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May 10 / April 27
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• "KAZAN" Icon of the Mother of God at village Alexandrovka og St Petersburg
• Our Lady of Montserrat (called La Moreneta, The Dark Little One), Spain (718) according to tradition, the miraculous image was first known as La Jerosolimitana (the native of Jerusalem), since it is thought to have been carved there in the early days of the Church. The statue was eventually given to St Etereo, Bishop of Barcelona, who brought it to Spain
Our Lady of Montserrat or the Virgin of Montserrat (Catalan: Mare de Déu de Montserrat) is a Marian title associated with a venerated statue of the Madonna and Child venerated at the Santa Maria de Montserrat monastery on the Montserrat Mountain in Catalonia, Spain. She is the Patron Saint of Catalonia, an honour she shares with Saint George (Sant Jordi in Catalan). The famed image once bore the inscription ''Negra Sum Sed Formosa" (Latin: I am Black, but Beautiful). The mountain of Montserrat has been of religious significance since pre-Christian times, when the Romans built a temple to honor the Roman goddess Venus. By one account, the image of the Madonna was moved to Montserrat in 718, to avoid the danger posed by invading Saracens. Legend has it that the Benedictine monks could not move the statue to construct their monastery, choosing to instead build around it. The statue's sanctuary is located at the rear of the chapel, where an altar of gold surrounds the icon, and is now a site of pilgrimage.
In the 7th century, when Saracen infidels invaded Spain, the Christians of Barcelona heroically defended it for three years until defeat appeared imminent. Knowing that they could hold out no longer, they decided to take their treasured image of Our Lady to a secret, safe place. Quietly, with the knowledge of the Bishop and the Governor of the city, a group brought the statue to Montserrat, placing it in a small cave, April 22, 718. A complete account of the origin of the miraculous image, the cause of its removal and the place of its hidden security were recorded and in the archives of Barcelona. Even though the location of the statue was eventually forgotten, the people of Barcelona never forgot the holy image for almost 200 years. Then, in 890, shepherd boys from Monistrol, a village at the foot of Montserrat, were sent unbeknown to them to be the source of the discovery of the treasure. While tending their flocks that night the shepherds were surprised by lights and the sound of singing coming from the mountain. When this happened once again, they reported the situation to their priest, who looked into the matter. He, too, heard the singing and saw the mysterious lights, so he reported this to the Bishop, who also witnessed the same occurrences. At last the statue of Our Lady was discovered in the cave and brought out and placed in a small church that was soon built; this little church developed into the present church that was completed in 1592. In 888 there had already been a chapel dedicated to Our Lady and it was at that spot that the present shrine is located. Eventually a monastery was added, which grew rapidly, because of the miracles wrought there by the Blessed Virgin. According to the caretakers of the shrine, the statue that still presides over the monastery was introduced in the twelfth or thirteenth century.
Carved in wood, the statue is in a sitting position and measures slightly over three feet in height. In Romanesque style, the figure is slender, with an elongated face and a delicate expression. The dress of the Virgin consists of a tunic and cloak both gilded and plain in design which is draped. Beneath the crown is a veil adorned with stars, squares, and stripes in subtle shades of color. The right hand of the Virgin holds a sphere, while the other is extended in a graceful gesture. The Child Jesus sits on His Mother's lap and also wears a crown and lovely garments. His right hand is raised in blessing; His left hand holds an object that resembles a large pine cone. A cushion serves as the Madonna's footrest; she is seated upon a chair that has large legs and whose back is topped by cone-shaped finials. The statue is highly revered not only as a religious treasure, but also because of its artistic value. It is almost completely gilded, save the face and hands of both Our Lady and the Child Jesus [and His feet also]. Unlike many old statues which are black because of the kind of wood or the effects of the original paint, the dark color of Our Lady of Montserrat is attributed to the innumerable candles and lamps used in its veneration. Because of this dark color it is affectionately called La Moreneta, The Dark Little One. Thus, the Virgin of Montserrat is classified among the Black Madonnas. The image is in an alcove behind the main altar. It can be reached by climbing decorated stairs to the side of the church. The stairs lead to a large room which is directly behind the alcove where the statue is enthroned. This large room is called the Camarin de La Virgen, the Chamber of the Virgin. A large number of people can fit in the space to pray beside the throne of the Blessed Mother. The pilgrim cannot touch the image, however, since it is protected by a glass. In all ages the sinful, the suffering, the sorrowful, have laid their woes at the feet of Our Lady of Montserrat, and none have ever gone away unheard or unaided.
• VMM HERMELINA (Germelina), LAETISSIMA, GERMANA, FELICIA and EVANTHIA at Nicomedia
• MM CASTOR and STEPHEN suffered martyrdom at Tarsus in Cilicia in one of the early persecutions
• VMM of Alexandria at the Church of St Theonas (372)
• Martyrs of Nicomedia, Bithynia, Asia Minor (modern Izmit, Turkey): DIOSCURUS, EVANTHIA, FELICIA, FELIX, GERMANA, GERMELINA, JOHANNES, JULIUS, LAETISSIMA, NIKEFORUS, PAPIAS, SERAPION and VICTORINUS
• SIMEON Stylites the Younger (Symeon the New Stylite) of Cilicia (597) and his brother GEORGE
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Συμεὼν καὶ Γεώργιος
• New Hieromartyrs archpriest PAUL 保罗 Svetozarov (1866-1922) and priest JOHN 约翰 Rozhdestvensky (1872-1922) together with Martyr PETER 彼得 Yazikov, singer of church choir (1881-1922) shoted in Shuja of Ivanovo
• MM NICOLOS 尼科拉 Malkov, AUKSENTIUS 阿弗克森提 Kalashnikov, SERGIUS 塞尔吉 Mefodiev and VM ANASTASIA 阿纳斯塔西亚 (1922) killed in Shuya during the dispersal of believers who protested against the expropriation of church values
• Glorification (1999) of New Hieromartyr HILARION (Vladimir Troitsky) archbishop of Verejsk (1886-1929) // DEC 15/28, THE REPOSE // APR 27/MAY 10 GLORIFICATION //
The Holy Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), Archbishop of Vereya, was an outstanding theologian, preacher, and valiant defender of the Church of Russia who suffered during the first decade of Bolshevik rule in Russia. A compatriot of Patriarch Tikhon, he strongly defended the Church against the attacks of the communist regime and the Bolshevik backed Living Church, its renovationists policies, and the Gregorian schism. On April 27/May 10, 1999, Holy Hieromartyr Hilarion, Archbishop of Verey, was glorified as a saint by the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. On the eve of his canonization, the Holy Hieromartyr’s relics were translated from St. Petersburg to Moscow and placed in the church ofthe Sretensky Monastery. At the solemn service, which drew a multitude of pilgrims to the monastery, His Holiness Patriarch Alexei II read the resolution on his glorification, and lit a perpetual lamp over the shrine containing his holy relics. St Hilarion left a large body of homilies and apologetical writings. Here are the titles of some of them: Christianity and Socialism; Christianity or the Church?; Holy Scripture and the Church; Holy Scripture, the Church, and Science; The Incarnation and the Church; On Entertainment for Charity; From the Academy to Mount Athos: In the East and the West; The Incarnation and Humility; The Incarnation; Prophetic Schools of the Old Testament; Pascha of Incorruption; Letters about the West; Progress and Transfiguration; Sin against the Church: Thoughts on the Russian Intelligentsia; Why Is It Necessary to Restore the Patriarchate?; The Restoration of the Patriarchate and the Election of the Patriarch ofAll Russia; There Is No Christianity without the Church.
• Blessed PRASKOVYA Potapovna Ivanova of Ufa, Nun (1930)
• Martyress novice MARY 玛利亚 Nosova (1872-1938) day of death in Mariinsk Siblag KZ, Kemerovo
• New Hieromartyr JOHN 约翰 Spassky, Priest of Tver (1873-1941) day of death in Karlag KZ of Karaganda, Kazakhstan
He was by birth a Roman, and had, by many combats and labours, acquired a high reputation for his virtues and abilities. He succeeded Siricius in the papacy, in 398. St Jerom calls him a man of a holy life, of a most rich poverty, and endued with an apostolic solicitude and zeal. He exerted himself in stopping the progress of Origenism. When Rufinis had translated the dangerous books of Origen, On the Principles, he condemned that translation as tending to weaken our faith, built on the tradition of the apostles and our fathers, as he says in his letter on this subject, to John, bishop of Jerusalem. As to Rufinus, he leaves to God his intention in translating this work. In this epistle he calls all people and nations scattered over the earth, the parts of his body. He sat three years and ten days, dying on the 14th of December, 401. St Jerom says, that God took him out of this world lest Rome should be plundered under such a head: for in 410, it fell into the hands of Alaric the Goth. The remains of this holy pope have been often translated: the greater part now rest in the church of Saint Praxedes.
• Sainted ASSICUS (Ascicus,Tassach) 1st bishop of Elphin, Ireland (490) one of St Patrick's converts, and his worker in iron
Married coppersmith and silversmith , and was also renowned as a bellfounder; he made altars and square bookcases and some examples of his work still exist. Besides, he made our saint's patens in honour of Bishop Patrick, and of them square patens, that is, a paten in the Church of Patrick in Armagh, and another in the Church of Elphin, and a third in the great-church of Donough-patrick (at Carns near Tulsk). Of the earliest disciples of St Patrick, who put him at the head of the monastery and diocese of Elphin in Ireland, where he is venerated as patron-saint. First bishop of the diocese of Elphin, Ireland. Late in life, citing his unworthiness to lead his parishioners, he retired to live as a prayerful hermit on an island in Donegal Bay; monks from his diocese followed and tried to get him to return.
• CEINGAIR (Rhiengar, Rheingar, Rhieingan, Kingar, Kehingair or Keingir) Matr. of Llech, Radnor, Wales (5th c.)
• Righteous CIPIA Matr. (5th c.)
• DADIUS
• Hosiosmartyr ELIAS 伊利亚 Ardunis, the Neomartyr, of Mt Athos (1686) a Barber in the town of Kalamata in Peloponnesos // JAN 31 // SUNDAY OF THE HOLY MYRRHBEARERS // • ENODER (Cynidr, Kenedr, Quidic) (6th c.)
Llangynidr in Powys in Wales is named after him, as also St Enoder or Enodoc in Cornwall and Kenderchurch in Herefordshire in England. Saint Enoder is said to be one of the grandsons of the prolific Welsh chieftain, Brychan. He may be identical to Saint Enodoch. Enoder's memory is perpetuated by Llangynidr in Brecknockshire, and possibly St Enoder or Enodoc in Cornwall.
• Righteous EULOGIUS 艾弗罗吉 the Hospitable of Constantinople (4th c.) a Stonecutter
Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐλόγιος ὁ λατόμος
Righteous Eulogios the Hospitable-to-Strangers lived during the 4th century in the Thebaid. He bore the ascetic deed of service to wanderers (Mark 9:41). Marvellous is God’s loving care for humanity, how he raised up such a person from among the lowly and humbled such a person for his benefit! Therefore let us pray that we too may be humbled by the fear of God and of our Savior Jesus Christ, that with the prayers and entreaties of our Queen and ever-virgin Mary, the Mother of God, and of all the saints, we may find mercy before the terrible judgement seat. Amen.
• FLORIBERT 弗洛里贝尔特 (746) Bishop of Liège in Belgium
Son of Saint Hubert of Liege and Floribana of Louvain; his mother died in child-birth. Floribert is often confused with the abbot of Ghent who bears the same name. This bishop is described as "vehement in correcting".
• Venerable JOHN 约翰 abbot of Cathares Monastery at Constantinople (832)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ὁμολογητής
Abbot Saint John governed Cathares Abbey in Constantinople. For his staunch defense of the veneration of images, he was imprisoned and exiled by the iconoclastic Emperor Leo the Armenian.
约安是卡达尔修道院院长。这座修道院于公元6世纪尤斯丁在位期间修建于尼西亚附近。因为约安对圣像非常虔敬，并捍卫圣像，由此遭受莱翁皇帝和德奥斐洛皇帝的毒手，于公元832年在流放生活中死去。
• LIBERALIS (400) a priest from the area near Ancona in Italy, he worked for the conversion of the Arians and suffered much at their hands. Late in life he retired to live as a hermit on a small island. His relics are enshrined at Treviso
• Martyr LOLLIONUS (Longinus) the New
Ὁ Ἅγιος Λολλίων ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ Νέος
• MAUGHOLD (also known as Macaille, Maccaldus, Machalus, Machella, Maghor, Maccul) Bishop of the Isle of Man (488)
Prince, pirate and thief. Converted to Christianity by Saint Patrick. To avoid temptation, he set sail from Ireland in a wicker boat, letting God set his course. He landed on the Isle of Man where he served as missionary bishop. Some versions say that Patrick ordained him, and assigned him to the Isle of Man as penance for his earlier life. Many geographic features on the Isle still bear his name.
• NICON 尼康 abbot of the monastery of St Gerasimus (6th c.)
• Martyr POPLIONUS (Poplion, Popllon)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ποπλίων ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Martyr POLLION 颇利翁 the Reader of the church of Cybalae in Pannonia (306) burnt alive under Diocletian for refusing to sacrifice to idols
• Tr. rel. of Venerable hermit SALAMAN of Dobach (675)
• Burning of the relics (Incineration) of St 萨瓦 SAVA I of Serbia by the Turks (1595) by Sinan Pasha
萨瓦是塞尔维亚人的总主教。圣萨瓦的遗骨被安葬在米雷舍沃修道院。在土耳其人专制时期，塞尔维亚人民都聚集在这位圣人的圣髑前，以寻求安慰和医治。贝尔格莱得的锡南帕沙担心这会在该地区引起人们反对土耳其人的叛乱，由此，他下令将圣萨瓦的圣髑转移到贝尔格莱得，并于公元1594年4月27日在沃拉卡尔被焚烧。狂暴的帕沙烧毁了圣人的圣髑，但是他不能烧毁这位圣人，这位圣人在天国的宝座前，以及在地上的众人面前依然活着。
At the time of the Turkish occupation, so many Serbian Christians gathered around the relics of St Sava (at Mileseva), pleading for his intercession, that the Ottoman ruler, Sinan Pasha, feared that the relics would become the focus of a popular rebellion. He therefore had the relics brought to Belgrade and burned. The Pasha is long gone; the Saint continues to intercede for his people and for the world.
• VM SEMPRONIA at Barcelona
• New Hieromartyr SERAPHIM 塞拉芬 of Phanar (1601) Bishop of Phanarion and Neokhorion
• Venerable STEPHEN 斯特梵 abbot of the Kiev Caves and bishop of Vladimir in Volhynia (1094)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Στέφανος Ἐπίσκοπος Βλαντιμίρ
斯特梵是基辅山洞修道院的圣德奥多西的门徒。有一段时间，斯特梵曾经担任该修道院院长，在修道生活的规矩与组织方面做了大量的努力，并对教堂做了装饰。魔鬼在修士们中间煽动仇恨来反对斯特梵，由此，斯特梵被免去了修道院院长职务，并从修道院中被驱逐流放。上帝不会丢弃正义之人使他们长时间忍受羞辱和不公太，上帝指引斯特梵的生活，由此，斯特梵被任命为沃拉蒂米尔的主教。作为上帝的高级司祭，斯特梵管理教会，直到年迈为止，斯特梵于公元1094年安祥地去世。
Stephen was a disciple of St Theodosius of the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev. For a while, Stephen was abbot of the Monastery of the Caves and labored much in the regulation and organization of the monastic life and in adornment of churches. The devil incited malice among the monks against Stephen and, not only did they remove him as abbot, but banished him from the monastery. God, Who does not abandon the righteous for long under the humiliation of the unrighteous, directed the life of Venerable Stephen so that he was elected as Bishop of Vladimir. As a hierarch of God, Stephen governed the Church until old age and died peacefully in the Lord in the year 1094 A.D.
• Hieromartyr SYMEON 西面 the Kinsman of the Lord (107) Apostle of the Seventy and Bishop of Jerusalem
西门是70使徒之一。他是革流巴的儿子，而革流巴同耶稣的父亲约熙福是亲兄弟，而约熙福娶了耶稣之母－圣母玛利亚。在看到我们的救世主耶稣基督创造了无数奇迹之后，西门相信了，并成为70使徒之一。西门用热情与勇气传讲基督的福音，传遍了犹大各地。雅各是耶稣的兄弟，也是耶路撒冷教会的第一任主教，犹太人将他从圣殿高处抛下来，并用锄头击打他的头部致死；当雅各被犹太人杀害之后，雅各的堂兄弟西门接任了耶路撒冷主教的职务。西门成为圣城耶路撒冷的第二任主教，他用智慧和力量管理教会，直到年迈为止。在遭遇迫害时，西门已经百岁高龄。在图拉真当政期间开始了针对巴勒斯坦的大卫的后代和基督徒进行的迫害运动；邪恶的人们指控西门既是犹太人，也是基督徒。圣西门忍受了无数苦难，最后同主耶稣一样被钉死在十字架上。
He was the nephew of Joseph the Betrothed, and one of the Seventy. When the Apostle James, first Bishop of Jerusalem, was martyred, St Symeon was named to replace him. As second Bishop of Jerusalem he governed the Church there to a very great age. In the time of the Emperor Trajan a persecution broke out in Palestine against both Christians and Jews; Symeon was condemned on both counts, and was privileged to die, like his Lord, by crucifixion. He was 120 years old.
• Apostle SYMEON Niger, of the Seventy (101)
• Sainted TERTULLIAN (490) 8th Bishop of Bologna in Italy
• THEODORE (Theodore of Tabenna) the Sanctified, Abbot (368) a disciple of Saint Pachomius, whom he succeeded as abbot of Tabennisi and superior general of the whole "congregation." One of his miracles provides an early example of the efficacy of holy water as a sacramental
• THEOPHILUS (427) Bishop of Brescia in Italy and the successor of St Gaudentius
Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόφιλος Ἐπίσκοπος Βρεσκίας
• Tr.Rel. of St WALBURGA (Walpurg, Walburg, Walburgh, Vaubourg, Walpurgis, Gauburge, Falbourg, Valburga, Waltpurde, Wilburga or Warpurg); Nun at Wimborne, Dorset; Abs. of Heidenheim, Bavaria
• WINEWALD (731) the successor of St Berchtun as Abbot of Beverley in England
Second abbot of Beverley monastery in England succeeding St Berchtun. He was successful in his efforts to make Beverley a center for English cultural and spiritual growth.
Ἐγκαίνια τοῦ Ναοῦ τῆς Ἁγίας Εἰρήνης «ἀρχαίας καὶ νέας»
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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