συνοδικός
February 25 / February 12
2019 (7527)
Meatfare Week
ST. MELETIUS, ARCHBISHOP OF ANTIOCH (381). VEN. MARY, NUN (WHO WAS CALLED MARINUS), AND HER FATHER, ST. EUGENE(6TH C.). ST. ANTHONY II, PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE (895)
• Appearance of The Hodegetria Icon PANAGIA PORTAITISSA ("Gate-Keeper") of the IVERON Mother of God, Mt Athos (9th c.) glorified by the Lord with many miracles
Παναγία Πορταΐτισσα
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Ἰβηριτίσσης
The original of this image is found in the Georgian Iviron monastery on Mount Athos in Greece, where it is believed to have been since the year 999. The synaxis (feast day) for this icon is on February 12, as well as on Bright Tuesday, and also on October 13 for the translation to Moscow of the copy of Iveron icon. A unique characteristic of this icon is what appears to be a scar on the Virgin Mary's right cheek or her chin. A number of different traditions exist to explain this, but the one most commonly held by Orthodox Christians is that the icon was stabbed by a soldier in Nicaea during the period of Byzantine iconoclasm under the Emperor Theophilus (829–842). According to tradition, when the icon was stabbed, blood miraculously flowed out of the wound.
• "CYPRUS" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos from the village Stromyn, Moscow region (1841) // movable holiday on the 1st Sunday of the Great Lent // JUL 9 //
The Cypriot Icon of the Mother of God appears thus: the Mother of God sits upon a throne with the Divine Infant in Her arms, and at Her sides are two angels, holding branches. The holy icon manifest itself in the year 392 on the Island of Cyprus, and is situated there in a monastery. Reknown venerable copies from it are at the Moscow Uspensky cathedral, and in the Nikolo-Golutvinsk church in the village of Stromyna, Moscow diocese.
• Panagia YPSENI in Rhodes // APR 18 // BRIGHT WEDNESDAY AFTER PASCHA //
The holy and most-honored icon of the Panagia "Ypsenis" was hidden beneath an olive tree in the eponymous village of Lardos, which was the site of an old Monastery of the Most-Holy Theotokos. In that place was often found in asceticism and prayer our Holy Father Meletios (February 12), who one night became an eye-witness to a marvelous spectacle. A column of light came down from the sky lighting up the tree and surrounding area. Surprised he approached and found an old looking icon of the Mother of God. The next night the Theotokos appeared to him in a dream telling him to build in her name a temple at the place where he found the icon, in order to place the icon, and to establish a monastery, to continue in his asceticism.
At the same time she showed him a place near the area where she told him to dig to find the necessary money for such a large project. The Saint obeyed the command of the Panagia, dug at the place suggested, and found the buried treasure by which he managed to meet the costs of building. He built the temple in which he treasured the Holy Icon, and refounded the ruined monastery, where he lived in asceticism till the end of his earthly life. The miraculous icon is treasured until now in the homonymous monastery and is honored by the faithful and is a source of many miracles to those who approach with faith and reverence.
• Consecration of the Church of the Theotokos in Pousgin (1002)
Ἐγκαίνια Ναοῦ Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου εἰς Πούσγην
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰουλιανὸς καὶ Μόδεστος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Martyrs AMPELIUS, CASSIANO, CECILIANO, CECILIA, DANZIO, DECIANO, EMERITUS, ERCOLINA, EVA, FAUSTO, FELICE (2 by this name), FELIX, GENNARA (2 by this name), GENNARO, GIRIALE, HILARION, MAGGIORE, MARGHERITA, MARTINO, MARY, MASSIMIANO, MATRONA (2 by this name), ONORATA, PELUSIO, POMPONIA, PRIMA, QUINTO, REGIOLA, RESTITUTA, ROGATIAN (3 by this name), ROGATO (2 by this name), SATURNINUS the Elder, SATURNINUS the Younger, SECONDA (2 by this name), THELICA, VICTORIA, VINCENZO, VITTORIANO, VITTORINO of Albitina (304) tortured to death prison at Albitina, North Africa
During the persecutions of Diocletian, troops were sent to the churches of Abitina, North Africa on a Sunday morning; they rounded up everyone who had arrived for Mass, and took them all to Carthage for interrogation by pro-consul Anulinus. The 46 who proclaimed their Christianity were executed. We know some of their names and stories.
• Venerabless MARIA (Maria, Mary, Mariam, Marinus, Marinos, Marius or Maryana) 玛利亚 of Bithynia, who dressed in men’s attire as monk Marinos 玛利诺 (527); and her father EUGENE (Eugenius or Evgenios) 艾弗革尼 Monk of Alexandria (502)
Ἡ Ὁσία Μαρία ἡ μετονομασθείσα Μαρίνος
Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐγένιος
可敬的玛利亚
玛利亚是一位非常勇敢的年轻妇女。在母亲去世之后，她的父亲打算进入修道院，但是玛利亚并不想同父亲分离，于是他们父女二人同意一同进入修道院：玛利亚剪掉了头发，身着男装，打扮成了一个年轻男子的样子。在父亲去世后，玛利亚成了修道院的修士，取名为玛利诺。在修道院附近有一个小客栈，客栈老板的女儿看中了玛利诺这个所谓的修士。在追求未果之后，客栈老板的女儿谴责玛利诺同她有非法的性关系，因为她同别人有染而怀孕，并生了一个儿子。玛利亚没有为自己辩护，沦为他人的笑柄，并被赶出修道院。玛利亚怀抱着别人的孩子在一个属于修道院领地树林中住了3年之久，她忍受了饥饿、寒冷和艰难。与此同时，客栈老板的女儿疯了，之后玛利亚也离开了人世。只是在她去世之后，她是女子的身世才被世人知晓。客栈老板的疯女儿在接触了圣玛利亚的遗体之后，立即痊愈了，她承认了她的罪。圣玛利亚于公元508年荣耀地进入永恒的喜乐国度。
Her sex was finally revealed at her death, when of course all concerned in the affair were filled with remorse. The brethren arriving saw the deceased "monk" and the boy crying over "him". When they began to dress the saint for burial, her secret was revealed. The hegumen of the monastery tearfully besought forgiveness of the departed, and the inn-keeper too followed his example. The body of Saint Maria was reverently buried in the monastery. The daughter of the inn-keeper came to the grave of the saint and openly confessed her sin, in connection with which she was healed from a demonic illness. The boy whom the saint was raising afterwards became a monk. The relics of the saint were transferred to Constantinople, and from there in 1113 were carried off to Venice.
• MM SATURNINUS and PLUTINUS
• Hieromartyr ALEXIUS 阿莱克西 (Semeon Buy) bishop of Voronezh (1892-1930) shoted 3 November 1937 in urochishche Sandomorkh near Medvezhjegorsk, Karelia // OCT 21 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Βορονὲζ
• Hieromartyr archpriest MITROPHAN (1931)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μητροφάνης ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ἐκ Ρωσίας
• Martyr EUGENE Posel’anin (Evgeny Nikolayevich Pogozhev) religious writer, essayist and journalist (1870-1931) day of martyrdom // JAN 30 //
Among his best known books are: Starets Ilarion Troyekurovsky (1895), Poetry of Faith. A.N. Maykov, the Poet of Russia and Russian Orthodoxy (1898), Sacred Sites of the Russian Land (1899), Konstantin Nikolayevich Leontyev (1900), The Tale of Saint Leaders of the Russian Land (1900), Christ's Warriors. Tales From the Lives of Saints (1902), Petersburg Relics (1903), Letters on Monastic Life (1911).
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀλέξιος ὁ Θαυματουργός Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Μόσχας
圣阿莱克西，莫斯科的都主教
阿莱克西是俄罗斯教会一位伟大的司教，当时俄罗斯人民正处在鞑靼人的奴役之下。当阿莱克西尚且年幼时，在一次出外捕捉小鸟时睡着了，在梦中有声音对他说：“阿莱克西，你为什么作徒劳之工呢？我要使你成为一个渔民。”在20岁那年，阿莱克西成了一名修士，在后来成了莫斯科的都主教。有两次他曾经到过鞑靼人的“金帐汗国”：第一次，他成功地缓解了维尔德维尔可汗对俄罗斯人民的敌意；第二次接受阿姆拉特可汗的邀请，治愈了他妻子的失明。阿姆拉特的妻子失明长达3年之久。但是当阿莱克西为她祷告并为她洒圣水之后，她立即恢复了视力。阿莱克西一生劳作且硕果丰盛，于公元1378年85岁高龄之际得以进入上帝的天国。
Russian nobleman who gave up his worldly position to become a Basilian monk. Archbishop of Kiev. Well educated, but he was more known for his spiritual wisdom; even the Sultan of the Turks in Asia Minor sought his advice.
• Sainted 安托尼 ANTONY II Kauleas (829-901) Patriarch of Constantinople
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως
圣安托尼，君士坦丁堡牧首
起初，安托尼是一位极具仁慈的伟大的修士，后来，在智慧之王莱翁当政期间（公元889－公元912年）成为牧首。圣安托尼给父亲削法成为一名修士，并在安葬圣卡利亚圣髑的地方修建了一座修道院。
Patriarch Anthony II was a pious man who generously endowed monastic foundations and founded or re-founded the Kaulea Monastery (more accurately called "Kalliou") with the support of the emperor ― a monastery over the relics of Saint Kallia (February 12).
• ANTONIUS III Studites (980/983) Patriarch of Constantinople
• Blessed ATHANASIA (also Anastasia) Logacheva, Cave-Dweller, Hermitess (1875)
• Venerable BASSIAN 瓦西安 abbot of Ryabovsky Forest Monastery, Uglich (1509) disciple of St Paisius of Uglich
Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασιανὸς τοῦ Οὔγκλιχ
• Venerable Abbot BENEDICT of Aniane (750-821)
• BENEDICT Revelli (900) a monk at Santa Maria dei Fonti in Italy and then a hermit on the island of Gallinaria in the Gulf of Genoa. In 870 he became Bishop of Albenga
• Hieromartyr Bishop BLAISE (also known as Blase, Blasien, Blasius, Biagio) 瓦莱西 of Sebaste in Armenia (316); Languished in prison with Hieromartyr Bishop Blaise: 7 Holy Women and 2 Children beheaded at Sebaste (316)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Βλάσιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Σεβαστείας
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Δύο παῖδες καὶ Ἑπτὰ γυναῖκες οἱ συναθλητὲς τοῦ Ἁγίου Βλασίου
• Righteous Martyress CALLIA 卡利亚, Matr. (9th c.)
圣卡利亚
卡利亚作为一名纯洁的基督徒在婚前婚后都慷慨怜悯穷人。她的丈夫虽然富有但是却非常吝啬。有一次，当他从公差中返回家的时候，发现他的妻子已经将他的财产分给穷人，就杀死了她。但是上帝通过这种方式颂扬了这位慈善的心灵：许多病人都被她的遗体医治好了。牧首圣安托尼对此深表确信，并在安葬她圣髑的地方修建了一座修道院。
• Martyr DAMIAN in Rome whose relics were found in the catacombs of St Callistus and sent to Salamanca in Spain
• Martyr DAMIAN a soldier martyred in Africa, probably at Alexandria
• Sainted ETHILWOLD (Ethelwald, Aethelweald, Aedilauld) 埃提尔瓦尔德 Bishop of Lindisfarne (740) a disciple of St Cuthbert, he was Abbot of Melrose in Scotland before becoming Bishop of Lindisfarne in England
We beseech Thee, Lord, open Thy heavens, open our eyes; may Thy gifts descend to us; may our hearts look back to Thee. May Thy throne be laid open to us, while we receive the benefits which we implore; may our mind be laid open to Thee, while we render the service which is enjoined to us. Look down from Heaven, O Lord, behold and visit this vine which Thy right hand hath planted. Strengthen the weak, relieve the contrite, confirm the strong. Build them up in love, cleanse them with purity, enlighten them with wisdom, keep them with mercy. Lord Jesus, Good Shepherd, who laid down Thy life for the sheep, defend the purchase of Thy blood. Feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, seek for the lost, convert the wandering, bind up that which is broken. Put forth Thine own hand from Heaven, and touch the head of each one here. May they feel the touch of Thy hand, and receive the joy of the Holy Spirit, that they may remain blessed for evermore. Amen. - Saint Ethelwold
Leather worker and bookbinder. Monk. Assistant to Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne. Prior and abbot of Old Melrose monastery in Scotland. Bishop at Lindisfarne in 721. Commissioned the famous Lindisfarne Book of Gospels, now in the British Museum, and made its jewel-encrusted leather cover, now lost. Wrote the Hymnal of Ethelwald.
• VM EULALIA (also Aulaire, Aulazie or Olalla) of Barcelona, Pat. of Barcelona (Catalonia or Cataluña) (303) invoked against miscarriage, for or against rain and for calm waters
Lord Jesus Christ, hear my prayer and perfect Thy merciful goodness in me, and grant me to be received among the number of Thine elect into the rest of life eternal, making of me a sign of righteousness that men believing on Thee may behold and praise Thy power. Amen. - Prayer of Saint Eulalia in Her Agony
Sanctified virgin, the forerunner of professed nun. Martyred at age 13 or 14 in the persecutions of Diocletian. Often confused with Saint Eulalia of Merida. Several villages in Guienne and Languedoc are named for her. Saint Eulalia is represented in art as a maiden with a cross, stake, and dove.
• Archbishop FETHGNA of Armagh (9th c.) successor of Patrick and son of Nechtan of the Clann Eclidagh
• FORANNAN Abbot of Clonard, County of Meath (9th c.)
• Tr.Rel. of St FRIDESWIDE (Frideswida or Fridespida) of Oxford, Abs. and Solitary, Pat. of Oxford (735)
• GAUDENTIUS of Verona (465) Bishop of Verona in Italy. His relics are enshrined in the ancient basilica of St Stephen in Verona
• M GERASINA near Cologne (5th c.)
• GERTRUDE 格尔特路德 Abbess of Nivelles (Nijvel), in Brabant (659)
Benedictine abbess, the daughter of Blessed Pepin of Landen and Blessed Itta of Ida. Itta founded Nivelles Abbey and installed Gertrude as abbess in 639. Gertrude was a mystic, gifted with visions. She befriended the Irish saints Foillian and Ultan. The legend of Gertrude's vision of the ocean voyage led her to be as well the patron saint of travelers. In memory of this event, medieval travelers drank a so-called "Sinte Geerts Minne" or "Gertrudenminte" before setting out on their journey. Her attention to the care of her garden led her assistance to be invoked by gardeners, and also against rats and mental illness.
• GOSCELINUS (Goslin, Goslino, Gozzelino, Gozzelinus) of Turin (1006-1053)
Born to the Italian nobility. Benedictine monk in 1006 at the San Solutore Abbey near Turin, Italy soon after its founding. Reluctant abbot in of the house in 1031, he served the remaining 22 years of his life.
• Sainted HELMWARD Bishop of Minden (958)
• Venerable Hieromartyr Bishop JOHN the Sinaite (1091)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Σιναΐτης
• JULIAN the Hospitaller also called "the Poor Man"
Tradition says that Julian killed his own parents in error. This was predicted one day while the nobleman was hunting. A deer reproached Julian for hunting him and said that in the future he would commit the crime. Afraid of committing such a terrible crime, Julian migrated to a far land and served the king there so well that he was knighted and given a rich widow in marriage with a castle for her dowry. One day he returned to his castle and went to the bedroom. Unknown to him, his parents had arrived unexpectedly, and being tired had got into Julian's own bed. Julian saw two figures there and not recognizing them under the bedclothes, he supposed them to be intruders and impetuously stabbed them both to death. He suspected that another man had been in bed with Julian's own wife. However, he met her as she was returning home from church. Distraught with grief and guilt, he told her he was about to leave her, no longer fit to live with decent people. She refused to abandon him. Together they set out to attempt to make amends for his crime. They forsook their fine castle and journeyed first to Rome to obtain absolution, then as far as a swiftly flowing, wide river where they built a hospital for the poor and an inn for travellers. In addition to this work, they did penance for Julian's crime by helping travellers across the swift river. After many years Julian was awakened one freezing night by a voice from the other side of the river crying for help. He got up, crossed over, and discovered a man almost frozen to death. Julian carried the man across the river and warmed him back to life in his own bed. The poor sufferer appeared to be a leper, but this did not stop Julian. And when the man recovered, he revealed himself to be a special messenger from God, sent to test the saint's kindness. "Julian," the leper said, "Our Lord sends you word that He has accepted your penance".
He is the patron of boatmen, ferrymen, innkeepers, musicians, travellers, and wandering minstrels.
• LUGAIDH of Cuil-Ruscach ("rushy-corner") in Breifne
• New Hosiosmartyr LUKE 路加 Mukhaidze, monk of Jerusalem (1277)
• The Holy New Martyr KRISTO (Chrestos) 克里斯托 the Gardener of Albania (1748) 赫里斯托
Ο Άγιος Νεομάρτυς Χρήστος ο Κηπουρός
Ὁ Ἅγιος Χρῆστος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Κηπουρός
• Sainted Patriarch MELETIUS 麦勒提 archbishop of Antioch (381)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μελέτιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ἀντιοχείας τῆς μεγάλης
圣麦勒提，安提约希亚总主教
伟大的圣人麦勒提是正教非凡的释译者和捍卫者。他的整个一生都奉献于同阿里乌异端的争斗上，阿里乌异端不承认上帝之子作为上帝，并亵渎圣三者。麦勒提曾经三次被解职并被流放到亚美尼亚。当时，正教同异端之间的争斗非常激烈，有一次，当圣麦勒提在教堂中向人们讲述有关圣三者的三位一体时，他的异端辅祭竟然走上前去用手掩盖住麦勒提的嘴。麦勒提不能用嘴讲话，只能打手势：他向上一只拳头，先伸出三个手指头，而后合起，又伸出一只手指。麦勒提参加了第二次普世大公会议（君士坦丁堡，公元381年），在那里倍受皇帝德奥多西的尊敬。在这次大公会议上，上帝通过他的这位大主教显示了一个奇迹：当麦勒提向亚流提出有关三位一体的教条时，起初，他只是伸出三只手指，一个一个地掰开，而后合为一。就在那时，从他的手指发出了一道亮光，出现在与会者的面前。在这次会议上，麦勒提确立神学家格里哥利为君士坦丁堡的牧首。早先麦勒提确立圣大瓦西里为辅祭，并为圣金口约安施浸。在大公会议结束后，麦勒提在君士坦丁堡去世，他的圣髑被转移到安提约希亚。
Born to a wealthy and prominent family. Bishop of Sebaste, Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey) in 358 following the deposing of an Arian bishop. The Arian priests revolted, and forced Meletius into exile. Chosen bishop of Antioch, Syria after that city's Arian bishop had re-located to Constantinople. The Arians in the diocese revolted, and Meletius was exiled three times, returning in 362, 367 and 378. Supported by Saint Basil of Caesarea while in exile. In 379 he called a council at Antioch to formally install orthodox Nicene Christianity as the proper profession of the faith. Baptized and ordained Saint John Chrysostom; consecrated Saint Gregory of Nazianus as bishop of Constantinople in 381.
• Venerable MELETIOS of Lardos (1855) builder of the sacred and revered Monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos of Ypseni (April 18) in Rhodes, in 1855
• Sainted MELETIUS 麦勒提 archbishop of Kharkov (1840)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μελέτιος Ἐπίσκοπος Χαρκώβ
• Martyr MODESTUS (2nd c.) martyred in Carthage in North Africa and venerated as the Patron Saint of Cartagena in Spain
• Hieromartyr MODESTUS (304) a deacon, born in Sardinia and martyred under Diocletian. His relics were brought to Benevento in Italy in 785
• Hosiosmartyr NICHOLAS 尼科拉 Dvali 德瓦利, monk of Jerusalem (1314)
• PROCHORUS 普若霍尔 of Georgia (11th c.) builder of Holy Cross Monastery near Jerusalem
Ὁ Ὅσιος Πρόχορος ἐκ Γεωργίας
• SIADHAL (Sedulius, Seadhal, Siadal) (5th c.) the Christian Virgil, an Irish priest
Wrote the epic poem Carmen Paschale. He left Ireland to found a school of poetry in Athens. May have been a disciple of Saint Ailbhe. In 494, a decree of the First Roman Council contained a phrase "honoring by signal praise the Paschal Work of the Venerable man, Sedulius".
• SISINNIOS the Bishop of God (919-944) in the region of the Metropolis of Ephesus
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σισίννιος Ἐπίσκοπος τοῦ Θεοῦ
• Hieromartyr URBANUS 邬尔班 bishop of Rome (223-230)
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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