συνοδικός
May 14 / May 1
2018 (7526)
• "MYRRH-BEARING" Icon of the Mother of God of Tsarevokokshaisk in the province of Kazan (1647)
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Τσαρεβοκοκσάισκ Ρωσίας
The Icon of the Mother of God of Tsarevokokshaisk, or the "Mironositsk" ("Myrh-Bearing"), appeared to the peasant Andrei Ivanov on 1 May 1647 near the locale of Bol'shaya Kuznetsa, 15 versts distant from the city of Tsarevokokshaisk in the Kazan region. Working in the field, Andrei noticed an icon lying on the ground and wanted to pick it up, but the icon became invisible. The astonished peasant, looking around, noticed that the icon then stood upon a tree, supported by an unseen force. He made prayers and took the icon home, where it was glorified by miracles. Pilgrims thronged to it from all the surrounding villages. They carried the image to the city of Tsarevokokshaisk, and later to Moscow, and after the passing of a certain while, they returned back with it. At the place of its appearance was built a monastery. The title of "Myrh-Bearing" for the icon is received from this ― that the Mother of God is imaged with the Myrh-Bearing Women.
• "UNEXPECTED JOY" 意外之喜 Icon of the Mother of God (1838) // DEC 9 //
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Ἀπροσδοκήτου Χαρᾶς ἐν Ρωσίᾳ
The Icon of the Mother of God, named "Unexpected Joy" (Nechayannaya Radost'), is written thus: in a room, upwards is an icon of the Mother of God, and beneathe it a youth kneeling at prayer. The tradition about the healing of some youth from a bodily affliction through this holy icon is recorded in the book of Saint Dimitrii of Rostov, "The Fleece of Prayer" ("Runo Oroshennoe") [for the significance of the "Dew‑Moistened Fleece" vide Judges 6: 36-40]. The youth out of habit was praying before the image of the All-Pure Virgin and suddenly he saw, that the image was alive, the wounds of the Lord Jesus exposed and bloody. In horror he exclaimed: "O Lady, who is it that hath done this?" To this he Mother of God replied: "Thou and other sinners by their sins do crucify My Son anew". Then only became apparent before him the abyss of his sinfulness, and for a long time in tears he prayed to the Mother of God and the Saviour for mercy. Finally, the unexpected joy of answer to his prayer and forgiveness of sins was given him.
• The ANDRONIKOV Icon of the Mother of God (1347) // OCT 22 //
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τοῦ Ἀνδρονίκου ἐν Ρωσίᾳ
The Andronikov Icon of the Mother of God was a family icon of the Greek emperor Andronikos III. In 1347 he gifted the icon to the Monembasa monastery at Moreia. From here the image was sent in 1839 to Russia. In 1877 the holy icon was placed in a temple of the Kazansk women's monastery, near Vyshnii Volochek.
• The BYZANTINE Icon of the Mother of God // APR 7 //
The Byzantine Icon of the Mother of God appeared on 7 April 732. It was transferred to Russia from Rome.
A husband and wife who lived at Loret near Huesca in Spain. An ancient Spanish tradition makes them the parents of St Laurence the Martyr.
• Hieromartyrs ACIUS (Ache) a deacon and ACEOLUS (Acheul) a subdeacon (303) near Amiens in France under Diocletian
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀκάκιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἄκελος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• M PELAGIA and her 4 children at Esna, Egypt
• Martyrs GISTALDO (Giselades, Giselahad, Gisgald, Siglad) and GUNDEBADO (Gundebaldo) Sons of St Sigismund of Burgundy. With parents, they was captured and murdered by invading Franks: drowned in a well in La Beauce d'Orléans (523) in modern France
• New Martyrs EUTHYMIUS 艾弗提弥 of Peloponnesos, IGNATIUS 伊格纳提 the New (1814) and ACACIUS 阿喀基 the sandal-maker of Neochorion in Thessaloniki (1816) the Serbian of Mt Athos
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εὐθύμιος καὶ Ἰγνάτιος οἱ Ὁσιομάρτυρες
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀκάκιος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας
All three were monks on Mt Athos. All three had renounced Christ in their youth and embraced Islam, but had repented and pursued the Christian life with fervor. All three, at different times, returned to Constantinople and declared themselves Christians, dooming themselves to death under Islamic law. Acacius's poor and pious mother told him, 'As you voluntarily denied the Lord, so you must now voluntarily and courageously receive martyrdom for our sweet Jesus.' All three were beheaded in Constantinople. The holy relics of all three are kept at the Skete of the Venerable Forerunner on the Holy Mountain, where they had been monks.
阿喀基来自距离德撒洛尼基附近的新科里昂村。在塞雷斯学徒期间，遭到了师傅的虐待，并被迫信奉了伊斯兰教。后来皈依了基督信仰，进行了忏悔，并在圣山阿托斯的希兰达尔修道院成为一名修士。虔诚的母亲劝导他说：“你当初情愿离奇了基督，现在你必须情愿地、勇敢地为基督殉道。”儿子听从了母亲的劝告，在圣山神父的祝福下，阿喀基来到了君士坦丁堡，1816年5月1日，土耳其人将其斩首。他的头颅被保存在阿托斯圣山的俄罗斯的潘德里孟修道院中。
• Hieromartyr presbiter MAURUS and others
• Blessed EUDOCIA Samsonova, Confessores of Orenburg, Nun (1930)
Nun Eudocia Romanovna Samsonova was born in 1892, being a native of the village of Logachevki, Totsk region, Orenburg province. She was alone and illiterate. Before her arrest she lived in her birthplace. She never worked. On January 24, 1930 she was arrestee on a charge of conducting antisoviet agitation and calling on believers to resist the enterprises of Soviet power. On May 1, 1930 she was sentenced to five years deprivation of liberty.
• Virgin Martyress NINA 尼纳 Kuznetsova, of Vologda (1887-1938) day of death in KZ of Archangelsk
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀγαπητὸς Ἐπίσκοπος Ὡξέρρης
• AMATOR (Amatre, Amadour) Bishop of Auxerre in France (418)
Died May 1, 418. Although Amator studied theology, he married a holy woman of Langres, venerated locally as Saint Martha, in order to please his parents. After their wedding they mutually agreed to live together as brother and sister. In a short time, Martha took the religious veil and Amator received the clerical tonsure. He was ordained bishop of Auxerre in 388 and governed the see until his death 30 years later. During his episcopacy he converted the remaining heathen in the diocese, built two churches, and was the instrument of many miracles. He ordained his successor, Saint Germanus, who wrote Amator's biography. A Latin vita, composed by someone named Stephen, is a work of fiction. Saint Amator is depicted in art as a bishop with an axe and tree.
• ANDEOLUS (208) a subdeacon from Smyrna sent to France by St Polycarp
He was a disciple of St Polycarp, preached the gospel in Gaul, and received the crown of martyrdom at Bergoiate upon the Rhône, his head being sawn asunder with a wooden saw, by an order of the emperor Severus, in his march through Gaul for Britain, in the year 208.
• ARIGIUS (535-604) Bishop of Gap in France for twenty years, he was a fine pastor • ASAPH (Asa) Bishop of Llanelwy (600)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀσάφιος Ἐπίσκοπος Οὐαλίας
Related to Saint Deiniol of Bangor and Saint Tysilo. Hermit near Tenegal, Wales. Servant to and spiritual student of Saint Kentigern. Second bishop of the Welsh diocese now known as Saint Asaph. At Tengenel, near Holywell, Wales, there are an ash-tree, well, and valley that tradition says belonged to Asaph.
• Hosiosmartyr BATAS 瓦塔 the Persian, of Nisibis (395)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Βατᾶς ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
The Martyr Bata, a monastic, lived during the IV Century in Persia and asceticised there in one of the monasteries. During a time of persecution against Christians, initiated by the Persian emperor, the holy martyr was killed in the city of Niziba for confessing the Christian faith.
• BENEDICT of Szkalka (1012) a hermit on Mount Zobor in Hungary. He was a disciple of St Andrew Zorard. Renowned for his asceticism, he was murdered by robbers in 1012
Benedictine monk at the Saint Hippolyte monastery on Mount Zobor outside Nitra in modern Slovakia, taking the name Benedict. Spiritual student of Saint Andrew Zorard. With his abbot's permission, Benedict withdrew from communal life to live nearby as a hermit. Noted for his ascetic lifestyle. Killed by a gang of thieves who believed he was hiding treasure in his cave. His biography was written by Saint Maurus of Pécs.
• Queen BERTHA of Kent (539-612)
Born a princess, the daughter of Charibert and Ingoberga. Married to the pagan King Ethelbert of Kent, she became the first Christian queen of England. She brought Ethelbert to the faith, and they welcomed Saint Augustine of Canterbury to England in 596, and supported his work.
• Martyress BERTHA Matr., Foundress and Abbess at Avenay in diocese of Chalons-sur-Marne (near Rheims) in France (680)
Married to Saint Gundebert of Gumber. When Gundebert retired to a monastery in Ireland, Bertha became Benedictine nun. Founder and abbess of the convent at Avenay in the diocese of Châlons-sur-Marne, France. When a drought hit the region, a vision of Saint Peter the Apostle led her to a spring of water which became a healing well. Widowed, she was murdered by her in-laws for distributing Gumbert's estate to the poor, and is considered a martyr.
• BREACA (also Breacha, Bray, Breage, Breague or Breag) Solitary of Cornwall (460)
• BRIEUC (Briocus, Brioc) the Traveller, Bishop of Brittany (420-510) born in Dyfed in Wales, he went to Brittany where he founded two monasteries, one near Tréguier and the other in what is now St Brieuc. He is also venerated in Cornwall; because of the legends regarding his great charity, Brioc is considered the patron of purse-makers
• CEALLACH (Kellach) of Killala (6th c.) a disciple of St Kieran of Clonmacnoise, he became Bishop of Killala in Ireland. He ended his life as a hermit and may have been martyred
• CLEMENT the Stylite of Mount Sagmata (1111)
• VM COLUMBA at Turago, Diocese of Ebora (303)
• M COMINUS in Catania in Sicily
• Hermit CORENTIN (Cury) honoured in Denvonshire and Cornwall (401)
He came from little Britain, and lived a hermit at the foot of Mount Menehent, which Parker, Drake, &c., take for Menehout, in Devonshire. He preached to the inhabitants of the country with great fruit, and died in that place in 401.
• CORENTIN Bishop of Quimper, in Brittany (460)
Saint Corentin is a Breton saint and the first bishop to serve Quimper. He was one of the seven founding saints of Brittany. According to his life as told in the Vita of St Corentin written about 1220-1235, he was born around 375 in Cornwall. He became a hermit in Plomodiern, where his piety was already known through miracles. Legend describes St Corentin making use of a miraculous fish which he caught daily from which he would cut a piece to eat. Then he would throw that fish back into the stream and it would become whole again. When King Gradlon from Cornwall decided to establish the Diocese of Quimper, he named Corentin to become its first bishop. Saint Corentin died on December 12, 401. He was buried before the altar of the Cathedral of Quimper. Corentin is the patron saint of Cornouaille, Brittany, and the patron saint of seafood.
• Righteous DIETWOLF of Trier, presbiter and hermit (655)
• EVERMARUS (700) a pilgrim murdered by robbers in Rousson near Tongres in Belgium
• Venerable GERASIMUS 革拉西默 abbot of Boldino (1557)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεράσιμος ἐκ Ρωσίας
• VM GERTRUDE at Vaux-en-Dieulet, Diocese of Rheims (480)
• GRATA (Graciosa) of Bergamo, Italy (4th c.) a holy woman zealous in securing Christian burial for the bodies of the martyrs
4th or 8th century. Saint Grata, daughter of Duke Saint Lupo of Bergamo and his wife Saint Adelaide, did not become a Christian until after the death of her husband, at which time she converted her parents. She gained a reputation as a holy woman in her native Bergamo, Italy, especially for her zeal in securing Christian burial for the bodies of martyrs. It is said that she wrapped the head of Saint Alexander, one of the soldier-martyrs of the Theban Legion, in a napkin and honorably buried his remains. After her father's death, Grata governed Bergamo with wisdom and benevolence. Looking at the variation in dates, it's obvious that the evidence regarding her life is conflicting. In Bergamese art, Saint Grata is a widow carrying the head of the martyr Saint Alexander. Sometimes her parents are included in the picture (Tabor). She is venerated in Bergamo, Italy.
• ISIDORA the Fool (or the Simple or Al-Habila) of Tabenna (also Tabennesis and Tabennisi), Egypt (4th c.) a nun in an Egyptian monastery who worked in the kitchen and pretended to be a simpleton so she could concetrate on her personal piety and prayer life, and not have to teach her sisters, escaped the honor of her sisters by fleeing to a desert hermitage, where she ended her days
Ἡ Ὁσία Ἰσιδώρα ἡ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλή
• Apostle JAMES the Less
• Prophet 先知 JEREMIAH 耶利米 (650 B.C.)
Ὁ Προφήτης Ἱερεμίας
He is the second of the greater prophets. The tradition concerning Jeremiah is that at age 55 he was stoned to death in Egypt by the Jews who shared his captivity. He is the author of the Old Testament book that bears his name and of the Book of Lamentations; and Baruch, his scribe and disciple, composed the Old Testament book that bears his own name. Jeremiah was the son of Helkiah, of the tribe of Levi, from the city of Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. He prophecied for thirty years, from 613 to 583 BC. When the Hebrew people were taken into captivity in the reigh of Zedekiah, the Prophet remained behind and mourned the downfall of the Jerusalem: this is the origin of the book of Lamentations. The Jews who remained fled into Egypt, forcibly taking Jeremiah and his scribe Baruch with them. In Egypt, his prophecies continued to disturb his own people, who stoned him to death by in 583. His name means "The Lord is exalted." He is ranked second among the great Prophets, after Isaiah. The holy Prophets and Forefathers, who lived before Christ's coming in the flesh are counted as Saints of the Church because they foresaw His coming, spoke of it in their prophecies, looked forward to it with Joy, and greeted Jesus as their Savior when he descended into Hades before his Resurrection.
耶热弥亚于公元前600年出生在距离耶路撒冷不远的一个名叫阿纳托的村庄里。约西亚王在位期间，耶热弥亚早在15岁时就开始发出预言，告诫国王、贵族、假先知和祭司要悔改。在约西亚王在位期间，耶热弥亚逃脱了愤怒的贵族的毒手，免于死亡。耶热弥亚预言约亚敬王死后将象驴子一样被埋葬，他的尸体将被拽出耶路撒冷城外，并将被拖拉不得安葬：“他被埋葬，好像埋驴一样，要拉出去扔在耶路撒冷的城门之外”（耶热弥亚书22：18）。由此，耶热弥亚被投入到监狱中。因为在监狱中不能书写，所以耶热弥亚请尼利亚的儿子巴禄站在监狱的小窗户前，将自己发出的预言书写出来。当国王看到用这个预言之后，将字条抢去，并投入到火中焚烧。上帝拯救了耶热弥亚逃脱监狱，而他对约亚敬王所做的预言也兑现了。有关约亚敬的儿子－犹大王耶哥尼雅，耶热弥亚预言道：耶哥尼雅全家将会被掳到巴比伦，并将在那里死亡。不久之后这便成了现实：“巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒，将王约亚敬的儿子耶哥尼雅......从耶路撒冷掳去”（耶热弥亚书24：1）；“他掳掠犹大王约亚敬的儿子耶哥尼雅，和犹大耶路撒冷一切贵胄的时候所没有掠去的器皿”（耶热弥亚书27：20）。后来西底家在位期间，耶热弥亚在自己的颈部套上枷锁，走遍了耶路撒冷预言耶路撒冷将要沦陷在巴比伦人的枷锁之中：“上主对我如此说，你作绳索与轭，加在自己的颈项上”（耶热弥亚书27：2）；“我就照这一切的话，对犹大王西底家说，要把你们的颈项放在巴比伦王的轭下，服事他和他的百姓，便得存活”（耶热弥亚书27：12）。至于被掳到巴比伦的犹太人，耶热弥亚告诉他们不要期望很快能够返回耶路撒冷，因为他们将在巴比伦呆上70年的时间，后来这也成了现实：“这全地必然荒凉，令人惊骇。这些国民要服事巴比伦王七十年”（耶热弥亚书25：11）。耶路撒冷附近有一陀斐特谷（杀戮谷），犹太人在这里将他们自己的儿女作为祭品献给偶像。耶热弥亚手持一件瓦器在众人面前打碎，并预言犹大的国耻即将来临：“我要照样打碎这民，和这城，正如人打碎窑匠的瓦器，以致不能在囫囵”（耶热弥亚书19：11）。事实上，巴比伦人不久就攻陷了耶路撒冷，杀掉了西底家王，洗劫一空，彻底毁灭了圣城耶路撒冷，并在陀斐特谷杀了大量的犹太人，地点正是他们杀戮儿女向偶像献祭的地方。耶热弥亚同利未人将约柜从圣殿转移到尼波山（摩伊息斯葬身之处），并将约柜藏在山洞中。同时也将圣殿中的圣火藏到深井之中。在一些犹太人的逼迫之下，耶热弥亚同他们前往埃及达4年的时间，后来耶热弥亚死在其同胞的乱石之下。耶热弥亚耶向埃及人预言他们的偶像将被毁，童女和圣婴也将逃到埃及。据说，亚历山大里亚王曾访问了耶热弥亚的墓地，耶热弥亚的遗体被转移并被安葬在亚历山大里亚。
• JOSEPH 若瑟 the Betrothed ― Descendant of the house of David. Layman. Builder by trade; traditionally a carpenter, but may have been a stone worker. Earthly spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Foster and adoptive father of Jesus Christ. Visionary who was visited by angels. Noted for his willingness to immediately get up and do what God told him to do
若瑟是《新约圣经》記載中耶稣的養父，聖母瑪利亞的丈夫，為大衛家族後裔。聖若瑟生於達味家族，不是富人，以木匠手藝維生在納匝勒過活。天使曾經多次在夢中給他指示，並無悔地立即遵行。據《聖經》描述，他被稱為義人，懷有體諒別人的心及深愛兒子。就有關於聖若瑟的出生及死亡，在《聖經》上的四部福音上均找不到有關於他的出生以及去世的描述。就四部福音有關聖若瑟的描述旨在耶穌降生為人、耶穌童年時在納匝勒的生活，除此之外就並無有關聖若瑟的詳細描述。至於他的出生地以《聖經》所言耶穌是「納匝勒人耶穌」，因此可以從中知道聖若瑟是在納匝勒出生的。不過，就聖若瑟的去世問題，有聖經研究學者指出聖若瑟在耶穌的童年後至他被釘在十字架上前這二十年間都未去世的，是由於聖若瑟在《聖經》中擔當的角色並非特別重要，因而沒有對聖若瑟加以描寫而已。在另一方面，由於基督宗教相信耶穌的父親是天主，因而描寫過多聖若瑟作為養父的身份也會被人質疑聖若瑟在《聖經》中的角色。在列入聖品後，由於聖若瑟在世時是一名木匠，因而有勞動者的象徵。堅持，和堅苦工作作為信徒應該採取的令人敬佩的質量。另一個傳統方面，聖若瑟是新世界的主保聖人；而國家方面，中國、加拿大、韓國、墨西哥、奧地利、比利時、波希米亞、克羅地亞、秘魯、越南的主保聖人；在地區及（或）天主教教區方面，施蒂里亞、蒂羅爾、西西里島、佛羅倫薩、都靈、巴吞魯日、水牛城、塞恩、路易斯維爾、納稀威、聖荷西等等均以聖若瑟作為主保聖人。
Saint Joseph the Worker. He assured his audience and the working people of the world: You have beside you a shepherd, a defender and a father in Saint Joseph, the carpenter whom God in His providence chose to be the virginal father of Jesus and the head of the Holy Family. He is silent but has excellent hearing, and his intercession is very powerful over the Heart of the Saviour. We can conclude from the role for which Saint Joseph was chosen and named by Heaven that he was a man of tried virtue and consummate holiness. No other mortal man would ever hold a higher office. Saint Joseph surpassed all the Saints of the Old Law in sanctity; in him the virtue of his ancestors reached its culmination and perfection. Like Abraham, he was a man of faith and obedience; like Isaac, one of prayer and vision; like Jacob, he was patient and self-sacrificing; like Joseph of Egypt, his chastity was inviolable. And like David, of whom he is the direct descendant, he is a royal intercessor according to the heart of God. Ite ad Joseph — Go to Joseph; to Joseph of Egypt, the pharaoh told the needy to go for assistance to receive the grain that would save their lives. To the new Joseph, the just man to whom the Son of God Himself was subject as to a father, all Christians can go with confidence, and he will see to their spiritual and temporal needs with paternal goodness.
Patronage: against doubt, against hesitation, accountants, attornies, barristers, bursars, cabinetmakers, carpenters, cemetery workers, children, civil engineers, confectioners, craftsmen, dying people, educators, emigrants, exiles, expectant mothers, families, fathers, furniture makers, grave diggers, happy death, holy death, house hunters, immigrants, interior souls, joiners, laborers, lawyers, married people, orphans, people in doubt, people who fight Communism, pioneers, pregnant women, social justice, solicitors, teachers, travellers, unborn children, wheelwrights, workers, working people.
• KEVOCA (Kennotha, Quivoca) of Kyle, Virgin (7th c.)
Scottish saint, honored in Kyle, Scotland. but now believed to be St. Mochoemoc. Also called Quivox.Hermitess and virgin. Saint Kevoca is the titular patron of a church at Kyle, Scotland.
• Virgin KORE from a village of Ioannina suffered during the Ottoman domination (1788-1822)
Ἡ Ἁγία Κόρη
• The holy, glorious and right-victorious Archdeacon LAURENCE the Martyr (240) of Rome // AUG 10 //
• LUAITHREN (Luithrenn, Luaidrenn Laurena or Luarena) of Corann, Co. Sligo • Schemamonk LUKE of Glinsk Hermitage (1898)
• Hieromartyr MACARIUS 玛喀里 metropolitan of Kiev (1497)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μακάριος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Μητροπολίτης Κιέβου
St Macarius’s relics were formerly enshrined in St Sophia’s Cathedral. His martyrdom is notable because he was serving the Divine Liturgy when the Tatars attacked his Church. He refused to leave the Altar and was martyred in front of it. The Euchologion of St Peter Mohyla affirms that if a priest or bishop is serving the Divine Liturgy and the place where he is serving it is attacked by enemies, he may try to escape or else remain where he is.
• MARCOU (Marculf, Marculfus) Hieromonk of Corbeny, Abbot (558) the founder of a monastery of hermits on the Egyptian model in Nanteuil in France; invoked against scrofula and all skin diseases
He was abbot of Nanteu, in the diocess of Coutances, in Normandy, famous for miracles, especially in healing the scrofulous disorder, called the king’s evil. He died on the first of May, in 558c.
• NM MARIA (Mary Mirabella/Merambelos) Methymopoula of Fourna of Crete (1826)
Αγία Μαρία Μεθυμοπούλα
Ἡ Ἁγία Μαρία ἡ Νεομάρτυς
The New Martyr Maria of Crete was born of pious Orthodox parents in the village of Kato Phourni, and as a young girl she became the object of the desire of an Albanian Turk who was serving as a constable in her neighborhood. He began to woo her with gifts and flatteries, but, although he was rich, realizing that to marry him would mean abandoning her Faith and converting to Islam, Maria took great pains to avoid him and did not respond to his advances. In time the Turk's "love" for her turned into a cruel hatred, and using the means available to him as a constable, he set about to kill her. On a certain day, he saw her on a mulberry tree, collecting its leaves to feed the silkworms; her family tended silkworms. He fired his gun at her and a bullet pierced her heart. Her Life tells us that "the blessed one fell from the tree, branch by branch, as a fowl downed by a hunter." Saint Maria, who is surnamed Methymopoula, was thus slain in the early days of May (probably either the 1st or the 3rd) in the year 1826.
• MICHAEL ascetic of Chalcedon (8-9th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μιχαὴλ ὁ Θαυματουργός
• NICEPHORUS 尼基佛尔 of Chios, monk (1821) outstanding writer of liturgical poetry and lives of saints, educator, spiritual striver, and trainer of martyrs; spiritual son and disciple of Macarius of Corinth who was known for his holy life and character, being known as a saint even during his lifetime
Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικηφόρος ἐκ Χίου
In 1805, on his deathbed, St Macarius asked St Nikephoros to finish his book The New Leimonarion and see that it be published. This book contains the lives and church services of various martyrs, ascetics, and other saints. Three saints collaborated to compile this book: St Macarius, St Nikephoros, and St Athanasius Parios.
• NIKETAS (14-15th c.) disciple of Sergius of Radonéz
Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικήτας ἐκ Ρωσίας
• ORENTIUS (Orientius) of Auch (439) a hermit in the Lavendan valley near Tarbes in France, whom the people of Auch insisted on having for bishop. He was their pastor for over forty years
• M PAMPHALON
• PANARETUS 帕纳瑞托 archbishop of Paphos in Cyprus (1791)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πανάρετος Ἐπίσκοπος Πάφου
• Venerable PAPHNUTIUS 帕弗努提 abbot of Borovsk (1477)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Παφνούτιος ὁ Θαυματουργός
帕弗努提是鞑靼贵族的儿子，后来皈依了基督信仰。在20岁时，帕弗努提成为修士，继续在修道院修行，直至94岁高龄去世为止。帕弗努提守身如玉，苦苦修行，由此，他成为奇迹的创造者并具有洞察力。帕弗努提于公元1478年去世。伯罗弗斯科的可敬的帕弗努提对他的门徒说，他能够看到人的灵魂和人所隐藏的事情。对他的门徒来说这似乎有些不可相信，直到有一天这位上帝的仆人不止一次地用事实进行证明为止。帕弗努提不仅能够洞察别人的命运，而且也能够洞察自己的命运。帕弗努提在去世之前的一个星期身体依然健康，在那时他就预言了他将在下星期四离开这个世界。当星期四黎明到来时，帕弗努提高兴地喊道：“看哪！主的日子，哦，欢喜吧,人们！看哪！等待的一天到来了！”看哪，一个人如何迎接他的死亡；在整个一生中，他都在默想从这个世界分离，默想同上帝相见。
• Holy Apostle PHILIP of Twelve
• PHILOSOPHOS (Niketas) the Martyr, at Alexandria (252)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Φιλόσοφος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Hosiosmartyr Monk ROMANUS of Raqqa (780)
Monk in Bithynia. While out on business for his monastery, he was captured by Saracens and sent to Baghdad. He was accused of being a spy, but a local Christian paid a ransom to have Romanus released with the condition that he remain in Baghdad to insure that he did not return to "spying". There he worked with apostate Christians who wanted to return to the Church. For this crime, he was murdered.
• Martyr SABBAS (1821) hanged on a tree
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σάββας ὁ Μάρτυρας
• SALOME Ascetic venerated by the Abyssinians
• Rightbelieving Martyr SIGISMUND (523) a Vandal by origin and by character, he was King of the Burgundians in what is now eastern France. He repented for his sins by giving generously to the Church and the poor. He was murdered near the monastery of Agaunum in Switzerland which he had built and was then honoured as a martyr
• SYMEON of Syracuse and of Mt Sinai and Trier (1035) a monastic and recluse of the late 10th and early 11th centuries. He was one of the last great figures that linked the Orthodox West and the Orthodox East; known as the Five-Tongued
Ὁ Ὅσιος Συμεὼν ὁ Πεντάγλωσσος ὁ Σιναΐτης
Symeon was born in the late tenth century in Syracuse, Sicily to a Greek father, who was a soldier, and a Calabrian mother. When Symeon was seven years old his father took him Constantinople for an education. As Symeon grew to be an adult he decided on a religious life and set out on a pilgrimage to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem where he remained for seven years. After working as a guide for the pilgrims among the holy places, Symeon tired of the life and yearned to live as a recluse. Thus, he took up the life of a servant for a recluse who lived on the bank of the River Jordan from whom he practiced life as a recluse. Before having to leave, Symeon learned from reading the Lives of the Fathers that he should first receive training in a monastery. He then entered the Monastery of St Mary in Bethlehem where he became a monk. At the monastery, Symeon was ordained a deacon, and after two years he joined the monastery at the foot of Mt Sinai. After serving at the monastery for several years, Symeon received permission from the abbot to leave the monastery to live as a hermit. After two years living alone in cave over looking the Red Sea and being served his food daily by a monk from the monastery, Symeon decided to return to the monastery as he was concerned with the work he imposed on the monk and of harassment from passing sailors. After fulfilling the direction of the abbot to restore the monastery on the top of Mt Sinai, Symeon, still looking for life as a recluse, left the monastery without permission for an isolated place in the desert. After the abbot brought him back to the monastery, the abbot sent Symeon on a mission to collect alms from Duke Richard II of Normandy. Setting out, Symeon reached Antioch where, in 1026, he met Abbot Richard of Verdun who was leading a group of pilgrims on the way to Jerusalem. Joining with Richard, Symeon at last reached Rouen, but found Richard II had died. At the time, 1028, Archbishop Poppo of Trier, who was planning a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, heard about Symeon and invited him on the pilgrimage. After they returned in 1030 from the pilgrimage, Symeon asked Abp Poppo if he could live as a recluse in the great Roman gate, the Porta Nigra in Trier. There, Symeon lived until his repose on June 1, 1035.
• Rightbelieving TAMÁRA (Tamar, Thamar) 塔玛拉 the Great, Queen of Georgia (1213)
Ἡ Ἁγία Ταμάρα ἡ βασίλισσα
Saint Tamara was the only child of King George III. Upon his death in 1184, she became Queen at the age of twenty-four. Despite her youth, she ruled the country with such wisdom and godliness — leading it to unprecedented military triumphs over the neighboring Moslem countries in defence of her kingdom, fostering arts and letters, and zealously strengthening Orthodoxy — that her reign is known as the Golden Age of Georgia. After her coronation, she convoked a local council to correct disorders in church life. When the bishops had assembled from all parts of her kingdom, she, like Saint Constantine at the First Ecumenical Council, honoured them as if she were a commoner, and they Angels of God; exhorting them to establish righteousness and redress abuses, she said in her humility, "Do away with every wickedness, beginning with me, for the prerogative of the throne is in no wise that of making war against God." Saint Tamara called herself "the father of orphans and the judge of widows," and her contemporaries called her "King" instead of "Queen." She herself led her army against the Moslems and fearlessly defeated them; because of the reverence that even the enemies of Georgia had for her, entire mountain tribes renounced Islam and were baptized. She built countless churches and monasteries throughout her kingdom, and was a benefactress also to the Holy Land, Mount Athos, and holy places in Greece and Cyprus. she has always been much beloved by her people, who have memorialized her meekness, wisdom, piety, obedience, and peace-loving nature in innumerable legends, ballads, and songs; the poem written in her honor by Shota Rustaveli, "The Knight of the Panther Skin," is the masterpiece of Georgian literature. the great Queen Tamara departed the earthly kingdom for the heavenly in the year 1212.
• THÉODARD (893) a monk at the monastery of St Martin in Montauriol in France, he became Archbishop of Narbonne. Later the monastery was named St Audard after him
Born to a wealthy family of the French nobility. Excellent student in both secular and Church topics; as a sub-deacon he helped settle a dispute at a synod at Toulouse, France. Benedictine monk at the Saint Martin monastery in Montauriol, France; it was later renamed Saint Audard in his honour. Arch-deacon of Narbonne, France where he became known as a great minister to the poor and suffering. Archbishop of Narbonne, France, consecrated on 15 August 885. Received the pallium from Pope Stephen VI in 886. Spent largely to ransom Christians captured by Saracens, and to re-build suffragan dioceses damaged by the invaders. Died at Saint Martin's, Montauriol, France, 893. He is described in the Montauban breviary as "an eye to the blind, feet to the lame, a father of the poor, and a comfort to the afflicted." Later, the abbey where he died was renamed after him, Saint Audard.
• ULTAN 邬尔坦 founder of Fosse (680) Irish missionary monk of Burgh Castle in East Anglia, Fosse and Peronne
Benedictine abbot.The brother of Sts Fursey and Foil Ian, he followed them into the monastic life, entering the community of monks at Burgh Castle, nearyarmouth, East Anglia, England. He subsequently went to France to escape the predations of the Mercians and was greeted with enthusiasm by St Gertrude of Nivelles. After serving as chaplain to Gertrude's nuns, be became the founding abbot of Fosses Monastery on land given to him by Sts Gertrude and Ita. He also ruled Peronne. In an apocryphal story, when a fleet of ships appeared on the coast to plunder a monastery, Ultan was holding something in his right hand so he made the sign of the cross with his left hand. Immediately all the ships sank, while the sailors attempting to swim ashore were turned into rocks. The story gave rise to the old Irish saying "May Ultan's left hand be against it".
• URBICIUS
• Tr.Rel. of St WALBURGA (Walpurg, Walburg, Walburgh, Vaubourg, Walpurgis, Gauburge, Falbourg, Valburga, Waltpurde, Wilburga or Warpurg) from Heidenheim to Abbey of Furnes near Ostend, Flanders in 1109; Nun at Wimborne, Dorset; Abs. of Heidenheim, Bavaria (779)
• ZOSIMAS 佐西玛 bishop of Kumurdo (15th c.) Georgia
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζωσιμᾶς ἐκ Γεωργίας
Μνήμη ἐγκαινίων τῆς Νέας Ἐκκλησίας
• Commemoration of the Dreadful Earthquake at the Sinai Monastery (1212)
Μνήμη φοβεροῦ σεισμοῦ στὴ μονὴ Σινᾶ
On May 1, 1212 a damaging earthquake took place in south Palestine that also affected Egypt, where it was strongly felt in Cairo and Fustat and destroyed a number of houses. At al-Shaubak and al-Karak near the Dead Sea, towers and houses were destroyed, killing a number of women and children. In the Sinai Peninsula, the shock caused severe damage to the Monastery of Saint Katherine, destroying a major part of its fortifications and damaging the church. The northern wall of the monastery, with its northwest and northeast corners, collapsed. Of the cells, some were destroyed completely and others lost their roofs, apparently without loss of life. This was possibly due to the fact that the earthquake, which struck at dawn, was preceded by a foreshock at sunset the previous evening (Monday 30 April), which might have served as a warning. The shock triggered rockfalls from the mountains behind the monastery, and was followed by aftershocks that continued for a year. According to manuscripts from Saint Katherine's at Sinai, the date of the earthquake was annually commemorated as a day for prayers and penitence. According to Archbishop Nektarios of Sinai in 1658, the walls and cells were almost immediately rebuilt with the assistance of Metropolitan Gabriel of Supaki (Petra), whose caravan of builders originally sent to rebuild the church at Agia Koryphi or the Holy Peak (Jabal Musa), damaged by a previous shock, arrived at Saint Katherine's six days after the earthquake.
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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