) (518) Bishop of Ardcarne in Roscommon in Ireland
Aeodh (Aidus), an Irish saint, acquired the prefix Bo on account of the greatness of his virtues, and was appointed bishop of Ardcarne. The "Bell of Saint Beoadh," a beautiful work of art, was long in veneration as a relic of this saint.
• Sainted BONIFATIUS IV Pope of Rome (615)
• CLEOPATRONIA (also Cleopatrina or Eupatronia) of Asia Minor or Thessalonica (4th c.)
• CONAINNE (also Conaine or Conania) of Kilrush (6th c.)
• CURCACH (also Corcaria) of Kill Corcaige (6th c.)
• Martyr DIUS (Dion, Dionos) by the sword (302)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Δίων ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Hosiosmartyr monk DOMETIUS 多麦提 (Domadios El-Soriany) the Persian (363) // AUG 7 //
Ὁ Ὅσιος Δομέτιος
• DOMETIOS of Quros, today ruins at Oylum near Kilis in Turkey or of Amida, today Diyarbakır in Turkey (4-8th c.)
According to tradition, Dometios was a doctor and lived as an ascetic in Amida - today's Diyarbakır. An Angel led him accordingly to a cave in the Quros Mountains/Tur Abdin, where he was baptized and where he then healed many people. Even after his death his bones continued to have healing power, especially for the paralyzed.
Dometios of Quros may be identical to Dometios, for which the names are similar and the similarity of motives speak, with the local and temporal differences remain; These could be explained by deviations of the Greek version of the tale of suffering from the Syrian original, yet there were different cults, attested since around 500.
• Venerable DOMETIUS • Sainted EDDO Abbot of Reichenau and Bishop of Straßburg (776)
• Sainted FELIX 斐利克斯 of Burgundy, bishop of Dunwich and enlightener of East Anglia (648)
Born in Burgundy in France, he went to England to work for the enlightenment of East Anglia. In about 631 he went to Dunwich, or possible Felixstowe, and built his Cathedral, now beneath the sea. He preached with great success in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and is honoured as the Apostle of East Anglia, where several places are named after him and Orthodox still honour his memory.
• Sainted HUNFRIED Bishop of Thérouanne (870-871)
• Hieromartyr Apostle 使徒 HERMAS 艾尔玛斯 of the Seventy (1st c.) bishop at Philippopolis. In the Epistle to the Romans the holy Apostle Paul summons the Romans to greet the Disciple Hermas (Rom. 16: 14)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἑρμῆς ὁ Ἀπόστολος
Once while in prayer, a man appeared to him in white raiment with a staff in his hand and told him that he is an angel of repentance who was sent to be with him until the end of his life. The angel gave him twelve mandates:
1. Believe in God;
2. To live in simplicity and innocence; do not speak evil and give alms to all who beg;
3. Love truth and avoid falsehood;
4. Preserve chastity in your thoughts;
5. Learn patience and generosity;
6. To know that with every man, there is a good and an evil spirit;
7. To fear God and not to fear the devil;
8. To do every good and to refrain from every evil deed;
9. To pray to God from the depth of the soul with faith that our prayer will be fulfilled;
10. To guard against melancholy as the sister of doubt and anger;
11. To question true and false prophecies;
12. To guard against every evil desire.
• Bishop HUMPHREY (Hunfrid) of Pruem (871)
A monk at the monastery of Prüm in Germany, he became Bishop of Therouanne in France and was Abbot of St Bertin. He was a source of strength and comfort to the people during the Norman invasion. He kept the feast of the Dormition with special splendour.
• Sainted JULIAN Archbishop of Toledo (690)
A monk at Agali in Spain under St Eugene, whom he succeeded first as Abbot and in 680 as Archbishop of Toledo. He was the first Metropolitan of All Iberia. Presiding over several national Councils, revising and developing the Mozarabic liturgy, he was a prolific writer and outstanding churchman.
• Venerable LAZARUS 拉匝若 Abbot of Olonets, of Murman Island, Onega Lake (1391)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Λάζαρος ἐκ Ρωσίας
• Sainted PAUL 保罗 the Confessor, bishop of Prusias in Bithynia (850) // MAR 7 //
Ὁ Ὅσιος Παῦλος ὁ Ὁμολογητής
• PONTIUS (260) a deacon of the Church of Carthage in North Africa. He was with St Cyprian in his exile, at his trial and execution, and wrote his Life
• PROVINUS (420) born in France, he became a disciple of St Ambrose in Milan and became Bishop of Como in Italy in 391
• PSALMOD (Saumay) Anchoret (589) born in Ireland, and, retiring into France, led an eremitical life at Limousin, where he acquired great reputation for his sanctity and miracles
• Abbot RHIAN (Ranus, Rian)
The saint who has left his name to Llanrhian in Pembrokeshire.
• SENAN (Senames of Inis Cathaigh) of Scattery (540)
A monk in Kilmanagh in Ireland. Having founded a monastery, probably in Enniscorthy, he is said to have visited Rome and on his way home stayed with St David in Wales. On his return to Ireland he founded more churches and monasteries, notably one in Iniscarra near Cork. Finally he settled on Scattery Island in the Shannon estuary where he was buried.
• TARASIUS the Wonderworker, of Lycaonia // MAY 7 //
• Hieromartyr THEODORETUS 德奥多里特 the presbyter in Antioch (361-363)
君士坦丁大帝在安提约希亚修建了一座非常漂亮的教堂。人们称这座教堂为“金教堂”，因为这座教堂的外部和内部都是包金的，同时，这里的很多家具和设备都是用金子和银子制成的。君士坦丁大帝拨给教堂一大块土地，以便能够容纳众多的神职人员。负责管理教堂里这些珍贵物件的是非常虔诚的司祭德奥多里特（*）。当叛教者犹利安登上王位后开始否认基督，尽管他已经接受了浸礼，但是他仍然对基督徒进行迫害。他的叔父犹利安来到安提约希亚，将“金教堂”抢劫一空。他召来教堂的管理人员德奥多里特，并怂恿他否认基督。德奥多里特既没有否认基督，同时还羞辱了皇帝犹利安，因为他离弃了真信仰，反而去拜偶像，如同一只狗重回到它的吣物。邪恶的法官大怒，在“金教堂”中撒了一泡尿，圣德奥多里特预言审判官将不得好死，而这预言很快就应验了。德奥多里特因为忠于基督而遭到斩首，死在了斧头之下。自从这位邪恶的法官在教堂中撒尿之后，他就感觉下身疼痛。他的整个下身都被蠕虫蚕食，就这样在极其恐怖的痛苦中死去。正如德奥多里特预言的那样，审判官的助手菲利克斯，在这位荣耀的圣人遭到斩首之后就口吐鲜血而身亡。圣德奥多里特于公元362年荣耀殉道，得以进入基督永生的国度。 （*）在希腊的圣人传记中，圣德奥多里特的纪念日是在3月3日。
• Monk THEODOSIUS
• Venerable THEOPHYLACTUS 德奥斐拉克特 Bishop of Nicomedia (842-845)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοφύλακτος ὁ Ὁμολογητής Ἐπίσκοπος Νικομήδειας
塔拉息原本是皇帝的谋事，是一名平民，后来被选为君士坦丁堡的牧首，之后，他的很多同道、朋友、拥戴他的人以及其他世俗人都接受了剪发仪式成为修士，其中包括德奥斐拉克特。塔拉息任命他为尼科美底亚的主教。作为主教，德奥斐拉克特确实是一位好牧人，特别是对贫困者表现出了极大的热心。圣塔拉息去世后，尼基佛尔担任牧首职位。不久之后，亚美尼亚人莱翁登上王位，他是一位圣像破坏运动的支持者，并在教会中掀起了轩然大波。尽管第七次普世大公会议（尼西亚，公元783年）对圣像破坏运动进行了诅咒，但是莱翁却要恢复圣像破坏运动，并藉此对正教进行打压。圣德奥斐拉克特当面反对皇帝，莱翁仍然固执己见，这时圣德奥斐拉克特堆皇帝说：“皇上，你将要面临极大的恶运，没有人能够挽救你脱离恶运！”因为德奥斐拉克特的这番话语，由此莱翁皇帝下令撤消他的牧首职位，并将其流放。德奥斐拉克特在流放生活中渡过了30年的时间，期间忍受了各种磨难和羞辱，最后于公元845年将灵魂交给了上帝。
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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