συνοδικός
May 22 / May 9
2018 (7526)
• The PEREKOPSK Icon of the Mother of God
This miraculous icon is located in the town of Varva in Lokhvitsa County, Poltava province, in the church dedicated to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. According to the prayers of the inhabitants of Varva, before this miraculous icon, the Queen of Heaven did not allow the Swedes to rob their church, although they tried to do so. Such a miraculous entry of the Mother of God was made in 1709, during the campaign of the Swedish King Charles XII to Russia. The story of this event is recorded on the front doors of the church of the Varva. Many other miracles were performed at the Perekop miracle-working icon, why the inhabitants of the city of Varva treat it with reverence.
Ὁ Ἅγιος Χριστοφόρος ὁ Μεγαλομάρτυρας
Οἱ Ἁγίες Ἀκυλίνα καὶ Καλλινίκη οἱ Μάρτυρες
克里斯托弗是一位伟大的显行灵迹者，尤其是在西班牙受到特别的尊重。人们向他祷告请求保护，以避免传染病或大瘟疫的感染。
Christopher was originally named Reprobus. In the time of the persecutions under the Emperor Decius, Reprobus, seeing the sufferings of the Christians, rebuked the rulers for their cruelty. The governor sent soldiers to arrest him, but he converted them and was baptised along with them, receiving the name Christopher. After he was brought before the governor, he was imprisoned with two harlots sent to seduce him, but he converted them also. He, the soldiers, and the former harlots were subjected to torture and finally beheaded. Sts Aquilina and Callinike were converted by St Christopher and suffered for Christ in the third century. When St Christopher was summoned to appear before the emperor, the emperor tried to make him renounce Christ, not by force but by cunning. The emperor summoned two profligate women, Callinike and Aquilina, and commanded them to persuade Christopher to deny Christ, and to offer sacrifice to the idols. Instead, the women were converted to Christ by St Christopher. When they returned to the emperor, they declared themselves to be Christians. They were subjected to fierce beatings, and received the crown of martyrdom.
• Martyrs of Persia (310) Christians murdered together for their faith
• MM ARDOMIOS (Armodios), GREGORY, JOHN, DEMETRIUS, MICHAEL, AKINDYNOS, THEODOR, PANKRATIOS, PAUL, CHRISTOPHER, PANTOLEON, EVODIOS, AEMILIANOS, IRENE, PELAGIA under Arab pirates
• The New Martyrs of Novo Selo Holy Trinity Monastery in Apriltsi (1876)
During the April Uprising against Turkish rule in 1876, the Novo Selo Republic existed no less than nine days, after which it was ruthlessly suppressed. Almost the entire area of the present-day town of Apriltsi (then the villages of Vidima, Ostrets, Novo Selo and Zla Reka) as well as the Novo Selo Holy Trinity Monastery were burnt to ashes by the Turkish troops. Most of the nuns, together with priest Georgi Hristov, who led the defence of the monastery, were slaughtered, while the church was plundered and set on fire. After Bulgaria’s liberation from Turkish rule, the monastery and the chapel were restored with the help of volunteers’ labour and donations by people from nearby villages. The chapel behind the church was transformed into a small museum that still keeps the bones of those killed. On March 3, 2011 the Bulgarian Orthodox Church canonized the martyrs from Batak and Novo Selo, massacred by the bashi-bazouk troops led by Ahmed Agha after the failed April Uprising of 1876 against the Turkish oppressors. The people slaughtered in Batak are honored by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on May 17 and the day is called Convocation of the Batak martyrs. The newly canonized martyrs from of the Novo Selo Holy Trinity Monastery in Apriltsi are honoured on May 9. Between 4 000 and 5 000 Bulgarians from Batak and about 700 from the uprising in Novo Selo, Batoshevo and Kravenik have been canonized.
• Venerable Schemahieromonk JOSEPH 约熙福 (John Litovkin) of Optina (1837-1911) starets and hieroschemamonk among the group of monastics of Optina Monastery in the 19th century who were known as the Optina Elders
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωσὴφ τῆς Ὄπτινα
A Ukrainian, St Joseph was a holy Elder in the tradition of St Paisius Velichkovsky (as were the other 13 glorified holy Elders). The Optina monastery is, in fact, a spiritual fruit of the Ukrainian Paisian spiritual heritage. There are 16 New Venerable Martyrs of Optina of the soviet era, among whom are also Ukrainians.
• New Hieromartyr DEMETRIUS 迪弥特里 Voskresenskij, priest (1869-1938) day of death in prison of Alatyr KZ, Chuvashyja
• New Hieromartyr BASIL 瓦西里 Kolosov, priest (1891-1939)
The Holy Martyr Abraham the Bulgar, Vladimir Wonderworker, lived during the thirteenth century, and was descended from the Kamska Bulgars and brought up as a Moslem. He was good and kindly towards the destitute, and when the Lord enlightened him with the light of reason, he accepted Christianity. In the city of Bolgara, on the lower stretches of the Volga, Saint Abraham began to preach to his fellow countrymen about the true God. They seized him and tried to force him to renounce Christ, but the saint remained firm in his confession. They tortured the martyr fiercely and for a long while, but he endured everything with unshakable patience. On April 1, 1229 they quartered the holy Martyr Abraham, and then cut off his venerable head. Russian Christians living in the city buried the saint’s body in the Christian cemetery. On March 6, 1230, the relics of Saint Abraham were transferred by the Great Prince Saint George Vsevolodovich of Vladimir (February 4) to the Dormition cathedral of the Knyaginin (Princess) monastery. His memory began to be celebrated from that time.
• ADALGAR (909) the 3rd archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen from 888 until his death
• BANBAN (Banban Sapiens; Mabran Barbarus; Mauranum cognomento Barbanum; Banbanum, Banbanus, Banbhanus, Banuanus, Barbanum, Mauran, Methbrain, Methbruin, Nia Brain, Niabrain, Nie Brain, Niethbrain, Seannan) the Wise (5th c.) priest who worked with Saint Patrick who installed him as pastor of the Domnach Mór church at Magh Slécht, Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland
• BEATUS of Vendome (3rd c.) a Missionary who traveled through regions of France. Beatus preached in Garrone, Vendo me, Laon, and Nantes, evangelizing those regions successfully. He died in Chevresson, near Laon
• BEATUS (Béat, Bié, Beatus of Thun, Beatus of Beatenberg) hermit of Lungern (112) Apostle of Switzerland; Baptized in England by St Barnabas and ordained by St Peter // MAY 9 //
Saint Beatus was an early hermit, who found his solitude at a place now called Beatenberg, above Lake Thun, Switzerland. Local legend claims that he was the son of a Scottish king. Beatus was a convert, baptized in England by Saint Barnabas. He was allegedly ordained a priest in Rome by Saint Peter the Apostle, whereupon he was sent with a companion named Achates to evangelize the tribe of the Helvetii. The two set up a camp in Argovia near the Jura Mountains, where they converted many of the locals. Tradition states that this cave is where he fought a dragon. Saint Beatus' grave is located between the monastery and the cave entrance. He died at an old age in 112. After period of turmoil, Beatus' relics were transferred to the chapel at Lungern, Obwalden. The mountain where he resided until his death is still a place of pilgrimage, and bears his name: Beatenberg. In art, Saint Beatus is depicted as an old man reading in a mountain cave. He is venerated at Beatenberg and Thun.
• Martyr CONSTANTINE (576) Scottish king who gave up his crown and joined Saint David's monastery at Menevia, Wales
Ὁ Ἅγιος Κωνσταντίνος ὁ Μάρτυρας βασιλέας τῶν Σκώτων
• DMITRY of the Don, Prince of Moscow (1389)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ μεγάλος πρίγκιπας τῆς Μόσχας
• Martyr EPIMACHUS 埃彼玛霍 of Pelusium, who suffered at Alexandria (250)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐπίμαχος ὁ Μάρτυρας
The Holy Martyr Epimachus of Alexandria was a native of Egypt. For a long time he lived in seclusion on Mount Peleusium. During a persecution against Christians at Alexandria (about the year 250), Saint Epimachus in his fervent zeal came into the city, destroyed pagan idols, and fearlessly confessed Christ. For this the saint was put to torture. Among the people watching the torture was a woman who was blind in one eye. A drop of blood from the martyr healed her infirmity. After fierce tortures, the saint was beheaded by the sword.
• Martyr EUTYCHES
• Venerable FORTIS Gabrielli (1040) Hermit in the mountains near Scheggia, Italy. Spiritual student of Blessed Ludolph. Benedictine monk–hermit at the monastery of Fontavellana
• Translation of the relics (1775) of Child-martyr GABRIEL 加百列 of Slutsk (1690)
Early in the 18th century, the whole territory surrounding Bialystok was seized by an epidemic. Thousands fell victim to the disease and crowded the cemeteries. Many children from the neighborhood of Zvevka and Zabludov were buried near the grave of the child-martyr Gabriel whom many revered on account of his innocent suffering and martyric death. Many sensed an abundance of grace present at his grave, Once, during a burial, some grave diggers inadvertently came up against Gabriel' s coffin. When it was opened witnesses were astonished to see that after the passage of so many years, the child's body was incorrupt. News of the miracle spread with lightening speed among the faithful, strengthening and increasing veneration for the holy child. His relics were reverently transferred to the village church in Zverkov and placed in a special crypt below the church. In 1794 a fire destroyed the church but, miraculously, the relics were spared. Only a portion of one hand was partially burned and this, undoubtedly, in accordance with God's Providence for the sake of strengthening faith and piety among the Orthodox people, for when the holy relics were subsequently transferred to the Zabludov monastery, the injured hand was supernaturally restored; it was found to be newly covered with skin.
• GERONTIUS (501) Bishop of Cervia near Ravenna in Italy, he was murdered in Cagli on the Flaminian Way, which led to him being honoured as a martyr
• Martyr GORDION 高尔迪翁 at Rome (362)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γορδιανὸς ὁ Μάρτυρας
Truncated by the sword in 362 under Julian the Apostate (361-363) in Rome. His relics rest in the Roman catacombs.
• GOFOR of Llanover; the Welsh patron of Llanover in Gwent , Monmouthshire, Wales
• GREGORY Nazianzen, Bishop and Confessor (389)
• GREGORY of Ostia (1044/1048) Bishop of Ostia in Italy, he spent much time in Navarre and Old Castile in Spain. He reposed at Logroño; protector of crops
Benedictine monk. Priest. Abbot of the monastery of Saints Cosma e Damiano ad Micam auream, Rome, Italy. Chosen Bishop of Ostia, Italy and Vatican librarian c.1034 by Pope Benedict IX. Papal legate to the kingdoms of Spanish Navarre and Old Castile. Reported miracle worker, especially concerned with saving crops from pests, he is venerated throughout Navarre and Rioja.
• Hieromartyr HERMAS Bishop of Philippil a Christian of distinction in Rome, whom St Paul salutes
• Prophet 先知 ISAIAH 伊撒依亚 (8th c. B.C.) killed at the order of King Manasses of Juda
Ὁ Προφήτης Ἡσαΐας
这位伟大的先知拥有王室血统，伊撒依亚出生于耶路撒冷，父亲亚摩斯同犹大王亚玛谢是亲兄弟。伊撒依亚充满上帝的恩典，由此得以见到在天国宝座上的主，周围有六翼天使侍立，口中不断重复：“圣哉，圣哉，圣哉，万军之上主。”（伊撒依亚书／赛／依6：3）。伊撒依亚预言多次，有的是针对个人，有的是针对整个民。有一次，伊撒依亚赤身在耶路撒冷的街道上行走三天，预言亚述王西拿基立快要攻陷耶路撒冷，提醒国王和众领袖不要寄希望于埃及人或埃塞俄比亚人的援助，因为他们也将会被西拿基立王征服，而是要依靠至高的上帝的帮助。同其他的预言一样，这个预言完全被应验了。伊撒依亚最重要的预言就是上帝道成肉身、童女怀孕、施浸约安以及同基督生活有关的事情：“因此，主自己要给你们一个兆头。必有童女怀孕生子，给他起名以马内利”（伊撒依亚书／赛／依7：14）；“因有一婴孩为我们而生，有一子赐给我们。政权必担在他的肩头上。他的名称为奇妙、策士、全能的上帝、永在的父、和平的君”（伊撒依亚书／赛／依9：6）；“有人声喊着说：‘在旷野预备上主的路，在沙漠地修平我们上帝的道’”（伊撒依亚书／赛／依40：3）。伊撒依亚心地纯洁，正是因为他对上帝的忠心，从而也拥有施行奇迹的能力。这样，当耶路撒冷遭遇围困，饱受水源断绝之苦时，伊撒依亚向上帝祷告，由此泉水从锡安山脚下源源不断地涌来。这水名叫“西罗亚”，意思是受差遣。后来，主指引一个天生的盲人来到这水中沐浴，以使他重见光明。在玛拿西在位期间，伊撒依亚对国王的拜偶像活动进行抨击，将他们同所多玛和蛾摩拉的人相提并论，这引起了领导和民众的激愤，伊撒依亚遭到了逮捕，然后被押解到耶路撒冷城外，被肢解成两截。伊撒依亚生活在公元前700世纪。
He is counted as the greatest of the Old Testament Prophets. His incomparably beautiful verses foretell Christ in many places. He chastised, comforted, and counseled the pious king Hezekiah; but when he denounced the impiety and lawlessness of Hezekiah's son Manasseh, he was sawn in two outside Jerusalem, receiving a martyr's crown. His name means "The Lord is helper." The Fifth Biblical Ode, "Out of the night my spirit waketh at dawn unto Thee, O God..." is taken from Isaiah.
• JOHN of Châlon (475) 3rd Bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône in France, consecrated by St Patiens of Lyons
• VM LANGUIDA at Cologne (4-5th c.)
• MAXIMUS III of Jerusalem, Patriarch (350)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάξιμος Πατριάρχης Ἱεροσολύμων
• New Hieromartyr METHODIUS of Amaria, Crete (1793)
• MUMBOLUS (Mombolus) Hermit and Abbot of Lagny, France (7th c.)
• Translation of the relics of St NICHOLAS 尼科拉 the Wonderworker from Myra to Bari (1087)
在皇帝阿列克修斯•科盟努斯在位期间以及尼科拉•格拉马蒂库斯担任牧首期间，这位圣人的圣髑于公元1007年从里西亚的米拉转移到意大利的巴里城。这位圣人圣髑的转移是因为穆斯林人开始进行攻击。这位圣人在梦中向巴里的一位高级司祭显现，并命令将他的圣髑转移到这里。当时，巴里人信奉东正教，处在东正教牧首的管辖之下。在这位圣人的圣髑转移期间出现了许多奇迹，许多病人触摸他的圣髑而得到医治，或是从他的圣髑中源源不断地流出圣油来。
In 1087 the Saint's relics were taken from Myra in Lycia (on the southern coast of present-day Turkey) to the town of Bari in Italy. This was done due to a Muslim attack on Lycia. At that time Bari was Orthodox and under the administration of the Patriarch of Constantinople. The Saint's relics now lie in a Roman Catholic church in Bari; each year the casket containing the relics is opened by a Roman Catholic and Orthodox bishop together, and quantities of fragrant myrrh are removed, for the healing and encouragement of the faithful. St Nicholas “the Warm” (“teplij Mykola”) is a church-wide celebration in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Church was, at one time, the only Eastern Church that marked this day. Three festal days are, in fact, celebrated in St Nicholas’ honour in Ukraine: December 6/19 (“Cold Nicholas”), together with the miracle of St Nicholas at the First Ecumenical Council; May 9/22; and the nativity of St Nicholas on July 29/August 10. There are several miraculous icons of St Nicholas in Ukraine, especially that of St Nicholas the Drenched of St Sophia Cathedral – now kept somewhere in New York City, according to some accounts. St Nicholas is a patron against drowning and any icon of St Nicholas saving people from drowning or where his icon has a small boat placed near it is called “St Nicholas the Drenched.” This title is taken from a miraculous recovery of a child presumed drowned in the Dnipro river where the child was found sleeping on the altar before the icon of St Nicholas, both of which were drenched with water.
• Hosiosmartyr Monk NICHOLAS 尼科拉 of Vunenis, of Larissa in Thessaly (901/1400)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Νέος ὁ ἐν Βουνένοις
• PACHOMIUS the Great (292-348) of Tabenna; Spiritual teacher of St Abraham the Poor and St Theodore of Tabennísi. Considered the founder of Christian cenobitic (communal) monasticism, whose rule for monks is the earliest extant
It is very much better for you to be one among a crowd of a thousand people and to possess a very little humility, than to be a man living in the cave of a hyena in pride.
St Pachomius was born about 292 in the Upeer Thebaid in Egypt and was inducted into the Emperor's army as a twenty-year-old. The great kindness of Christians at Thebes toward the soldiers became embedded in his mind and led to his conversion after his discharge. After being baptized, he became a disciple of an anchorite, Palemon, and took the habit. The two of them led a life of extreme austerity and total dedication to God; they combined manual labor with unceasing prayer both day and night. Later, Pachomius felt called to build a monastery on the banks of the Nile at Tabennisi; so about 318 Palemon helped him build a cell there and even remained with him for a while. In a short time some one hundred monks joined him and Pachomius organized them on principles of community living. So prevalent did the desire to emulate the life of Pachomius and his monks become, that the holy man was obliged to establish ten other monasteries for men and two nunneries for women. Before his death in 346, there were seven thousand monks in his houses, and his Order lasted in the East until the 11th century. St Pachomius was the first monk to organize hermits into groups and write down a Rule for them. Both St Basil and St Benedict drew from his Rule in setting forth their own more famous ones. Hence, though St Anthony is usually regarded as the founder of Christian monasticism, it was really St Pachomius who began monasticism as we know it today.
• SANCTAN of Cill-da-leis (6th c.) Bishop of Kill-da-Les and Kill-na-Sanctan near Dublin in Ireland, ancient sees in Ireland. He is likely to have been born in Britain. Son of King Sawyl Penuchel
• STRATONIKES
• Venerable monk SHIO 示奥 Mgvime 穆格维麦 of Georgia (6th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Σίος
The venerable father Shio Mgvime was a Georgian anchorite whose preaching of the Word of God and ascetic life led to the founding of a number of monasteries in Georgia. He is remembered on May 9, the day of his repose, and on May 7 with St John of Zedazeni and his twelve disciples which included St Shio.
• Translation (980) of clothes came from Metz to Halberstadt in Germany of Holy Hieromartyr Archdeacon STEPHAN Apostle of Seventy (34)
• TUDY (Tudec, Tudinus, Tegwin, Thetgo) of Landevennec, Abbot (5/6th c.)
Saint Tudy was a hermit who founded monasteries and evangelized in Brittany, where place-names and dedications memorialise his activity or that of his disciples in areas such as Ile-Tudy on the mouth of the Odet (Finistere), near Quimper. He appears to have been a disciple of Saint Mawes (f.d. November 18) and fellow-worker with Saint Corentinus (f.d. December 12). There is also a parish in Cornwall named after him, which may indicate his presence there, too. He may also have been a companion of Saint Brioc (f.d. May 1).
• VINCENT of Montes (950) Abbot of St Peter de Montes in Spain and a disciple and successor of St Gennadius of Astorga
Having your sacred icon, O blessed Nicholas, as a strong surrounding wall, we take refuge in all dangers, and from every trial are we redeemed.
The icon of St Nicholas “of Zarazsk” is one of the most well-known icons in Russia that plays a significant role in the nation’s early medieval history. Hailing from the ancient Byzantine colony of Korsun, in the Crimea, the icon of St Nicholas was said to be situated in the church in which Vladimir the Great was baptized in 988. In 1225 the icon was escorted by the priest Eustathius from Korsun to the Russian principality of Ryazan. This meant traversing the dangerous Polovtsian lands of the Tartars. Guided miraculously by St Nicholas, Fr Eustathius safely delivered the icon to Ryazan’s Prince Theodore. The prince built a church in honour of St Nicholas, and placed the miraculous image within it. Catastrophe later came upon the land of Ryazan in the form of the Tartar-Ruler Batu’s forces. Prince Theodore was captured and later died. On hearing the news, Theodore’s wife, Eupraxia, threw herself, along with her baby son, from the bell-tower of a church rather than face Tatar captivity herself. It is this manner and/or location of death, associated with a prophecy of St Nicholas’ icon regarding Ryazan, that gave the icon its name “Zaraysk”. It wasn’t until the 16th century, when the icon was transferred to Kolomna, that St Nickolas of Zarazsk gained a wider devotion. This is also the time the stories of the capture of Ryazan were written in their present form. Consequently, copies of the icon spread widely throughout Russia – distinctive in showing St Nicholas full-length, right arm raised in blessing, and left arm holding aloft a Gospel book. Some of these copies have also been considered wonder-working.
• Miracle of St Nicholas to the Serbian King Stephan of Decani: how St Nicholas restored the sight to the blinded King Stephan
5月9日也是纪念圣尼科拉向塞尔维亚王－德卡尼的斯特梵施行奇迹的日子：圣尼科拉使斯特梵王重见光明。
The King of Serbia, Milutin, had a jealous, scheming wife who turned him against his own son, Prince Stefan. The prince was taken together with his children, Dusan and Dusica, and when they were passing through Ovcepole (Sheep's Field), the guards took red hot pokers and blinded him. That night St. Nicholas appeared to Stephen in a dream: "Be not afraid," he said, "your eyes are in my hands." Comforted not a little by this vision, the sightless Stephen arrived in Constantinople. The Emperor Andronicus pitied the young exile, and received him graciously. He was soon settled in the monastery of Pantocrator, where he impressed the monks by his meekness and his longsuffering acceptance of the bitter trial that had come to him through his own father. Five years passed. King Milutin was growing old. Hearing good reports about his son, his heart softened, and he called Stephen home to Serbia. Before leaving Constantinople, Stephen had a dream in which St Nicholas appeared to him a second time, holding in his hand a pair of eyes. When he awoke, his sight was restored.
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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