συνοδικός
January 21 / January 8
2019 (7527)
Forefeast of the Theophany
VENN. GEORGE THE CHOZEBITE, ABBOT (7TH C.) AND ST. EMILIAN BISHOP OF CYZICUS (9TH C.). VEN. DOMNICA OF CONSTANTINOPLE (474). HIEROMARTYR CARTERIUS OF CAESAREA IN CAPPADOCIA (304). MARTYRS THEOPHILUS THE DEACON AND HELLADIUS IN LIBYA (4TH C.).ELIAS THE HERMIT OF EGYPT (4TH C.). VEN. GREGORY, WONDERWORKER OF THE KYIV CAVES (1093). VEN. GREGORY, HERMIT OF THE KYIV CAVES (14TH C.)
• "THE LIFEGIVING WELL" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
• Our Lady of Prompt Succor (Notre Dame de Bon Secours, Our Lady of Quick Help) a wooden devotional image enshrined in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
• Martyrs LUCIAN, MAXIMIAN and JULIAN (290) in Beauvais in the north of France • Hieromartyr THEOPHILUS 德奥斐罗 the Deacon and Martyr HELLADIUS 艾拉迪 in Libya (305) after being tortured they were beaten with stones
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Θεόφιλος καὶ Ἑλλάδιος οἱ Μάρτυρες
The deacon Theophilus and Helladius, a layman, were martyred in Libya, where they had preached the Gospel. They were tortured and thrown into a furnace.
• Holy Hosiosmartyr Abbot JULIAN 犹利安 and his wife Hosiosmartyress Abbess BASILISSA 瓦西利萨; hieromartyr presbiter ANTHONY 安托尼; Hosiosmartyr ANASTASIUS 阿纳斯塔西 who was raised from the dead by M Julian; Martyress MARCIONILLA (Marcianilla, Marionilla or Maronilla) 玛尔基奥尼拉, Matr., and her son Martyr CELSUS (Celsius) 凯尔稣; 20 Soldiers; 7 children and others at Antinoe in Egypt (313)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰουλιανός, Βασίλισσα, Κέλσιος, Ἀναστάσιος καὶ Ἀντώνιος οἱ Μάρτυρες
圣殉道者犹利安和瓦西利萨
犹利安和瓦西利萨出身于名门贵族，且家境富有。虽然已结为夫妻，但两人却互订誓约，生活贞洁如兄妹。他们将所有的财产都分送给了穷人，然后两人剪发成为克修者。犹利安建了一座有大约一万名修士的男修道院，而瓦西利萨则建了一座有大约一千名修女的女修道院。当戴克里先开始残酷地迫害基督徒时，瓦西利萨恳求上帝不要让修女们中的任何一个畏惧酷刑的恐吓，背弃信德。上帝听到了他忠诚的婢女的祈祷，在六个月的时间里将所有的修女一一接进他的怀里，最后的一位就是修道院院长瓦西利萨。在瓦西利萨离世前，曾经看到一个神见：从另一个世界而来的那些修女们向她显现，她们都如同天使般容光焕发而快乐，并召唤她尽快同她们团聚。犹利安的修道院被迫害者焚烧，犹利安遭受了极不人道的酷刑，终受极刑。在受刑期间，上帝在暗中眷顾他、扶助他，使他能够坚韧不拔、持守信仰，荣耀主耶稣基督之名。和犹利安一同被斩首的还有施刑者玛尔基安的妻子马诺尼拉和儿子切尔苏斯，因为他们亲眼目睹了犹利安在苦难和酷刑中的英勇，从而也归信了基督。其他被斩首的还包括二十名罗马士兵、城中的七兄弟、司祭安托尼和一个名叫阿纳斯塔西的人——犹利安在受刑之时，曾以祈祷使其死里复生。以上这些人都为主耶稣基督的缘故而受尽了苦难，时为公元313年左右。他们获得了上帝的眷顾，进入了天上的国度。
• Venerabless DOMNICA (Domnica, Dominica, Domnkike, Dohmne, Domnina, Keriake or Kyriaki) 多穆尼卡 the Righteous of Constantinople, Dcn., Abs., together with the women in her community: DOROTHEA, EVANTHIA, NONNA and TIMOTHEA (474)
Ἡ Ὁσία Δομνίκη
圣多穆尼卡
德奥多西皇帝在位期间，尚未接受浸礼的多穆尼卡与另外4个异教少女一起从迦太基前往君士坦丁堡。牧首玛喀里为她们施浸，并祝福她们进修道院做修女。怀着巨大的热忱，圣多穆尼卡潜心克修，毫不动摇。她领受了圣灵的光照，能够预知未来的事件，并能以祈祷施行灵迹。圣女直到高龄方安息主怀，时为公元474年左右。
Dominica reported to have the gift of prophecy.
• Martyrs EUCTUS, FELIX, JANUARIUS, LUCIUS, PALLADIUS, PISCUS, RUSTICUS, SECUNDUS and TIMOTHEUS of Greece
• Hieromartyr presbiter ISIDORE 伊西多若 and 72 companions at Yuriev (Dorpats) in Estonia, slain by the Latins (1472) martyred at the city founded by St Yaroslav the Wise and honoured as saints of the Kyivan Metropolia
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῶ 72 Μάρτυρες
Two days after the Feast of the Theophany, there is the commemoration of St Isidore the Hieromartyr and 72 of his parishioners in Dorpats, Estonia Having blessed the waters of the Jordan, St Isidore and 72 of his parishioners were arrested by crusaders. They could get their freedom if they became Latin Catholics and they steadfastly refused. On January 21st, St Isidore and his parishioners, among whom were men, women and children, were all thrown into the freezing waters at the very spot where, two days before, they stood to celebrate the feast of the Theophany!
The Hieromartyr Isidor was priest of the Nikol'sk church in the city of Yur'ev (Derpto, at present Taru in Estonia). According to the terms of a treaty concluded in 1463 between the Moscow Greatprince Ivan III and the Livonian knights, the latter were obligated to extend to the Orthodox at Derpto every protection. But the Livonian knights broke the treaty and began to try forcing the Orthodox into the Unia. Presbyter Isidor bravely stood forth in defense of Orthodoxy. He preferred to accept a martyr's crown rather than submit to the Catholics. Blessed Isidor together with 72 of his parishioners were drowned in the ice-hole, cut open on the feast of Theophany after the blessing of waters in the River Amovzha (or Emaiyga, now Emajogi). In Spring, during a time of flooding, the undecayed bodies of the holy martyrs, and among them the fully-vested body of the PriestMartyr Isidor, were found by Russian merchants journeying along the River bank. They buried the saints around the Nikol'sk church.
• Venerable Elder ISAIAH of Valaam Monastery (1914)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἡσαΐας
• Hieromartyr VIKTOR Usov, presbiter, priest (1937)
• Hieromartyr DIMITRIJ Plyshevskij, presbiter, priest (1938)
• Hieromartyr VLADIMIR Pasternatskij, presbiter, archpriest (1885-1938) day of martyrdom, shoted after prison in Roslavl’ of Smolensk
• Hosiosmartyr PAFNUTIJ Kostin, Hieromonk of Optina Monastery (1866-1938)
• Martyr MICHAEL Novoselov (1938)
• Hieromartyr BASIL Archangelskij, presbiter, priest (1939)
• Martyr JOHN Malyshev (1940)
• Hieroconfessor MICHAEL Rozov, presbiter, priest (1889-1941) day of death in Jaroslavl’
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀβὼ ὁ Μάρτυρας
Grew up Muslim. Perfumer to Nerses, the prince of Kartli, a region of eastern Georgia. As a young adult, Abo became convinced of the truth of Christianity, but was afraid to convert openly as Georgia was under Muslim rule and conversion was a capital offense. For political reasons, his prince had to seek shelter in Khazaria north of the Caspian Sea, an area free of Muslim control; Abo and 300 other members of the court accompanied him, and Abo was baptized there. The prince and his party returned to Tblisi in 782, and for a few years Abo lived quietly as a "closet" Christian. However, in 786 he was exposed as a Christian, and tried for being an apostate from Islam. He confessed his faith at trial, was imprisoned, and martyred.
• AGATHON 阿伽陀 of Egypt, monk (4th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀγάθων
Around the year 364, Agathon retired from the world to live as a prayerful, austere hermit in the desert of Scete near Alexandria, Egypt. He supported himself by weaving and selling baskets in Alexandria; he often just gave them away to the very poor to use or sell as they saw fit. A real life Good Samaritan, he once found a foreign traveller ill on the side of the road; he took the man to an inn, looked after him, and worked in the city for four months to pay for the man’s room and expenses while he recovered.
• Sainted ALBERT of Cashel (700) Patron-saint of Cashel in Ireland. According to some, he had been born in England, laboured in Ireland and later preached in Bavaria. He then went to Jerusalem and on his return reposed and was buried in Regensburg
Evangelist in Ireland, especially around the city of Cashel, and may have been a bishop. Noted as an excellent preacher being "by race an Angle, in speech an angel." Evangelized in Bavaria (in modern Germany) with Saint Erhard of Regensburg. Suffered from arthritis in his back and hips. Pilgrim to Jerusalem, dying on the journey home. Some accounts list him as archbishop of Cashel, but that diocese did not exist in his day, and this is apparently an inference by later writers.
• Claudius APOLLINARIS the Apologist (175) bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia We therefore grossly deceive ourselves in not allotting more time to the study of divine truths. It is not enough barely to believe them, and let our thoughts now and then glance upon them: that knowledge which shows us heaven, will not bring us to the possession of it, and will deserve punishments, not rewards, if it remain slight, weak, and superficial. By serious and frequent meditation it must be concocted, digested, and turned into the nourishment of our affections, before it can be powerful and operative enough to change them, and produce the necessary fruit in our lives. For this all the saints affected solitude and retreats from the noise and hurry of the world, as much as their circumstances allowed them. - Saint Apollinaris
• Martyr ARTSCHIL II King of Georgia (787)
• Bishop ATHELHELM (Athelm) (923) Paternal uncle of St Dunstan. A monk and then Abbot of Glastonbury in England, he became 1st Bishop of Wells in Somerset and 21st Archbishop of Canterbury in 923
Paternal uncle of Saint Dunstan of Canterbury. Benedictine monk at Glastonbury, England. Abbot of Glastonbury. Bishop of Wells, Somerset, England in 909. Archbishop of Canterbury in 914.
• Sainted Archbishop ATTICUS 阿提科 patriarch of Constantinople (425)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀττικὸς Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως
Atticus supported the Macedonian heresy (i.e., the Holy Spirit is not God), opposed Saint John Chrysostom, and worked against him at the Council of Oak in 405. When John was exiled from Constantinople, Atticus assumed the bishopric in 406. He eventually realized his error, repented his opposition, and submitted to Pope Innocent I's rulings. He remained as bishop, but a virtuous and orthodox one, and an opponent of heretics.
• Hieromartyr presbiter CARTERIUS (Karterios) 喀尔特里 of Caesarea in Cappadocia (304) suffered severely for his confession of faith in and preaching about Jesus Christ. After heavy torture he died from the spear of the guilt of the Jews
Ὁ Ἅγιος Καρτέριος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
• COCCA (Cuac, Coc, Cuaca, Cuach, Cuccha, Cucca or Ladoca), Pat. of Kilcock, Co. Kildare
• Sainted CYRUS (Kyros) 基若 patriarch of Constantinople (714)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Κύρος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως
• EDGAR the Peaceable, King of England
• Venerable ELIAS 伊利亚 the Hermit of Egypt (371)
• Hieroconfessor EMILIAN 埃弥利安 Bishop of Cyzicus (815-820)
For veneration of holy icons, the hierarch Emilian underwent "much and cruel tribulations" and in the year 815 he was imprisoned. And he died there.
• ERCNAT (Ergnat, Ergnad, Ercnacta, Ercnata, Ercnait, Ernacua or Ernacuagh) 厄格娜德 of Tamlacht, Co. Armagh and of Duneane, Co. Antrim (460-480) born in Ulster in Ireland, she was made a nun by St Patrick
• Sainted Bishop ERHARD (Albert, Erhart) 艾尔哈德 of Ratisbon (Regensburg) (686/715) born in Ireland, he preached the Gospel as a bishop in Bavaria in Germany, mainly around Regensburg
Bishop of Ardagh, Ireland. Missionary to Bavaria, Germany working mainly around modern Regensburg. Assisted the archbishop of Trier, Germany. Bishop of Regensburg. Miracle worker. Baptized Saint Odilia of Alsace, which cured her congenital blindness. After his death a group of women formed a religious group called Erardinonnen (Nuns of Erhard) to pray perpetually at Erhard's tomb; Pope Leo IX gave them his approval, and they continued until the Reformation. In art Saint Erhard is portrayed as a bishop baptizing Saint Odilia, thereby restoring her sight.
• Hieromartyr EUGENIAN Bishop of Autun in France (340) a staunch defender of Orthodoxy against Arianism, for which he was martyred
• FRODOBERT (673) a monk at Luxeuil in France, he founded the monastery of Moutier-la-Celle near Troyes, where he led a life of unceasing prayer and asceticism
• GARIBALDUS (762) 1st Bishop of Regensburg in Germany. He was consecrated by St Boniface in 740. He had probably been Abbot of St Emmeran in Regensburg before this
Benedictine monk in Bavaria, Germany. Ordained by Saint Boniface c.740. Abbot of Saint Emmeran monastery at Regensburg, Germany. First bishop of Regensburg.
• Venerable GEORGE 格奥尔基 the Chozibite (625) of the coenubium of the Most Holy Theotokos, called Chozeba, on the left of the route which leads from Jerusalem to Jericho
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεώργιος ὁ Χοζεβίτης
可敬的霍则瓦的格奥尔吉
杰里科的霍则瓦修道院位于通往耶路撒冷的路上。格奥尔吉于公元7世纪在这座修道院中过着克修生活，这里也是可敬的霍则瓦的约安最初进入修行生活的地方。
After some time as a monk at the Choziba monastery in Palestine, George felt the need for solitude and withdrew from community life to live as a hermit in his cell, coming out only on Sunday to pray and discuss spiritual matters with his brother monks.
• GREGORY 格里高利 the Wise, Bishop of Ohrid (1012) and of Moesia
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Ἐπίσκοπος Μοισίας
奥赫里德的主教圣格里高利
格里高利是基督信徒虔诚的导师和牧者。他于公元1012年离世。有关格里高利，位于奥赫里德圣索菲亚教堂的铭文上是这样写的：“至睿者格里高利”。
• Hosiosmartyr GREGORY 格里高利 Wonderworker of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1093) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Antony Near Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας καὶ Θαυματουργός
One time, when the monk went to the Dneipr River for water, young fellows marching off on a campaign with prince Rostislav, caught sight of the elder and began rudely to laugh and mock at him. The saint answered them: "Children, it becometh ye to be contrite and ask for my prayers, since over you is already decided the judgement of God. All ye together with your prince will find death in the water". By orders of the enraged prince Rostislav, the monk was bound hand and foot and with a stone about his neck he was drowned in the Dneipr. But his prediction came true. Rostislav did not return from the campaign. In that same year of 1093 the twenty year old prince drowned in view of his brother, Vladimir Monomakh, trying to save himself in flight from the Polovetsians.
• Venerable GREGORY 格里高利 the Recluse, hermit of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1316) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Theodosy Far Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Ἔγκλειστος
In the "Accounts of the Lives of the Saints, Reposed in the Cave of the Monk Theodosii", it says, that uncooked grass served as the food of the Monk Gregory all his life. He gave this grass to those coming to him, and the sick were healed.
• Righteous Virgin GUDULA 谷杜拉 of Brussels (also Gudule, Goole, Goule, Ergoule or Goelen) Pat. of Brussels in Belgium (712) Daughter of St Amelberga, she spent much time with St Gertrude at Nivelles and afterwards lived a life of holiness
Gudula was educated at Nivelle, under the care of St Gertrude, her cousin and god-mother; after whose death, in 664, she returned to the house of count Witger, her father, and having by vow consecrated her virginity to God, led there a most austere holy life, in watching, fasting, and prayer. By her profuse alms, in which she bestowed her whole revenue on the poor, she was truly the mother of all the distressed; though her father’s castle was two miles from the church of our Saviour at Morzelle, she went thither early every morning, with a maid to carry a lantern before her; and the wax taper being once put out, is said to have miraculously lighted again at her prayers, whence she is usually represented in pictures with a lantern. There is a story recorded of Gudula that is reminiscent of Saint Geneviève. The flower called tremella deliquescens, bears fruit in the beginning of January; it's known as "Sinte Goulds lampken" (Saint Gudula's lantern) because not even the winter can extinguish it.
• New Martyress KYRANNA of Thessalonica (Thessalonike) (1751) // SUNDAY AFTER JAN 8 //
• Hieromartyr LUCIAN Apostle of Beauvais, in France (290)
Priest. Missionary from Rome, Italy to Beauvais, France. Worked with Saint Piaton. Martyred with Saint Julian of Beauvais and Saint Maximian of Beauvais.
• Venerable MACARIUS 玛喀里 Makris of Mt Athos (1431) igumen of the Monastery of the Pantocrator, and chaplain to the Emperor Manuel II Paleologos
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μακάριος Μακρής
• Sainted MAXIMUS I Bishop of Pavia in Italy (265/511)
Attended the councils of Rome convened by Pope Saint Symmachus.
• MOLIBBA (Libba) Bishop of Glendalough, County of Wicklow
• NATHALAN Bishop of Aberdeenshire, Scotland (7th c.)
Born to a wealthy Scottish noble family, he gave it up to live as a prayerful hermit, making a living by raising a garden, an occupation he considered "closest to divine contemplation." Miracle worker during an area famine. Bishop in Tullicht, Scotland. Built churches and conducted missions in his diocese.
• NEACHTAIN of Dungiven, County Derry (679)
• Venerable Abbot PAISIUS 帕伊西 of Uglich (1504)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Παΐσιος ἐκ Ρωσίας
• New Martyress PARTHENA of Edessa in Macedonia (1375) graved alive
• PATIENS (2nd c.) venerated as the 4h Bishop and patron-saint of Metz in France
• Virgin PEGA (Pee), Anchoress of Peakirk (719) the sister of St Guthlac of Crowland in England. She too lived as an anchoress. The village of Peakirk (Pega's church) in Northamptonshire is called after her
Daughter of Penwalh. Sister of Saint Guthlac of Croyland. Related to the royal family of the East Angles. Lived as a hermit in the Fens, Northhamptonshire, England near her brother. Once the devil took on her form to persuade Guthlac to break his vow to never eat before sunset. To prevent further attempts, Pega left the area and never returned in Guthlac's life. Anchoress near Croyland Abbey; a church was built on the site of her hermitage, and an Anglican convent dedicated to Pega survives to today. Peakirk (Pega's Church) is named for her. While en route to her brother's funeral in 714, she cured a blind man from Wisbech. Made a pilgimage to Rome, Italy and died before returning home.
• SARAN of Cuil-Creamha
• Venerable SEVERINUS 塞维理诺 (482) an Eastern monk who enlightened Noricum Ripense, now in Austria. He founded several monasteries, notably one on the Danube near Vienna, where he organised help for those afflicted by the invasions of Attila and the Huns and where he reposed. Six years after his repose, the monks were driven out and took his relics to Naples in Italy, where the monastery of San Severino was built to enshrine them
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σεβερίνος
• Prophet SHEMAIAH (Semeias) man of God (10th c. B.C.)
Ὁ Προφήτης Σαμέας
Furthermore, this Prophet should not be confused with Shemaiah the Nehelamite in Jeremiah 29:24, who was a false prophet. This confusion is often made when the Prophet Shemaiah is referred to as "the Elamite".
• Venerable THEODORE 德奥多若 of Constantinople (568/595) Founder and Abbot of Chora Monastery; uncle of Empress Theodora, wife of Emperor Justinian
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεόδωρος Κτήτορας καὶ Ἡγούμενος τῆς μονῆς τῆς Χώρας
Maternal uncle of Empress Theodora. General of the Byzantine armies during war with the Persians in 528. Following the war, he retired from the world to live as a hermit in the mountains around Antioch. Founded the Chora monastery outside Constantinople.
• Bishop WULSIN (Vulsin, Wulfsin, Wulfsige) of Sherborne (Shireburn) (1005) a monk whom St Dunstan loved as a son and made Abbot of Westminster in 980. In 993 he became Bishop of Sherborne
Benedictine monk. Spiritual student and close confidant of Saint Dunstan of Canterbury. Named by Dunstan c.960 to be superior of the restored Benedictine community at Westminster, England. Abbot of Westminster in 980. Bishop of Sherborne, England in 993; continued to serve as abbot. Rebuilt and revitalized the Church in Sherborne, and established a Benedictine monastery in his diocese. Several of his letters have survived the centuries.
• ZOTIKOS
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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