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March 8 / February 23
2018 （7526）
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DAY 18
• The Icon of The Most Holy Theotokos of SOKOLKI (1172) in holy Transfiguration Monastery on the Mount of Sprit (Dukhova Gora) near Vorskla river, Sokolki of Poltava in Ukraine
• Martyrs of Sirmium (303)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἑβδομήντα Τρεῖς Μάρτυρες
One of two anonymous groups of martyrs at Sirmium (now Mitrovica in the Balkans) included in the Roman Martyrology. This group included a band of 72.
• Martyrs SYNCROTAS, ANTIGONUS, RUTILUS, LIBIUS, SENEROTAS and ROGATIANUS (4th c.) at Syrmium in Pannonia
• Venerables ascetics of the Syrian desert Monks JOHN 约翰 (444) disciple of St Limnios; MOSES 摩西 settled on an high mountain near the village of Rama (5th c.); ANTIOCHOS 安提奥赫 (449) and ANTONINOS 安托尼诺 (5th c.) likewise pursued asceticism with him. Until extreme old age they continued with their ascetic deed, offering an example of spiritual strength, and having surmounted every obstacle
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ἰωάννης, Ἀντίοχος, Ἀντωνίνος καὶ Μωϋσῆς
• Venerables Hermit ZEBINUS (Zevinos) 则维纳 of Syria (392) trained monks MARO, KLEMENS, POLYCHRONIUS 颇利赫若尼 (5th c.), MOSES 摩西, DAMIAN 达弥安 and others in the monastic life (5th c.)
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ζεβινᾶς, Πολυχρόνιος, Δαμιανὸς καὶ Μωϋσῆς
• Hieromartyr PROTERIOS Archbishop of Alexandria, and other 6 Martyrs (457)
• Martyrs CLEMENCE and ANTONIUS by sword
Ὁ Ἅγιος Κλήμης ὁ Μάρτυρας
• MANNAN and TIAAN of Aredh-suird (Airiudh h-Uird)
• New Hieromartyr presbiter DIMITRIJ Nerovetskij (1887-1919) day of martyrdom, cruelly murdered near derevnya Bajkan, Jenisej
• New Hieromartyr ALEXIS 阿莱克西 Nikol’skij, presbiter, priest (1877-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted
• New Hieromartyr NICHOLAS 尼科拉 Dmitrov, presbiter, archpriest (1878-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted in prison in Perm
• New Hieromartyr MICHAEL 米迦勒 Razhkin, presbiter, priest (1871-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted in Astrakhan’
• Martyr SERGIUS 塞尔吉 Borodavkin, elder (starosta) of church and merchant in Krasnij Kholm, Tver’ (1878-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted • Uncovering (1998) of Relics of Blessed Elderess MATRONA the Blind of Moscow (1885-1952) who had the gift of spiritual vision and the gift of healing from early childhood and led an ascetic life on her bed of pain // MAY 2 //
Ἡ Ὁσία Ματρώνα ἐκ Ρωσίας
The Blessed Matrona, just like any true Christian zealot, taught people Christianity not so much by words, as by the deeds of her whole life. Physically blind, she taught and continues to teach people true spiritual vision. On March 8, 1998 the appropriation of the holy relics of the Blessed Matrona took place. A year later on May 2, 1999, she was canonized as a Saint of the Church of Russia with Patriarch Alexei II (Ridiger) presiding. At the request of the nuns of the Moscow Pokrovsky (Convent of the Holy Intercession of the Mother of God), who cared for her grave, the relics were transferred to that Convent. From then on the Convent has become a site of pilgrimage for people not only all across Russia, but from all over the world. The nuns carefully collect and write down all testimonies of miraculous help received by people from the Blessed Matrona.
Blessed Matrona was an Orthodox Christian in the very deep and traditional meaning of the word. Compassion to people that came from the bottom of her loving heart, her prayer, the sign of the cross, her unfailing faithfulness to the holy statutes of the Orthodox Church were the core of her ardent spiritual life. The nature of her ministry originates in the centuries of godliness and piety. That is why her assistance to people bears spiritual fruit: people become firm in the Orthodox faith, they become attached to the Church outwardly and in their inner self, they actively participate in the daily life of prayer. Matrona is known by tens of thousands of Orthodox people. They call her affectionately "Matronushka". She helps people as in the days when she lived. Those who ask her for intercession soon feel it, and she prays for them to God with great boldness. The life of St Matrona reminds us that all of us are called to a life of holiness and that this is possible for all of us. She was not a nun, never attended a seminary, in fact was an illiterate, peasant woman yet was so filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit that she was able to see people's needs and sins, predict the future, and perform countless miracles even after her death. Blessed Matrona said: "After my death few people will come to my grave, only my closest. When they die, my grave will be abandoned, and will bevisited only occasionally… But many years later people will learn about me and will come in crowds to ask for help in their troubles. They will ask me to pray for them to the Lord, and I will hear and help everybody." Before her death she said: "Come, come to me, all. Tell me about your troubles, as if I were alive, and I will see you and hear you, and help you." Matushka also said that those who would seek her intercession before God would be saved. "All those who ask me for help I will meet after their death, everyone."
Blessed Matrona, you who have great boldness before God, pray for us sinners!
• Sainted SERAPHIM (Zenobius) Schemametropolitan of Tetritskaro, Georgia, monk of Glinsk Monastery (1985)
• Repose of Archimandrite AGAPIT Belovidov, of Optina Monastery (1922)
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, blessed Agapit, and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
• Abbot ALEXANDER 亚历山大 Akimetes, of Constaninople, founder of the order of the "Unceasing Vigilance" (Unsleeping Ones) Monastery (430) // FEB 23 // JUL 3 //
• Martyr ANTIGONUS
• BOSWELL (Boisil) (661) Abbot of Melrose in Scotland. Sts Cuthbert and Egbert were among his monks. Both admired him greatly, as did St Bede. His favourite reading was the Gospel of St John
• Widow CALLISTA (2nd c.)
• Uncovering (980) of relics of Sainted CELSUS Bishop of Trier (142/150)
• Venerable COSMAS 科斯玛 of Zographou, Mt Athos (1281)
• CRUIMTHER Connrach (Conry or Conrius)
Tradition identifies this saint as a nephew of the great Saint Columcille whose third sister, Sinecha, was mother to Saint Cruimther Connrach. Indeed, she was mother to a number of holy men, one of her sons, Aidan, was a monk, another was Cucuimne, Abbot of Iona, while the other was our saint, Conrius Mocukein. Saint Cruimther/Conrius was also a disciple of his famous uncle at the Columban monastery of Durrow.
• Venerable DAMIAN 达弥安 the Myrrhgusher, a monk of the Monastery of Esphigmenou on Mt Athos (1281) a contemporary and companion of the great Cosmas of Zographou
Ὁ Ὅσιος Δαμιανὸς ὁ Ἐσφιγμενίτης
Saint Damian lived in the thirteenth century. He was a hesychast on Mt. Athos, and struggled in the skete of Esphigmenou monastery, on a mountain called Samareia, between the monasteries of Hilandar and Esphigmenou, and also in one of the caves where the Father of Russian Monasticism, Saint Anthony of the Caves (July 10), had lived in asceticism. Having been a true obedient and having kept firmly the injunctions of the fathers, the monk was glorified upon his death by a sweet-smelling miraculous aroma fragrance emitted from his body, which issued from his grave during the course of 40 days. His Life was written by his friend Saint Cosmas of Zographou Monastery (September 22).
• Hosiosmartyr monk DAMIAN 达弥安 the New of Philotheou, who suffered at Larissa (1568)
Saint Damian of Philotheou was a disciple of Saint Dometius (August 7). He was from the village of Richovon (Merichovon) near Agrapha. He went to Mt. Athos when he was quite young, and received the monastic tonsure at Philotheou Monastery. After spending some time there, he withdrew to a hermitage under the guidance of an Elder named Dometius. After three years, he heard a voice telling him to go forth and teach. He obeyed these instructions, preaching in many areas of Greece. He urged his fellow Christians to repent of their sins, to abstain from all vices, to obey God’s commandments, and to devote themselves to God-pleasing works. As he was on his way to a village, Saint Damian was arrested by the Turks and thrown into prison. After fifteen days of torture, he was hanged and then thrown into a fire. Saint Damian received the crown of martyrdom on February 23, 1568.
• Venerable DOSITHEUS 多西德奥 of Palestine (622) a disciple of the glorious Abba Dorotheus who lived in the cenobitic monastic community of the Venerables Serdius, John and Barsanuphius the Great // Feb 19 //
• Departure of St ELIZABETH the Mother of St John the Baptist (1st c.)
• ERCONGATHA (also Earcongotha, Earcengota, Erkengota, Eorcingota, Ercongota or Ercongotha), Abs. at Farmoutier-en-Brie in Meaux, Gaul (Normandy, France) (660)
• FELIX of Brescia (650) the 20th Bishop of Brescia in Italy. He was bishop for over 40 years during which time he was occupied in fighting Arianism and other heresies
• FLORENTIUS of Seville (485) venerated in Seville in Spain
• GORGONIA 高尔高尼亚 of Iconium in Cappadocia, Matr. at Nazianzen, Dcn. (370/372) sister of St Gregory the Theologian
Ἡ Ἁγία Γοργονία ἀδελφὴ τοῦ Ἁγίου Γρηγορίου τοῦ Θεολόγου
She was distinguished for her great virtue, piety, meekness, sagacity and toil. Her house was ever an haven for the poor. She died at age 39 in about the year 372 with the words of the psalm: "In peace I do both fall asleep and expire".
• Italian Byzantine monk JOHN 约翰 the Theristes ("the Harvester") 收割者 of Stylos in Calabria (1049–1129)
He was of Calabrian lineage, born in Sicily. John's Calabrian mother had been captured by the Saracens and brought to Sicily, he contrived to escape to Calabria while still a child, and there he became a Greek monk. He helped to miraculously harvest a large crop ahead of destructive weather, saving the locals from starvation, and gaining the title attributed to him. There he remained until his death of natural causes, in 1129. The monastery of San Giovanni Theristis is entitled to him.
• JURMIN (653) an East Anglian prince, son or nephew of King Anna (634-654). His relics were enshrined at Bury St Edmunds in England
• Venerable LAZARUS 拉匝若 Zographos (the Painter) (867)
Saint Lazarus was a monk of Constantinople, and a skilled painter, who in the time of Theophilus (829-842), one of the iconoclast emperors, busied himself in restoring the sacred images defaced by the heretics. For this he was cruelly tormented by the emperor. Later he was restored to honor and sent as ambassador to Rome. In art, Saint Lazarus is shown with his hands burned but still painting for churches and/or restoring damaged paintings.
• New Hieromartyr LAZARUS 拉匝若 of the Peloponnese (1618)
• VM MARTHA at Astorga, Northwestern Spain, Pat. of Astorga (251)
Beautiful Spanish virgin and a true Christian, Saint Martha was beheaded for the faith in Astorga under Decius. Her relics are enshrined in the old Benedictine abbey of Ribas de Sil and at Ters, diocese of Astorga.
• MEDRALD (Mérald, Méraut) (850) monk at Saint-Evroult (Ebrulfus) of Ouche in France. Later he became Abbot of Vendôme
• MILBURGH (715) the elder sister of St Mildred of Minster-in-Thanet in England and the second Abbess of Wenlock
Archbishop Theodore consecrated her as a nun. She had the gift of miracles and healing of the blind and lepers, as well as power over birds and the natural world.
• MILDBURGA (also Mildburg, Milburgh, Milburg, Milburh, Mildburh or Milburga), Fnder. and Second Abs. of Wenlock Abbey (also Much Wenlock) in Shropshire (720)
• Abbess MILDGYTHA (676)
Saint Mildgytha was the granddaughter of the pagan king Penda, youngest daughter of the chieftain Merewald of the Angles and Saint Ermenburga of Kent, and sister to Saints Mildred and Milburga. One tradition holds that she became a nun in Northumbria and that she was buried there. The tradition of the Isle of Thanet maintains that the Mercian princess entered the Minster of Eastry, and succeeded the abbess Mildred; or that the monastery was founded and governed by her mother, whom she succeeded as abbess. The story continues that when the Danes destroyed Thanet, the bones of both abbesses were hidden at Lyming until Blessed Lanfranc translated in 1085 them to his hospital of Saint Gregory at Canterbury.
• Sainted MONTANUS Archbishop of Toledo (531)
• Venerable monk MOSES 摩西 of St Trinity monastery of Belozersk (i.o. White Lake) (1480)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μωϋσῆς ἐκ Ρωσίας
• NAZARIUS Abbot of Valaam Monastery (1809)
• Holy Hieromartyr POLYCARP 颇利卡尔普 Bishop of Smyrna (155) a disciple of Saint John the Theologian
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πολύκαρπος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Σμύρνης
• Hieromartyr POLYCARP of Rome (300) a Roman priest mentioned in the acta of the martyrs for his zeal in ministering to those detained in prison for their faith
• Venerable Abbot POLYCARP 颇利卡尔普 of Briansk (1620-1621)
• Hieromartyr POLYCHRONIUS Bishop of Babylon (Han-al-Mahawil in Irak) (250)
• ROMANA of the Tiber, Anchoress (324)
A spurious legend reports that the virgin Saint Romana born in Rome and was baptized by Pope Saint Sylvester. She died at the age of 18 while living in seclusion in a cave on the banks of the Tiber. Sometimes Saint Romana is painted together with Pope Saint Sylvester.
• Martyr SERENUS (also known as Cerneuf, Sirenus of Billom) the Gardener (303)
• Martyr SYNCROTAS
• Martyress THEA (also Thee) by sword
Ἡ Ἁγία Θεὴ ἡ Μάρτυς
• Sainted WILLIGIS Archbishop of Mainz (1011)
The son of a wheelwright, he became a priest at Hildesheim in Germany. Two years later he became Archbishop of Mainz. Although a statesman, Willigis was first and foremost a churchman and always remained humble and charitable to others.
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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