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March 11 / February 26
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ST. PROCOPIUS THE CONFESSOR OF DECAPOLIS (CA. 750). ST. THALELAEUS, HERMIT OF SYRIA (460). ST. TITUS THE SOLDIER, MONK OF THE KYIV CAVES (14TH C.). ST. TITUS, PRESBYTER OF THE KYIV CAVES (1190)
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DAY 2
THE GREAT CANON OF ST ANDREW OF CRETE
• Holy Martyr JULIAN 犹利安 suffered severely from gout so much so that he was neither able to stand nor walk. Because of his faith in Christ, he was brought on a pallet before the judge. He was burned alive at the stake in Alexandria with his disciple Martyr CRONYON 赫若尼 (Eunos); and Martyrs BESAS (Beza, Bisos) the Soldier and MEKAROS of Lebanon; during the reign of Emperor Decius (249-251) at Alexandria
殉道者，圣犹利安
犹利安患了痛风病，已经严重得不能站立，也不能行走。德西乌斯在位期间，犹利安因为是基督徒的缘故而被人用草垫子抬到审判官面前。结果，他同其门徒克伦勇同被绑到木桩上，而后被活活地烧死，地点是在亚历山大里亚。
When the persecution of Decius filled the city of Alexandria with dread and terror, many, especially among the nobles, the rich, and those who held any places in the state, sacrificed to idols, but pale and trembling, so as to show they had neither courage to die, nor heart to sacrifice. Several generous soldiers repaired the scandal given by these cowards. Julian who was grievously afflicted with the gout, and one of his servants, called Chronion, were set on the backs of camels, and cruelly scourged through the whole city, and at length were consumed by fire. Because he tried to defend the holy martyrs from insult, Besas, a soldier, was beheaded by the sword. Mekaros of Lebanon was also burned.
• Martyrs ABUNDIUS, ALEXANDER, ANTIGONUS, CALANUS, JANUARIUS, MAKARIOS, SEVERIANUS, TITIANUS and FORTUNATUS, and those martyred with them (284-305)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀβουδάντιος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀντίγονος, Καλανός, Ἰανουάριος, Μακάριος, Σεβηριανός, Τιτιανός, Φορτουνίων οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς Μαρτυρήσαντες
• Venerables ASCLEPIUS 阿斯克 (436) and JAMES 雅各 (437) of Antioch, Syria, monks and desert-dwellers of Nimouza, near Cyrrhus
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ἀσκληπιὸς καὶ Ἰάκωβος
• M SYMPHORIANUS and VMM EULALIA and IRENE at Antwerp
• 12 Holy Greek Architects of the Kiev Caves Lavra
• Sainted RAPHAEL 拉法伊尔 Hawaweeny (1860-1915) bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn, vicar of the Northern-American diocese, and head of the Antiochian Levantine Christian Greek Orthodox mission. He was the first Orthodox Christian bishop consecrated on American soil; Good Shepherd of the Lost Sheep in America // Repose FEB 14 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ραφαὴλ Ἐπίσκοπος Μπρούκλυν
He is also commemorated with the Synaxis of Saints of North America on the Second Sunday after Pentecost. The Patriarchate of Antioch also commemorates him on Saturday before the Synaxis of the Archangels (November 8).
• Hieromartyr SERGIUS Uvitskij, presbiter, priest (1881-1932) day of death in prison in Belbatlag KZ
• Hieromartyr PETR 彼得 Uspenskij, presbiter, priest (1876-1938) day of death in Taganka prison, Moskow
• Martyr MICHAEL 米迦勒 Markov, psalmist (1884-1938) day of death in Mariinsk KZ of Siblag OGPU, Kemerovo; died of starvation
• Repose of Venerable Elder JUSTINIAN Serebr’akov, Hieromonk of Valaam Monastery (1966)
• Repose of Archimandrite ALIPYIJ Voronov, of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1975)
Born a serf, he worked as a cow-herd near the monastery of Saint Werburgh at Weedon, Northamptonshire, England. Hermit in the forest near Stowe, England.
• Repose of Monk ANTHONY of Valaam Monastery (1848)
• BALDOMERUS (Galmier) (650) by trade a locksmith in Lyons in France, he entered the monastery of St Justus
Blacksmith and locksmith in Lyon, France known for his personal piety, charity and simple living. Late in life he retired to the monastery of Saint Justus. Ordained as a sub-deacon.
• BASILIOS the Confessor (825) of Constantinople
Opposed the 8th-century iconoclast decrees of Leo the Isaurian, and preserved icons and images in his care. Beaten and imprisoned for this work, he was finally released after Leo's death.
• COMGAN (i.e. Diarmaid; Cowan) (565) Abbot of Glenthsen (Gleann Ussen, today Killeshin) County Laois in Ireland
• COMMAN Mac Ua Theimhne
• New Martyr ELIAS of Trebizond (1749)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἠλίας ὁ Νεομάρτυρας
The Holy Neomartyr Elias was the son of a priest named Constantine and hailed from the village of Kryonero in Trebizond of Pontus, Asia Minor. For reasons unknown to us, he was apprehended by Muslims and underwent extremely painful torture in Molos (Mum Hani) to force him to convert to Islam. Refusing to abandon his faith in Christ, he was sentenced to be hanged in 1749. Christians took up his sacred relics and buried them at the Monastery of Panagia Theoskepastos in Trebizond.
• Martyr GELASIUS 格拉息 the Actor of Heliopolis (303)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γελάσιος ὁ Μάρτυρας
We commemorate the Holy Martyr Gelasios who was formerly a mime, who was ordered to parody Holy Baptism, and was truly baptized and perfected by the sword.
Gelasios, of the village Mariamne near Damascus, was an actor. In a performance at Heliopolis of Syria, he played the part of a catechumen in a dramatized parody of the Christian's Mystery of Holy Baptism. As he was immersed in the waters, the audience laughed. Divine Grace, however, wrought a miracle, and Gelasios emerged from those waters transformed. As the play continued and he was garbed in the white gown of the newly-illumined, he declared before the crowd, "I am a Christian. When I was under those waters, I was awestruck by the glory that I beheld. I am now ready to be slain on behalf of Christ!" The rest of the cast, knowing that these lines were not in the script, were aghast. The audience soon understood that Gelasios was not jesting but instead meant every word of his public confession. Roused to fury, the audience came down upon Gelasios, who was still clad in white, and dragged him out of the theatre and stoned him. Christians who witnessed the stoning, afterward took up his honorable relics and returned with them to their own country. A church was built over the martyrs tomb.
Very similar accounts of the conversion of actors are found in the lives of Saints Porphyrios (September 15, November 4), Ardalion (April 14), Genesios of Rome (August 25) and Glaukos.
• Venerable GERONTIUS
• GREGORY of Narek, on the southern shores of Lake Van, Armenia (in modern Turkey) (950-1005)
Grigor, the son of Bishop Khosrov Andzevatsi, was descended from a line of scholars and churchmen, and was educated by his father and Anania Vartabed, abbess of Narek monastery. He and both his brothers became monks as young men. Gregory excelled in music, astronomy, geometry, mathematics, literature and theology. He was ordained a priest in 977 in his mid-20's. He lived most of his life in the Narek monastery, where, for his entire adult life, he taught theology in the monastic school. His writings began with a commentary on the Song of Songs, which was commissioned by an Armenian prince, but continued through his life with letters, poems, hymns, music, and essays. Many of his prayers are included in the Divine Liturgy celebrated each Sunday in Armenian Churches around the world, and his masterpiece is considered to be his Book of Lamentations, which has a theme of man's separation from God, and his quest to reunite with Him; it has been translated into at least 30 languages. He is one of the greatest figures of medieval Armenian religious thought and literature.
• Hieromartyr HEREFRITH Bishop of Lincolnshire and Lindsey (869)
The relics of this Bishop of Lindsey, probably martyred by the Danes, were venerated at Thorney in Cambridgeshire in England.
• Translation (912) of relics of VM HONORINA (Honorine, Honoria or Honora) from Graville to Confians (Conflans) near Pontoise (or Paris) in France; martyred at Melomare near Harfleur, Normandy (300)
An early martyr in the north of France. Her relics are still venerated in Conflans Ste Honorine near Paris.
• Abbot JOHN of Gorze (975)
Born in Vandières near Metz in the east of France, after some years in the world, he made a pilgrimage to Rome. On his return he restored and entered the monastery of Gorze in Lorraine in 933. Emperor Otto I sent him as his ambassador to the Caliph Abd-er-Rahman of Cordoba, where he stayed for two years. In 960 he became Abbot of Gorze.
• Sainted LEANDER Archbishop of Seville and Apostle of Spain (596)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Λέανδρος Ἐπίσκοπος Σεβίλλης
The elder brother of Sts Fulgentius, Isidore and Florentina. He entered a monastery in his early youth and was later sent to Constantinople on a diplomatic mission. There he met St Gregory the Great, who became a close friend. On his return to Spain, Leander became Archbishop of Seville. He revised and unified the Spanish liturgy, converted St Hermenegild and helped convert the Visigoths from Arianism. He was responsible for holding two national Councils at Toledo in 589 and 590.
• MACARIUS 玛喀里 bishop of Jerusalem (333)
• Our God-bearing Father MARCIAN Bishop of Nakua
• Venerable MARKWARD Abbot of Prüm (853)
• Hieromartyr NESTOR Bishop of Sida in Pamphylia (250)
• Martyr NESIUS by whipping
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νήσιος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• Virgin ODA of Rhoda, Belgium (8th c.)
She was daughter to a king, and patroness of this place. Othbert, the Bishop, raised her precious remains, in 1103, to a place of honour. It is said, by Dempster, that she was daughter to Eugene V King of the Scots, and a virgin, who led a most holy life. However, the authorities quoted by him, only make her daughter to a King of the Scots. It is thought, she flourished, about the year 500, although another more probable statement has 700, and 713. She was seized with blindness, but going to the tomb of St Lambert, Bishop and Martyr, at Liege, she there prayed and recovered her sight. Through gratitude, she then vowed her virginity to God; nor, afterwards, could her father persuade her to marry. Following a Divine impulse, Odda went to Taxandria, and by her residence, she sanctified the whole Rhodan territory. It is related, that while she secretly prayed in a wood, a magpie betrayed this secret to men. Hence, in art, she is painted with a magpie. Renowned for her virtues and miracles, she was called, at last, to the nuptials of her Divine Spouse, and her body was deposited in a collegiate church at Rhoda, where she is commemorated as chief patroness. We are told, that her memory was greatly venerated, and that churches were erected to her honour, in various parts of the kingdom of Scotland.
• Venerable Archimandrite PHOTIUS of the Yuriev Monastery, Novgorod (1838) Ὁ Ὅσιος Φώτιος ἐκ Ρωσίας
• Sainted PITIRIM 彼提林 bishop of Tambov (1698) // JUL 28 //
• Venerable PROCOPIUS 普若科彼 Decapolit, Hosiosconfessor (750)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Προκόπιος ὁ Ὁμολογητής ὁ Δεκαπολίτης
可敬的德卡颇利人，普若科彼
普若科彼来自于加利利海附近的德卡颇利，由此他被称为德卡颇利的普若科彼。在他年轻的时候就潜心苦行，他完成了所有要求作的，由此他的内心得到了洁净，灵性有所升华。当暴君莱翁•伊索里安为圣像的问题开始迫害基督徒时，普若科彼挺身而出捍卫圣像，并表明对圣像的尊崇并不等同于偶像崇拜，因为基督徒们知道，他们尊崇圣像，他们并不是跪拜圣像或崇拜无生命的物质，他们敬重的是圣像上绘制的圣人。由此，普若科彼被逮捕，受到了严刑拷打，忍受了割刮皮肉之苦。后来，当莱翁皇帝身体被杀后（因为他早先就已经丧失了灵魂），圣像在教堂中又重新出现，普若科彼也返回到了他自己的修道院，在那里安度了他的余生。普若科彼在高龄之际得以进入上帝的天国，在那里他得以喜悦地亲眼目睹天使和圣人，而在世时他就非常敬重这些圣人的圣像。普若科彼于公元9世纪安祥地离世。
When the Emperor Leo the Isaurian began his persecution of the holy icons, Procopius, who had previously spent his life in hiddenness and silence, boldly stood forth to defend the true Orthodox veneration of the icons. For this he was cruelly tortured and imprisoned. When the cruel Leo died and the icons were restored to the churches, Procopius returned to his monastery, where he lived in peace to a great old age. In old age, he was translated into the kingdom of God where he gazes with joy upon the living angels and saints, whose images on icons he honored on earth.
• SIMON of Cyrene, who bore the cross of Christ
• Venerable STEPHEN 斯特梵 of Constantinople (614) a palace clerk of Emperor Maurice. After that he resigned his palace duties and, driven by love for Christ, Stephen built a hospice of charity for the aged in Constantinople
Ὁ Ὅσιος Στέφανος
可敬的斯特梵
起初，斯特梵是皇帝玛弗里基朝臣中的文书。后来出于对基督的爱，他辞去了官职，在君士坦丁堡为老年人修建了一所救济院。他于公元614年安祥地离世。
• Venerable Syrian ascetic THALELAEUS 塔勒莱 a Cilician (460)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θαλλέλαιος
可敬的塔勒莱
塔勒莱是叙利亚的修行者。起初，他在靠近耶路撒冷的神圣的萨巴斯修道院修行，但后来他到了一个异教徒的墓地处隐居起来。这个地方为人所共知，是鬼怪出没、异常恐怖的地方。为了通过对上帝的信仰来战胜他内心的恐惧，普若科彼在这个墓地居住了很多年的时间，期间昼夜遭受鬼怪的无数次袭击。正因为他对上帝的信仰和强烈的爱，上帝赋予了他行奇迹的恩典，他以此医治病人和遭受痛苦的人。普若科彼于公元460年离世。
He lived a recluse on a mountain in Syria, and shut himself up ten years in an open cage of wood. Theodoret asked him why he had chosen so singular a practice? The penitent answered: "I punish my criminal body, that God seeing my affliction for my sins, may be moved to pardon them, and to deliver me from, or at least to mitigate, the excessive torments of the world to come, which I have deserved." John Mosch in the Spiritual Meadow, relates that Thalilæus the Cilician, spent sixty years in an ascetic life, weeping almost without intermission; and that he used to say to those who came to him: "Time is allowed us by the divine mercy for repentance and satisfaction, and wo to us if we neglect it."
• Venerable monk TIMOTHY 提摩太 of Caesarea
Ὁ Ὅσιος Τιμόθεος ὁ ἐν Καισαρείᾳ
• Venerable TITUS 提托 a Presbyter, of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1190) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Anthony Near Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Τίτος
基辅洞窟修道院中可敬的提托
提托是一名司祭，他同辅祭埃维加在主内如同兄弟般地互爱。起初的时候，这份慈爱是千真万确的，但是后来魔鬼从中作梗，播下了仇恨的种子，使两人互相仇视起来。他们彼此如此地仇恨，以致于其中一人在教堂中熏香的时候，另一个人就会转身离去。其实提托曾经多次企图化解双方的仇恨，但却是徒劳的。后来提托病重，所有人都认为他将会不久于人世。他请求众人请来埃维加，以便能够在他临终前同他和解。于是众人强行将埃维加拖到他的病榻旁来，但是埃维加却溜掉了。埃维加一边走，一边叫嚷着说，无论如何他都不能原谅提托，今生来世都不会。刚说完这话，埃维加就倒在地上死去了，而提托反而霍然痊愈，可以离开病榻了。他向人们讲述了魔鬼如何纠缠不放，直到他终于原谅了埃维加为止，这时，群魔呼啸而去，依附到了埃维加身上，在提托的周围围绕着众天使。提托于公元1190年离世。
Titus was a presbyter and had a sincere Christian love for Deacon Evgarius as a brother for a brother. As much as their love in the beginning was true, later it became a mutual blood-feud and hatred sown by the devil. They hated each other so much that when one was censing in the church, the other turned around and walked out of the church. Titus attempted many times to reconcile with his opponent but in vain. Titus became ill and everyone thought that he was going to die. He begged them to bring Evgarius to him in order to forgive him. Forcefully, they dragged Evgarius to the bedside of Titus, but Evgarius broke free and fled saying that he will not forgive Titus either in this world or the other world. As soon as he said this, he fell to the ground and died. Titus arose from his bed healthy and related how the demons were hovering around him until he forgave Evgarius and when he forgave him, the demons fled and attached Evgarius and angels of God surrounded Titus. He died in the year 1190 A.D.
• Venerable TITUS 提托 the Warrior, monk of the Kiev Caves в of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1349) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Theodosy Far Caves of the Lavra
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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