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GREAT-MARTYR THEODORE THE TYRO (306). MARTYRS EUTROPIUS, CLEONICUS AND BASILISCUS (308). ST. PIAMA, VIRGIN (337), AND STS. ZENO AND ZOILUS
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DAY 6
SATURDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK ― miracle of Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro
On the Saturday of the first week of Great Lent, we commemorate an event which occurred in the year 356—a miracle of Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro ("the Recruit"), which continues to have great significance for Orthodox Christians even today, perhaps especially today.
Fifty years after the death of St Theodore, the emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363), wanting to commit an outrage upon the Christians, commanded the city-commander of Constantinople during the first week of Great Lent to sprinkle all the food provisions in the marketplaces with the blood offered to idols. St Theodore appeared in a dream to Archbishop Eudoxius, ordering him to inform all the Christians that no one should buy anything at the marketplaces, but rather to eat cooked wheat with honey (koliva).
In memory of this occurrence, the Orthodox Church annually celebrates the holy Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit on the first Saturday of Great Lent. On Friday evening, at the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts following the prayer at the ambo, the Canon to the holy Great Martyr Theodore, composed by St John of Damascus, is sung. After this, kolyva is blessed and distributed to the faithful. The celebration of the Great Martyr Theodore on the first Saturday of Great Lent was set by the Patriarch Nectarius of Constantinople (381-397).
Blessed art Thou, O Lord, teach me Thy statutes. Give rest, O God, to Thy departed servants and place them in Paradise, where the choirs of the saints and the just, O Lord, shine like stars. Give rest to Thy servants who have fallen asleep, overlooking all of their transgressions. For Thou, O Christ our God, art the resurrection, the life and the repose of your departed servants, who have fallen asleep and Thee do we glorify together with Thy eternal Father and Thine all-holy, good and life-giving Spirit, now and forever and to the ages of ages. Amen.
• "VOLOKOLAMSK" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1572)
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τοῦ Βολοκολὰμσκ ἐν Ρωσίᾳ
The Volokolamsk Icon of the Mother of God – is a copy of the Vladimir Icon of the Moscow Uspenie cathedral. The icon was brought from Zvenigorod to the Uspenie monastery of the Monk Joseph of Volotsk on 2 March 1572, during the 2nd week of Great Lent and was solemnly met by hegumen Leonid (1563-1566; 1568-1573) together with all the monastic brethren. It is distinguished by its particular depiction on the margins of Sainted Kyprian (right) and Sainted Gerontii (left), metropolitans of Moscow. With the name of Metropolitan Kyprian is associated the first arrival of the ancient Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God from Byzantium to Moscow in the year 1395, and under Metropolitan Gerontii in 1480 the Vladimir Icon came finally to Moscow. In the year 1588 the Volokolamsk Icon was dedicated atop the gate in the church at the south gates of the Josepho-Volotsky monastery in honour of the Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the MostHoly Mother of God (26 August). At the end of the 17th Century, when a church of the same name was built in Moscow at Staraya Basmanna, the atop the gate church of Joseph of Volotsk was re-dedicated in the name of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul. The Volokolamsk Icon was transferred to its proper place on the iconostas of the new cathedral Uspensky church of the Josepho-Volotsky monastery. In its useage at the Josepho-Volotsky monastery, this icon in 1578 was accounted as wonderworking.
• Martyrs MARINUS and ASTERIUS (Astyrius) a Roman senator (262/272) of Palestine
• Holy Martyrs EUTROPIUS 艾弗特若彼, CLEONICUS 克莱奥尼科 of Amasea, and BASILLISCUS 瓦西利斯科 of Komana (308) companions of St Theodore Tiro
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Βασιλίσκος, Εὐτρόπιος καὶ Κλεόνικος οἱ Μάρτυρες
圣殉道者艾弗特若彼、克莱奥尼科和瓦西利斯科
他们都是圣德奥多若•蒂罗的患难同伴。当正义的德奥多若荣耀殉道后，他们仍然被关在监狱中，他们在监狱中被关押了很长的时间也没有进行判决，原因是皇帝在阿玛塞亚城更换了行政长官。新的行政长官上任后比他的前任更为残暴，他下令将这三人带到他的面前。这三位都是年轻人，艾弗特若彼和克莱奥尼科是亲兄弟，而瓦西利斯科是圣德奥多若的亲属。但是他们三人却如同亲兄弟一样在基督中相爱。他们对新上任的行政长官说：“正如三位一体的上帝不可分割一样，我们三人在信仰上是合一的，在友情上是难以分离的。”行政长官试图讨好他们，但是却是徒劳的；而后他又贿赂艾弗特若彼，但是这都无济于事。起初，行政长官邀请艾弗特若彼同他共进晚餐，但是却遭到了拒绝，艾弗特若彼引用了《圣咏》上的诗句对他说：“不从恶人的计谋，这人便为有福”（《圣咏》1：1）。之后，行政长官又要送给艾弗特若彼150公斤银子，但是也遭到了艾弗特若彼的拒绝，并提醒他说：正是因为银子的原因，犹大才丧失了他的灵魂。在经过一连串的审问与严刑拷打之后，艾弗特若彼和克莱奥尼科被判刑－钉在十字架上，而瓦西利斯科则被宣判斩首。前两位兄弟感激上帝，使他们有幸与主基督遭同样的刑罚，而瓦西利斯科则遭到了砍头。他们三人都进入了基督永生的乐园，使他们得以看见早先已经多时等待他们的圣德奥多若。他们于公元308年荣耀殉道
• Martyrs soldiers HEMITERIUS (Emeterius, called Madir) and CHELEDONIUS (4th c.) in Spain, suffered in Calahorra in Old Castile
• 40 Martyrs in North Africa: ANTONIUS, ARTILAUS, ASCLIPIUS, ASTEXIUS, BASIL, BOSIMUS, CARISSIMUS, CASTUS, CELEDONIUS, CLAUDIANUS, CYRICUS, DONATA, EMERITUS, EMETERIUS, EUTICUS, FELIX, FORTUNATUS, FRUNUMIUS, GAJOLA, GEORGIUS, GORGONIUS, HEMETERUS, ISICUS, JANULA, JULIUS, LUCIOLA, LUCIOLUS, MARCIA, MARINUS, METERUS, NICEPHORUS, PAPIAS, PHOTIUS, RISINNIUS, SABIANUS, SAVINIANUS and SOLUS
• Martyrs of Pontus (in modern Turkey) including BASILISCUS, CLEONICUS and EUTROPIUS (308)
A large group of Christians martyred together in the persecutions of Emperor Maximian Galerius and governor Ascleopiodato. We have some details on three of them - Basiliscus, Cleonicus and Eutropius.
• ZENO 兹诺 (587) and ZOILUS 佐伊洛 (593)
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ζήνων καὶ Ζωΐλος
• Holy 9 Martyrs of Georgia (Nine Brothers Kherkheulidze) at Marabda (1625) with their Mother and Sister were heroes of the Battle of Marabda. All of them died defending their motherland // AUG 3 //
Οἱ Ἅγιοι ἐννέα Μάρτυρες ἐκ Γεωργίας
• Commemoration of GREGORY Lisovsky, Metropolitan of Poltava (1927)
• Hosiosmartyress novice MARTHA 玛尔塔 Kovrova (1887-1938) day of martyrdom, group "case of monk Petr Zemskov and nun Martha Kovrova"; shoted and graved at Butovo, Moskow
• Martyr MICHAEL 米迦勒 Strojev, elder (starosta) of church and iconographer (1876-1938) day of death in KZ, Suslov department of Siblag NKVD, Altaj
Ἡ Ὁσία Ἀλεξάνδρα
• ANSELM (803) of noble origin, Anselm became a monk and founded one monastery in Fanano near Modena in Italy and a second one in Nonantola. He attached hospitals and hostels to both
Duke of Friuli, Italy. Brother-in-law of the Lombard King Aistulph. Career soldier. Cleric. Founded the abbeys in Fanano, Modena, Italy, and of Nonantola, Italy. Both included hospitals and hostels. Anselm became a Benedictine monk in Rome, Italy in 753. Abbot of the house at Nonantola, which grew to a thousand brothers under his leadership. Received permission from Pope Stephen III to transfer the body of Pope Saint Sylvester I to the house. Banished to Monte Cassino by King Desiderius, but restored by Charlemagne after seven years in exile.
• ARTHELAIS of Constantinople (560)
One of the Patron Saints of Benevento in Italy, where she fled from Constantinople. Daughter of Roman imperial proconsul Lucius and Aithuesa. The emperor Justinian desired her, but she had taken vows of holy chastity and so fled to Benevento, Italy where she stayed with her uncle Narses Patricius. En route she was kidnapped by highway men, but was miraculously freed after three days.
• CALUPAN 喀路般 (575) monk at Meallet in Auvergne in France, who lived as a hermit in a cave
Monk at Meallot, Auvergne, France. He spent his later years as a hermit in a cave near the monastery.
• CAMILLA of Ecoulives near Auxerre (437)
Born in Civitavecchia, she became a disciple of St Germanus of Auxerre in France, where she lived as an anchoress.
• M CASSIA at Illyria (3-4th c.)
• CELE-CHRIST (Christicola; otherwise "Worshipper of Christ") lived as a hermit for many years, but was eventually forced to become a bishop in Leinster (728)
• CONNA (also Cuanna) (5th c.)
• Venerabless CUNEGUND (also Kunegund, Cunegundes, Cunegunde or Cunigundis) Empress, W., Fndr. and Nun of Convent of Kaufungen (1033/1040)
Daughter of Sigfrid, Count of Luxembourg. Received a religious education, and took a private vow of virginity. Married Saint Henry II, Duke of Bavaria, who agreed to honour her vow. On the death of Emperor Otho III, Henry was chosen King of the Romans, and Cunegundes was crowned queen at Paderborn, Germany in 1002. Holy Roman Empress in 1014, receiving the crown from Pope Benedict VIII. At one point, gossips accused her of adultery, but she proved her innocence by asking for God's help, then walking over pieces of flaming iron without injury. During his time as emperor, Henry gave away the bulk of his wealth in charity; when he died in 1024, Cunegundes was left relatively poor. On the 1025 anniversary of Henry's death, which coincided with the dedication of a monastery she had built for Benedictine nuns at Kaffungen, Cunegundes took the veil, and entered that monastery, spending her remaining 15 years praying, reading, and working beside her sisters.
• FOILA (Faile, Faoileann, Faela of Gaoileann or Follena) of Kil-Faile (Kill-Faile or Kileely), Co. Galway (7-8th c.)
The sister of St Colgan. The two are Patron Saints of the parishes of Kil-Faile (Kileely) and Kil-Colgan in Galway in Ireland.
• Sainted JOHN IV Chrysostom, the Catholicos of Georgia (1001)
• Sainted 约翰 JOHN V Okropiri, the Catholicos of Georgia (1049)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης Πατριάρχης Γεωργίας
• LAMALISSE (7th c.) hermit in Scotland, he left his name to the islet of Lamlash off the coast of the Isle of Arran in Scotland
• NIKOLOZ Catholicosi (1591) Georgia • NON (Nonna, Nonita, Nonnita, Nunnes, Nuanita, Nun, Melane or Melaria) 农 of Wales (5-6th c.) the mother of Saint David, the Patron Saint of Wales The mother of St David, Patron Saint of Wales, she probably came from a ruling family in Dyfed: a chapel and a well near her son's Cathedral still bear her name. Another can be found in Altarnum in Cornwall, where she may have moved and where her relics survived, even though she reposed in Brittany.
Tradition holds that Nonita was raped and that the product of that rape was David - she was "unhappily seized and exposed to the sacrilegious violence of one of the princes of the country". Rhigyfarch recounts the tradition that the rapist was Sanctus, King of Ceredigion, who came upon Non while travelling through Dyfed (in South Wales). After conceiving, Nonita, who remained celibate both before and afterwards, lived on bread and water alone. When a preacher found himself unable to preach in the presence of her unborn child, this was taken as a sign that the child would himself be a great preacher. A local ruler learned of this pregnancy and feared the power of the child to be born. He plotted to kill him upon birth, but on the day of her labour a great storm made it impossible for anyone to travel outdoors. Only the place where Nonita groaned with birth-pangs was bathed in light. The pain was said to have been so intense that her fingers left marks as she grasped a rock and the stone itself split asunder in sympathy with her. A church was built in the place of David's birth and this stone is now concealed in the foundations of the altar.
• Hermit OWEN (Owin, Ouini) of Lichfield (680) // MAR 3 //
After working as a steward in the household of St Audrey (Etheldred), he became a monk at Lastingham in England with St Chad. When the latter became Bishop of Mercia, he settled St Owen with other monks at a monastery near Lichfield.
• Venerabless Virgin Amma PIAMA (Piamoun, Piamon or Piamun) 彼雅玛 the Egyptian, of Alexandria (337)
Ἡ Ὁσία Πιαμοῦν ἡ Παρθένος
埃及人圣彼雅玛
为了基督的缘故，彼雅玛甚至不想成婚。她在母亲的家中潜心修行，将全部精力用在了修行上。她隔日进食极少的食物，她的大部分时间都在祷告和默想。彼雅玛拥有上帝赋予的“悟道的恩典”。彼雅玛于公元377年安然离世，成为基督的的新娘。
For the sake of Christ, Piama did not wish to marry; she dedicated herself to a life of asceticism in the home of her mother. She ate very little food, and that, every other day. She spent most of her time in prayer and contemplation. Piama possessed the "Gift of Discernment." She died peacefully, wedding her soul to the Lord about the year 377 A.D.
• Finding Rel. of VM RESTITUTA of Carthage in North Africa (3-4th c.)
• Martyr SABINUS
• SACER (Mo-Sacra) (7th c.) founder of the monastery of Saggard near Dublin in Ireland
Descendant of Roderic, king of Ireland. Founded the monastery of Saggard, Dublin, Ireland, and served as its first abbot.
• Martyr SEBASTIAN
• Venerable monk SHIO Mgvime, of Georgia (6th c.)
• Sainted TITIAN Bishop of Brescia in Italy (526)
Germanic by birth, he became Bishop of Brescia in Italy.
• Great Martyr THEODORE Tyro (306) // MOVABLE HOLIDAY ON SATURDAY OF THE 1ST WEEK OF THE GREAT LENT //
50 years after the martyr's death of Saint Theodore, the emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363), wanting to commit an outrage upon the christians, commanded the city-commander of Constantinople during the first week of Great Lent to sprinkle all the food provisions in the market-places with the blood of idol-sacrifices. Saint Theodore, having appeared in a dream to archbishop Eudoxios, ordered him to inform all the christians, ― that no one should buy anything at the market-places, but rather to eat cooked wheat with honey ― kolivo ( kut'ya or sochivo). In memory of this occurrence the Orthodox Church annually makes celebration of the holy Great Martyr Theodore of Tyre on Saturday of the first week of Great Lent.
• Hieromartyr THEODORETUS 德奥多里特 Priest of Antioch (361-363)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεοδώρητος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀντιοχείας
• Venerable WINWALOE (Guenole, Bennoc, Guengalaenus, Guengaloeus, Guénolé, Guingaloëus, Guingalois, Gunnolo, Gwenndo, Gweno, Gwinocus, Gwnawg, Gwnnog, Gwynauc, Gwynawc, Gwyngawr, Gwynno, Gwynnoc, Gwynnocus, Gwynog, Ouignoualey, Valois, Vennole, Vinguavally, Waloway, Wingaloeus, Winnol, Winocus, Winwalde, Winwalloc, Winwalloe, Winwaloe, Winwaloëus, Wonnow, Wynnog, Wynolatus and Wynwallow) 文瓦洛埃 abbot of Landevennec, Brittany (532)
His father was Fragan, a Welsh noble who had recently emigrated to Brittany to escape a Saxon invasion. Ward and spiritual student of Saint Budoc on Lauren Island. Monk. Following a pilgrimage at age 20 to key Saint Patrick related sites in Ireland, Winwallus founded Landevennec monastery with eleven fellow monks at Brest, France. Abbot. The initial monastery site had to be abandoned due to poor soil and harsh weather, but Winwallus spent the rest of his days at the second site. Legend says he lived on rye bread and ashes, water, and prayer, that he slept on sand or piles of tree bark, and that these privations led to his performing many miracles. Several churches in Cornwall, including Anglican parishes, are dedicated to him, which may indicate that his relics were moved there after the Viking invasions of 914.
• The Unknown Maiden
不知名的少女
这位不知名的少女出生于亚历山大里亚一个富有的家庭，她有一个非常爱主的父亲，但是却受逼迫而死去。她那邪恶的母亲却生活得自在，在死后得以大葬。她当时不知道如何是好：是追随父亲的典范，还是追随母亲的？当时，这位少女得到了异象，向她揭示了她母亲的处境，而她的父亲却生活在另一个世界中。她看到了父亲在上帝的王国中，而母亲却在阴暗的冥府中遭受折磨。这个异象帮助了这个少女作出决定：她将效仿父亲，听从上帝的诫令，没有考虑她将会面临怎样的磨难。她的一生都忠诚地履行上帝的意愿，在上帝的帮助下，这位少女得以进行上帝永生的乐园，得以见到他的父亲。
Coming from a wealthy home in Alexandria, she had a good father who suffered much and came to an evil end, and an evil mother who lived well, died peacefully and was buried with honors. Perplexed as to whether she should live according to the example of her father or her mother, this maiden had a vision which revealed to her the conditions of her mother and her father in the other world. She saw her father in the Kingdom of God and her mother in darkness and in torment. This vision helped themaiden to decide that she would dedicate her whole life to God and, like her father, would adhere to the commandments of God, without considering all the adversities and the misfortunes which she would have to endure. She was faithful to the will of God to the end and, with the help of God, was made worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven where she was reunited with her God-loving father.
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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