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DAY 19
• 10 Martyrs in North Africa disciples of St Cyprian of Carthage: MONTANUS 蒙塔诺, LUCIUS 路基亚斯, JULIAN 犹利安, VICTORICUS 维克托里科, FLAVIAN 弗拉维安 and Companions (259) who suffered in that city under Valerian. The story of their imprisonment was told by themselves and that of their martyrdom by eyewitnesses
• MM HERULUS, LUCIUS, SERGIUS, GEORG (Lorgius), ABSOLON in Caesaria of Cappadocia under Deoclitian
• King ETHELBERT (also Aethelberht, Albert or Edilbertus) (560-616) and Blessed BERTHA the Queen of Kent (7th c.)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐθελμπέρτος βασιλιὰς τῆς Ἀγγλίας
King of Kent and High King of England, he protected St Augustine's mission and may have been baptised by him as early as Pentecost 597. Though he never tried to force his subjects into Christianity, thousands followed his apostolic example.
• BETTO bishop of Auxerre (918)
The Benedictine monk Betto of Sainte Colombe in Sens in France. He became bishop of Auxerre in 889.
• Monk BOISIL of Melrose Abbey (664)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μποϊζὶλ ἐκ Σκωτίας
• Venerable CUMINE 昆曼 Ailbe 埃尔博 (Cuimine the White, Cuimine the Fair) (669) born in Ireland, he became Abbot of Iona and wrote a life of St Columba
• DEMETRIAS of Carthage (450)
• Venerable ERASMUS 埃拉斯默 of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1160) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Anthony Near Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἔρασμος
He acquired a legacy of fame in that everything he possessed he used for the adornment of the Pechersk church: he mounted many an icon, which even now are over the altar. But with him there occurred suchlike a temptation, that when he came to be impoverished, he then came to be disdainful. The spirit of evil then began to suggest to him: "It gaineth thee naught, that thou squandered possessions upon the church, yea better were it that thou used it on the poor". Not having made proper sense about such thoughts, Erasm went into despondency and began to live carelessly. Because of his virtue the Gracious and Merciful God saved him. He brought upon him a grievous illness. In this sickness Erasm lay numb with closed eyes for seven days, hardly breathing. On the eighth day the brethren came to him and, seeing his terrible gasping, said: "Woe, woe to the soul of this brother, squandered in idleness. It beholds thee something and rebels, not leaving the body". And here Erasm suddenly stood up, as though healthy, and said: "Fathers and brethren! I am exactly a sinner, and a sinner not having repented, as ye said, but here not have appeared to me our monastic fathers Antonii and Theodosii, and said: "We have prayed for thee, and the Lord hath given thee time for repentance. Then beheld I the All-Pure Mother of God with Christ Son of God on Her arms, and She saith to me: "Erasm, since thou did adorn My Church with icons, I likewise adorn thee in the Kingdom of my Son! Arise, repent, put on the angelic form, and on the third day I shalt take thee to Myself as one having loved the magnificence of My home". Having said this, Erasm began to confess his sins before all without shame, then went to church and was envested in the schema, and on the third day he died.
• HEISE (also Hassea) of Airidh-Fota (also Aredfod)
• ILARION Bishop of Kizich
• First (324) and Second (452) Findings of The Precious Head of Saint JOHN 约翰 the Baptist (29)
Εὕρεσις Τιμίας κεφαλῆς τοῦ Ἁγίου Προφήτου, προδρόμου καὶ βαπτιστοῦ Ἰωάννη
After an apparition by the Precursor himself, the Precursor's venerable head was discovered in Herod's house by two pilgrim monks in Jerusalem. A potter took it from the two monks' hands and in appreciating its worth set about to honor it with a special veneration. Feeling himself close to death, he left the relic to his sister, recommending her not to move it or reveal it but only to honor it. After the woman's death, many people successively came into possession of this relic. The last one to have it was a heretical priest-monk named Eustathios. He was expelled by the orthodox from the grotto where he lived (because he indignantly exploited the cures worked through the relic for a lucrative end and attributed the cures to his Arian heresy). In accordance with Providence's designs, the Precursor's venerable head was left in his grotto. It remained hidden and unknown there until the time of Archimandrite Marcellus, under Emperors Valentinian and Marcian (450-457) and Uranius, the Bishop of Emesa. At this time, after several celestial manifestations took place concerning this relic, it was rediscovered in an urn and carried into the church by Bishop Uranius where it worked many miracles and healings.
• Italian Byzantine monk JOHN 约翰 the Theristes ("the Harvester") 收割者 of Stylos in Calabria (1049–1129) // FEB 23 //
Of Calabrian parentage, he was born in Sicily, where his mother had been taken as a slave by the Saracens. He managed to escape to Calabria while still a child and there became a monk. Theristos, meaning harvester, refers to a miraculous harvest reaped by the saint.
• Sainted LIUDHARD bishop of Senlis (596/600) Chaplain and bishop of Queen Bertha of Kent. He may have an important part in the conversion of King Ethelbert, preparing for the conversion of Kent
• Holy Apostle MATTHIAS
St Peter having, in a general assembly of the faithful held soon after, declared from holy scripture, the necessity of choosing a twelfth apostle, in the room of Judas; two were unanimously pitched upon by the assembly, as most worthy of the dignity Joseph, called Barsabas, and, on account of his extraordinary piety, surnamed the Just, and Matthias. After devout prayer to God, that he would direct them in their choice, they proceeded in it by way of lot, which falling by divine direction on Matthias, he was accordingly associated with the eleven, and ranked among the apostles.
• Sainted MODESTUS of Trèves (486) Bishop of Trier in Germany from 486 to 489 during the difficult period when the city came under Frankish rule. Saint Modestus's relics are venerated in the church of Saint Matthias in Trier
• Hieromartyr PRAETEXTATUS (Prix) Archbishop of Rouen in France (586)
Bishop of Rouen in France (550-586). For his courage in denouncing the wicked, he was cruelly persecuted and exiled. Recalled seven years later, he was martyred on Easter Sunday in his own church.
• Martyr PRIMITIVA (Primitivus)
An early martyr, probably in Rome.
• Uncovering (1486) of the relics of Rightbelieving ROMANUS 罗玛诺之 Prince of Uglich (1285)
• Hosiosmartyr SERGIUS of Cappadocia (304)
Saint Sergius was a magistrate of Caesarea. He became a monk, perhaps a priest, in Cappadocia, confessed his faith publicly and sacrificed himself for it during the reign of Diocletian. His relics are said to have been translated to Ubeda, near Tarragon, in Spain.
• Presbiter SOPHRONIOS
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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