συνοδικός
February 18 / February 5
2019 (7527)
Week of the Prodigal Son. Fast-free week
Afterfeast of the Meeting
HOLY MARTYR AGATHA (251). MARTYR THEODOULA, AND MARTYRS HELLADIUS, MACARIUS, BOETHOS, AND EVAGRIUS (304). ST. THEODOSIUS, ARCHBISHOP OF CHERNIHIV (1696)
• The Icon of the Mother of God "THE RESCUER OF THE DROWNING"
• 西西里 "SICILIAN" or "Divnogorsk" 低位诺戈尔斯基 (1092) Icon of the Mother of God
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Σικελιωτίσσης ἐν Ντιβνογκὸρκ
• 切尔尼戈夫的云杉树 "ELETSK-Chernigov" (Chernigov Spruce Tree) Icon of the Mother of God (1060)
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Ἐλεούσης ἐν Τσέρνιγκωφ
• "IN SEARCH OF THE PERISHING" 寻找失落者 (17th c.) Icon of the Mother of God Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς ἀναζητήσεως τῶν ἀπολωλότων
Seek us who are perishing, O Most Holy Virgin, chasten us not according to our sins, but as you are merciful in your love for mankind, have pity, deliver us from hell, sickness and necessity, and save us.
Icon of the Mother of God From time immemorial the Russian people, with faith in the all-powerful help of the Most Holy Theotokos, considered the title “Seeker of the Perishing” to refer not only to those who are dying, but to those whose souls are in danger of spiritual death.
女殉道者，圣特奥杜拉
在罗马帝国暴君戴克里先在位期间，特奥杜拉为了基督的缘故而遭受磨难。在受刑期间，她使施刑者之一赫拉蒂乌斯彻悟，在她的引领下皈依了基督。当赫拉蒂乌斯公开表白了他对基督的信仰时，遭到了斩首。特奥杜拉勇敢地面对了严刑拷打，因此法官说她精神错乱，特奥杜拉回答说：“忘记了唯一真上帝且在没有生命的石头前躬身下拜的你才精神错乱。”而后，法官又对她施以酷刑，特奥杜拉顽强地忍受了过来。她在受刑期间表现出的英勇气概使许多人感到惊异，并皈依了很多人信奉基督，其中著名的两位就是玛喀里和埃维加。他们与特奥杜拉连同其他许多人被投入到火炉中，至此荣耀殉道，得以承受基督的天国。
• Martyrs of Pontus, under Dioclesian
Some were tortured with melted lead poured upon them, others with sharp reeds thrust under their nails, and such like inventions, several times repeated: at length they various ways completed their martyrdom.
• GENUINUS (Ingenuinus) Bishop of Sabion near Brixen in the Tyrol in Austria (7th c.), and ALBINUS Bishop of Brixen (11th c.)
• VM DOMINICA (Domnach, Dominae or Drusa); her brother Hosiosmartyr INDREACHTACH (Indract, Indracht or Indractus) abbot of Iona; and 9 companions; at Shapwick near Glastonbury (708-710)
Born in Ireland, Indract was the son of an Irish king who visited Glastonbury in the early 8th century with nine companions, while journeying home from a pilgrimage to Rome. On leaving the abbey, they were murdered at a place called Hywise (probably Huish Episcopi, Somerset) with his sister St Dominica (Drusa) and others near Glastonbury in England, by heathen: by one of the nobles of King Ine of Wessex named Huna and his men, out of greed for the wealth they were thought to be carrying. The bodies were buried in a cave, but a persistent light shone over their grave which caused the king who was staying nearby to discover the murder and order their re-burial at the abbey: Indract by the altar, the others under the floor. Their relics were enshrined there. Miracles subsequently took place.
• NM Eldress Matushka AGATHA 阿伽塔 of Belorussia (1938) and with her Schemamonk EUGENE 艾弗革尼 (1939) and Righteous PARAMON 帕拉蒙 (1941) of Belorussia
• Hosiosmartyress novice ALEXANDRA Kasparova (1882-1942)
• Martyr MICHAEL Amelüshkin (1893-1942)
• Repose of Blessed AGNIA (Anna Philippovna Mytikova), Confessoress of Nizhni-Novgorod, Abs. of Vasilsursk (1953)
• Repose of Martyr and Confessor VALERIU Gafencu of Bessarabia, Romania (1924-1952) The Saint of the Prison
Bishop of Arbela, Assyria (now Iraq). He was put to death in the village of Telman under Shapur II of Persia. Saint Abraham is always pictured as a bishop with a sword.
• Venerabless ADELHEIDIS (Adelaide, Alice or Alen), Abbess of Willich (Villich) near Bonn and of Our Lady of the Capitol (St Maria in Capitolio) in Cologne, Germany (1015)
Daughter of Megingoz (Megengose), Count of Guelders. Joined the Ursuline convent at Cologne, Germany. Benedictine nun. Abbess of Villich, Germany. Abbess of Our Lady of the Capitol at Cologne. Both houses had been founded by her father. She insisted that the sisters in her houses study Latin so they would better understand the Mass. Noted for her charity to the poor. Counselor to the archbishop of Cologne.
• Holy Virgin Martyress AGATHA (Agathe or Agathi) 阿伽塔 of the Sicilian town of Palermo (251) martyred in Catania
Ἡ Ἁγία Ἀγάθη ἡ Μάρτυς
圣女殉道者阿伽塔
Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am - you alone. I am your sheep; make me worthy to overcome the devil. - Saint Agatha
Lord, my creator, you have protected me since I was in the cradle. You have taken me from the love of the world and given me patience to suffer. Now receive my spirit. - Saint Agatha
My fellow Christians, our annual celebration of a martyr's feast has brought us together. Agatha achieved renown in the early Church for her noble victory. For her, Christ's death was recent, his blood was still moist. Her robe is the mark of her faithful witness to Christ. Agatha, the name of our saint, means "good." She was truly good, for she lived as a child of God. Agatha, her goodness coincides with her name and her way of life. She won a good name by her noble deeds, and by her name she points to the nobility of those deeds. Agatha, her mere name wins all men over to her company. She teaches them by her example to hasten with her to the true Good, God alone. - from a homily on Saint Agatha by Saint Methodius of Sicily
阿伽塔这位荣耀的童女、为基督而献身的女殉道者出生于西西里的巴勒莫城一个富有的贵族家庭。当德西乌斯皇帝开始迫害基督徒时，圣阿伽塔被逮捕，并被带到法官坤仟面前受审。法官看到阿伽塔美貌动人，欲想娶她为妻。当法官提出婚事的时候，阿伽塔回答说，她是基督的新娘，她不能不忠于她的未婚夫。于是坤仟开始对她施以酷刑。阿伽塔被嘲笑、被鞭打，并被绑在一棵树上，直打到皮开肉绽为止。之后，法官又试图劝说她否认基督，以免再遭受毒打。但是这位基督的新娘却回答说：“这些苦刑对我非常有益，正如小麦要进入谷仓需要脱去谷壳一样；我的灵魂要想进入天国，我的身体也同样要先由酷刑降卑。”而后，那个刽子手命令割去她的双乳并把她投入监狱。在监狱中，圣裴特若向阿伽塔显现使她重新恢复了健康和身体的完整。之后，阿伽塔又被提出遭受毒打，重新又被投入监狱，并在狱中将其灵魂交给了上帝。阿伽塔殉道的时候正值皇帝德西乌斯在位期间的公元251年，地点是卡塔尼亚。在阿伽塔死后，施刑者坤仟前往巴勒莫，打算将阿伽塔的财产据为己有。在路上，坤仟和他的士兵所乘坐的马匹突然野性大发，咬伤了坤仟的脸，并将他撂倒在地上踩得一命呜呼。上帝的惩罚是迅速的，残杀阿伽塔的凶手很快就得到了上帝的惩罚。
Agatha is the patroness of Catania, where she preserves Mt Etna from erupting. She is also patroness of breast cancer patients, of bell-founders (shaped like her breasts, or possibly because bells are used to warn of fire), martyrs, firefighters, girdlers, jewellers, maltsters, nurses, wet nurses, weavers, bakers and shepherdesses. Agatha is the patron saint of bell-founders because of the shape of her severed breasts, and also of bakers, whose loaves were blessed at her feast day. Minne di Sant'Agata, a typical Sicilian sweet shaped as a breast, representing the cut breasts of Saint Agatha. Agatha is invoked against earthquake, fire, lightning, storm, sterility, wolves, and diseases of the breast.
Born in Catania in Sicily, where she was martyred. She was handed over to a prostitute and her breasts were cut off. The Apostle Peter healed her of this mutilation while she was in prison, where she subsequently reposed. At Agatha's burial, attended by many, her Guardian Angel appeared and placed a marble slab on her tomb, inscribed with the words: A righteous mind, self- determining, honor from God, the deliverance of her fatherland.
• AGATHA (Hildegardis) of Austria, Matr. (1024) highly venerated in Carinthia
Wife of Paul the local Count of Carinthia in Austria, she was a model of devotion to her domestic duties and patience under the brutal ill-treatment of her jealous husband whom she converted before his death.
• AGRICOLA (420) the 11th Bishop of Tongres in Belgium
• ALBINUS (Albuin, Albuino, Albuinus) of Brixen (10th c.)
Born to the nobility, the son of Blessed Agatha Hildegardis of Carinthia and Count Paul, Margrave of Carinthia. Bishop of Sabion, South Tyrol (in modern Italy) in 975, a see that was moved to Brixen, Italy.
• New Martyr ANTHONY 安托尼 of Athens (1774)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Ἀθηναῖος
• Sainted AVITUS 阿维图 bishop of Vienne (525)
Born in Auvergne in France, he was the brother of St Apollinaris, Bishop of Valence. Their father St Isychius, a Roman senator, had also been Bishop of Vienne. Avitus succeeded him. As a bishop he commanded the respect of his flock, both of the pagan Franks and the Arian Burgundians. He converted the Burgundian King, Sigismund. St Avitus was also an eloquent writer.
• Martyress BASILISSA (300) in Nicomedia, today Ízmit in Turkey
• BERTULF (705) born in Pannonia, he moved to Flanders in Belgium where he became Orthodox and a priest and founded a monastery
Convert as a young man in Flanders, Belgium. Managed a farm in Renty, France for Count Wambert for several years. Pilgrim to Rome, Italy. Parish priest in Renty. Founded and led a monastery nearby until his death.
• BUO of Ireland (900)
In the 7th and 8th century, Irish missionaries were working in Iceland and the Faroe Islands, before the discovery of the islands by the Norwegians in 860. When they arrived they found Irish bells, books, and staffs. The Irish geographer Dicuil in De mensura orbis terrae notes that "certain clerics remained on the Iceland Island from February 1 until August 1". Saint Buo was one of the distinguished missionaries who evangelized the province around Esinberg, while he was still a very young man.
• CALAMANDA (303) arms hacked off so that she bled to death in Calaf, Catalonia, Spain
Young woman martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian. A number of other stories have been attached to her including that she was one of the companions of Saint Ursula or that her father killed her for refusing an arranged marriage, but these are apparently stories in search of a character that were simply stuck on her later.
• Virgin CERA of Raith Moentich
• EACHDACH (Eachtach) (6th c.)
• VM FELICIA at Cagliari, Sardinia
• Abbot FINGEN of Metz (1005)
• Bishop GENUINUS (Genuino, Ingenium, Ingenuin, Ingenuino, Ingenuinus, Ingwin, Jenewein) of Brixen (605) Bishop of Sabion, a small town of the Italian Tyrol that has since disappeared. Attended the Synod of Marano in 588
• GREGORY (Grigorie) Roşca, Metropolitan of Moldavia (1570)
• Patriarch JACOB the Father of the 12 tribes of Israel
• Blessed JOHN Morosini, Abbot (1012)
Born in Venice, Italy; died 1012. John became a Benedictine at Cuxá in the Catalonian Pyrenees. In 982, he returned to Venice, where he founded and ruled the abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore.
• LUCA di Demenna (995) in the monastery of Saints Elias and Anastasio in Carbone, Italy
Monk in Sicily. When the Muslim Saracens invaded the region, he moved from house to house to avoid them. Founded the monastery of Saints Elias and Anastasio, Carbone, Italy and served as its first abbot. Luca based his approach to the monastic life on the Greek monks.
• Repose of MICHAEL Jovanović, Metropolitan of Serbia (1897)
• MODESTUS (722) monk in Salzburg, he became Bishop of Carinthia in Austria and was largely responsible for its enlightenment
• Sainted POLYEUCTUS 颇利艾弗克特 Patriarch of Constantinople (970)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Πολύευκτος Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως
圣颇利艾弗克特，君士坦丁堡牧首
颇利艾弗克特因其伟大的思想、对信仰的热忱，以及雄辩的口才而被称为“圣金口约安第二”。在颇利艾弗克特牧首管理教会、皇帝君士坦丁•波菲罗格尼图斯在位期间，俄罗斯公主奥尔加出访君士坦丁堡，并于公元957年接受了浸礼。牧首为她施洗，皇帝为她的教父。圣颇利艾弗克特对公主奥尔加预言说：“你是俄罗斯妇女中有福的，因为你爱了光明、遗弃了黑暗，俄罗斯的后代将颂扬你。”颇利艾弗克特于公元946 年从普通修士当中被选立为牧首，直到他于公元970 年去世为止。
• Venerable SABAS the Younger, ascetic in Sicily (990/995)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Σάββας ἐκ Σικελίας
In Italy Saint Savvas is known as San Saba il Giovane or San Saba di Collesano. In english his name is usually translated as Sabas or Sabbas.
• THEODOSIUS 德奥多西 of Skopelos in Cilicia (421) the Ascetic of Antioch
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοδόσιος ὁ ἐξ Ἀντιοχείας
• Sainted THEODOSIUS 德奥多西 archbishop of Chernigov (1696)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεοδόσιος ἐκ Ρωσίας
• VODOALDUS (Voel, Vodalus, Vodalis) (725) born in Ireland, he went to France and reposed as a hermit near Soissons
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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