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July 18 / July 5
2018 (7526)
• Icon of the Mother of God "ECONOMISSA" (Stewardess) (967)
The Economissa (or Stewardess) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos depicts the Mother of God seated on a throne, with Her Son on her left knee. St Athanasius of Mt Athos stands on her right, holding a model of the Great Lavra. On her left is St Michael of Synnada. Two angels hold a crown above her head.
The Mother of God has been considered the Stewardess of Mt Athos ever since the tenth century when the Great Lavra was being built. St Athanasius walked away from the half-built Lavra after he was abandoned by his monks because there was a shortage of food and money. He began walking toward Karyes, intending to ask for advice about whether or not to beg the emperor for the funds needed to complete the building. After about two hours, he saw a beautiful woman standing before him wearing a long blue veil.
“I know your sorrow,” she said, “and I would like to help. Where are you going?”
St Athanasius explained everything that had happened, and she asked, “Have you deserted your monastery for a morsel of bread? Go back! You will have everything you need in abundance, if you do not abandon your monastery.”
“Who are you?,” the astonished saint inquired.
“I am the Mother of your Lord,” she responded.
St Athanasius was doubtful, as he was afraid of being deceived by the Evil One. He asked Her how he could be sure that Her words were true.
“Do you see this rock?,” she asked, pointing to the side of the path. “Strike it with your staff in the name of the Holy Trinity, and you will know who is speaking to you. Do not appoint a steward at any time, for from this time forward, I shall be the Stewardess of your monastery.”
St Athanasius did as he was told, and the rock split open. A stream of water began to flow out of the crack. When he turned to face the Mother of God and to ask forgiveness for his doubts, she had disappeared. Returning to the monastery, St Athanasius found all the storerooms filled to capacity with food, wine, and oil. The building was completed, and soon the Lavra was filled with monks once again. To this day, the Lavra does not have a steward. There is, however, a monk who serves as an assistant steward to the Mother of God. The Economissa Icon rests on a throne in the narthex of the main church, and the Theotokos remains the Stewardess of the Lavra. Pilgrims venerate the Icon before entering the side chapel that contains the tomb of St Athanasius. The spring of St Athanasius still flows with healing water.
• Hieromartyr STEPHEN bishop of Rhegium, disciple of the Apostle Paul, and with him Bishop SUERUS and the women AGNES, FELICITAS, and PERPETUA (1st c.)
• Martyr BASIL with 70 others in Skythopolis in Samarien
• MM ANNA 安纳 Matr., and CYRILLA (Cuprilla or Kyprilla) W., Martyred at Cyrene in Libya (304)
Although the aged widow of Cyrene, St Cyrilla, was condemned to death, she seems to have died in the torture chamber rather than as planned. Several other martyrs suffered with her.
• MM AGATHO and TRIPHINA in Sicily (306)
• FRAGAN and GWEN (also Gwent or Blanche) Teirbron of Brittany (5th c.) parents of Ss Winwaloe, Jacut, Guethenoc, and Gunthiern
• PROBUS and his wife GRACE of Cornwall (5th c.)
• Venerable ATHANASIUS the Founder of the Great Lavra and Coenobitic Monasticism on Mt Athos (920-1003) and his 6 disciples
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀθανάσιος ὁ Ἀθωνίτης
Having established a Lavra of many Monks, he departed to the Lord, though he was also a shareholder of a martyric end. Because the unbreakable one did not cease to subject himself to heavier labors, he worked to better rebuild the roof, namely the dome of the Holy Sanctuary. When the Saint went up to complete the dome, it collapsed, burying the Saint with six of his disciples.
阿塔纳西出生于特雷比宗，父母敬畏上帝。阿塔纳西在幼年时就成了孤儿，但是由着上帝的天意，一个指挥官照管他，把他带到君士坦丁堡接受教育。由于阿塔纳西温和、谦卑，他的同伴们非常喜欢他。在这些孩子们做游戏时，孩子们选择了其中的一个作为国王，一个作为指挥官，而选择了阿塔纳西作为修道院院长，这似乎是一个预示。在完成教育之后，阿塔纳西（在接受剪发礼成为修士之前叫做亚伯拉罕）隐退到了靠近圣山阿托斯的名叫马雷诺斯的旷野中，在那里，他过着禁欲生活，作为当年著名的弥哈伊尔•马雷诺斯的门徒。阿塔纳西渴望过上一种更为艰苦的修行生活，于是他来到了圣山阿托斯过着宁静的修行生活。后来，许多欲想过禁欲生活的人都聚集在他的身边，由此他不得不修建了著名的拉瓦拉修道院。他修建修道院得到了拜占庭皇帝的帮助：起初是尼基佛尔•福卡斯，他也想过隐退生活，成为修士；在他之后是约安•茨米斯凯斯。阿塔纳西受到了来自魔鬼和人的许多诱惑，但是作为一名基督的勇士，用他无可言喻的温顺和连续不断向上帝祷告顽强地进行抵抗，并克服了一切。阿塔纳西充满了上帝的恩典，使他得以看到诞神女，诞神女奇迹般地从岩石中引出水来，并许诺说：她也将会成为修道院院长（伊克诺米莎，意思为修道院中负责生活物资的人）。阿塔纳西用劳作和祷告超越了他的众弟兄们，用神父和牧师般的爱来爱所有人。阿塔纳西的死亡是出于意外的。一次，阿塔纳西在同其他六名修士爬上一个新建的教堂门廊以检查正在修建的墙壁时，墙壁塌陷将他们埋在下面。就这样，这位禁欲修行的伟大明灯于公元980年去世。在阿塔纳西死后，他曾经多次向他的兄弟们显现，或是安慰他们，或是对他们进行责备。
• ATHANASIUS 阿塔纳西及 and THEODOSIUS 德奥多西 of Cherepovets (14th c.) disciples of St Sergius of Radonezh
• Commemoration of 23 Martyrs of Lesvos
After the assasination of her husband Sergios in Moscow, Grand Duchess Elizabeth had a cross erected at the site of his death, bearing the inscription "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." After the revolution, the cross remained standing through the devotion of the people of Moscow to St Elizabeth, until it was personally torn down by Lenin.
• Hosiosmartyress nun BARBARA 瓦尔瓦拉 Jacovleva, of Alopajevsk of Russia (1918)
St Barbara died with St Elizabeth on July 5, 1918, the day after the murder of Tsar Nicholas and his family. The two nuns, who had been confined at the nearby village of Alopaevsk, were thrown into a mineshaft by Soviet executioners, and grenades were tossed in after them. St Elizabeth remained alive for several hours, and could be heard singing hymns by nearby villagers who crawled up to the mineshaft after the murderers had left the area. A few days later, the bodies of St Elizabeth and St Barbara were recovered from the mineshaft after the pro-Tsarist armies took Alopaevsk. They were ultimately taken to Jerusalem in 1920, and buried in the church of St Mary Magdalene on the Mount of Olives.
• New Martyrs Grand Dukes SERGIUS Romanov (1869- 1918), Princes JOHN Constantinovich, CONSTANTINE, IGOR Constantinovich and VLADIMIR ― murdered by the Bolshevik along with several other Romanovs relatives and his personal secretary at Alapayevsk on 18 July 1918, one day after the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate family at Yekaterinburg
There exists an eyewitness account of the murders of the Romanov group in Alapayevsk, related by one of the local Bolsheviks, Vasisili Ryabov. He later recalled:
“It was night of the 17th to 18th July, 1918. When we were sure the whole town was asleep, we quietly stole through the window into the school building. Nobody there noticed our presence, they were already all asleep. We entered through the unlocked door into the building where the women were sleeping, and woke them up, telling them quietly to get dressed at once, as they were to be taken to a safe place because of the possibility of an armed attack. They obeyed silently. We tied their hands behind their backs there and then, blindfolded them, and let them out to the cart, which was already waiting by the school, sat them in it, and sent them off to their destination. After that, we went into the room occupied by the men. We told them the same story as we had told the women. The young princes Konstantinovich (KR's sons) and Prince Paley also obeyed meekly. We took them out into the corridor, blindfolded them, bound their hands behind their backs, and put them in another cart. We had earlier decided that the carts should not go together. The only one to try to oppose us was Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich. Physically he was stronger than the rest. We had to grapple with him. He told us categorically that he was not going anywhere, as he knew they all were going to be killed. He barricaded himself behind the cupboard and our efforts to get him out were in vain. We lost precious time. I finally lost my patience and shot at the Grand Duke. However, I only fired with the intention of wounding him slightly and frightening him into submission. I wounded him in the arm. He did not resist further. I bound his hand and covered his eyes. We put him in the last cart and set off. We were in a great hurry: already the dawn was heralding morning. Along the way, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich again repeated that he knew they were all going to be killed. “ Tell me why? He asked. “ I have never been involved in politics. I loved sports, played billiards, and was interested in numismatics. “ I reassured him as best as I could. although I was very agitated myself by everything I have been through that night. Despite his wounded arm, the Grand Duke did not complain. At last, we arrived at the mine. The shaft was not very deep and as it turned out had a ledge on one side that was not covered by water.”
At shaft number 7, the deepest and longest unused mine shaft, the carriages stopped. Blindfolded, the Romanovs were ordered to walk across a log placed over the 60-foot-deep (18 m) mine. Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovcih, the oldest man in the group, was the only one to disobey. He threw himself at the guards and they shot him to death immediately. His body was thrown into the shaft. His relatives were struck in the head and thrown into the deep shaft still alive. A couple of hand grenades were pitched in after that. The mouth of the mine was filled with dry brushwood and set it alight until there were no signs of life beneath the earth.
• Hieromartyr GENNADI Zdorovtcev, priest (1868-1918)
• Hieromartyr AGAPIT (Michael von Taube), monk, confessor (1894-1936)
Deacon Athanasius, denounced the heretic Theodosius, who had supplanted St Juvenal in the see of Jerusalem. Arrested, scourged and beheaded for his support of orthodoxy and the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon.
• CAST (Kast) (6th c.) Monk in Ireland.Spiritual student of St Jagut
• Hosiosmartyr CYPRIAN 基普里安 the New of Koutloumousiou Monastery, Mt Athos (1679) at Constantinople
Ὁ Ἅγιος Κυπριανὸς ὁ νέος Ὁσιομάρτυρας
斯皮里安出生于埃皮鲁斯的克里佐斯村。在他那善良的父母都去世后，斯皮里安来到了圣山阿托斯成为一名修士，在库特罗摩修修道院附近的一个小棚屋中，将自己全身心献于禁欲修行生活中。他强迫自及不断劳作、不断修行，由此得以被众人所知，受到了圣山阿托斯所有人的尊敬。斯皮里安对自己仍不满意。他被这样的一种思想折磨着：除非为基督殉道，不然自及不能获得拯救。由此，他离开了圣山，来到了德撒洛尼基；斯皮里安来到德撒洛尼基的帕夏[1]面前告诉他拒绝虚假的默罕默德，接受真正的基督信仰。帕夏下令对他进行鞭打，并将他驱逐。斯皮里安对受到的这么一点儿磨难并不感到满意，于是他来到了君士坦丁堡，并给当时的首相写了一封信，信中斯皮里安讲述了默罕默德是虚假的，而主基督才是真正的。首相大怒，将斯皮里安送到斯凯克•乌尔•伊斯拉穆那里；在听完斯皮里安所述之后，斯凯克•乌尔•伊斯拉穆下令将斯皮里安斩首。斯皮里安异常高兴，欣然前往断头台，如同赴婚宴一般喜悦。这位圣人就这样为基督而献身，实现了他火热的愿望，他殉道的时间是公元1679年7月5日。
• Hosiosmrtyr DOMITIUS of Phrygia (362) a Persian or Phrygian monk, was stoned to death under Julian the Apostate
• DOMÈCE (Domèce of Quros, Dometios, Domezio, Dometius, Domitius) the Physician (4th c.) died on Mount Qouros in his cave hermitage; legend says he was buried by the same angel that led to his conversion to Christianity
Pagan physician in service of Roman Emperor Valens. Sometime between 364 and 378, an angel appeared to Domèce and rebuked him for his abuse of Christians. He was led to a cave hermit on Mount Qouros in Armenia where he learned about Christianity, converted, was baptized, and stayed to live as a hermit for over 30 years. As a physician, he accepted all patients, including animals, healing many, including the healing of sciatica by prayer.
• ETAIN (Edana, Aideen, Edeana, Edaene, Moduena, Etaoin or Éadaoin ) of Moylurg in Roscommon, Patroness of Tuarnia, of Ireland
St Edana (also Edna and Eidyn) lived near the confluence of the Boyle and Shannon Rivers in the sixth century. Her name means “little fire”. She received the veil from St Patrick himself. A famous holy well bears her name, much resorted to by the sick.
• ERFYL (Erval, Urfyl, Eurfyl) Virgin of Llanerfyl, Fndr. and Pat. of Llanerfyl, in Montgomeryshire (present-day Powys) at Wales
• FERGUS O'Huamaigh
• Venerable LAMPADUS 郎帕多 monk of Hirenopolis (928)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Λαμπαδός
兰帕杜斯在年轻时就对基督充满了火一般的爱，由此他隐退到了伊雷诺波利斯的旷野中，在那里使全身心献于禁欲生活。因为他克服了一切肉身的欲望，由此他的灵魂充满了天国的荣光，充满了这世间难有的平安。兰帕杜斯在生前和死后都创造奇迹。兰帕杜斯大约生活在公元十世纪。
• MARTHA of Antioch, Syria (551) Mother of St Simeon Stylites the Younger
Married to a man named John from Edessa; she had previously made a private vow of virginity but received a revelation that she should agree to the arranged marriage. Mother of Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger. Widowed when Simeon was very young, she devoted herself to his Christian education. Visionary who received apparitions of Saint John the Baptist and of angels.
• MODWENNA (Morwenna, Moninde, Mowena, Moninne, Merryn, Modwena, Medana, Mo-Edana, Edana or Monyna) Abbess of Whitby in England (695)
Ἡ Ἁγία Modwena
• Anchoress MODWENNA Abbess of Polesworth (10th c.) in Warwickshire in England
• MODWENNA Abbess of Burton-on-Trent, England
• MONGUNNA Abbess of monastery (650)
• MORWENNA 摩尔文纳 patroness of Morwenstow (6th c.)
• NUMERIAN (Memorian) (666) son of a rich man in Trier in Germany, he first became a monk at Remiremont in France with St Arnulf and then went to the monastery of Luxeuil with St Waldebert. Later he became Bishop of Trier
• Virgin PHILOMENA (Philumena) of San Severino near Ancona in Italy (500)
This Philomena is included in the old Roman Martyrology, whose cultus at San Severino (Septempeda) near Ancona, Italy, is unsatisfactory and bears a remarkable similarity to that of the Philomena honored on August 11. In art, she is a maiden with a lily or anchor and three arrows. Sometimes she is shown with a palm and a scourge.
• Uncovering of the relics (1422) of Venerable SERGIUS 塞尔吉 Abbot of Radonezh (1393)
Ἡ εὕρεσις τῶν τιμίων Λειψάνων τοῦ Ὁσίου καὶ Θεοφόρου πατρὸς ἡμῶν Σεργίου Ἡγουμένου Ραδονεξίας, τοῦ Θαυματουργοῦ
St Sergius reposed in the Lord in the year 1393. He was buried in his beloved Monastery, and later his relics were interned and found to be incorrupt. His relics now preside in the Holy Trinity Cathderal in Zagorsk.
• Hieromartyr STEPHEN of Reggio (1st c.) consecrated first Bishop of Reggio in Italy by the Apostle Paul and martyred under Nero. He is the main patron of Reggio
Ὁ Ἅγιος Στέφανος Μητροπολίτης Ρηγίου τῆς Καλαβρίας καὶ Μνήμη ἐγκαινίων ναοῦ τοῦ Μάρτυρα αὐτοῦ στὴν πόλη αὐτὴ
• STEPHAN Bischop of Riga
• STYTHIAN of Cornwall, Missionary (6th c.)
• TRIPHINA of Brittany (6th c.) mother of Martyr Tremorus the Infant
• VM TROPHIMA (also Trophimena or Tryphomena) Pat. of Cathedral at Minori (Minuri), Diocese of Amalfi (304)
• Translation f the Relics (1360) of Venerable WENDELIN of Trier, abbot, hermit (617)
• Tr.Rel. of St AGNES of Rome (304)
• Martyress ZOE (Zoë or Zoa) at Rome, Matr. (286) burned to death after being hung in a tree by her hair and a fire lit under her feet
Zoë, a Roman matron, wife to Nicostratus a high official of the imperial court, is reputed to have been martyred under Diocletian. She had a great devotion to Saint Peter the Apostle. One day while praying at the tomb of Saint Peter, she was arrested for her faith. In art, Zoë is shown hung by her hair from a tree.
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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