συνοδικός
July 23 / July 10
2018 (7526)
THE PLACING OF THE PRECIOUS ROBE OF THE LORD at Moscow (1625) 奉安吾主之圣袍于莫斯科纪念日
在為人類吾主伊伊穌。斯耶穌受苦的時間，有從 Mtskheta 的鎮在耶路撒冷在[羅爾]瑪軍隊的等級之中被發現一佐治亞州命名的 Elioz 。他的母親聽說了合[利爾]斯托。斯基督並且, 在她的心，相信了他。在巴勒斯坦送別她的兒子到軍隊, 她建議了他不對合[利爾]斯托。斯基督做任何東西。當主被釘到十字時，榔頭在上的聲音合[利爾]斯托。斯基督被釘死之地在 Mtskheta 的鎮到達了 Elioz 的母親的耳朵。聽見這個聲音, 她驚呼了︰“因為我沒這次以前死，悲痛是我。死亡將救我免於這個可怕的聲音﹗”說這, 她掉落了死了。Elioz , 在那時間，在十字下方並且與另外的戰士一起被扔為束腰外衣的許多 [ 長袍 ] 合[利爾]斯托。斯基督。他贏得了衣服並且把它帶了到 Mtskheta 並且作為一件禮品給了它到他的姐妹 Sidonia 。她, 聽說了主的死亡並且她的兄弟是無罪的血流的一個參加者，掉落死了緊緊地在她保持主的束腰外衣傳遞並且沒有人能離開撕它但是被強迫與她一起埋葬束腰外衣。一棵雪松樹從她的向前從其被倒了愈合的一香甜氣味沒藥的墳發芽了。及時, 樹掉落了的雪松和地方被忘記。跟隨她的禱告, 聖尼娜, 在火的一個支柱的幫助下發現了這個地方。給某人施洗禮的皇帝 Mirian 樹立了一個教會在那裡把它奉獻給神聖的宗徒。在一年 1625 A.D , 伊朗國王的稱號父親拿了這件束腰外衣並且作為一件禮品送了它到莫斯科到王子米迦勒‧菲多羅威奇和主教皇 Philaret 。這件束腰外衣在睡著的大教會教會被放 [ 假設 ] 在莫斯科的有福氣的童女。
Elias, a soldier in the Roman army in Jerusalem, was a Georgian by birth, from the town of Mtskhet. When the Lord was crucified, his garments were divided by lot among the soldiers, a his robe fell to Elias, who took it home to Georgia and gave it as a gift to his sister Sidonia. The robe was buried with her, then miraculously found many years later by St Nina (January 14). King Mirian, who had accepted Christ in response to St Nina's teaching, built a church to the Holy Apostles on the spot where the robe was found. Many years later, Georgia was conquered by the Persians, and the robe fell into their hands. In 1625 the Persian Shah Abbas, wishing to establish good relations with Russia, sent the robe to Moscow as a gift to Prince Michael Feodorovich and Patriarch Philaret. It was placed with honor in the Cathedral of the Dormition.
In 1610, during an invasion of the Swedish armies into Novgorod, this icon was transferred from the Konevits Monastery to the Novgorod Derevianits Monastery with the blessing of Archbishop Isidore of Novgorod. Each year on July 10 a festal celebration of the Most Holy Theotokos took place at this monastery in honor of Her holy icon. In 1799, with the blessing of Metropolitan Gabriel of St Petersburg and Novgorod, the wonderworking icon was returned to the Konevits Monastery. The return of the icon to the Konevits Monastery is celebrated on September 3.
The greatest wealth of the most revered Mount Athos is arguably the multitude of its saints. Saint Nikodemos the Hagiorite (July 14), in his most beautiful laudatory discourse on them, says: "Mount Athos wants to be a place of holiness; a place of purity; a place where so many holy feet stepped; a place where the dirt is mixed with the blood, sweat and tears of hundreds and thousands of venerable fathers. All in all Mount Athos is a place of virtue and good works."
This beautiful place has proved to be a workshop of virtue, good works and the formation of perfection for many souls. Rightly it has been said: "The monks who dwell there are nourished spiritually, not so much by its natural form and natural beauty, which indispensably contributes to the peace and uplifting of the soul, as much as by the particular promises and blessings given to them by the Mother of God, the Lady Theotokos. According to the traditions, Mount Athos was given to her from her Son as an inheritance." These words were spoken by Saint Gregory Palamas of Vatopaidi (Nov. 14) about Saint Peter the Athonite (June 12) in the fourteenth century. According to the life of the venerable Kosmas of Zographou (Sept. 22), on a certain feast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos, when he visited as a pilgrim the Monastery of Vatopaidi that was celebrating, "he saw a woman serving and caring in the church and the dining area of the Monastery; and not knowing that this was the Most Holy Theotokos he was saddened very much, because he supposed the monks received women in the Monastery, which was risky. Therefore, having returned to Zographou, the Abbot saw him exceedingly sorrowful, and asked of him the cause. The Saint told him what is mentioned above. The Abbot then told him: 'Know, my child, that the woman you saw was the Most Holy Theotokos, the protector of that Monastery, as well as this entire Mountain.'"
Saint Maximos the Greek of Vatopaidi (Jan. 21), in the sixteenth century, mentions the visit of the Theotokos herself to Vatopaidi Monastery: "The Theotokos then went with the Apostle John to the Holy Mountain by ship, and the first place where they came to shore was where the Monastery of Iveron was founded, and where they walked is where the Monastery of Vatopaidi exists today." The lives of the Vatopaidi Saints are characterized by their intense love for the Theotokos, and the Monastery is characterized as being protected by the Theotokos and covered by the Theotokos. We don't think that another monastery exists in the entire Orthodox world that has gathered within its walls seven wonderworking icons of the Theotokos. Rightly did the blessed Elder Ephraim of Katounakia say (even after the installation of the brotherhood of Elder Joseph): "If the Holy Mountain is the Garden of the Panagia, the Monastery of Vatopaidi is its throne."
There are different traditions as to when monks first appeared on the Holy Mountain; in any case it was before the ninth century. The same is true as to when the Monastery of Vatopaidi was first established. One tradition from the sixteenth century says that it was founded by Constantine the Great, destroyed by Julian the Apostate, and reestablished by Theodosius the Great in the fourth century. According to this story, the son of Emperor Theodosius, Arcadius, was rescued from a shipwreck and found in a bush near the Monastery, which is how Vatopaidi received its name, vato meaning bush and paidi meaning child. Then "from the fourth till around the beginning of the tenth centuries, the traditions mention that the Monastery existed in prosperity and wonder, which caused pirates to come and destroy it." In a recent archaeological dig around the Katholikon of the Monastery there were found the foundations of an early Christian basilica.
The documented history of the Monastery begins in the tenth century, when three noble rulers of Adrianople, Nicholas, Athanasios and Anthony were sent by the venerable Athanasios the Athonite (July 5), the founder of Great Lavra, who also drew up its typikon, to reestablish the destroyed Monastery thus making the Saints its founders. In 985 the first abbot of the Monastery, Nicholas, signed its document. In 1992 the graves of the venerable founders were opened and their honorable relics were found during the Midnight Service in the Katholikon of the Monastery. Soon the virtues of the venerable founders gathered many monks, many of whom were distinguished by their virtue and wisdom. The ten centuries of the continuous history of the Monastery have offered many souls beautified to heaven and not a few with the halo of holiness. It is indeed an indisputable fact how "in one monastery, such as Vatopaidi, with such a rich history and spiritual tradition, the saints who lived and labored in it, do not present only one tactile image of its history, but also their spiritual identity."
The known saints of the Monastery now number beyond 66. Certainly there are others, unknown to us but known to God, whose names will be revealed to us "on that last day". The study of the wonderful lives of these saints, who have had a direct or indirect relationship with the Monastery of Vatopaidi, either because they reposed there or settled there for a short or long period of time, will show us, among other things, the breadth of their spiritual radiance throughout the course of more than a millenium of its bright history.
The saints of the sacred Monastery of Vatopaidi have showed it to be primarily an Orthodox rampart, an impregnable castle of Orthodoxy, asceticism, theology, confession and martyrdom. Through its saints it has truly emerged as a great Monastery and important hesychastic center, an anti-unionist habitation, an acropolis of enlightenment, a bright coenobium of saint-bearing and saint-nourishing multi-bearing and beauty-bearing Mount Athos. It is of no small significance that the sacred figures, like the great Father of our Church and excellent champion of the hesychast tradition, the exquisite theologian of the uncreated energies of God and the theosis of man by grace, the God-bearing Gregory Palamas (Nov. 14), later the Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, and the most wise missionary Saint Maximos the Greek (Jan. 21), the martyric illuminator of the Russians, and many others, matured spiritually in this exquisite Monastery. Noteworthy also is something that confirms the above, that "a delegation from the Monastery had participated in the Synod of Ferrara-Florence on the side of Saint Mark the Evgenikos (Jan. 19), who was closely linked with Vatopaidi and fervently wished to become a monk there."
It is a fact that the saints of the Monastery together with the grace-flowing relics of the saints, the many wonderworking icons of the Theotokos and her beyond uncontaminated Honorable Belt, are their greatest treasure. This "production" alone values its existence, since a single Monastery is primarily a workshop of virtue and a crucible of holiness. The saints of the Monastery, during Byzantine and Post-Byzantine times and throughout the Turkish occupation, played a role in developing her history and revealed the high degree of her spirituality. Thier divine lives, soul profiting teachings and myriad inspired works, their icons and grace-flowing relics remain a source of inspiration, a motivation to imitate their long ascetic struggle, to achieve divine goals, not only in todays blossoming, God-loving brotherhood, but for all the pious pilgrims and all the faithful, since the saints of Orthodoxy reside throughout the saint-loving fullness of the Church and constitutes its wealth and glory.
The Synaxis of the Vatopaidi Saints is honorably celebrated every year on the 10th of July with a vigil.
Victoria died stabbed through the heart in 250 by the executioner Liliarcus at Tabulana, Italy. Legend says her murderer was immediately struck with leprosy, and died six days later, eaten by worms. Anatolia was martyred by order of Julian, prefect of the Capitol and count of the temples. Her example so impressed her guard, Audax, that he converted to Christianity and was himself soon after martyred.
• Virgin Martyresses Sisters RUFINA & SECUNDA at Rome (257)
• Martyrs JANUARIUS, MARINUS, NABOR and FELIX in North Africa
• MM JANUARIA and PELAGIA at Nicopolis (Armenia) (310)
• Holy 45 Martyrs at Nicopolis in Armenia, including LEONTIUS 莱翁提, MAURICE 玛弗里基, DANIEL 但以理, ANTHONY (Attonus) 安托尼, ALEXANDER 亚历山大, ANICETUS 阿尼基特, SISINIUS 西息尼, MENEUS 麦奈, BELERAD (Verelad) 维瑞拉德, MELETIUS, ACHILLEUS, CORIONUS, ZESONUS, EUSTASIUS, OCTAVIUS, THEODORUS, CRISTUS, CANDIUS, GORGONIUS, ARCELAUS, CYRINUS, EUPHRODISIUS, GILANUS, ANTICIUS, AZELUS, ATTENUS, GAGIANUS (Gagius), SISION, AUXENTIUS, VALENTINUS, DRODITIUS, FAUSTASIUS, AURELIUS, GORGODIANUS, CYRION, KYRILL (Corolus), NOSTINUS, CASTRICIUS, APOLLONIOS, TIMONIOS, BIANOR, SILVANOS, MILLION, DECOMEDES, THEOLUS, CESSUS, CLIRICUS, NECIANUS, THEOTUS (THEODOTUS), SUSANNA (319) martyred at Nicopolis of Armenia under Emperor Licinius. They were among the last of a great persecution
• Martyrs BIANOR 维亚诺尔 and SILVANUS 西尔瓦诺 of Pisidia (303)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Βιάνωρ καὶ Σιλουανὸς οἱ Μάρτυρες
• 10 000 Fathers of the desert and caves of Scetis martyred by the impious Patriarch Theophilus of Alexandria (398)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μύριοι (10 000) Ὅσιοι της Νιτρίας
• Brothers LANTFRID, WALTRAM and ELILANTUS (770) who founded the monastery of Benediktbeuren in Bavaria in Germany and succeeded one another as abbots
• 7 brothers: JANUARIUS, FELIX, PHILIP, ALEXANDER, VITALIS, MARTIAL, SYLVANUS and their mother FELICITAS in Rome (150)
在居心不良的皇帝 Licinius 的朝代期間, 統治了 Byzantium 的帝國的東方的一半, 有合[利爾]斯托。斯基督教的大迫害。在亞美尼亞人 Nicopolis , 聖 Leontius , 與若干個他的朋友, 在 Lysius 前出現了, 皇帝 Licinius 的代表並且聲明了他們是合[利爾]斯托。斯基督教。“並且你的合[利爾]斯托。斯基督在哪兒？”Lysius 問了。“他沒被把釘在十字架上並且他沒死嗎？”到那聖 Leontius 答複了︰“自從你知道我們的合[利爾]斯托。斯基督死了，也知道他複興了從死了並且上升了進天堂。”在關於費思的過長的討論以後， Lysius scourged 他們並且把他們扔了進監獄並且給了他們兩食物也不飲料。Vlassina , 一個仁慈的克裡斯琴女人帶給了他們水並且通過監獄的窗戶把它傳遞了給他們。上帝的一個天神好象要安慰並且鼓勵他們。當時間為判來了時, 當變換了合[利爾]斯托。斯基督教， 2 監獄嗯和許多其它在 Lysius 前出現了, 在數字總計 45 。法官判了他們的所有至死但是在這種方式︰首先, 那只他們的手臂和腳是用一把斧子的 severed 並且然後他們被扔進火。這可怕的雙重的懲罰被執行並且神聖的殉教者的靈魂帶了飛行去他們的進入永久的生活的主。他們值得尊敬地受苦了並且在一年繼承了王國 319 A.D 。
• New Hieromartyr Archpriest JOSEPH 约熙福 of Damascus and companions (1860)
• Repose of Cave-Dweller ANASTASIA of Padan of St Cornelius Hermitage in Olonets (1901)
• Venerables PARTHENIUS (1905) and his brother EUMENIUS (1920) of Gortyn, restorers of the monastery Koudouma on Crete
Euménios was devoted service to lay people and monks in Martsallon, Crete. Monk of the Koudoumia monastery in 1897. Martyred by Muslims Turks with an unknown number of his brother monks and local Christians.
• Hieromartyr VASILIJ Pobedonostcev, archpriest (1847-1918)
• Hieromartyr PETER Zefirov, priest (1879-1918)
• Hieromartyr STEPHEN Lukanin, priest (1843-1918)
• Hieromartyr GEORGIJ (or Gregory) Begma, deacon (1873-1918)
• Hieromartyr NESTOR Gudzovskij, deacon (1918)
• Martyr ALEXANDER in Rome (150)
• AMABILIS Nun at convent St Amand in Rouen in France (634)
• Venerabless AMALBERGA (Amalia, Amelia) of Maubeuge, duccess (690)
Seventh century relative of St Pepin of Landen. Married young to Count Witger. Mother of St Gudula of Brussels, St Emebert, and St Reineldis, all of whom she taught herself, including religion. When the youngest was grown, both Amalburga and her husband retired to Benedictine houses, the Count to Lobbes, Belgium, Amalburga to Maubeuge Abbey where she embraced a life of asceticism and prayer. Received the veil from St Willibrord of Echternach. She once crossed a lake by riding on the back of a giant sturgeon, which led to her representation on or with a fish.
• AMELBERGA (772) nun at Münsterbilsen in Belgium. Her relics were later transferred to the monastery of St Peter in Ghent
• Venerable ANTHONY 安托尼 of the Kiev Caves (983-1073) the founder and father of monasticism in Russia; his precios relics are at Near Caves of Lavra, named Caves of St Anthony in honor if his name
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Ρῶσος ὁ Ἐσφιγμενίτης
安當是在俄國的修道生活的創始人和父親。他在 Chernigov 的小鎮出生並且, 在早年齡, 離開了他的家並且去了 Athos , 神聖的山, 他在此是噸肯定一個修道士並且生活在修道院 Esfigmenou 的禁欲主義的生活。在到天國的外觀的服從，修道院院長送了安當到俄國建立修道生活。安當在 Kiev 附近選擇了一個洞。甚麼時候渴望修道士生活的人，在他附近收集了的那些, 他然後作為作為一 Silentary 在洞被仍然是的修道院院長和他指定了 Theodosius 。由上帝的福氣，修道院增加了並且成為了俄國的修道生活的父母修道院。安當都從人和都他的謙遜征服了的魔鬼但是他忍受了許多魔鬼。他擁有了認出想法和未來的大禮品並且愈合病了。他自己在 90 歲時在一年送了 1073 A.D 給主, 讓他的神的托兒所在整個年齡把有益的水果帶到俄國的正統的人。
He is honored as the founder of Orthodox monastic life in Russia. He was born in Chernigov province and tonsured at the Monastery of Esphigmenou on the Holy Mountain. His abbot sent him from Mt Athos to Kiev to establish the monastic life there in 1013, during the last years of Prince Vladimir's holy reign. He lived there as a hermit, slowly drawing to himself others who wished to share the ascetical life. In time, the brotherhood grew into the Kiev Caves Lavra. St Anthony refused to serve as abbot of the monastery; this task was taken up by St Theodosius (commemorated May 3). St Anthony continued to live as a cave-dwelling hermit and reposed in peace at the age of ninety.
• Martyr APOLLONIUS 阿颇洛尼 of Sardis (257)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Μάρτυρας ἀπὸ τὶς Σάρδεις
• ARSENIOS Patriarch of Alexandria
• Righteous ATHANASIUS Pentachinitis of Cyprus, deacon (7th c.)
• Translation (1609) of the relics of St BASIL 瓦西里 bishop of Ryazan (1295)
• CUAIN (Cuan) of Airbhre, in Hy Kinsellagh
• CYWAIR (Cowair) Pat. of Llangywair (Llangower) near Bala in Merionethshire
• ETTO (Hetto) (670) Abbot of St Peter's at Fescau in Belgium and also bishop
• Discovery (1935) of Relics of GREGORY 格里高利 bishop of Assos near Ephesus (1150)
Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Γρηγορίου Ἐπισκόπου Ἄσσου ἐν Γέρᾳ Λέσβου
It was recorded in his synaxarion and passed down in tradition that the Saint, as the founder of the monastery, was buried within the narthex of the Katholikon, which was the main church. The Christians of the area would come to celebrate the memory of Saint Gregory at the ruins of this monastery, where there was a chapel, but no one thought about studying to figure out where his tomb was. Even the local Turks honored his memory there. This study was finally done by the then secretary of Metropolitan Evangelos of Mytilene, Iakovos Kleomvrotos, the subsequent Metropolitan of Sisaniou and Siatistis and from 1958 the Metropolitan of Mytilene. With the permission and assistance of Metropolitan Iakovos from Durres, he excavated the site and found many covered ruins of the monastery as well as the tomb and bones of the Saint, as the tradition said, on the right side of the narthex of the Katholikon, on July 10th of 1935.
• Martyr HIERAX
• ISIDOR Presbyter
• JOHANNES Waraswatsche, father of Euthymius and Gabriel (10th c.)
• Synaxis of JOHN the Theologian in Viatos
Σύναξις Ἁγίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ Θεολόγου ἐν τοὶς Βιάτου ἢ Βεώτου
• Venerble LANDFRID of Benediktbeuern, abbot (808)
• Martyr MARKIAN
• Hosiosmartyr NECTARIUS,monk of St Anna-Skete on Mount Athos
• Martyr NICODEMUS in Elbassan in Albania
• OLGA Equal-to-the-Apostles, Princess of Russia (969)
• PASCHARIUS (Pasquier) (680) Bishop of Nantes in France. He founded the monastery of Aindre
• PETER Vincioli of Perugia (1007) born near Perugia in Italy and founded the monastery of St Peter there
• SENAN
• Schemamonk SILOUAN 息庐安 of the Far Caves in Kiev of St Theodosy (1300)
The Holy Schemamonk Silvanus (Silouan) of the Kiev Caves, zealously preserved the purity of both soul and body, he subdued his flesh with fasting and vigils, and he cleansed his soul with prayer and meditation on God. The Lord granted him an abundance of spiritual gifts: a prayerful boldness towards God, constant joy in the Lord, clairvoyance and wonderworking. The monk lived at the end of the thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth centuries. His relics rest in the Caves.
• Martyr TITHOES
Ὁ Ἅγιος Τιθόης ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Canonization (2000) of ZOSIMA Verkhovski of Siberia
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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