συνοδικός
May 5 / April 22
2018 (7526)
4th Saturday after Pascha
Synaxis of the New Martyrs of BUTOVO // 4TH SATURDAY AFTER PASCHA //
The New Martyrs of Butovo were Orthodox faithful who were martyred at the Butovo Shooting Range during Stalin's purges of the mid 1930s. Seventeen miles south of Moscow, there is a place that is known as the Butovo Shooting Range, which was an execution ground and mass burial site near the village of Butovo, used by the Soviets during Stalin's purges. This site is often referred to as the "Russian Golgotha". By now it is known that the former special zone of the NKVD-KGB in Butovo is the largest mass grave of victims of political repression in the Moscow area. Among those executed were a great many clergy, including six bishops, as well as monastics and simple believers, laypeople who assisted in churches. Over several years, by decrees of the Council and Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, 230 of them were glorified among the saints. Executions took place there on an industrial scale during the Great Terror. On some days they executed 500 people or more. Records show that 20 765 people were executed and buried at Butovo between August 1937 and October 1938, during the peak of Stalin's repressions, of that number, about 1 000 people were known to have been executed because of their Orthodox faith. There is now a church dedicated to the New Martyrs on the site. In 2004, Patriarch Alexei II, and Metropolitan Laurus jointly laid the cornerstone of this Church, which was the first joint liturgical action of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad since the 1920's, and on May 19th, 2007, they consecrated the Church together, two days after the signing of the Act of Canonical Communion, which formally reconciled the two parts of the Russian Church.
And I recall the words of a Western hymn that we used to sing so unthinkingly on the Western All Saints’ day and Hallowe’en:
They have come from tribulation
And have washed their robes in blood
Washed them in the blood of Jesus
Tried they were and firm they stood
Mocked, imprisoned, stoned, tormented
Torn asunder, slain with sword
They have conquered death and Satan
Through the might of Christ the Lord.
So take a pause in your busy day to remember the martyrs of Butovo, and other martyrs of the 20th century.
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ναθαναὴλ ὁ Ἀπόστολος
• MM EPIPODIUS and ALEXANDER (178)
Two young friends and citizens of Lyons in France, martyred under Marcus Aurelius. St Epipodius was beheaded.
• MM priests PARMENIUS, HELIMENAS and CHRYSOTELUS and the deacons LUKE and MUCIUS and Companions (250) beheaded near Babylon when Emperor Decius invaded Mesopotamia
• VM PHERBUTHA (also Tarbula, Tarbo, Ferfourthe, Pherbuda, and Perphoutha) of Persia; her widowed sister MEKADOSHTA; and servants; together with Sts AZADANES (Azes, Aza, Azadenes, Azadames) a deacon, AZADES the Eunuch a high-standing officer at the court of the Persian King Shapur II, and Companions (342/343) martyred together with Abdeisus and others: Bishop MILLES, ACEPTISMAS (Acepsimas) Bishop of Hanaita, Priest JAKOBUS, Priest AITHALAS, Priest JOSEPH, clergy martyrs, Bishop MAREAS, Bishop BIKOR, and 20 other Bishops: BARBASYMES, PAULUS, GADDIABBES, SABINUS, MOCIUS, JOHANNES, HORMISDAS, ROMAS, MARRES, AGAS, BOCHRES, ABDAS, ABDIESUS, JOHANNES, AGDELAS, SABOR, ISAAK, DAUSA, Archbishop MANREANDES, more than 250 of clergy and monks and nunsand 16 000 Martyresses
Tarbula was the virgin sister of the great bishop-martyr Saint Simeon Barsabba'e. After her brother's death, Tarbula was accused by the Jews of having used witchcraft to cause King Shapur's wife to sicken. She was sawn in half together with her sister and another woman.
• MARTHA Matr., and her son M VICTOR the Roman, in Egypt
• MM brothers ARWALD and ARWALD (686)
Two brothers are called by the name of their father, a prince of the Isle of Wight, whose proper names are lost. They were put to death by soldiers of King Ceadwalla, then a pagan, on the day after their baptism.
• Newly Revealed Martyrs Archimandrite RAPHAEL, Deacon NICHOLAS, and child IRENE of Lesbos, and those with them (1463)
• Brothers Venerables APOSTOLOS (1846) and THEOCHARIS (1829) of Arta // APR 17 // APR 22 // WEDNESDAY OF BRIGHT WEEK // 2ND SUNDAY AFTER PASCHA - OF MYRRHBEARERS //
Όσιοι Απόστολος και Θεοχάρης οι αυτάδελφοι
Θεοχάρης Ντούϊα
Απόστολος Ντούϊα
• Hatzi ANANIAS (Anthony Barberakis) of Malles, first monk, renovator and Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Panagia Exakousti in the village of Malles in Ierapetra, Crete (1837-1907)
• New Hieromartyr EUSTAPHIUS 艾弗斯塔提 Malakhovskij, presbiter, priest (1880-1918) killed by atheist Bolsheviks during the clashes of the Pascha Procession with the Bolshevik demonstration when he were trying to reconcile warring; at Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
• Martyr DIMITRIJ 迪弥特里 Vlasenkov (1880-1942) day of death in the 5th department of Espin of Karlag KZ, poselok Aespe, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
• Hieromartyr Bishop SAVA (Svetozar Trlajic) of Gornji Karlovac of Serbia (1884-1941) who during World War II was arrested, tortured, and martyred by enemy Italian and Croatian personnel: skinned alive by the Ustashi
Bishop Sava was arrested on June 17, 1941, and confined, together with three other Serbian priests and thirteen eminent Serbian laymen, in a stable of the Ustashi Joseph Tomlenovich in Plaskom. After experiencing intense torture, Bishop Sava and the priests, Bogoljub Gakovich, Đuro Stojanovich, and Stanislav Nasadilo, were chained and taken to Gospich concentration camp on July 19. There, they were tortured until mid August. At that time Bishop Sava was taken together with 2 000 Serbs toward the Velebit Mountain. Somewhere on this mountain he suffered a martyr's death together with thousands of other Orthodox Serbs.
• Hieromartyr Bishop PLATON 普拉同 of Banja Luka (1874-1941)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πλάτων ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
The territory of his diocese became part of so-called Independent State of Croatia. Since he was a Serb born in Serbia, not in Bosnia, he was told to leave Banja Luka. He wrote back: "The authorities appointed me Bishop of Banja Luka lawfully, according to canon law; having such a position I took the obligation before God, Church, and people, that inseparably binding my life and my destiny with the life and destiny of my spiritual flock, to take care of my spiritual flock permanently and firmly, regardless of any events, and to stay on its spiritual path all the time of my life given to me by God, persevering in my staying with the flock as a good shepherd who gives his soul for his sheep…" He asked a Roman Catholic bishop, Dr Jozo Garić (who was a Croat like Ustašas) to intervene with the authorized military officer and let him stay for two or three days more so that he could prepare for the departure. This Bishop told him to be calm and peaceful. However, the Ustaše arrested Bishop Platon the very next night, May 5, 1941, and took him, together with priest Dušan Subotić, who was hierarchal administrator from Bosanska Gradiska, somewhere out of Banja Luka. The two of them were killed there and their corpses were cast into the Vrbanja River. Ustasa Asim Celic committed this repulsive deed. The bishop's corpse, which was scarred and disfigured, was found in the village of Kumsale, on May 23, 1941. He was buried in a military graveyard in Banja Luka. Then in 1973, his remains were transported to the Banja Luka Cathedral for reburial.
• NM STEFANIDA (Stephanida) of Kosovo, Nun (1945)
• Blessed EKATERINA Malkova-Panina, the Eldress of Pükhtitsa Convent, Fool for Christ (1968)
Abdiesus was one of the vast multitude of Persians martyred under King Shapur II. This persecution lasted from 341 to 380. Abdiesus is styled a deacon in the Roman Martyrology, and is probably not to be confused with another martyr of the same name who was bishop of Cashcar. Records indicate that Abdiesus was accompanied in his martyrdom by Abrosimus, Acepsimus, Azadanes, Azades, Bicor, Mareas, Milles, and a women named Tarbula. Some were Persian courtiers, others priests and bishops. Tarbula was the sister of St Simeon, and suffered a particularly cruel death by sawing.
• Hieromartyr ABROSIMUS (Abrosima) a Persian priest (342) stoned to death with many of his flock under King Shapur II
• Sainted ABRUNCULUS Bishop of Trier (525-526)
• Hieromartyr ACEPSIMAS (Acesimus of Honit) of Hnaita (376)
Bishop and martyr, a victim of the Persian persecutions in Hnaita, Persia. He was arrested during the anti-Christian campaigns of King Shapur II and was taken before a court where he publicly announced his faith. Records indicate that Acepsimas, the local bishop, was more than eighty when he was arrested. As a result of his steadfastness, he was tortured to death.
• Blessed ADALBERTO of Ostrevant (790)
Born to the wealthy 8th century nobility, he was the Count of Ostrevant, and served in the Frankish royal court. Married and the father of 10 daughters, including Blessed Ragenfreda. Adalberto was known for his piety and charity, and help found the convent in Denain, Hainault where his daughter was abbess.
• AGAPITUS I (536) Pope of Rome
Born in Rome, he was elected Pope of Rome in May 535 and reposed in Constantinople on April 22 536. As Pope he showed great strength of character in opposing Monophysitism. His relics were brought back to Rome on Sept 20, when he was commemorated a second time.
• Hieromartyr AITHALAS (Aithilahas) a Persian priest (or deacon) of bishop Acepsimas (377)
• Martyr ALEXANDER (178) missionary and companion of St Caius; Patron of pipodius is the patron saint of bachelors, victims of betrayal and of torture
Little is known of the background of either Alexander or Caius. They were active in Apamea, Phrygia, a center of the Montanist heresy. Preaching there, the two were martyred during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
• Sainted ALTFRIED 1st bishop of Münster (849) Companion of Liudger (Ludger), monk, messenger of faith in the Frisians, monastery bishop in Münster
• Hieromartyr APELLES (1st c.) associated with Sts Lucius and Clement. Apelles was the 1st bishop of Smyrna, Turkey, and was mentioned by St Paul in Romans. Lucius (not the Evangelist) was the bishop of Laodicea. All three were martyred for the faith
• Repose of Blessed Fool for Christ ATHANASIUS Andreyevich of Orel
• AUTHAIRE (7th c.) Confessor and patron of La-Feste-sur-Jouarre, in France. He was a courtier of King Dagobert I, ruler of Frankish Austrasia and king of the Franks and was a father of St Oys of Rouen
• BECAN (6th c.) of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland, a relative of St. Columba. Becan founded a monastery at Kill-Beggan, Westmeath, which in time became a Cistercian Abbey. The parish in Imleach-Becain, in Meath, was named after him
• Hieromartyr BICOR a Persian bishop who was martyred in the persecution conducted by the Sassanid King Shapur II
• Hieromartyr CAIUS (296) born in Dalmatia, he became Pope of Rome and was martyred with members of his family
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γάιος Ἐπίσκοπος Ρώμης
Pope Saint Caius, born in Dalmatia, was a relative of the emperor Diocletian. The cruel emperor did not for that reason spare him or his family during the bloody persecution of the years 283 to 296, during which the Christians of Rome were obliged to conceal themselves in caverns and cemeteries. Saint Caius counseled a patrician named Chromatius to receive the tracked disciples of Christ in his country residence. He himself went to visit them on a Sunday, and said to the faithful assembled there that Our Lord Jesus Christ, knowing the fragility of human nature, established two degrees in the practice of Christianity, confession and martyrdom. Our Saviour did so, he said, so that those who do not believe they could stand up under torment, may nonetheless conserve the grace of the faith by their confession. Our Lord had indeed specified, When you are persecuted in one city, flee to another... Then he said, Those who wish to stay in the house of Chromatius, remain with Tiburtius, while those who prefer to return with me to the city, come. Several followed him back to Rome; among them are the martyrs of the same persecution, the brothers Saints Marcus and Marcellinus, and Saint Sebastian. Saint Caius himself received the crown of martyrdom in the final year of the persecution, 296, and was buried in the cemetery of Callixtus, where his body was found in 1622, with an inscription identifying him as Vicar of Christ.
• DERFERL-GADARN (5-6th c.) Welsh hermit, reported to have been in the battle of Camblan, where King Arthur died. He may have been a hermit before becoming a monk at Lianderfel, in Gwynedd, Wales
• Martyr EPIPODIUS 埃彼颇迪 of Lyons (177)
• Martyr JOSEPH of Persia (376) suffered with St Acepsimas under King Shapur II in the remorseless persecution of Christians conducted by that ruler
• LEO of Sens (541) Bishop of Sens in France for 23 years
• Martyr LEONIDAS 莱奥尼达 of Alexandria (202)
雷奥尼德斯是奥里根的父亲。他于公元202年在亚历山大为基督而遭受磨难。皇帝下令将其判处死刑，而在此之前就已经将他的财产全部没收。在监狱中雷奥尼德斯写信给他的父亲说：“父亲，不要为我们担忧，也不要逃避因为我们的缘故而发生的殉道。”
He was the father of Origen, the early Christian writer. For his constant faith in Christ, he was first deprived of all his property, then condemned to death. Origen wrote to his father in prison: "Father, do not worry about us, and do not flee from martyrdom on our account."
• Martyr NEARCHUS (249-251)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νέαρχος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• OPPORTUNA of Montreuil, Abs. at Montreuil Monastery, Diocese of Séez (Normandy), Pat. of Nuns of Argentain (770)
Born near Ayesmes in the north of France, she was the sister of St Chrodegang Bishop of Séez. Niece of Saint Lanthilda. Benedictine nun and abbess at the convent near Almenêches, France, receiving the veil from her brother. At an early age she became a nun at the convent of Monteuil, of which she became abbess. She was described as "a true mother to all her nuns". Legend says that a peasant stole a donkey from her convent and refused to acknowledge his crime. Opportuna turned it over to God; the next day the farmer's field was sown with salt. The peasant returned the donkey and gave the field to the nuns.
• RUFIN (Rufus) Anchoret, at Glendaloch in Ireland, ordained bishop before his death
• SENHORINA (also Segnorin, Senorina and Segnorine) Abs. of St Jean de Vieyra at Basto (Portugal) (982)
She was related to St Rudesind of Mondoñedo. Entrusted to the care of her aunt, Abbess Godina at the convent of St John of Venaria (Vieyra), she later became its abbess. As such she moved the convent to Basto near Braga in Portugal.
• Hieromartyr SOTER Pope of Rome (174) corresponded with the Church of Corinth
St Soter was raised to the papacy upon the death of Saint Anicetus in 161. By the sweetness of his discourses he comforted all afflicted persons with the tenderness of a father, and assisted the indigent with liberal alms, especially those who suffered for the Faith. He liberally extended his charities, according to the custom of his predecessors, to remote churches. He aided in particular that of Corinth, to which he addressed an excellent letter. Saint Dionysius of Corinth in his letter of thanks to Saint Soter, adds that the Pontifical letter together with the letter of Saint Clement, Pope, was read for the edification of the faithful on Sundays, during their assemblies to celebrate the divine mysteries. One of Saint Soter's ordinances required all Christians except those in public penance to receive Communion on Holy Thursday. Saint Soter vigorously opposed the heresy of Montanus, and governed the Church up to the year 175. He was martyred on April 22, 175, under the emperor Marcus Aurelius, and buried on the Appian Way in the cemetery of Callixtus.
• Sainted THEODORE 德奥多若 the Sykeote, bishop of Anastasiopolis (613)
德奥多若出生于加拉提亚省的斯克昂村。从10岁起，他就严格要求自己：斋戒、彻夜祷告，效仿在他家生活过的长老斯特凡为榜样。他的妈妈玛利亚是一个富有的寡妇，她打算让儿子从军。圣乔治在梦中向她显现告诉她：德奥多若将服侍天国的王，而不是地上的王。圣乔治也曾经多次向德奥多若显现告诉他这件事；魔鬼将德奥多若置于危险境地，而圣乔治也曾多次将他从这危险中拯救出来。圣母也曾经几次向他显现。德奥多若过着艰苦的禁欲生活，由此超越了他同时代的禁欲者。他经常忍饥埃饿、铁链束身，并彻夜站立祷告。他之所以这样作是因为他想将自己的灵魂同上帝的爱连接在一起，并使自己的灵魂驾驭自己的身体。为了回报德奥多若的爱，富有怜悯的上帝也用爱回报了他。上帝赋予德奥多若战胜恶灵以及人类所有疾病的能力。他同时也是众所周知的奇迹的创造者。由于德奥多若的圣洁和忠诚，他被选为阿纳斯塔西奥波利斯的主教，但是这并不是出于他的意愿。就这样，他管理教会长达11年的时间，之后他向上帝祷告，希望能够继续他潜心修行的禁欲生活。之后，他返回了他的修道院，在高龄之际，将自己的灵魂交托在上帝的手中，为了上帝，他情愿忍受更多的痛苦。德奥多若于公元613年去世，也就是希拉克略刚刚开始进行统治时期。
He was born in Sykeon in Galatia in Asia Minor. (The Great Horologion says that he was born out of wedlock; the Prologue that his mother, Maria, was a rich widow; in either case, he was reared by his mother alone). At the age of ten, Theodore took up a life of strict asceticism, devoting himself to prayer, fasting and vigils. His mother planned for him to enter the military; but St George appeared to her in a dream, telling her that Theodore was to serve the King of Heaven rather than any earthly king. After this, Saint George appeared to Theodore many times, sometimes instructing him, sometimes saving him from danger. After a trip to the Holy Land, Theodore became a monk in Galatia — we should say "officially became a monk," since he had been living as a monk from the age of ten. Once he had taken monastic vows, Theodore redoubled his ascetical labors, which exceeded those of any other monk of his time: for his asceticism, he was sometimes called the "Iron-eater." Around 584 was ordained Bishop of Anastasiopolis in Galatia, much against his will. He served his flock faithfully for ten years, then begged to be relieved of his episcopal duties so that he might return to his beloved monastic life. Even during his lifetime, he was famed for his miracles and his authority to cast out demons. He departed this life in peace in 613.
• Martyr VICTORINUS (Victorian)
• Venerable VITALIS 维塔利 of the monastery of Abba Serid (Seridos) at Gaza (609-620)
在慈悲的约翰担任亚历山大牧首期间，一个年轻的修士出现了，当他抵达亚历山大后收集了这里的所有妓女的名字。这个修士的修行生活是非常独特的。在白天，他苦苦作工，而在晚上他来到妓女的房间，将自己辛苦挣来的钱全部都给了妓女，然后将自己同妓女关在房间中一整个晚上。当他们关上门之后，维塔里斯叫妓女躺下来睡觉，而自己在房间的一个角落中彻夜为这个罪人向上帝祷告。这样，他可以拯救妓女逃离罪恶，哪怕只有一个晚上。第二天，他前往另一个妓女那里；第三天又前往其他妓女那里，就这样，直到他走访了城中的所有妓女。之后，他又会返回到第一个妓女那里。在他的劝说下，一些妓女放弃了这肮脏的交易：有的结婚了、有的去了修道院、有的开始从事体面的工作，自己挣钱。维塔里斯不让这些女人说出他走访她们的原因。因此，维塔里斯遭到亚历山大全城人的唾骂。人们开始嘲笑他、唾弃他，并在大街上公开殴打他。维塔里斯默默地忍受了这一切，只要上帝知道真相就好了，其他人知道与否没有什么关系。在维塔里斯去世后真相大白。许多病人在他的坟墓前得到了医治。各地的人们带着病人前往维塔里斯的坟墓，请求他的医治。被人唾弃的人，无所不知的上帝将荣耀赐给了他。
• Translation of the relics of St VSEVOLOD 维塞佛洛德 (in holy baptism Gabriel 是加百列) prince and wonderworker of Pskov (1138)
On 27 November 1192, the relics of holy Prince Vsevolod were uncovered and transferred into the Trinity cathedral, in which a chapel was consecrated in his honour. On 22 April 1834, on the first day of Pascha, the holy relics were solemnly transferred into the main church-area of the cathedral.
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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