συνοδικός
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
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!
• 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
• 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)
• 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
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.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.
愿上帝怜恤我罪人
O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,
for the sake of the prayers
of Thy most pure Mother,
our holy and God-bearing fathers and all the saints, have mercy on us.
Amen.
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Blessed be God.
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