• συνοδικός • 2019 January 1 / December 19 7527 • Nativity Fast •

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January 1 / December 19
2019 (7527)
BONIFACE AT TARSUS IN CILICIA (290). MARTYRS ELIAS, PROBUS, AND ARES, IN CILICIA (308). MARTYRS POLYEUCTUS AND TIMOTHY THE DEACON (309). ST. BONIFACE THE MERCIFUL, BISHOP OF FERENTINO (6TH C.). ST. GREGORY ARCHBISHOP OF OMIRITS (552). ST. ELIAS OF MUROM, WONDERWORKER OF THE KYIV CAVES (1188).
VEN. AMFILOHIJE OF POCHAIV (1971)
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• Martyr NEMESION of Alexandria (253) and other Christians of the same Persecution
• Holy Martyr BONIFACE 佛尼法提 of Tarsus in Cilicia (290) the slave of a Roman matron of senatorial rank Righteous AGLAE (Gloria, Aglaida, Aglaia or Aglaïs) 阿格莱 the Roman, Matr. of Rome, Pen. (308)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Βονιφάτιος καὶ Ἀγλαΐα ἡ Ρωμαία
Martyrdom for Christ makes a saint out of a sinner. Arriving in Tarsus, Boniface witnessed the sufferings of the martyrs and his heart was changed. He cried out, "I am also a Christian." He was arrested, tortured, and put to death, then slaves took his body back to Aglaida in Rome. On the eve of their arrival an angel appeared to Aglaida in her sleep and told her to prepare herself to receive her former slave, now the brother and fellow-servant of the angels. Aglaida summoned the clergy, and she received the holy relics with great reverence. Then she built a church on the site of his grave and dedicated it to the holy martyr. There she enshrined his relics, glorified by numerous miracles. After distributing all her wealth to the poor, she withdrew to a monastery, where she spent 15 years in repentance, then fell asleep in the Lord. She was buried beside Saint Boniface. The sins of the one were washed away by his blood, the other was purified by her tears and asceticism. Both were found worthy to appear unsullied before our Lord Jesus Christ, Who desires not the death of a sinner, but that he should turn from his wickedness and live (Ezek. 33:11).
• Martyrs CYRIACUS, PAULILLUS, SECUNDUS, ANASTASIUS, SYNDIMIUS and their companions (303) martyred at Nicomedia under Diocletian
• Martyrs DARIUS, ZOSIMUS, PAUL and SECUNDUS suffered at Nicaea
• VMM MEURES (Meuris) and THECA (Thea) at Gaza in Palestine (307)
• Martyrs ELIAS 伊利亚, PROBUS 普若弗, and ARES 阿里斯 native to Egypt (308) arrested, subjected to like manner of torture and given over unto death in Cilicia
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἠλίας, Πρόβος καὶ Ἄρης οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Martyrs POLYEUCTUS 颇利艾弗克特 at Caesarea in Cappadocia, and TIMOTHY 提摩泰 the Deacon in Mauretania (309)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Τιμόθεος καὶ Πολύευκτος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• MM EUTYCHES (Eutychius) and THESSALONIKE (Thessalonica or Thessalonice) together with 200 men and 70 women by sword
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εὐτύχιος, Θεσσαλονίκη, 200 Ἄνδρες καὶ 70 Γυναῖκες οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Martyrs HERMYLUS and PHOCAS
• Venerable GEORGE 格奥尔吉 the Scribe 抄写员, and SAVA萨瓦 of Khakhuli Monastery in Georgia (11th c.) brothers of Jacob, the father of Saint George of the Holy Mountain
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Hieromartyrs NICOLAS Klementiev, Archbishop of Veliki Ustjug; Presbiters ELIAS Benemanskij, JOHN Mironskij, VLADIMIR Preobraschenskij (1937)
• Martyress VERA Truks (1942) // DEC 18 //
• Hosiosmartyr monk VICTOR Matvejev (1936) // DEC 18 //
• Hieroconfessor schemaarchimandrite SERAPHIM (Ivan Romantsov) of Glinskaya Pustyn of Sumy region in Ukraine (1885-1976) day of death in Sukhumi of Abkhazia, graved in Glinsk Pustyn of Nativity of Teotokos
• Venerable AMPHILOCHIUS (Amfilohiy; Iakov Golovatük) of Pochajevo (1894-1971) day of death, relics are in Cave Church of St Iov under Cathedral of Holy Dormition Pochayiv Lavra in Pochayiv, Kremenets Rajon, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine
• VLADIMIR Veselovsky (1974)
● • Sainted ANASTASIUS I Pope of Rome (401) a man of poverty and the apostolic mind, he stopped the spread of Origenism at a Council held in 400
All that is known of his early life is that he was considered pious as a youth, and cared nothing for material things as an adult. Pope. Immediately involved in the turmoil resulting from the heretical writings of Origen. Convened a synod to condemn the works. Fought against the heresy of Donatism. Friend of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Jerome, and Saint Paulinus of Nola.
• AVITUS (Adjutus) Abbot of Micy near Orleans in France
• Sainted BONIFACE 佛尼法提 the Merciful 仁慈者, Bishop of Ferentino (Florence), situated to the north of Rome (Tuscany region) (6th c.)
• Hieromartyr CAPITO (Capiton) Bishop of Cherson (4th c.)
• COMMAIGH (Coma)
• CYRILL III Metropolitain of Kiev (1281)
• Venerable ELIAS 伊利亚 of Murom, of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1188) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Antony Near Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἡλιοῦ Μουρόμας ὁ Θαυματουργός ὁ ἐν τῷ Σπηλαίῳ
Even until now, three fingers on his right hand remain placed together for prayer, showing that he died at prayer. This is a reproach to those who do not make the sign of the Cross with three fingers.
The Monk Ilya Muromets of Pechersk, nicknamed "Chobotok" ("Shoemaker" or "Cobbler"), was from the city of Murom, and popular legend identifies him with the famous bogatyr-warrior hero Ilya Muromets, about whom were sung Russian byliny‑ballads.
• FAUSTA (3rd c.) the mother of St Anastasia of Sirmium in Dalmatia
Born to the nobility. Married, and the mother of Saint Anastasia of Sirmium; her personal piety helped form her own faith. Widow.
• GREGENTIOS Bishop of Ethiopia (552)
• GREGORY of Auxerre (540) The 12th bishop of Auxerre in France. He was bishop for 13 years and reposed at the age of 85
• Sainted GREGORY 格里高利 (Grigentius, Gregentius of Himyar, Gregentios of Taphar, Gregory of Omirits) Bishop of Omir (552) Missionary Archbishop of Zafar (capital of the Himyarite tribal confederacy)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γρηγέντιος Ἐπίσκοπος Αἰθιοπίας
• Repose of Blessed Hieromonk HERMOGENES founder of Kirensk and Albazin Monasteries in Siberia (1690)
• MANIRUS (Monirus, Niniar) Bishop of Aberdeenshire and Banff, Apostle to Northern Scotland
Missionary bishop to the Highlanders of northern Scotland. Had an on-going battle of words and ideas with the local pagans, but there was apparently little violence from either side during his work.
• Martyr NEMESION an Egyptian (250) apprehended at Alexandria
• Patriarch NOË (Noah)
• VM PROTHASIA (Protasia) at Senlis (287)
• RIBERT (Ribarius) (790) 17th Abbot of the monastery of Saint-Oyend in France. He is venerated in Franche-Comté
• SAMTHANN (Samthana, Samthan, Samhthann or Safan), Foundress and Abs. of the convent at Clonbronney (Clonbrony or Clúain Brónaig), Granard, Co. Longford in Ireland (8th c.)
• Hieromartyr TIMOTHY (250) a deacon burnt alive in North Africa under Decius • Martyr TRYPHON by hanging
Ὁ Ἅγιος Τρύφων ὁ Μάρτυρας

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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.

• συνοδικός • December 31 / December 18 • Nativity Fast •

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December 31 / December 18
2018 (7527)
MARTYR SEBASTIAN AT ROME AND HIS COMPANIONS (287). ST. MODESTUS, ARCHBISHOP OF JERUSALEM (4TH C.). VEN. FLORUS, BISHOP OF AMISUS (7TH C.). 
VEN. MICHAEL THE CONFESSOR AT CONSTANTINOPLE (845)
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• Consecration of the Church of the Theotokos in HALKOPRATEIA, Constantinople
Ἐγκαίνια Ναοῦ τῆς Θεοτόκου ἐν τοῖς Χαλκοπρατείοις
● Synaxis of the Family of St GREGORY Palamas
In 2009, at the recommendation of the Metropolis of Berea, Naousa and Kampania, the Ecumenical Patriarchate established a feast day in honor of the family of St Gregory Palamas. The day chosen for the feast is December 18th.
St Philotheos Kokkinos, a disciple of St Gregory and his biographer, writes the following of his father: "Gregory was the offspring of noble and pious parents. So virtuous was his father that the emperor Adronikos II Palaiologos, made him one of his counselors. And not only the earthly king, but also God the Heavenly King, honored and glorified him even while he was still alive with miracles. Fore-knowing his death, Constantine ― that was his name ― took the Angelic Habit, that is, he became a monk, and was named Constantios."
Concerning the rest of his family, St Philotheos writes also of them: "At the age of 20, after turning down all the honors and promises of the emperor he [Gregory] decided to flee the City and go to Mount Athos. Having convinced all the members of his family to follow in his example, he came to the Lavra of Vatopaidi ― one of the biggest monasteries even today ― and gave himself up to the venerable elder Nikodemos. He received the Angelic Schema from this elder and in a very short time ― under the guidance of his elder ― he climbed the ladder of practice [praxis] and reached the great heights of vision [theoria]."
While speaking of St Gregory's time at his monastery in Berea, St Philotheos writes concerning his mother and sisters: "During that period his mother died, and having received a letter from his sisters pleading to see ― they were in need of consolation and spiritual direction ― he decided to visit them. Thus he came to Constantinople. Followed by his sisters he returned to Thessalonika, were he placed them in a convent, while he moved back to his cell in Boerea."
● • Martyrs RUFUS and ZOSIMUS (107) Citizens of at Philippi in Macedonia brought to Rome with St Ignatius of Antioch and thrown to the beasts in the Roman amphitheatre 2 days before the latter's martyrdom
• Martyrs QUINTUS, SIMPLICIUS and companions (255) in North Africa under the Emperors Decius and Valerian
• Holy Martyr SEBASTIAN 瓦斯提安 captain of imperial guard, tied to a tree and shot with arrows; and those with him: NICOSTRATUS 尼科斯特拉托 the jailer killed with a stake, and his wife Martyress ZOE (also Zoë or Zoa) 佐伊 tortured and thrown into the Tiber River; CASTOR 喀斯托里; Hieromartyr presbiter TRANQUILLINUS 特兰基利诺 drowned, and his wife MARCIA, parents of tortured and pierced with spears MARCUS 马可 and MARCELLINUS 玛尔凯利诺 deacons, confirmed in the Faith by Sebastian, who strengthened them for martyrdom; CLAUDIUS 克劳迪 the Commander; SYMPHORIAN 辛佛里安; VICTORINUS 维克托里诺; beheaded TIBURTIUS 提弗尔提; CASTULUS 喀斯图洛 (287) at Rome
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σεβαστιανὸς ὁ Μάρτυρας
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Νικόστρατος, Ζωὴ ἡ σύζυγός του, Τραγκυλίνος καὶ ἡ σύζυγός του Μαρκία, Κλαύδιος, Τιβούρτιος, Κάστωρ, Καστοῦλος, Μάρκος καὶ Μαρκελλίνος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• A group of 35 Martyrs in North Africa including VICTURUS, VICTOR, VICTORINUS, ADJUTOR, QUARTUS and companions
• Martyrs PHOCAS and HERMILAS by the sword
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Φωκᾶς καὶ Ἐρμύλος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Hieromartyrs ZACCHAEUS a Deacon, and ALPHAEUS a Reader, at Caesarea // DEC 18 // NOV 18 //
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ζακχαῖος καὶ Ἀλφειὸς οἱ Μάρτυρες
• MOKIOS and HERMOGENES and ELISABETH and GEORGE the Stylite • Monks THEODOR and SOPHRONIOS
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Hieromartyr FADDEJ 塔德 (Thaddeus, Ioann Uspenskij) archbishop of Tver (1937) day of martyrdom, shoted in Tver (by other version: was drowned in sewage by executors on the way to place of shooting)
• Hieromartyr NICHOLAS Klement’jev, archbishop of Velikij Ustüg (1873-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted in Vannovka village, Tül’kubas region of South Kazakhstan • Hieromartyr ELIAS Benemanskij, presbiter, priest (1883-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted in Perm
• Hieromartyr IOANN Mironskij (Mironovskij), presbiter, priest (1877-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted in Chimkent region of South Kazakstan together with New Hieromartyr VLADIMIR Preobrazhenskij, presbiter, priest (1873-1937) and monk VIKTOR Matvejev (1937)
• Hieromartyr NICHOLAS Kobranov, presbiter, archpriest (1893-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted at the North, after Ukhtpechlag KZ on Cheb’ju station of Komi region
• Hieromartyr SERGIUS Astakhov, deacon (1877-1942) day of death in KZ in Sbobodnyj of Amur region
• Martyress VERA Truks, of Zhytomir; the secretary of Archbishop Faddej Uspenskij (1886-1942) died in KZ
● • Bishop AUXENTIUS of Mopsuetia (321)
• Repose of Sainted BENJAMIN Costachi, Metropolitan of Moldavia (1846)
• BODAGISIL (588) founder and the 1st abbot of a monastery on the Meuse in Belgium
Born to the Frankish nobility, and a royal courtier. Convert. Governor of Marseilles and Germania. Married to Oda, a member of the Swabian nobility. Father of Saint Arnulf of Metz. Founder and first abbot of an abbey on the banks of the River Meuse. Praised by Saint Venantius Fortunatus and Saint Gregory of Tours.
• Venerable DANIEL 达尼伊尔 (Daniil Sihastrul) the Hesychast, instructor of monastics, a great ascetic and wonderworker, wise and clairvoyant (1496) of Voronets Monastery
• DESIDERIUS (Desideratus) of Fontenelle (700) Son of St Waningus, the founder of the monastery of Fécamp, he became a monk at Fontenelle in the north of France. His relics were enshrined in Ghent in Belgium
• Martyr EUBOTIUS at Cyzicus (320)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐβίωτος
• FLANNÁN (7th c.) 1st Bishop of Killaloe in Ireland, he also worked in the Hebrides and elsewhere. He managed to recite the whole Psalter every day
Almighty God, in whose service Flannan travelled by land and water as a missionary pilgrim to witness to Christ on the way: Help us in our pilgrimage to be ever constant to Christ and in your mercy receive us at last into eternal rest; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Venerable FLORUS 弗罗若 Bishop of Amisus (601)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Φλῶρος
• Translation (950) of Relics of Righteous FLORINUS of Vintschgau, Presbiter in Remus (856)
• GATIAN 伽提亚诺 (337) venerated as a disciple of St Dionysius of Paris and the 1st Bishop of Tours in France
Spiritual student of Saint Dionysius of Paris. Gatianus brought Christianity to Tours, France in the 4th century, founded the diocese and served as the its first bishop. However, his good work faded after his death. When Saint Martin arrived in Tours, he found that there were no Christians, but local lore spoke much about Gatianus, the man who brought the Gospel that the people no longer understood. Martin found Gatianus' burial site, and always venerated his predecessor.
• LIOBAN (Liban or Libana) of Kilfian in Co. Mayo
• MAIGHNENN Bishop and Abbot, of Cill-Maighnenn, near Athcliath. He was of the race of Colla-da-crioch
• MANIRE (Monirus, Niniar) Bishop of Aberdeenshire and Banff, Apostle to Northern Scotland
• MAWNAN of Cornwall, Fool for Christ
• Venerable MICHAEL 米迦勒 the Confessor at Constantinople (845) synkellos (helper of bishop; dealing in matters of church governance)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μιχαὴλ ὁ Ὁμολογητής καὶ Σύγκελος
• Holy Hieromartyr 默德斯特 MODESTUS I Archbishop of Jerusalem (4th c.)
• Sainted 默德斯特 MODESTUS II archbishop of Jerusalem (634) // DEC 16 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μοδεστὸς Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ἱεροσολύμων
• Martyr MOSES (Moysetes) (250) in North Africa who probably suffered under Decius
• Repose of Abbess NAZARIA of Varatec Monastery, Moldavia (1814)
• Venerable NOMON
Ὁ Ὅσιος Νόμων
• RIOGHNACH (Riana)
• SAMTHANN (Samthana, Samthan, Samhthann or Safan), Foundress and Abs. of the convent at Clonbronney (Clonbrony or Clúain Brónaig), Granard, Co. Longford in Ireland (8th c.)
Fled an arranged marriage to become a nun. Spiritual student of Saint Cognat at Ernaide. Founded Clonbroney (Cluain-Bronach) Abbey in County Longford, a house that refused large donations for fear of losing the simplicity of their lives. Her cultus was promoted by Saint Virgilius of Salzburg.
• Venerable SEBASTIAN 塞瓦斯提安 of Sokhotsk, abbot of Poshekhonye Monastery (1500) Vologda // DEC 18 // FEB 26 //
• SEGHNAT (Senat or Seanan) of Donnycarney, Co. Dublin (664)
• Glorification (1694) of Righteous SIMEON 西麦翁 wonderworker of Verkhoturye (1642) // DEC 18 // SEP 12 //
• Hieromartyr SISINIOS Katholikos of Chorassan in South Iran
• SOPHIA the Wonderworker
Ἡ Ἁγία Σοφία ἡ Θαυματουργός
• Venerable Abbot WINEBALD 文尼巴尔德 of Heidenheim (761)
Born in England, he was the brother of Sts Willibald and Walburgh. While on pilgrimage to the Holy Land with his brother Winebald, he was taken ill and remained in Rome. Eventually he returned to England and went to Germany where he became Abbot of Heidenheim and then Bishop of Eichstätt.

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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.

• συνοδικός • December 30 / December 17 • Nativity Fast •

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December 30 / December 17
2018 (7527)
HOLY PROPHET DANIEL (600 B.C.) AND THE THREE HOLY YOUTHS: ANANIAS, AZARIAS, AND MISAEL. ST. DANIEL THE CONFESSOR (IN SCHEMA STEPHEN) (10TH C.)
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THE SUNDAY OF THE HOLY FOREFATHERS // DEC 11-17 //
These are the ancestors of Christ according to the flesh, who lived before the Law and under the Law, especially the Patriarch Abraham, to whom God said, “In thy seed shall all of the nations of the earth be blessed” (Gen. 12:3, 22:18).
Rose window in Basilica of St Denis, France, depicting the ancestors of Jesus from Jesse.

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• Holy Prophet DANIEL 但以理 thrown into a lions' den; and the 3 Holy Youths of Babylon: ANANIAS 阿纳尼雅, AZARIAS阿匝里雅 and MISAEL 弥萨伊尔 thrown into the white-hot furnace (600 B.C.) remaining intact in the middle of the flames, they glorified God by the beautiful hymn that the liturgy has inserted into the 7th and 8th Odes of the stichologia
Ὁ Προφήτης Δανιὴλ καὶ τὰ τρία παιδιὰ Ἀνανίας, Ἀζαρίας καὶ Μισαὴλ
According to tradition, these 4 God-pleasers arose at the time of the death of the Lord Christ, appeared to many and again fell asleep. Their captors also gave them Babylonian names, by which they are also called: Shadrach, Abed-nego, and Meshak, respectively. Daniel is numbered among the 4 great prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel). Daniel was given the Babylonian name Belteshazzar.
• Hieromartyrs PATERMUTHIUS 帕特尔穆提, COPRIUS 科普里 and Martyr ALEXANDER 亚历山大 the Soldier of Egypt (361)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Πατερμούθιος, Κόπρις καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος οἱ Ὁσιομάρτυρες
• MM THECLA (Teckla) at Antione or Ansena (Al-Hamra in Cahira) and her brother ISA (Isaias, Isi or Esi Paisi), at Alexandria (3-4th c.)
• GM BARBARA (Varvara) and M JULIANA (Juliane, Julia or Gillian) at Heliopolis in Syria (present day Baalbek in Lebanon) (3-4th c.)
• 60 Martyrs of Eleutheropolis (Beit Jibrin), Palestine (638) ABRAHAM, CALAOICUS, CIRIACUS, CONÓN, EPIFANIUS, EUGENE, FLORIAN, GEORGE (9 with this name), JOHN (10 with this name), MARINO, MARMISES, MUSELIO, PAUL (3 with this name), PAULINO, PHILOXENUS, PHOTINO, STEPHEN (2 with this name), TEODOSIO, TEOPENTO, THEODORE (5 with this name), THOMAS and ZITAS (2 with this name)
Approximately 60 Christian soldiers in the imperial Roman army of emperor Heraclius; they were murdered as a group for their faith by invading Saracen Muslims. We know little more than the names of some of them.
• ATHANASIUS 阿塔纳西, NICHOLAS 尼科拉, and ANTHONY 安托尼 disciples of Athanasius the Athonite and founders of Vatopedi monastery, Mt Athos (10th c.)
• Venerable Hosiosmartyrs PAISIUS 帕伊西 abbot igumen of the Annunciation monastery in Travna near Èaèak in Serbia, and his companion and deacon HABAKKUK 阿瓦库穆, and those more than 100 Serbians with them (1814) at Belgrade
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Hieromartyr ALEXANDER Savelov, presbiter, priest (1918) day of martyrdom, shoted and cuted by sabers at Perm region
• Hieromartyr NICHOLAS Bel’tükov, presbiter, archpriest (1918) day of martyrdom, shoted and cuted by sabers at Perm region
• Hieromartyr SERGIUS Florinskij, presbiter, archpriest (1873-1918) day of martyrdom, shoted in Palermo forest and graved at city cemetery in Rakver of Eesti (Estonia)
• Hieromartyr PETR Pokrovskij, presbiter, priest (1872-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted at Pavlodar region of South Kazakhstan
• Hieromartyr IOANN Zeml’anoj, presbiter, priest (1867-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted at Pavlodar region of South Kazakhstan
• Repose of Hieroschemamonk DANIEL (Sandu Tudor), poet of Romania (1962)
• Repose of lay elder PANAGIS of Ilami, Cyprus (1989)
● • Martyr BACCHUS (Jacchus, Iakchos, Iakus) from Triglia, by the sword
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἴακχος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• BEGGA (Beggha, Bee or Bees), Matr., W., Fndr. of Andenne Monastery on the Meuse, Belgium (698)
Daughter of St Pepin of Landen and St Ida and sister of 2 other saints. She married Angisilus (Ansegis), son of St Arnulf of Metz. After her husband's death St Begga founded a convent in Andenne on the Meuse in Belgium where she was abbess.
• BEES (Bee, Begha or Begga), Abs. of Killbees (Kilbeg), Scotland (7th c.)
• BRIEUC (Brioch, Briach, Sant Brieg in Breton) of Brittany (627) born in Ireland, he became a monk in Wales with St Tudwal, whom he accompanied to Brittany. He built a monastery in Guingamp and reposed in Bourbiac
Born to the Irish nobility. Monk in Wales. Friend and evangelist with Saint Tudwal. Priest. He founded a monastery in Guingamp, Brittany, France, and served as its first abbot. Pilgrim to Rome.
• CRUNNMAEL of Iona
• Venerable Hieroconfessor DANIEL (Dunale) 但以理 (received the great schema with the name Stephen 斯特梵) a nobleman and governor of the island of Nivertum near Cadiz in Spain (956) mistreated by the Saracens, who forced him to shave off his beard, he withdrew to Egypt, where he endured much suffering for his refusal to accept Islam, and finally died for the name of Christ, perished as a martyr under the Saracens
Ὁ Ὅσιος Στέφανος ὁ Ὁμολογητής
• Sainted DIONYSIUS 迪奥尼西 of Zakynthos, archbishop of Aegina (1622)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Διονύσιος ὁ Θαυματουργός ὁ ἐκ Ζακύνθου, Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Αἰγίνης
He excelled above all in love of neighbour and in meekness. One day the murderer of the Saint's own brother, fleeing the law and the members of his victim's family, arrived at the monastery and begged Dionysius for asylum, little knowing to whom he was speaking. On gathering the reason for his flight and that his own brother was the victim, the man of God resisted with all his strength his natural grief and the temptation to avenge the crime. Imitating Christ, who pardoned his enemies and prayed for his persecutors, he received the fugitive with compassion, comforted him, exhorted him to repent and hid him in an out-of-the-way cell. When his pursuing kinsmen reached the monastery with the dreadful news, the Saint did not reveal that he knew it already, but did his best with words of peace to allay the wrath of his relatives and their desire for vengeance. As soon as they moved off, he let out the murderer (who was amazed and terror-struck before such superhuman goodness) and having provided him with victuals and money for his journey, he sent him away to work freely at the salvation of his soul.
• DONELLA (Donela or Donell)
• EIGIL (Aeigilus) (822) a monk at Fulda in Germany, he became Abbot there in 817 • Repose of Venerable Elder HADJI GEORGE of Mt Athos (1886)
• JOHN Bishop of Sardia (9th c.)
• VM JOLENDIS (Yolendis or Yolaine) at Pleine-Selve, Diocese of Soissons (4th c.)
• JUDICÄEL (Gaël, Gaëlle, Gicquel, Giguel, Giquel, Iudicael, Iudicallus, Jekel, Jezek, Jezekael, Jezekel, Jikael, Jikel, Jude, Judhael, Judhaël, Judhel, Judiakel, Judicaël, Juhel, Juzel, Jézéquel) (658/698) King of Brittany, much loved by his people. After a victorious reign he abdicated and spent the last 20 years of his life in the monastery of Gäel near Vannes
• LAZARUS of Bethany also known as Lazarus of the Four Days or Lazarus the Resurrected
The brother of Saint Martha and Saint Mary of Bethany. He was the man whom Jesus raised from the dead after having been dead and in his tomb for four days. The Bible does not trace his history after the miracle, but tradition says he became a missionary to Gaul, the first bishop of Marseilles, France, and a martyr in the persecutions of Domitian. Died beheaded in the 1st century in a cave near Marseilles, France.
• MAXENTIOLUS (Mezenceul) (5th c.) a disciple of St Martin of Tours in France, he founded Our Lady of Cunault
• MISAEL 弥撒伊尔 of Abalatsk, hieromonk (1797)
• New Martyr NICETAS 尼基塔 of Nyssa (1300)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικήτας ὁ Νέος
• OLYMPIAS (Olympia or Olympiada) of Constantinople, Deaconess (408)
Born to a wealthy Constantinople noble family. Orphaned as a child. Married to Nebridius, prefect of Constantinople. Widowed, she refused several offers of marriage, and devoted herself to the Church. Deaconess. She led a non-cloistered group of prayerful women in her home, and devoted herself to charity. She built a hospital and orphanage, sheltered monks expelled from Nitria, and gave away so much of her wealth that her friend, Saint John Chrysostom, told her she was over-doing. In 404, due to her support of Saint John, she was persecuted, her community disbanded, her house seized and sold, and she spent the rest of her days in exile in Nicomedia.
• Venerable STURMIUS (Sturm, Sturmi) 斯图尔穆 Abbot in Fulda (779)
As a child he was entrusted to St Boniface and brought up in the monastery of Fritzlar in Germany. Ordained, he was sent to enlighten the Saxons. He went to find a suitable site for a monastery in central Germany and chose Fulda. Sturm then went to Montecassino and on his return became Abbot of Fulda. Dearly loved by his monks, Sturm is considered as second only to Boniface as Apostle of Germany.
• TETTA (Thetta) Abbess of double monastery of Wimborne, Dorset (745-772) prepared many religious, who answered the call of Saint Boniface (f.d. June 5) for helpers in the mission field
• TYDECHO (Dudec, Thudec, Thudoc, Tudec, Tudes, Tudoc) of Merionethshire (6th c.) Brother of St Cadfan in Wales. He and his sister lived in Gwynedd. Several churches are dedicated to him

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THE SUNDAY OF THE HOLY FOREFATHERS
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
'Many are called but few are chosen'. So says Christ in today's Gospel. If we think of the knowledge of God conserved among different peoples in the world before Christ, these words have a special significance.
Some peoples conserved a dim memory of events of the human past. In Australia the Aborigenes kept a vague memory of how God created the world perfect, which they call the 'Dreamtime'.
All over the world, from Asia to South America, some 120 different peoples and cultures have kept the memory of a great, universal flood, which is known to us in detail through Noah.
In India the Hindus long ago kept an intuition of a Trinitarian God, but among them their knowledge of God became so twisted that their trinity is a trinity of destructive gods.
Other peoples fell even further and began worshipping stones and trees, rivers and mountains, mistaking creation for the Creator. For instance, in this country, thousands of years before Christ, the 'cleverest' people, not unlike some today, worshipped the stars, as we can see from the great astronomical monument that they built and called Stonehenge. At that time in Egypt too the cleverest people built huge Pyramids to worship the Sun, and through which they believed that their leaders, the Pharoahs, would become stars.
Other peoples altogether gave up on ever knowing God and declared that the way ahead consisted in following the wisest men of their cultures, Buddha in India, or Confucius in China.
In Ancient Greece, the wisest men declared that men could never know God unless God first revealed Himself to man and in Athens they set up an altar to 'the Unknown God'.
Many were called but few were chosen, for among all these peoples and cultures, there were representatives of one people who conserved the true history of mankind. This people were the Jews, the ancient Hebrews, the chosen people, and today we commemorate all the righteous among them, our forefathers and foremothers in the Faith. From Adam and Eve on, there were among that people righteous and holy men and women. In their lives they prefigured the life of Christ and foresaw Christ.
ABEL, who was murdered by his brother Cain, is a prefiguration of Christ, who was also murdered by men.
MELCHIZEDEK the priest is the prefiguration of Christ the High Priest.
ENOCH and ELIJAH, who were taken up to heaven, prefigure Christ Who was also taken up to heaven.
NOAH, whose family alone survived the Flood, is a prefiguration of the baptism of purification given to us by Christ.
JOB the long-suffering prefigures the longsuffering of Christ.
ABRAHAM, who was asked to sacrifice his son Isaac, prefigures the sacrifice that God the Father made with His Son.
JACOB prefigures Christ, for he saw the ladder that connects earth to heaven, enabling heaven to come down to earth and earth to rise up to heaven.
JOSEPH, who was betrayed by his twelve brothers, prefigures Christ who was betrayed by His disciples.
MOSES, the leader of his people, who was given the great revelation of the Ten Commandments, unsurpassed until Christ gave us the Beatitudes, prefigures Christ, for Moses saw the burning bush unconsumed, which is the Virgin's womb, which was unconsumed by the fire of Christ.
JOSHUA, whose name is the same as Christ's, that is Jesus, the Saviour, prefigures Jesus the Deliverer of His people.
DAVID, related by blood to Christ, saw Christ in the Psalms which he wrote down. SOLOMON expressed the Wisdom of God in his Books of Wisdom.
The Prophet DANIEL saw the Holy Trinity through the Three Holy Youths in the furnace of Babylon.
The Prophet ISAIAH saw Christ the suffering Servant.
The Prophet JONAH prefigures the three-day burial of Christ through his three-day stay in the belly of the whale.
All these holy forefathers together with our holy foremothers, SARAH, REBECCA, RUTH, DEBORAH and many, many more, whose icons are all on the back wall of our church, which is devoted to the righteous of the Old Testament, all these we commemorate today. All these are in fact our spiritual family, for they saw, long before we were born, the One Whom we confess, Christ our true God Who is Risen from the dead.
Let us in these last few days before the celebration of the Birth of the Saviour on earth, read one, or at least one part, of their writings, for example, in the Book of Genesis, the Book of Exodus, the Book of Proverbs, or simply the Psalms, and let us renew our links with our ancestors in the Orthodox Faith.
Holy Forefathers and Foremothers of Christ, pray to God for us!

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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.

• συνοδικός • December 29 / December 16 • Nativity Fast •

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December 29 / December 16
2018 (7527)
PROPHET HAGGAI (AGGAEUS) (500 B.C.). MARTYR MARINUS OF ROME (283). BLESSED EMPRESS THEOPHANIA OF BYZANTIUM (893)
Nativity (St Philip's) Fast

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• VMM ALBINA and EUPURIA of Caesaria in Palestine, Martyred under Decius at Formio in Campania (3rd c.)
• Martyrs VALENTINE, CONCORDIUS, NAVALIS and AGRICOLA (305) venerated in Ravenna in Italy
• Martyrs PROMUS (Probus) and HILARY, and others (306) by the sword
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Πρόμος (ἢ Πρόβος) καὶ Ἰλάριος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• A great number of women VMM Nuns in Northwest Africa (482) martyred under Hunneric, Arian King of the Vandals
• Martyrs AMBROSIUS and HOSIUS
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Hieromartyr VLADIMIR 弗拉迪弥尔 Aleksejev, presbiter, priest (1918) day of martyrdom, shoted in Ohansk of Tver and drowned in Kama river
• Hieromartyr ARCADIOS 阿尔喀迪 Ostal’skij, from Volyn of Ukraine, Bishop of Lubny, bishop of Bezhetsk (1937) day of martyrdom, shoted and graved at Butovo after prison in Butyrka of Moskow
• Hieromartyr ELIAS 伊利亚 Cheredejev, presbiter, priest (1878-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted after prison in Kashyn of Tver together with Fr Pavel Favoritov
• Hieroconfessor PAVEL 帕弗罗 Favoritov, presbiter, priest (1883-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted after prison in Kashyn of Tver
• Hieromartyr Abbot THEODOSY 德奥多西 (Theodor Boldyrev), presbiter (1868-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted after prison in Afimjino of Tver
• Hieromartyr VLADIMIR 弗拉迪弥尔 Damaskin, presbiter, priest (1870-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted after prison in Ostrovno of Tver
• Hieromartyr ALEXANDER 亚历山大 Kolokolov, presbiter, archpriest of St Nicholas church in Nikolskij-Never’jevo (1880-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted after prison in Nikolskij-Never’jevo of Tver
• Hieromartyr PETR Zinovjev, presbiter, priest (1894-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted after prison in Bezhetsk of Tver
• Hosiosmartyr MAKARIOS (Michael Smirnov), hieromonk (1937) day of martyrdom, shoted after prison in Bezhetsk of Tver
● • Venerabless ADELAIDE (Adelheidis, Alice, Adelhaide or Adelaid) of Strasbourg, Empress of Rome, W., Nun, Fndr. of monasteries in Diocese of Strasbourg (999)
• Venerable ADELARD of Cysoing
Son of Everardo, founder of Cysoing Abbey. Monk at Cysoing in the late 9th century.
• ADO Bishop of Vienne (799-875) born in Burgundy in France, he became a monk at Prüm near Trier in Germany. From here he travelled to Rome. On his return he became Bishop of Vienne and was an excellent bishop. He is remembered for the martyrology which bears his name
• Matyress ALBINA of Caesarea (250) martyred at Formiae, Gata, Campagna, Italy
Young Christian maiden martyred in the persecutions of Decius. Greeks maintain that her body was miraculously translated after death.
• BEAN Bishop of Mortlach in Banff, Scotland (1012)
10th-11th century bishop at Mortlach, Banff, Scotland, and Aberdeen, Scotland, appointed by Pope Benedict VIII.
• BEOC (Beanus, Dabeoc, Mobeoc) (5-6th c.) founder of a monastery on an island in Lough Derg in Donegal in Ireland
• Blessed Eldress DOMNA of Tomsk, Fool for Christ (1872) venerated as "the Siberian Xenia of Petersburg"// OCT 16 // DEC 16 //
• Hieromartyr EUSEBIUS of Vercelli (370) Bishop
• Holy Prophet HAGGAI (Aggaeus) 盎盖 of 12 Minor Prophets (500 B.C.)
persuaded the people to build the Second Jerusalem Temple and he proclaimed, that in this Temple was to "appear the Word Without-Beginning in the finality of times"
Ὁ Προφήτης Ἀγγαῖος
• IRENION Bishop of Gaza in Palestine (389)
• Hieromartyr JOHN VIII Pope and orthodox Patriarch of Rome (882)
• Martyr MARINUS 玛里诺 of Rome (217/283) a soldier who suffered in Caesarea of Palestine refusing to offer sacrifice to pagan idols, was beheaded after cruel tortures and buried by Saint Asterius (August 7)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μαρίνος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• MEMNON 麦穆农 archbishop of Ephesus (5th c.)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μέμνων Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ἐφέσου
• 默德斯特 MODESTUS II archbishop of Jerusalem (634)
Prayer of Saint Modestos Bishop of Jerusalem, said in the case of every fatal sickness and danger to oxen, horses, donkeys, mules, sheep, goats, bees, and any other animals:
O Lord Jesus Christ my God, Who are merciful and All-good, Who in wisdom created every visible and invisible creature, Who pours out His compassions upon all that He has created, Who through Your all-good Providence foresees and troubles over for all Your creatures: bodiless, physical, rational, irrational, soul-bearing, soulless, from the first to the last. For there is nothing that is not foreseen, neither is there anything abandoned by You, the Fashioner and Foreseer of all. For You are He Who opens His hand, and fills all living things with goodness. You are He makes grass to grow for the cattle, and green herb for the service of men. You are He Who once preserved from above the animal herd of Israel, from the fatal wound of the first-born animals of the Egyptians. You are He Who, through the compassion of Your incarnation, deposed he who had the might of death: that is, the devil, and by Your death, You put death to death.
You are He Who, through myself Your unworthy servant, put to death the serpent, that corrupted the spring of water. Those that drank from it, both the living and the dead, through Your life-giving power, you resurrected. And the demon that was in cooperation with the serpent, as it prepared to make itself apparent, swore, that it would never dare to approach the place in which my humble name is invoked. To You, therefore, I pray, O All-good Master and Fashioner of all, and I entreat You, the Cause of all life, hearken to this my entreaty, and drive away every fatal sickness and danger from the oxen, horses, donkeys, mules, sheep, goats, bees, and any other animals in true need to the life of Your servants who call upon You, the Giver of every good, and upon my name. And grant, O Lord, to all those who celebrate my name, and with faith hasten to my relics, permanent peace, multiplication of animals, uncorrupted wheat, wine and oil, and above all, remission of sins, health of bodies, and eternal salvation of souls.
Yes, O Lord Jesus Christ, for the descendants from Your very loins, grant compassion on the suffering animals, the herd of which is being afflicted by the sickle of death. And not having any word besides bellowing, and bitter and random noises, in Your mercy, take away their suffering and pain. For if You even call rational beings to this sympathy: "A righteous man has compassion upon his animals", as is written, how much more do You show compassion on these, Who are their Fashioner and Foreseer? For You, O compassionate one, preserved the animals in the Ark, as Your goodness and compassion won out. That by the wellness and multiplication of the oxen, and the remaining four-legged animals, the earth might be worked, and fruit might be harvested, and that bounteously Your servants who call upon my name will partake of their very harvest. And that through these, having all things that are necessary, might be increased in every good work, and glorify You, Who grants every good thing. And grant me also, Your servant and most-fervent entreater, the honor of Your all-governing Kingdom, for to You belong all glory, honor and worship, with Your beginningless Father, and Your All-Holy and good and life-giving Spirit, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
• NICHOLAS 尼科拉 Chrysoverges 赫里索维尔吉, Patriarch of Constantinople (10th c.)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Χρυσοβέργης
During his times, a miraculous appearance of the Archangel Gabriel took place at Karyes on Mount Athos. On this occasion, the Archangel taught the monks to praise the Most-holy Theotokos with the hymn "It Is Truly Meet", writing this hymn on a stone in a chapel of one of the kellia, which from that time has been called "It Is Truly Meet" (June 13).
• RODAIGHE of Ghreallaigh Bhunna, County Meath
• SIMEON Archbishop of Antioch (834-840)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Συμεὼν Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ἀντιοχείας
• Righteous Great Princess Venerabless SOPHIA 索斐亚 (in the world Solomonia 索洛默尼亚 Saburova, Princess of Moscow and of the Suzal) of Suzal, the Nun, the wonderworker, who dwelt at the Protection monastery (1542) a Monastic Martyr, a velvet veil with depiction of the Savior and other saints
Saint Sophia, in the world Solomonia, a Great Princess, was the daughter of the noble Yuri Saburov. In the year 1505 she was chosen as bride by the heir to the throne, the future Great Prince Basil (Grand Duke Basil III of Moscow). Their marriage was unhappy, because Solomonia remained childless, so he divorced her. In order to have an heir, Great Prince Basil decided to wed a second time (to Elena Glinsky) and on November 25, 1525 he ordered Solomonia to become a nun. Forcibly tonsured with the name Sophia, Solomonia was sent under guard to the Suzdal Protection convent, where by ascetic deeds she banished from her heart worldly thoughts, and totally dedicated herself to God.
• Venerable STURMIUS Abbot in Fulda (779)
• Sainted TANKO Abbot in Amorbach, Bishop of Verden (808)
• Blessed Wonderworker THEOPHANIA (Theophano) 德奥法尼亚 Martiniake, the Empress of Byzantium (892/894) wife of the Emperor Leo VI the Wise
Η Αγία Θεοφανώ η βασίλισσα
Ἡ Ἁγία Θεοφανώ
The Feast of All Saints, originally dedicated to the martyrs, achieved great prominence in the 9th century, in the reign of the Roman Emperor Leo VI the Wise (886-911). His wife, the Holy Empress Theophano (commemorated on December 16) lived in the world, but was not attached to worldly things. She was a great benefactor to the poor, and was generous to the monasteries. She was a true mother to her subjects, caring for widows and orphans, and consoling the sorrowful. Theophano devoted most of her days to prayers, psalms and hymns to God. She was reportedly the builder or patron of the Monastery of Saint Anastasia the Protector from Potions (Hagia Anastasia Pharmakolytria) in Halki island, the second largest of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara, near Constantinople. Even before the death of St Theophano in 893 or 894, her husband started to build a church, intending to dedicate it to Theophano, but she forbade him to do so. It was this emperor who decreed that the Sunday after Pentecost be dedicated to All Saints. Believing that his wife was one of the righteous, he knew that she would also be honored whenever the Feast of All Saints was celebrated. According to tradition, it was Leo who expanded the feast from a commemoration of All Martyrs to a general commemoration of All Saints, whether martyrs or not.

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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.

• συνοδικός • December 28 / December 15 • Nativity Fast •

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December 28 / December 15
2018 (7527)
HIEROMARTYR ELEUTHERIUS, BISHOP OF ILLYRIA, AND HIS MOTHER, MARTYR ANTHIA AND MARTYR CORIVUS THE EPARCH (126). VEN. PAUL OF MT. LATROS (956). MARTYR ELEUTHERIUS (4TH C.). VEN. PARDUS, HERMIT (6TH C.). ST. STEPHEN THE CONFESSOR, ARCHBISHOP OF SUROZH IN THE CRIMEA (790)
Nativity (St Philip's) Fast

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Synaxis of All Saints of KOLSK (a peninsula in the far northwest of Russia) including:
• Venerable TRYPHON 特里丰 of Pechenga or Kola, Apostle of Laponia (1583) // DEC 15 //
• Hosiosmartyr hieromonk JONAH 约纳 of Pechenga of Kola (1590) martyred disciple of St Tryphon // DEC 15 //
• Venerable Blessed FEODORIT (Theodorit) of Kola (16th c.)
• Venerable BARLAAM of Keret’ of Kola (16th c.)
• Hosiosmartyr HERMAN of Pechenga (16th c.)
• Martyred Brotherhood of St Tryphon Monastery of Pechenga: Hieromartyr GURIAS of Pechenga; Hieromartyr PAKHOMIOS of Pechenga; Hieromartyr JOSEPH of Pechenga; Hosiosmartyrs THEODOSIOS, MAKARIOS, GENNADIJ, ONUFRIJ, PHILOFEJ, ONISIM, IOV, SAMPSON, SERAPION, GEORGE, IUSTIN, SAVVA, SPIRIDON, SAVVATIJ, CYRILL, SIMEON, ALEXANDER, KALLISTRAT, THEOPHIL, AMBROSE, HERMAN, DANIIL, THEOGNOST, MOSES, THEODORITE, VALERIAN, GERASIM, AVRAAMIJ, DOROFEJ, LONGIN, JEFREM, THEODOSIOS, PAISIOS, GREGORY, FILIMON; 116 Martyrs (murdered labours, donuts and piligrims) of Pechenga including NIKIPHOR, EVSEJ, PROKHOR, SAVVA, ANTONY, IOAKIM, KONON, EVSEVIJ, IOANN, OREST, IOANN, ARTEMIOS, JEVGRAF, THEODOR, NIKITA, NIKITA, NIKITA, IGNATIUS, THEODOR, DIMITRIJ, RODION, GAVRIIL, CONSTANTINE, CONSTANTINE, IOANN, LUKA, LEONTIJ, THEODOT, FOMA, GAVRIIL, DEMENTIOS, ARTEMIOS, STEPHAN, ANDREW, PARTHENIOS, NIKIPHOR, ANANIJA, STEPHAN, EMILIAN, PHILIPP, CORNILIOS, IOANN, IOANN, DANIIL, STEPHAN, PHOKA, NIKITA, ARHIPP, GAVRIIL, IOANN, Martyresses AKILINA and EVFIMIJA, and others (1859) • Venerables ASTERIUS (Aksij) (15th c.), AVKSENTIJ (16th c.) and TARASIUS of Kashkaran (17th c.)
• Hieromartyr MOSES Kozhyn (20th c.)
• Hosiosmartyr THEODOR Abrosimov (20th c.)
● Synaxis of All Saints of CRIMEA (a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe) including:
• Holy Apostle ANDREW the First Called (62) // JUN 20 // NOV 30 //
• Hieromartyr KLEMENCE Pope of Rome (101) // JAN 30 // APR 22 // SEP 10 // NOV 25 //
• Hieromartyr bishop EPHREM of Khersoness (4th c.) // MAR 7 //
• Hieromartyr bishop BASIL of Khersoness (309) // MAR 7 //
• Hieromartyr bishop AGATHODOR of Khersoness (311) // MAR 7 //
• Hieromartyr bishop EUGENE of Khersoness (311) // MAR 7 //
• Hieromartyr bishop ELPIDIOS of Khersoness (311) // MAR 7 //
• Sainted bishop ETHERIOS of Khersoness (324) // MAR 7 //
• Hieromartyr bishop KAPITON of Khersoness (326) // MAR 7 //
• Sainted MARTIN I of Rome (655) // APR 14 //
• Sainted archbishop STEPHEN 斯特梵 the Confessor of Sourozh (750) // DEC 15 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Στέφανος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Σουρόζας
Stephen was born in Cappadocia and educated in Constantinople under the Patriarch, St Germanus. He withdrew into solitude and lived hidden from the world. An angel appeared to St Germanus and ordered him to appoint Stephen bishop of the town of Sourozh (now Sudak in the Crimea), and the patriarch did so. The zealous Stephen converted many to Christianity. He suffered bitterly under Emperor Leo the Isaurian for the sake of icons. He prophesied to the emperor his impending death. Following this wicked emperor's evil death, Stephen was returned to his diocese, where he fed his God-pleasing flock and died peacefully at the end of the 8th century.
• Venerable IOANN bishop of Crimean Gothia (790) // MAY 19 // JUN 26 //
• Sainted archbishop SAVVA of Sourozh (12th c. ) // APR 2 //
• Sainted archbishop LUKA Vojno-Jasenetskij, of Simferopol (1877-1961) // MAR 29 //
• Sainted bishop IUSTIN (Michael Pol’anskij) (1832-1903)
• Hosiosmartyr hieromonk BARTHOLOMEOS Ratnykh (1894 - 1938) // JAN 28 // NOV 19 // CRIMEA // NEW MARTYRS&CONFESSORS //
● • Martyrs of Rome: Holy Hieromartyr ELEUTHERIUS 埃莱弗特里 Bishop of Illyria; his mother ANTHIA (also Anthea, Antia, Anthia or Evanthia) 安提亚 who heard the Gospel from the great Apostle Paul and was baptized by him (126); CARIBUS (Corivus, Coremonus) the Roman eparch who had tortured Saint Eleutherius, himself came to believe in Christ and was executed; Blessed FELIX the Roman eparch; 2 Roman soldiers former Executioners
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐλευθέριος
Ἡ Ἁγία Ἀνθία ἡ Μάρτυς
Ὁ Ἅγιος Κοράμων ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ Ἔπαρχος
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Δύο Δήμιοι Μάρτυρες
Eleutherius name is a form of the Greek word for "freedom."
• Martyrs FAUSTINUS, LUCIUS, CANDIDUS, CAELIAN, MARK, JANUARIUS and FORTUNATUS in North Africa
• 22 Christians Martyrs together in the persecutions of Valerian: ANTONIUS, IRENAEUS, SATURNIN, THEODORUS, VICTOR and Companions in Rome, Italy (258)
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Hieromartyr HILARION 伊拉里雍 (Vladimir Troitskij) bishop of Verey (1886-1929) day of death in hospital of prison "Kresty" at St Peterburg of Russia
• Hieromartyr JOSEPH metropolitan of Petrograd (1938)
• Hieromartyr ALEXANDER Rozhdestvenskij, presbiter, priest (1874-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted at Tver
• Hieromartyr BASIL Vinogradov, presbiter, priest (1891-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted at Tver
• Hieromartyr VIKTORIN Dobronravov, presbiter, priest (1889-1937) day of martyrtyrdom, shoted in Borovichi of Novgorod
• Hieromartyr PAVEL Florenskij
● • ADALBERO (Adalbero II of Upper Lorraine) (1005) a monk at the monastery of Gorze in France, he became Bishop of Verdun but was transferred to Metz
• Monk ARSENIUS of Kalipos (12-13th c.) Georgia
• Sainted AUBERTUS 阿弗维尔特 Bishop of Cambrai-Arras (669) Netherlands
• Holy Monkmartyr BACCHUS瓦克霍 the New (787) of Mar Saba (St Sabbas Monastery)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Βάκχος ὁ Νέος
• VM CLAUDIA at Rome
• Virgin CHRÉTIENNE (3rd c.)
• CHRISTIANA the Slave (4th c.)
Fourth century Christian maiden kidnapped and enslaved by the pagan Iberi around the Caspian and Black Sea; her real name is lost to us, and she was called Christiana because she refused to give up her faith. Having performed miracles by praying, Christiana converted members of the Iberi royal family who sent to Emperor Constantine for priests and missionaries to convert their people.
• Holy Father DROSTAN of Old Deer and Aberdeen (6th c.) disciple of Columba, abbot and hermit
Holy Father Drostan, pray to God for us.
• Martyr ELEUTHERIUS 埃莱弗特里 at Constantinople, the Cubicularius (Chamberlain) (305) // DEC 15 // AUG 4 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐλευθέριος ὁ Κουβικουλάριος
• EUSEBIUS Bishop of Vercelli (371)
• FLORENTIUS (Flann) (7th c.) Abbot of Bangor Monastery in Ireland
Abbot of Bangor Abbey, Ireland. One of the leaders of the great monastic program of evangelization and protection of the arts in Ireland.
• Commemoration of the ordination (15 December 397) of St JOHN Chrysostom as the Patriarch of Constantinople (407)
Μνήμη Χειροτονίας Ἁγίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ Χρυσοστόμου
• MACARIUS Bishop of Sinai (1252)
• MAXIMINUS (Mesmin) (520) 1st Abbot of Micy near Orleans in France
Nephew of Saint Euspicius. Co-founder and first abbot of the Abbey of Micy, France on land donated by King Clovis. Legend says that at one point he prayed a dragon into submission, and then spent his later years as hermit in the dragon's former cave.
• Holy Woman Virgin MOGINA (Mona, Mugain or Moghain) of Clúain Bairenn, of daughters of Oilill
• NINO (Nina Fruzianska, Nunia, Nonna, Theognosta or Christiana) Equal to the Apostles and Enlightener of Georgia (335)
• Venerable NECTARIUS of Bitel (Nektarios of Bitola, Nektarij Bitolski) in Bulgaria (1500) tonsured into the angelic schema of Karea, Mt Athos
• NOTHELM Archbishop of Canterbury, England, Friend of Saint Bede
• Venerable OFFA King of Essex in England, he went to Rome and took up the monastic life (709)
• Venerable PARDUS 帕尔铎 the Hermit (598) in Palestine
St Pardus once came to Jericho as a cart-driver. Leaving his mules in front of an inn, he entered it. At that moment, a child fell under the mule, and the mule trampled the child with its hooves and killed it. When Pardus saw the bloody and dead child killed by his mule, he was so crushed in heart that he felt himself intentionally responsible for the child's death. And this man of conscience imposed the harshest penance upon himself. He abandoned his trade, left the world and, even though he was relatively young, withdrew to the harsh wilderness, where he undertook a life of difficult asceticism consisting of physical and spiritual labor and repentance. With many tears, he offered repentance to God for the murder of the child. He desired to pay for the life of the child with his own life, and he prayed to God that He would somehow make this possible. He teased a lion so that the lion would tear him apart, but the lion fled from him. He lay on the narrow path on which the lion walked so that he would be killed by the beast, but the lion leapt over him and would not touch him. Seeing, therefore, that it was God's will for him to live and not perish, he was at peace with himself but remained a contrite penitent until his death.
• Venerable PAUL 保罗 the New Ascetic (955) of Latros
Ὁ Ὅσιος Παῦλος ὁ νέος ὁ ἀσκητής
• SILVIA (Silviana, Sylvia) of Constantinople (420) the most learned woman of her day. Fought against heresies
• Hosiosmartyress Virgin SUSANNA (Susannah or Sosanne) 苏散纳, Deaconess of Palestine (305) took on the appearance of a man and changed her name to John
Ἡ Ἁγία Σωσάννη
Upon the repose of her parents, the blessed maiden distributed her entire inheritance among the poor and freed all her servants. Then she donned men's clothing, cut her hair and went to a men's monastery in Jerusalem, assuming the name John. On account of her many virtues, she was made an Archimandrite of this monastery. When twenty years passed, she became the victim of serious slander. A certain ascetic woman came to the monastery, and believing Susanna to be a man, she was instigated by the evil one to draw "Archimandrite John" into sin. Because Susanna did not consent, the spurned woman resolved to accuse Susanna of taking her by force. Susanna gladly accepted the slanderous accusation and asked forgiveness from the woman.
However, the Bishop of Eleutheropolis learned of this and went to the monastery, to find out why the Abbot allowed such disorderly things to take place. The Abbot therefore decided to remove the monastic schema from the accused "Archimandrite John". Out of necessity the blessed Susanna came, and asked for two virgins and two female deaconesses, to whom she informed that she was a woman. When the Bishop found out about this, he was astonished, and ordained her a Deaconess. From then on the blessed one worked many miracles in the name of the Lord. When Alexander, the governor, went to Eleutheropolis and offered sacrifice to the idols there, the Saint voluntarily approached him, and with prayer alone toppled down the idols. Then standing before the governor, she confessed Christ. For this he had her breasts cut off, but they were restored and made well by the power of God. When those who cut off her breasts saw this miraculous restoration, they also believed in Christ. Hence they were beheaded and received the crown of martyrdom. Then molten lead was poured through a funnel into Susanna's mouth and filled up her intestines. Nevertheless, the Saint remained unharmed by divine grace. Wherefore she was beaten, then cast into a fire, where she surrendered her soul to God. Thus she went to the Lord her desired Bridegroom.
• URBITIUS (Úrbez) (805) born in Bordeaux and became a monk in France but became a prisoner of the Saracens and was taken to Spain. He managed to escape and settled as a hermit in the valley of Nocito in the Pyrenees near Huesca
• VALERIAN (457) Bishop of Abbenza in North Africa who, aged over eighty, was left to die of exposure for refusing to give up the sacred vessels. He died under the Arian Genseric King of the Vandals
• Venerable Abbot WUNIBALD of Heidenheim (701-761)

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St Nikodemos Explains How We Came to Celebrate Christmas on December 25th Synaxarion
On the 15th of December we Commemorate THE ORDINATION OF SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM.
We must know that on the fifteenth of the month of December, the divine John Chrysostom was ordained Patriarch of Constantinople, when the feast of Christ's Nativity began to be celebrated by him. Because at that time information had come from the West, and in time the feast followed. Wherefore an apologetic discourse was proclaimed by him which is most beautiful and most beneficial.
Note by St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite:
We note here that the discourse in which the divine Chrysostom refers to the feast of the Nativity of Christ, was not proclaimed by him on this day, as stated here by the Synaxaristes, but rather on the day of Christ's Nativity [December 25th]. He begins by saying: "That which, long ago, the Patriarchs travailed with, the Prophets foretold, and the Righteous desired to see, has come to pass, and received its completion today." This discourse is found in the fifth volume of the Eton edition. There the Saint says the following regarding the Nativity of Christ: "Although it is not yet the tenth year, from when this day has become clear and well known to us, but nevertheless it has flourished through your zeal, as if delivered to us from the beginning and many years ago." And also: "We have received the day [the 25th of December] from those who know these things accurately and who dwell in that city [Rome]. For the ones living there, having observed it from the beginning and from ancient tradition, now have themselves transmitted that knowledge of it to us."
It appears that among some, as well as in the city of Antioch, the homeland of Chrysostom, the day of the Nativity of Christ was not celebrated on the twenty-fifth of December, nor universally among all the Churches of Christians. My words are affirmed by the polymath Dositheos of Jerusalem, who writes on page 1221 of his Dodekavivlon that Archbishop John of Nicaea wrote to the Catholicos of Armenia, saying that James the Brother of God did not censure this: that the feast of the Nativity of Christ took place on the twenty-fifth of December. And because some celebrated the two feasts of the Nativity and Baptism of Christ on one day, for this reason Cyril of Jerusalem wrote to Pope Julius on this matter. Julius studied the royal statements, and he found Josephus saying that in the seventh month during the feast of Tabernacles on the day of Atonement (which was on the tenth of that month), as dictated by the Law: "This shall be a permanent statute for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls and not do any work, whether the native, or the foreigner who sojourns among you; for it is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you; you will be clean from all your sins before the Lord" (Lev. 16:29). It was then that Zechariah saw the Angel and was made mute, and John was conceived on the twenty-third of September, and six months later, on the twenty-fifth of March, the Theotokos was announced about the Lord. Therefore she gave birth to Him on the twenty-fifth of December. Hence he informed the East about this matter. For this reason Basil the Great delivered his laudatory discourse on the Nativity of Christ on the twenty-fifth of December. And Gregory the Theologian proclaimed this in Constantinople. Emperor Honorius of Rome also showed his brother Arcadius in Constantinople that the Romans with much splendor celebrated the Nativity of Christ on the twenty-fifth of December. Anastasios the Roman, Theophilos of Alexandria and John of Jerusalem also celebrated it thus. But the sacred Augustine also, in Book 4, Chapter 5 of On the Holy Trinity, affirms that the Lord was born on the twenty-fifth of December, as well as the Ekatontaetiris of Eugenios Voulgaris.
The above mentioned John of Nicaea says that Chrysostom wrote Saint Isaac the Catholicos of Armenia about the day of the Nativity of Christ (that it is celebrated on the twenty-fifth of December, as stated in the above discourse). Because Isaac went to the Patriarch who had been exiled (for some accusation), for this reason he did not answer Chrysostom. Here Dositheos says that Chrysostom was a Priest when he wrote the above panegyric discourse on the Nativity of Christ. From what has been said, therefore, it has become clear that even before Chrysostom, the Nativity of Christ was celebrated on the twenty-fifth of December not only by the Romans in the West, but also in the East.

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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.

• συνοδικός • December 27 / December 14 • Nativity Fast •

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December 27 / December 14
2018 (7527)
MARTYRS THYRSUS, LEUCIUS, AND CALLINICUS (250). MARTYRS APOLLONIUS, PHILEMON, ARIANUS, AND THEOCTYCHUS OF ALEXANDRIA (286-287)
Nativity (St Philip's) Fast

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Synaxis of All Saints of LINCOLNSHIRE (county in east central England) including 101 Orthodox Saints among them:
• Empress HELEN who found the Holy Cross and her son CONSTANTINE who passed this way having become Emperor in York
• SIMON the Zealot
• OSWALD (642), OSTRYTHE, AILRED (Ethelred) (716), WERBURGH Abbess (785), CHAD (672), BOTOLPH (680), ADULPH (680)
• GUTHLAC (673-714), PEGA (Pea) (719), BERTRAM (8th c.), CISSA (8th c.), ETHELDRITHA (Alfreda) (835)
• Abbot THEODORE, Prior ASKEGA, Subprior SWETHIN, deacon ELFGETE, Subdeacon SABINUS, Centenarians GRIMKELL and AGAMUND, Chanter HERBERT, Servers EGRED and ULRIC, EGELRED and 70 companions (870)
• THURKETYL (887-975), PAULINUS (644), HEREFRID (747), AETHELHEARD, ELWIN (Aethelwine), ALDWYN (5th c.), EDILHUN and EGBERT, ERKENWALD (693), WERBURGH (700), WERBURG of Mercia (785)
• HYGBALD (Hybald, Hibald, Higbald) 希格巴尔德 of Bardney, abbot in Lincolnshire (7th c.) in England to whom several churches are dedicated, notably at Hibaldstow
Holy Father Hybald pray to God for us!
Holy Father and Mothers of Lincolnshire Pray to God for us!
● • Egyptian Christians martyred together in the persecutions of Decius - ARSENIUS, DIOSCURUS, HERON and ISIDORE (250) burned to death at Alexandria, Egypt
• Holy Martyrs THYRSUS 提尔索, LEUCIUS 莱弗基 and CALLINICUS 喀利尼科 former pagan priest, converted by witnessing the martyrdom and miracles of St Thyrsus (250) of Apollonia
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Θύρσος, Λεύκιος καὶ Καλλίνικος
At the end of the 4th century, the Emperor Flavian built a church to St Thyrsus near Constantinople and placed his holy relics in it. The saint appeared in a vision to Empress Pulcheria and counseled her to bury the relics of the 40 Martyrs alongside his.
• Holy Martyrs PHILEMON 斐利蒙 a flute-player, APOLLONIUS 阿颇罗尼 a reader of the Church (286) of Alexandria, ARIANUS 阿里亚诺 suffered for the faith in Antinoupolis of Egypt, and THEOCTYCHUS 德奥克提霍 the eldest of the guards, and 3 guards with him converted by St Arianus and martyred (287)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Φιλήμων, Ἀπολλώνιος, Ἀρριανὸς καὶ οἱ τέσσερις Προτεκτοράτοι
• Converted HYPATIUS one of 36 Martyrs with him in Thebaid of Upper Egypt under Arian
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ὑπάτιος ὁ Μάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ 36 μαρτυρήσαντες
• MM JUSTUS and ABUNDIUS (283) in Spain under Numerian. After a futile attempt to burn them at the stake, they were beheaded
• MM NICASIUS the 9th Archbishop of Rheims in France; his sister VM EUTROPIA; his deacon M FLORENTIUS; his reader M JUCUNDUS; and others number of his clergy and faithful martyred by the Vandals and Alans in the Cathedral of Rheims in Gaul (407)
Let us abide the mercy of God and pray for our enemies. I am ready to give myself for my people. - Saint Nicasius
From his supposed survival of smallpox, Nicaise became the patron saint of smallpox victims. One prayer ran:
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, may the Lord protect these persons and may the work of these virgins ward off the smallpox. St Nicaise had the smallpox and he asked the Lord to preserve whoever carried his name inscribed. O St Nicaise! Thou illustrious bishop and martyr, pray for me, a sinner, and defend me by thy intercession from this disease. Amen.
• Martyrs ARES, ELIJAH and PROMO of Ashkelon (308) burned at the stake or beheaded at the gates of Ashkelon
Several pilgrims from Egypt to Cilicia (in modern Turkey) who planned to minister to fellow Christians suffering in the persecutions of emperor Maximinus. They were arrested, torture, mutilated and then imprisoned in Ashkelon. Some were ordered to forced labour in the mines, but we have the names of three who were martyred by order of governor Firmilian - Ares, Elijah and Promo.
• Martyrs DRUSUS, THEODORE and ZOSIMUS of Syria, possibly in Antioch
Three Christians who were martyred together. Known to Saint John Chrysostom who preached on their feast day, and left us the only details we have - their names - Drusus, Theodore and Zosimus.
• Brother and sister VM PIALA (Ciara, Phiala or Phillack) of Penwith (Pen-dinas) and M FINGAR (Gwingar, Gwinnear or Guigner) of Hayle (5th c.) left their native Ireland and went to Cornwall, but were martyred with their companions in Hayle near Penzance by pagans
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Hieromartyr NICHOLAS Kovalöv, presbiter, Priest of Alma-Ata (1884-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted after prison in Atbasar, North Kazakhstan
• Hieroconfessor BASSIAN P’atnitskij, Archbishop of Tambov (1940)
● • Venerable AGNELLUS a hermit and then Abbot of San Gaudioso near Naples in Italy (596) one of the patron-saints of the city and was often seen to free the city from its enemies by the power of the cross
• Martyr CASTULUS under Licinius
• CORMAC the Bishop, of the race of Eoghan, son of Niall
This episcopal holy man belonged to a branch of the Ceinéal Eoghain located on the eastern side of the Inishowen barony of County Donegal.
• FOLCIUNUS 佛尔基邬诺 bishop of Tervas (855) Netherlands
• Sainted HILARION Metropolitan of Suzdal and Yuriev (1708)
• Repose of Blessed Recluse JOHN of Sezenovo Convent (1839)
• MATRONIAN born in Milan in Italy, he became a hermit. His relics were enshrined by St Ambrose
• POMPEIUS (290) Bishop of Pavia in Italy
• Ascetic THEODULUS
• VENATIUS 维纳提 Fortunatus 佛尔图纳特, bishop of Poitiers (530-610) a writer and poet: the hymns Vexilla Regis and Pange Lingua Gloriosa were composed by him
• ZOSIMA
● • Commemoration of the Constantinople terrible earthquake of of December 14th in the year 557 that lasted 10 days
Μνήμη φοβερῆς ἀπειλῆς σεισμοῦ
In commemoration of the sustained philanthropy towards us with the terrible threat of the earthquake, from which despite all hope the philanthropic Lord redeemed us.

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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.

• συνοδικός • December 26 / December 13 • Nativity Fast •

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December 26 / December 13
2018 (7527)
MARTYRS EUSTRATIUS, AUXENTIUS, EUGENE, MARDARIUS, AND ORESTES AT SEBASTE (284). VIRGIN-MARTYR LUCY (304). VEN. ARSENIUS (8-10TH C.). VENERABLE NICODEMUS OF ROMANIA. VEN. ARCADIUS (11TH C.).
VEN. MARDARIUS, RECLUSE OF THE KYIV CAVES (13TH C.)
Nativity (St Philip's) Fast

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• The Holy miraculous Icon of the Virgin Mary MACHAIROTISSA (Panagia of Machairas) especially known for healing wounds; painted by Evangelist Luke the Apostle // NOV 21 //
● Synaxis of the First Martyrs of the AMERICAN LAND: Hieromartyr JUVENAL 犹文纳利 the Protomartyr of America (1796), PETER 裴特若 the Aleut (1815), and New Martyrs of Russia ANATOLE 阿纳托利 Kamensky of Irkutsk and SERAPHIM 塞拉芬 Samoilovich of Uglich and priests JOHN 约安 Kochurov of Chicago (1917) and ALEXANDER 亚历山大 Khotovitsky of New York (1937)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰουβενάλιος καὶ Πέτρος καὶ πάντες Ἅγιοι οἱ ἐν Ἀλάσκα
● Holy Martyrs EUSTRATIUS 艾弗斯特拉提 scriniarius (keeper of the archives) and a Roman commander in the city of Satalionus, EUGENE 艾弗格尼 companion in the army, AUXENTIUS 阿弗克森提 a priest, MARDARIUS 奥瑞斯提 an ordinary citizen, and ORESTES 塞瓦斯特 a distinguished soldier, at Sebaste (284) suffered for the Faith under Diocletian
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εὐστράτιος, Αὐξέντιος, Εὐγένιος, Μαρδάριος καὶ Ὀρέστης
艾弗斯特拉提、奥克森蒂乌斯、艾弗格尼、马尔达里乌斯和奥雷斯特斯
皇帝戴克里先和马克西米安在对基督徒进行迫害的黑暗时期，这5位勇敢的圣人如同星星般闪耀。圣艾弗斯特拉提是罗马帝国斯塔莱翁努斯城的指挥官，艾弗格尼是他军队中的战友；奥雷斯特斯是一位出色的士兵；奥克森蒂乌斯是一名司祭，而马尔达里乌斯是一名普通的百姓，同时也是艾弗斯特拉提的同乡，他们二人都来自阿拉伯拉克城。皇帝命令里斯亚斯和阿格里克鲁斯首先对奥克森蒂乌斯施刑，因为他是一名司祭。看到无辜的基督徒遭受迫害时，艾弗斯特拉提亲自来到里斯亚斯面前，对他说，他也是一名基督徒。当艾弗斯特拉提正在遭受磨难时，艾弗格尼出现在法官的面前，叫喊到：“里斯亚斯，我也是一名基督徒。”当艾弗斯特拉提同其他殉道者一同被带到阿拉伯拉克城的时候，马尔达里乌斯从自家的房顶上看到了他们，于是，他离开了他的妻子和两个孩子，急忙赶到施刑者面前说：“我也是一名基督徒，因为我的主人是艾弗斯特拉提。”当马尔达里乌斯被逮捕，并被带到里斯亚斯面前时，他脖子上的十字架项链从他的颈部滑落，由此，里斯亚斯认定了他是一名基督徒，在这之后，奥雷斯特斯也表白了他的信仰。奥雷斯特斯是一个年轻、潇洒的士兵，他出众的外表在其他所有士兵之上。奥克森蒂乌斯遭到了斩首，艾弗格尼和马尔达里乌斯在受刑时就离开了人世，奥雷斯特斯被放在滚烫的、烧红的铁块上而结束了生命，艾弗斯特拉提在一个火坑中被烧死。圣瓦莱西（2月11日）在监狱中在艾弗斯特拉提受刑之前使他领了圣体血。后来，这些殉道者的圣髑被运送到君士坦丁堡，并被埋葬在教堂中，以纪念这五位圣殉道者。他们在教堂中曾经向人们活生生地显现，圣奥雷斯特斯曾出现在罗斯托夫的圣蒂米特里（10月28日）面前。圣艾弗斯特拉提的一个优美的祷告词至今仍在周六的晚祷中诵读：“我荣耀你，我荣耀你，主！”
A beautiful prayer by St Eustratius is extant, which is read at the Midnight Service on Saturdays: "I glorify Thy majesty, 0 Lord for Thou hast regarded my lowliness and hast not shut me up in the hands of my enemies, but hast saved my soul from want...".
Prayer of St Mardarios: God and Master, Father Almighty; Lord, Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit, one godhead, one power, have mercy on me a sinner; and by the judgements which you know, save me your unworthy servant; for you are blessed to the ages of ages. Amen.
Prayer of Saint Eustratios: I magnify You greatly, O Lord, because you have looked upon my lowliness, and have not handed me into the hands of enemies, but have saved my soul from constraints. And now, Master, let Your hand protect me, and Your mercy come upon me, for my soul has been troubled and is greatly afflicted at its departure from this wretched and soiled body of mine. May the evil plan of the adversary never confront and obstruct it, because of the many sins committed by me in this life in knowledge and in ignorance. Be merciful to me, Master, and never let my soul see the dark and gloomy sight of the evil demons; but may your bright and shining Angels receive it, giving glory to your holy Name, and bring me by Your power to your divine judgement seat. When I am judged, let not the hand of the ruler of this world seize me to cast me, sinner that I am, into the depths of Hell; but stand by me and be for me a saviour and a helper. Have mercy, Lord, on my soul, stained with the passions of life, and receive it pure through repentance and confession; for You are blessed to the ages of ages. Amen.
• Sisters ROSWINDA a Nun at Hohenburg in France and EINHILDIS (Einhild) Abs. of Niedermünster, Germany (8th c.)
Nuns at Hohenburg in Alsace in France with St Ottilia. St Roswinda was probably St Ottilia's sister. St Einhild became Abbess of Niedermünster near Hohenburg.
• NEOPHYTOS, IGNATIUS, PROCOPIUS and NEILOS (1145/1172) founders of the Holy Monastery of Machaira, Cyprus
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Νεόφυτος, Ἰγνάτιος, Προκόπιος καὶ Νεῖλος κτίτορες τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Μαχαιρᾶ
Legend has it that an unknown hermit smuggled one of the 70 icons said to have been painted by Luke the Apostle secretly from Asia Minor to Cyprus, this icon of the Virgin Mary remained in its hiding place until the arrival of two other hermits from Palestine in 1145: Neophytos and Ignatius who stumbled across the icon in a cave. To reach it, they had to machete their way into the cave through the thick plant growth, so the icon assumed the name "Machairotissa" in reference to the Greek word for knife μαχαίρι (Makhaira), the whole monastery founded on this site takes its name from this icon.
Ἅγιοι Πατέρες, Νεόφυτε, Προκόπιε, Ἰγνάτιε καὶ Νεῖλε, πρεσβεύσατε ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶν τούτη ἡ μέρα νὰ ἔρθει μία ὥρα γρηγορότερα. Ἀμήν.
• AZA und ANASTASIUS
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Repose of Blessed MAXIMUS of Ustiug (1906)
• Hieromartyr ALEXANDER Juzefovich, presbiter, priest (1920) shoted in Kara-Bolta of Semirechensk on January 17
• Martyr IOANN Men’kov, Psalmer (1884-1920) shoted in Alma-Ata on September 25
• Repose of Bishop THEODORE Wonderworker of Frolov Convent in Kiev (1924) Ukraine
• Hieromartyr VLADIMIR Lozina-Lozinskij, presbiter, archpriest (1885-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted in Novgorod
• Hieromartyr ALEXANDER Pospelov, presbiter, archpriest (1883-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted, graved at Bugrovsk cemetery of Nizhnij Novgorod
• Hieromartyr IAKOV Gusev, presbiter, priest (1887-1937) day of martyrdom, shoted in Gor’kij after Arzamas prison
• Hieromartyr ALEXIS Rozhdestvenskij, presbiter, archpriest (1865-1937) day of death in KZ
• Hieromartyr GREGORY Faddejev, presbiter, priest (1895-1937) day of martyrdom • Repose of Hieromonk JOEL of Valaam (1937)
• Hieromartyr NICHOLAS Amasijskij, presbiter, priest (1889-1938) day of death in Alma-Ata prison, Kazakhstan
• Hieromartyr EMILIAN Kirejev, presbiter, priest (1903-1941) day of martyrdom, shoted near Alatyr on a right bank of Sura river
• Hieromartyr BASIL Pokrovskij, presbiter, priest (1879-1941) day of martyrdom, shoted near Alatyr on a right bank of Sura river
● • ABRA (Apra) of Poitiers, Nun (342-360)
• Martyr ANTIOCHUS (110/127) on Sulci, a small island near Sardinia, under the Emperor Hadrian. The island is now also known as Isola di Sant'Antioco
• Venerable ARCADIUS 阿尔喀迪 monk of Novotorzhsk (Novyj Torzhok) and Vyaz'ma, Fool for Christ (1077) disciple of St Ephrem // DEC 13 // JUN 11TR REL // AUG 14 //
• Venerable Holy Abba ARES monk in the Egyptian desert
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἄρης
• Venerable abbot ARSENIUS 阿尔塞尼 the Ascetic of Mt Latros (8-10th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρσένιος ὁ Ἀσκητὴς ποὺ ἀσκήτευσε στὸ Λάτριο ὄρος
• Sainted AUTBERT Bishop of Cambrai-Arras in France (669) encouraged monastic life and founded monasteries including that of St Vedast (Saint Vaast) in Arras. Under him Hainault and Flanders became a vast monastic colony
• VM CANTIA at Toscanella, Italy
• COLUMBA 科伦巴 of Terryglass and Holy Island on Lough Derg, Ireland (549)
• Martyress CYPRIANA
• Sainted DOSITHEUS Metropolitan of Moldavia (1693) Romania
St Dosifey, a Romanian hierarch, lived and worked for a time in Galicia where he enshrined the relics of St John the New of Suchava at Zhokvka. He has been formally included in the list of All Saints of Galicia.
• EDBURGH (Edburga), Nun at Lyminge in Kent in England (7th c.)
• EDBURGA (Eadburh, Eadburga or Bugga) of Minster, Abs. of Minster-in-Thanet, Fndr. of monasteries and churches (751) a disciple of St Mildred, whom she probably succeeded as Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet in England in 716. She was a friend and correspondent of St Boniface
• EINHILDIS of Hohenburg (8th c.) Benedictine nun at Hohenburg, Alsace, France. Abbess of nearby Niedermunster
• Hieromartyr 伽弗里伊尔 GABRIEL I of Pec, Patriarch of Serbia (1659)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γαβριὴλ ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Πεκίου Σερβίας
司祭殉道者伽弗里伊尔，塞尔维亚的牧首
在土耳其人统治塞尔维亚的黑暗时期，这位伟大的牧首到俄罗斯旅行，在那里，他参加了于1655年举行的莫斯科宗教教务会议。在返回后，他被指控为大叛徒。同时，一些邪恶的犹太人还列举了其他一些指控来攻击他，因为这位牧首皈依了几名犹太人信奉基督教。在这些指控中，犹太人列举了他正在皈依土耳其人，他们甚至也激起了土耳其当局的愤怒。在审判官面前，他被判刑，并让他信奉伊斯兰教。因为伽弗里伊尔根本就不惧怕这些，在他被判处死刑之后，于1659年在普鲁萨被吊死。这样，他同他所爱的基督相遇了，并从基督那里接受了双重冠冕：高级教士和殉道者。
• Sainted GABRIEL 伽弗里伊尔 Kikodze, bishop of Imeretia, Georgia (1896)
• Sainted HERULF (Hariolf) 1st Abt in Ellwangen, bishop in Langres (815)
• HERMAN 革尔曼 Wonderworker of Alaska (1836) the Patron of North America // DEC 13 REPOSE // AUG 9 //
From this day forth from this very hour and this very minute, let us love God above all and seek to accomplish His Holy Will.
O Holy Father Herman of Alaska, pray unto God for us!
• INNOCENT 英诺肯提 bishop of Cherson (1857)
• Righteous JUDOCUS (Giudoco, Giudioco, Iodocus, Jodoc, Jodokus, Joost, Jos, Josse, Jost, Jouven, Judganoc, Judgeonoc, Judoc, Judocus) (668/669) a priest, brother of King Judicäel of Brittany. After a pilgrimage to Rome, he left Brittany and lived as a hermit in Villiers-Saint-Josse
• King and Martyr KENELM a royal of Mercia (811/820) buried in Winchcomb Abbey In Gloustershire
St Kenelm was a saint who was very popular and is mentioned in the Canterbury Tales. William of Malmesbury, writing in the 12th century, recounted that "there was no place in England to which more pilgrims travelled than to Winchcombe on Kenelm’s feast day".
• Holy Martyress LUCY (Luceja, Lycia, Lucina, Loukia, Lucile, Lucilla, Lucille, or Lucy) 路基亚 the Virgin of Syracuse in Sicily (304) suffered for the Faith under Diocletian
Ἡ Ἁγία Λουκία ἡ Παρθενομάρτυς
殉道者，圣童女卢西
I do not use witchcraft — it is the power of God that is with me. Bring 10 000 of your men if you wish; they will not be able to move me unless God wills it.
With her mother, Lucy visited the grave of St Agatha in Catania, where St Agatha appeared to her. Her mother, who had dropsy, was then miraculously healed in the church. Lucy distributed all her goods to the poor, and this embittered her betrothed, who accused her of being a Christian before Paschasius the judge. The wicked judge ordered that she be taken to a brothel in order to defile her. When the torturer Paschasius was attempting to force this holy virgin to carnal sin, Lucy did not, even in thought, assent to this.
And when the torturer threatened that his men would defile her by force, saying with a smirk, "When you become defiled, the Holy Spirit will flee from you," Lucy, full of grace, replied: "The body cannot be defiled without the consent of the mind."
Thus St Lucy went to her death, having distributed all her goods beforehand and guarded her young and pure body from defilement. However, by the power of God she remained immovable, as if rooted to the earth, and not even a multitude of people was able to move her from that spot. Then an enraged pagan pierced her throat with a sword and she gave up her soul to God and took up her habitation in the Kingdom of Eternity.
The name Lucy (Lucia) is derived for the Latin word for light (lux), and so she is often invoked for afflictions of the eyes. There is a tradition that she was blinded by her torturers, and the church of San Giovanni Maggiore in Naples even claims to possess her eyes.
卢西同母亲一同来到卡塔尼亚的圣阿伽塔墓前，在那里，圣阿伽塔曾在她面前显现。卢西的母亲患有水肿病，但是在教堂中奇迹般地痊愈了。卢西将全部的财产都分给了穷人，这激怒了她的未婚夫，她的未婚夫在帕沙修斯法官面前指控她是基督徒。邪恶的法官命令将卢西带到妓院中，以便玷污她。不管怎样，在上帝的权柄下，她仍然坚贞不屈，如同长在地上的树根一样，即使是一大批人也不能将她玷污。而后，一个愤怒的异教徒用刀从她的喉咙穿过，由此，这位童女将灵魂交给了上帝，得以进入上帝永生的天国。卢西殉道的时间是公元304年。
当施舍别人的时候，一定要施舍他需要的东西；在面对最罪恶的事情时，不要行罪恶，这在上帝面前才是有价值的。当圣卢西看见了她那生病的母亲奇迹般地痊愈了之后，她建议母亲将她的财产分给穷人。但是，她母亲回答说，在她死亡之前她不想将财产分给别人，但是她同意在她死亡之后，卢西可以根据自己的意愿来处理这些财产。“首先用土将我的眼睛埋上”，她的母亲回答说，“而后，你可以根据你的意愿处理这些财产。”卢西却回答说：“一个人将他不能带到坟墓的东西以及他不需要的东西给予上帝，这不是上帝所喜悦的。但是如果你想作上帝喜悦的事情，那么，就给予上帝你现在所需要的东西。不管怎样，在死亡之后，你不再需要任何东西，那时你却将你不能带走的东西给予上帝；而是要当你还在世且健康的时候，将你的所有，以及你打算留给我的所有财产马上给予基督。”这位善良的母亲同意了。当迫害者帕沙修斯强迫这位圣童女行肉欲之欢时，遭到了卢西的拒绝，甚至她都不去想。施刑者威胁说，他的人将会强暴她，并笑嘻嘻地对她说：“当你遭到强暴的时候，圣灵将会离开你。”卢西充满了恩典回答说：“如果没有思想上的同意，身体是不能被玷污的。”圣卢西将她的财产分给了别人，荣耀地离开了这个人世，但是她年轻且贞洁的身体是不能被玷污的。
Today’s saint should not be confused with Saint Lucy of Campania (July 6).
• Venerable non-covetous MARDARIUS 玛尔达里 the Recluse a zealot of poverty of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1281) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Theodosy Far Caves of the Lavra // DEC 13 // AUG 28 // GREAT LENT 2ND SUNDAY //
• Venerable NICODEMUS of Romania
• NICODEMUS of Serbia
• Venerabless ODILIA (Othilia, Odile or Ottilia) 奥迪利亚 of Alsace in France, Pat. of Alsace, Pat. Against Blindness, Fndr/Convents, Abs. of Hohenburg (now Odilienberg) (720/772)
By tradition St Ottilia was born blind and for this reason rejected by her family. She was adopted by a convent where she miraculously recovered her sight. She was a native of Strasburg, and of an illustrious family, but was baptized at Ratisbon, by St Erhard, bishop of that city. Her father erected a great nunnery in Alsace, in which Othilia conducted 130 holy nuns in the paths of Christian perfection, and died in 772.
Eventually she founded convents at Hohenburg (now Odilienberg) in Alsace in France and at Niedermünster in Germany.
• Repose of Schemamonk PANTELEIMON the Resurrected, of Glinsk Hermitage (1895)
• TASSIO (794) Duke of Bavaria and a great monastic benefactor. After founding many monasteries and churches, he became a monk at Jumièges in France but reposed at Lorsch in Germany
• WIFRED (1021) a monk and abbot of the monastery of St Victor in Marseilles in France

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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.

• συνοδικός • December 25 / December 12 • Nativity Fast •

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December 25 / December 12
2018 (7527)
ST SPYRIDON THE WONDERWORKER OF TREMITHON (348). HIEROMARTYR ALEXANDER, BISHOP OF JERUSALEM (251). MARTYR SYNESIUS OF ROME (3RD C.)
Nativity (St Philip's) Fast

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• Our Lady of GUADALUPE (1531) Patroness of Latin America
● Synaxis of the First Martyrs of the AMERICAN LAND: Hieromartyr JUVENAL 犹文纳利 the Protomartyr of America (1796), PETER 裴特若 the Aleut (1815), and New Martyrs of Russia ANATOLE 阿纳托利 Kamensky of Irkutsk and SERAPHIM 塞拉芬 Samoilovich of Uglich and priests JOHN 约安 Kochurov of Chicago (1917) and ALEXANDER 亚历山大 Khotovitsky of New York (1937)
● • Martyrs EPIMACHUS and ALEXANDER (250)
• Martyrs MAXENTIUS, CONSTANTIUS, CRESCENTIUS, JUSTIN and companions (287) in Trier in Germany in the reign of Diocletian
• VMM DIONYSIA; AMMONATHA (Ammonarion, Ammonarium or Ammonaria), Matr.; AMMONARIA; and MERCURIA and others; at Alexandria (3rd c.)
• EUPHEMIANE and PHOEBE
Ἡ Ἁγία Εὐφημιανή
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Hieromartyr presbiter LEONID Serebrennikov (1919)
• Venerable MARDARIJE Uskokovic, of Libertyville, 1st Serbian Bishop of America and Canada (1935)
● • ABRA (Apra) of Poitiers, Nun (342-360) daughter of St Hilary of Poitiers in France. Following his advice she consecrated herself to God as a nun but reposed at the age of 18
• Holy Roman Empress ADELAIDE of Italy (931-999) also called Adelaide of Burgundy
Η Αδελαΐδα της Ιταλίας ή Αδελαΐδα της Βουργουνδίας
• AGATHA a Nun at Wimborne in Dorset in England (790) and a disciple of St Lioba (f.d. September 28), she went to Germany to help St Boniface (f.d. June 5) in his missionary work
• Martyr AITHERIUS (Aetherius), under Maximian, tortured and beheaded for refusing to sacrifice to idols (286 - 305)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Αἰθέριος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Holy Hieromartyr ALEXANDER 亚历山大 Patriarch of Jerusalem (251)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Venerable monk and desertdweller Holy Abba AMONATHUS of Pelusium, Egypt (4th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀμωναθᾶς
• Venerable hermit ANTHUS of Palestine, disciple of St Savva Sanctified (6th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀνθός
• BERTOARA (Berthoaria) Nun and Fndr. of Our Lady of Sales Abbey, Diocese of Bourges (689)
• COLMAN 科尔曼 of Glendalough, Abbot of Glendalough in Ireland (659)
• COLMAN (Colman moccu Thelduib, Colmanus) of Clonard (654)
Related to Saint Finnian of Clonard. Monk. Abbot of Clonard Abbey.
• COLUMBA (Colm) of Tyrdaglas (548) born in Leinster in Ireland, he was a disciple of St Finian and Abbot of Tyrdaglas in Munster. Son of Crimthain
Son of Crinthainn. Disciple of Saint Finnian of Clonard; administered Last Rites to Saint Finnian on his death-bed. Spiritual director of Saint Caemban, Saint Fintan, and Saint Mocumin. Founded the monastery of Tirdaglas (Terryglass) in 548, and served as its abbot. Visited Tours, France, and brought back relics of Saint Martin of Tours. One of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.
• CORENTINUS (490) the 1st Bishop of Quimper in Brittany. He had lived as a hermit at Plomodiern
Son of a British chieftain. Hermit at Plomodiern in Brittany. First bishop of Cornouaille, (modern Quimper), France, consecrated by Saint Martin. Signed the decrees of the Council of Angers in 453.
They may be two people or one; however, in 1890, a fresco was discovered at Breage (the mother-church of Lizard), which depicts Saint Corentin/Cury in a cope and mitre with the pastoral staff of a bishop. Beside him is a fish, from which he was reputed to have cut and eaten one slice each day, without any diminution in the size of the fish.
• CORENTINUS (Cury) a hermit at the foot of Mount Menehent (401) honoured in Denvonshire and Cornwall
• The Eminently Holy CORMAC (6th c.) an ancient abbot in Ireland and friend of St Columba (f.d. June 9)
• Abbess & Virgin EDBURGA (also Eadburh, Eadburga or Bugga) of Minster, Abs. of Minster- in-Thanet, Fndr. of monasteries and churches (751)
Only daughter of King Centwine and Queen Engyth of Wessex, the 8th century royal family of Kent, England. Benedictine nun. Friend and spiritual student of Saint Mildred of Thanet. Abbess of Minster-on-Thanet Abbey in 716. She secured several royal charters for the abbey, and built a new church there. Skilled scribe and calligrapher. Pilgrim to Rome, Italy where she met Saint Boniface with whom she established a lengthy correspondence; her letters have not survived. She supported Saint Boniface in his missionary work, and copied manuscripts for his use.
• Bishop FINIAN (Finian, Finden, Vennianus, Vinnianus) 斐尼安 the Teacher of the Irish Saints, founder of Clonard and Skellig Michael in Ireland (470-549/564)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Finian of Clonard
He is often called the "Teacher of Irish Saints." At one time his pupils at Clonard included the so-called Twelve Apostles of Ireland:
Brendan of Birr (f.d. November 29)
Brendan the Voyager (f.d. May 16)
Cainnech (f.d. October 11)
Ciaran of Clommacnois (f.d. September 9)
Columba of Iona (f.d. June 9)
Columba of Terryglass (f.d. today)
Comgall of Bangor (f.d. May 11)
Finian of Moville (f.d. September 10)
Kieran of Saigher (f.d. March 5)
Mobhi (f.d. October 12)
Molaise (Laserian) of Devendish (f.d. August 12)
Ninidh of Inismacsaint (f.d. January 18)
Ruadhan of Lothra (f.d. April 15)
Sinell of Cleenish (f.d. October 12).
(You might note that this is more than 12; this is a very elastic twelve with different saints added at different times)
• Repose of FLEGONT Ostrovsky, Stylite of Kimlyai, Mordovia (1870)
• GREGORY of Terracina (570) a disciple of St Benedict and with his brother St Speciosus, a monk at Terracina in Italy
Brother of Saint Speciosus. Spiritual student of Saint Benedict of Nursia. Benedictine monk at Terracina, Italy. Pope Saint Gregory the Great wrote of him in his Dialogues.
• HERMAN 革尔曼 Wonderworker of Alaska (1836) the Patron of North America // DEC 13 REPOSE // AUG 9 //
• IRENE daughter of St Spyridon
• JOACHIM Metropolitan of Zichna (1333)
• Martyr JOHN 约安 Abbot of Zedazeni Monastery, Georgia (9th c.) murdered at Zedazeni by Muslims
• Sainted JOHN 约安 metropolitan of Zichon, founder of the monastery of the Forerunner on Mt Menikion (1333)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης (ἢ Ἰωακείμ) Ἐπίσκοπος Ζιχνῶν
• Holy Martyr SYNESIUS 辛奈息 a Reader (275) in Rome
Ὁ Ἅγιος Συνετὸς ὁ Μάρτυρας
Cynecius is derived from the Greek word "synetos", – meaning "man of reason". As a young reader in Rome, he boldly preached the truth of Christ and denounced idolaters. For this, he was tortured and beheaded during the reign of Emperor Aurelian.
• Sainted SPYRIDON 斯彼里顿 the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tremithus (348)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σπυρίδων ὁ Θαυματουργός Ἐπίσκοπος Τριμυθοῦντος Κύπρου
Saint Spyridon displayed a proof in evidence of the Oneness within the Holy Trinity. He took in his hand a brick and he grasped it – for an instant fire emerged from it upwards, water flowed downwards, and there remained clay in the hands of the wonderworker. "There are these three elements, but one tile (brick), – and Saint Spyridon then said, – suchlike also the Holy Trinity: Three Persons, but One God. "
• Venerable THERAPONTES 德拉庞提 abbot of Monza (1597)
• Abbot VALERY from Auvergne (622) France
He often repeated to others: "The more cheerfully we give to those who are in distress, the more readily will God give us what we ask of him. "

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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.

• συνοδικός • December 24 / December 11 • Nativity Fast •

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December 24 / December 11
2018 (7527)
VEN DANIEL THE STYLITE OF CONSTANTINOPOLE (490). MARTYR MIRAX OF EGIPT (640). MARTYR ACEPSIUS AND AEITHALAS AT ARBELA IN ASSYRIA (VII). VEN LUKE THE NEW STYLITE OF CHALCEDON (979). VEN NICON THE DRY OF KYIV CAVES (1101)
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Synaxis of the Saints of GEORGIA including:
• Holy Martyr SUKIA and His 16 Companions (100–130) // APR 15/28 //
• Saint NINO Equal to the Apostles and Enlightener of Georgia (335 AD) // JAN 14/27 //
• Venerable ZABULON and SOSANA, Parents of the Equal to the Apostles Nino (4th c.) // MAY 20/JUN 2 //
• Equals to the Apostles King MIRIAN and Queen NANA, and Saints SIDONIA and ABIATAR (4th c.) // OCT 1/14 //
• SALOME of Ujarma and PEROZHAVRA of Sivnia (4th c.) // JAN 15/28 //
• Holy Royal Martyr MIRDAT King of Kartli (410) // JUL 8/21 //
• RAZHDEN Protomartyr of the Georgian Church (457) // AUG 3/16 //
"Your flattery and bribes are insulting to me. With joy I am prepared to endure every suffering for the sake of Christ!" Razhden replied to his appeals.
"Into Thy hands, O Lord, I commit my spirit!" were the last words of St Razhden.
O radiant star and Great Martyr Razhden, thou who didst turn from godlessness to walk in the way of the righteous, suffer trials for Christ, and stand out among the saints, we believers glorify thee with divine praise. Through thine intercessions deliver us from every temptation!
• Holy Royal Martyress Queen SHUSHANIK (475) // AUG 28/SEP 10 //
• Holy Catholicos PETRE and Holy Catholicos SAMOEL (5–6th c.) // NOV 30/DEC 13 //
• Holy King VAKHTANG Gorgasali (502) // NOV 30/DEC 13 //
• Holy Martyr EVSTATI of Mtskheta (589)
• Venerable Holy Martyr IOANE of Zedazeni (6th c.) and His 12 Disciples: Holy Hieromartyr ABIBOS of Nekresi, ANTON the Stylite of Martqopi, DAVIT of Gareji, ZENON of Iqalto, TADEOS of Stepantsminda, ISE of Tsilkani, IOSEB of Alaverdi (570), ISIDORE of Samtavisi, MIKAEL of Ulumbo, PIROS of Breti, STEPANE of Khirsa, and SHIO of Mgvime
• Holy Martyrs the Brothers DAVIT and TARICHAN (693) // MAY 18/31 //
• Holy Hieromartyr NEOPITE of Urbnisi (7th c.) // OCT 28/NOV 10 //
• Great Martyrs DAVIT and CONSTANTINE (740) // OCT 2/15 //
• Holy Royal Martyr ARCHIL (744) // JUN 21/4 JUL //
The Life-giving God and Creator of heaven and earth came down from heaven to save mankind and by His death to slay our slayers, granting us immortality. He, the Almighty and Victorious, toppled and crushed them long before my own time.
• Holy Catholicos MAMAI (744) // MAY 3/16 //
• Holy Catholicos SARMEAN (774) // AUG 21/SEP 3 //
• Venerable MIKAEL of Parekhi (8–9th c.) // MAY 27/JUN 9 //
• Venerable Fathers and Mothers of the Klarjeti Wilderness (8–10th c.) // OCT 5/18 //
• Holy Martyrs, the Brothers ISAAK and IOSEB the Georgians (808) // SEP 16/29 //
• Great Martyr CONSTANTINE Kakhi (852) // NOV 10/23 //
He was the descendant of Kakhetian princes, hence his title "Kakhi".
• Venerable GRIGOL of Khandzta (861) // OCT 5/18 //
• Venerable ILARION the Georgian (875) // NOV 19/DEC 2 //
• Holy Catholicos ARSEN the Great (887) // SEP 25/OCT 8 //
• Saint EPREM the Great of Atsquri (9th c.) // APR 15/28 //
• Venerable Fathers MIKAEL and ARSEN the Georgians (9th c.) // MAY 3/16 //
• Saint GIORGI of Atsquri (9–10th c.) // APR 2/15 //
• Venerable SERAPION of Zarzma (900) // OCT 29/NOV 11 //
• Great Martyr Prince MIKAEL Gobron and His 133 Soldiers (914) // NOV 17/30 //
Prince Gobron traced a cross on his brow with blood and said, "I thank Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, that Thou hast accounted me, the most contemptible and chief among sinners, worthy to lay down my life for Thy sake!" Again they brought St Gobron before the emir. For the last time Abu al Qasim tried to entice him to apostatize, but the saint, dripping with blood, declared, "Do as you wish. I am a Christian and will never retreat from the name of my Christ!"
Like a gift of healing flowing from a spring of grace, clad in the robe of martyrdom, the victorious prince Mikael and his fellow soldiers were united to God. Let us crown with hymns of praise him who shone forth upon his nation as the majesty of the Georgian Church!
• Holy and Pious Queen DINAR (10th c.) // JUN 30/JUL 13 //
• Venerable IOANE (Tornike Eristavi) of Mt Athos (10th c.) // JUN 12/25 //
• Venerable Fathers IOANE and GABRIEL of Mt Athos (10th c.) // JUL 8/21 //
• Holy Hierarch IOANE of Khakhuli, also called Chrysostom (10–11th c.) // MAR 10/23 //
• IOANE IV Chrysostom the Catholicos (1001) a disciple of Holy Catholicos-Patriarch Melchizedek // MAR 3/16 //
• Most Wise Venerable EKVTIME of Mt Athos, the Translator, abbot of the Iveron Monastery (1028) // MAY 13/26 //
Son of St Ioane of Mt Athos, a military commander during the reign of King Davit Kuropalates, who abandoned the world to enter the monastic life had founded the Iveron Monastery with St Ioane Tornike.
• Venerable GIORGI of Mt Athos, the Builder (1029) // JUL 28/AUG 10 //
The venerable Giorgi the Builder was the 3rd abbot of the Iveron Monastery on Mt Athos. According to some sources, he was a nephew of St Ioane, the founder and first abbot of the Iveron Monastery. Giorgi was elevated to the rank of abbot after St Ekvtime left the monastery to travel to Jerusalem. Under his leadership, the main church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos was constructed. An inscription on the wall of the church reads: "I established these columns and they will not be shaken unto the ages. Monk Giorgi the Georgian, Builder." For most of his life Abbot Giorgi was highly respected and even revered in the imperial court of Byzantium, but he was eventually slandered, accused of treason, and exiled to the island of Monovatia, where he reposed in the year 1029.
• Saint ILARION of Tvali (1041) // JUL 24/AUG 6 //
• Venerable Father GIORGI of the Holy Mountain(1065) // JUN 27/JUL 10 //
• Venerable GIORGI the God Bearer and Recluse (1068) labored in the Black Mountains near Antioch // JUL 3/16 //
A heavenly man and an earthly angel, O Venerable Father Giorgi the God Bearer, we pray thee to direct our lives on the path of peace!
• ARSEN Bishop of Ninotsminda (1082) // JUL 31/AUG 13 //
• Venerable BASIL Son of King Bagrat (11th c.) // MAY 27 // JUN 9 //
• MELCHIZEDEK Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (11th c.)
• Venerable GIORGI the Scribe and His Brother SABA (11th c.) of Khakhuli // DEC 19/JAN 1 //
• Venerable EPREM the Lesser, the Philosopher (1101) // JAN 18/31 //
• Venerable DAMIANE (in the world King Demetre I) (1157) the son of Holy King Davit the Restorer // MAY 23/JUN 5 //
• Holy Queen TAMAR (1213) // MAY 1/14 //
At the beginning of her reign, Tamar convened a Church council and addressed the clergy with wisdom and humility: "Judge according to righteousness, affirming good and condemning evil," she advised. "Begin with me — if I sin I should be censured, for the royal crown is sent down from above as a sign of divine service. Allow neither the wealth of the nobles nor the poverty of the masses to hinder your work. You by word and I by deed, you by preaching and I by the law, you by upbringing and I by education will care for those souls whom God has entrusted to us, and together we will abide by the law of God, in order to escape eternal condemnation.… You as priests and I as ruler, you as stewards of good and I as the watchman of that good."
Exalted among the saints, O Holy and Righteous Queen Tamar, thou didst erect churches atop the highest peaks, strengthen the armies of the Christ-fearing Georgian nation by thy prayers, and defeat the Muslim armies with thy right hand. Intercede with Christ God to save our souls!
• Holy Martyr SHALVA of Akhaltsikhe (1227) // JUN 17/30 //
• The 100 000 Martyrs of Tbilisi (1227) // OCT 31/NOV 13 //
• Holy King DEMETRE the Devoted (1289) GRANDSON OF Queen Tamar // MAR 16/29 //
• Venerable Father PIMEN Fool for Christ and Enlightener of Dagestan, and His Companion ANTON Meskhi, the Censurer of Kings (13th c.) // Mar 16/29 // • Venerable IOANE of Shavta, Bishop of Gaenati, and EVLOGI the Prophet and Fool for Christ (13th c.) // APR 1/14 //
• Venerable BASIL Ratishvili (13th c.) // APR 18/MAY 1 //
• Holy Martyrs Killed by the Latins at the Iveron Monastery on Mt Athos (13th c.) // MAY 13/26 //
• Holy Martyr SALOME the Georgian (13th c.) // JUL 20/AUG 2 //
• TSOTNE Dadiani the Confessor (13th c.) a virtuous military leader and the prince of Egris // JUL 30/AUG 12 //
• TBELI Abuseridze (13th c.) filled with the virtue of theological wisdom, thou didst enlighten the world with knowledge divine // AUG 17/30 //
St Tbeli’s collection of hymns to St John the Baptist, St John the Theologian, and St John Chrysostom reveals his true piety and talent as a writer of the Church. The profound theological ideas, the symbolic and mystical comprehension of phenomena, the "knowledge of the visible" and "comprehension of the invisible" evident in this work paint St Tbeli as one equally endowed as both a scholar and a theologian. St Tbeli was fascinated by the science of chronology, and he compiled a work called Chronicles: Complete Commentaries and Rules to address some of the problems related to chronology. Combining a solid understanding of astronomy and history, this work conveys the cosmic meaning of the Julian calendar and Christian eschatology. St Tbeli’s famous hagiographical work The New Miracle of Great Martyr George contains valuable historical information about the Abuseridze family’s efforts to revive Georgian culture during the ancient feudal epoch. While pursuing his literary and scholarly interests, St Tbeli also labored as a holy and God-fearing pastor.
• Venerable NIKOLOZ Radiant Star of the Georgians (1308) // NOV 3/16 //
• Holy Martyr NIKOLOZ Dvali (1314) beheaded by the Muslims, the unbelievers burned the holymartyr’s body // OCT 16/NOV 1 // FEB 12 //
The last words he spoke were: “Glory toThee, O Lord, Who hast accounted me worthy to die for Thy sake! ”
• Holy Martyrs of Kvabtakhevi Monastery (1386) // APR 10/23 //
Having been driven like beasts into the church, the martyrs raised up a final prayer to God: "In the multitude of Thy mercy shall I go into Thy house; I shall worship toward Thy holy temple in fear of Thee. O Lord, guide me in the way of Thy righteousness; because of mine enemies, make straight my way before Thee (Ps. 5:6–7) that with a pure mind I may glorify Thee forever…."
• Right-believing and divinely crowned Martyr IOTAM Zedgenidze (1465) // OCT 30/NOV 12 //
• Holy Hierarch ZOSIME of Kumurdo (16th c.) good shepherd and beautifier of churches // MAY 1/14 //
• Holy Hieromartyr TEVDORE (1609) // JUN 8/21 //
• Saint KAIKHOSRO the Georgian (1612) tortured to death by Shah Abbas I for pious veneration of the Holy Icons // JUN 16/29 //
Protector of all good things and guide of those who pray unto thee, O Holy Martyr Kaikhosro, pray to God for us!
• Holy Royal Martyr LUARSAB (1622) strangled to death with a bowstring // JUN 21/4 JUL //
• Holy Great Martyress Queen KETEVAN (1624) // SEP 13/26 //
• The 9 Kherkheulidze Brothers with Their Mother and Sister and 9 000 Martyrs of Marabda (1625) // AUG 3/16 //
Today we will fight a Battle for Faith and for Christ; therefore my blood must be spilled before yours!
• Holy Hieromartyr hieromonk KOZMAN (1630) a learned and righteous ascetic, well-versed in the canons of the Orthodox Church composed a set of "Hymns to the Great-Martyr Queen Ketevan" // JUL 18/31 //
• Holy Hieromartyr EVDEMOZ Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia (1642) // OCT 4/17 //
• Holy Allpraised Martyrs BIDZINA, SHALVA, and ELIZBAR (1661) // SEP 18/OCT 1 //
"There is nothing sweeter than death for Christ’s sake!" Bidzina proclaimed.
• Holy Martyrs of Lazeti (17–18th c.) // APR 29/MAY 12 //
• Holy Monkmartyrs SHIO the New, DAVIT, GABRIEL, and PAVLE of Gareji (1696–1700) // JUN 1/14 //
• Holy Hierarch ANTIMOS of Iberia, Metropolitan of Wallachia (1716) // JUN 13/26 //
• Venerable hieromonk Holy Hierarch IOANE Saakadze, consecrated bishop of Manglisi (1751) // MAR 28/APR 5 //
• Venerable IOSEB of Khevi in northern Georgia, Elder and Wonderworker (1763) // OCT 7/20 //
• Holy Hierarch Catholicos-Patriarch IOSEB Jandierishvili, the Wonderworker (1770) // OCT 17/30 //
Through St Ioseb’s prayers, the sick were healed and the blind received sight. Those who dwelt near him loved him deeply and put their hope in him.
• Blessed Father KRISTESIA tonsured a monk with name Kristepore (1771) // MAY 11/24 //
"My children!" he would say, "If you do not heed my words, I will leave in sorrow, and the devil, who is always resistant to peace, will rejoice and send more tribulations upon you. I came to you hungry, and I will depart hungry!"
• Venerable SVIMEON the Wonderworker (1773) raised at Davit-Gareji Monastery // SEP 1/14 //
• Venerable SERAPION the Wonderworker of St John the Baptist Monastery (1774) endowed with divine sanctity and humility // AUG 24/SEP 6 //
• Holy Hieromartyr DOSITEOS of Tbilisi (1795) // SEP 12/25 //
• Venerable ONOPRE of Gareji, the Wonderworker (18th c.)
• Holy Hierarch ANTON of Chqondidi and His Disciple Hieromonk IAKOB the Elder (18–19th c.)
• Venerable Hieromartyr GABRIEL the Lesser (1802)
• Venerable EKVTIME Abbot of the Monastery of St John the Baptist (1804)
• Venerable Martyrs of the Davit-Gareji Monastery: Hierodeacon OTAR stabbed to death; beheaded Hieromonk GERONTI; battered to death with swords Hieromonk SERAPION; stabbed in the stomach and beheaded Monk GERMAN; beheaded Monk BESARION; shoted with bows and arrows, then caught and beheaded 18year-old SVIMEON; subjected to the harshest tortures Monk MIKAEL; by the Dagestanis bandits (1851) // AUG 12/25 //
The martyrdom of the holy fathers of the Davit-Gareji Monastery was described in 1853 by Hieromonk Isaak of Gaenati, who witnessed the tragedy. Hieromonk Isaak himself was captured and led away to Dagestan by the merciless bandits. He was later freed through the mediation of Tsar Nicholas I (1825–1855).
• Holy Martyr KRISTEPORE Guruli // AUG 16/29 //
Thou didst receive the Cross of Christ with great zeal and suffer for His sake. O Holy Martyr Kristepore, pray to God for us!
• Holy Martyr KOZMAN // OCT 17/30 //
O divinely blossoming flower radiant with the red of thy blood, Holy Kozman the Martyr for Christ, we glorify thy virtue and pray thee to intercede for us!
• Holy and Righteous IOANE, STEPANE, and ISAIAH the Georgians // NOV 4/17 //
• Holy Hierarch ALEXANDRE (Alexi Okropiridze in the world) Bishop of Guria and Samegrelo (1824-1907) // OCT 27/ NOV 9 //
• Most Glorious ILIA the Righteous (1837-1907) called the "Uncrowned King of Georgia", the "Father of the Nation", great philosopher, writer, and historian // JUL 20/ AUG 2 //
Ilia the Righteous was often heard declaring, "We, the Georgian people, have inherited three divine gifts from our ancestors: our motherland, our language and our faith. If we fail to protect these gifts, what merit will we have as men? "
• Holy Hieromartyr KIRION (Giorgi Sadzaglishvili) Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1855-1918) murdered in the patriarchal residence at Martqopi Monastery // JUN 27/ JUL 10 //
• Venerable Hieromonk ALEXI Shushania (1852-1923) // JAN 18/31 //
• Holy Martyrs Metropolitan NAZAR of Kutaisi-Gaenati (1872-1924), Priests GERMAN Jajanidze, IEROTEOS Nikoladze and SIMON Mchedlidze, Archdeacon BESARION Kukhianidze, shot to death in the Sapichkhia Forest; and All the New Martyrs of the Totalitarian Regime (1924) // AUG 14/27 //
O Holy New Martyrs tortured by the godless enemy, intercede for us with the Holy Trinity and ask of Christ God great mercy for our souls!
• God-fearing Hierarch AMBROSI (Besarion Khelaia) the Confessor, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1927) // MAR 16/29 //
St Ambrosi spoke these remarkable last words to his persecutors: "My soul belongs to God, my heart to my motherland, and with my flesh you may do whatever you wish. "
• Holy Hieromartyr Archimandrite GRIGOL Peradze (1899-1942) like Christ Himself, died for having taken upon himself the sin of another // NOV 23/DEC 6 //
• EKVTIME Kereselidze the Confessor (1865-1944)
• Holy Confessors IOANE Maisuradze (1957) and GIORGI-IOANE Mkheidze (1960) // SEP 8/21 //
● • MM VICTORICUS and FUSCIAN described as early missionaries in France, martyred near Amiens; and GENTIAN an old man martyred while trying to protect them when they were arrested (287)
• Martyrs TRASON, PONTIAN and PRAETEXTATUS (302) in Rome under Diocletian, put to death for ministering to Christian prisoners awaiting martyrdom
• Martyrs ACEPSIUS 阿凯普西 and AEITHALAS 阿伊塔拉 deacon of the Arbel Church, at Arbela in Assyria (354) hailed from Persia
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀειθαλᾶς καὶ Ἀκεψέης οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Hosiosmartyr Abbot BARSABAS 瓦尔萨瓦 of Ishtar, of Persia, beheaded; and 10 Hosiosmartyrs of Persepolis (342) and the former executioners Persian Magi drenched the ground with their blood, and received from Christ the crown of martyrdom
Ὁ Ἅγιος Βαρσαβάς ὁ Μάρτυρας
• The 2 EMERS (5th c.) sisters of St Guasacht of Granard (f.d. January 24) and daughters of Miluic who was Saint Patrick's former master. Patrick himself gave the Emers the veil of consecrated virgins and installed them in the 1st convent in Ireland
• MM TERENCE, VINCENT, EMILIANUS and BEBAIA who were slain by the sword
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Τερέντιος, Βικέντιος, Αἰμιλιανὸς καὶ Βεβαία οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Martyrs PETER the Acsetic, and ACEPSIMAS of Persia
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Πέτρος καὶ Ἀκεψιμάς οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Venerables monks BECHIANUS (Vechianus) Ascetic, and NOMON the Wonderworker, of Cyprus
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νόμων ὁ Θαυματουργός
● NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS in the 20th century
• Hieromartyr THEOPHAN 德奥梵 (Sergius Il’menskij) Bishop of Solikamsk (1867-1918) day of martyrdom, drowned in Kama river at Perm
Vladyka was led ashore by the frozen river Kama, undressed; cutters weaved his hair and, passing through them a pole, slowly began to lower it into the hole, after a half-minute again to lift it over the hole and again lower it. After 15-20 minutes, succeeding each other, the executioners satisfied their satanic lust. The body of Bishop Feofan was covered with 2fingers-thick ice, but he was still alive. Numerous witnesses saw all this horror.
• 2 Hieromartyrs presbiters of Perm (1918)
• 5 Martyrs of Perm (1918)
• Hieromartyr NICHOLAS Vinogradov, presbiter, archpriest (1876-1937) day of death, in KZ of NKVD, Ust-Koin of Komi
• Hieromartyr IOANN Bogojavlenskij, presbiter, priest (1892-1941) day of death, by starvation in Sevzheldorlag KZ, Kn’azh-Pogost, Komi
• Hieromartyr presbiter NICHOLAS Krylov (1937)
• Blessed Repose of Venerable hieroschemamonk KUKSHA 库克莎 (Kosma Velichko) the New (1875-1964) of Odessa, Ukraine
● • CIAN (6th c.) a hermit in Wales
• Venerable DAMASKINOS
Ὁ Ὅσιος Δαμασκηνός
• DAMASUS Pope and Confessor (304-384)
He who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to the dying seeds of the earth; he who was able to loose the mortal chains of death, and after three days' darkness could bring again to the upper world the brother for his sister Martha: he, I believe, will make Damasus rise again from the dust. - epitaph Damasus wrote for himself
• Venerable DANIEL 但以理 the Stylite (493)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Δανιὴλ ὁ Στυλίτης
• Martyr EUTYCHIUS (4th c.) called San Oye either in Mérida or else in Cádiz in Spain
• FIDWETEN (Fivetein, Fidivitanus) (888) a monk and disciple of St Convoyon in Redon in Brittany
Benedictine monk at Saint Saviour Abbey in Redon, Brittany (in modern France). Spiritual student of Saint Convoyon of Redon.
• Irish woman saint FUINCHE of Abbeylara, County Longford
• Venerable LEONTIUS 莱翁提 monk of Monemvasia in the Peloponnese (1450)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Λεόντιος
• Venerable hieromonk LUKE 路加 the Stylite, scorned the vanity of the world and withdrew to a pillar near Chalcedon lived there a life of asceticism for 45 years, cleansing his soul of all sinful desires and thoughts (970/980)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Λουκᾶς ὁ Νέος Στυλίτης
• Holy Martyr MIRAX (Meirax) 弥拉克斯 an Egyptian (640) tortured and beheaded
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μείραξ
Deceived by a Moslem Emir, he embraced Islam. He later repented and entered a mosque with a cross. There he declared himself a Christian, calling upon the Moslems to forsake their falsehood and to accept the Truth.
• Venerable NICON 尼孔 the Lean (the Dry) of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1101) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Antony Near Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Νίκων ὁ Ξηρὸς ὁ ἐν τῷ Σπηλαίῳ
• NIKEPHOROS II Phokas, Emperor of Byzantium (912-969)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικηφόρος Φωκᾶς αὐτοκράτορας τοῦ Βυζαντίου
Νικηφόρος Β΄ Φωκᾶς
• PERIS the Patron Saint of Llanberis in Wales
• PHILEMON
• SABINUS (420) Bishop of Piacenza in Italy and a close friend of St Ambrose, who used to send him his writings for revision and approval
• Righteous duke TASSILO III of Bayern (730-797) in Lorsch in Hessen
• Young Martyr of Egypt under Muslim

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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.