συνοδικός
March 4 / February 19
2019 (7527)
Cheesefare Week
APOSTLES ARCHIPPUS AND PHILEMON OF THE SEVENTY, AND MARTYR APPHIA (1ST C.). MARTYRS MAXIMUS, THEODOTUS, HESYCHIUS, AND ASCLEPIODOTUS OF ADRIANOPOLIS (305-311). STS. EUGENE AND MACARIUS, PRESBYTERS, CONFESSORS AT ANTIOCH (363). ST. DOSITHEUS OF PALESTINE (6TH C.), DISCIPLE OF ST. ABBA DOROTHEUS. ST. RABULAS (530)
• The Icon of the Mother of God of CYPRUS (392)
The Cyprus Icon of the Mother of God. In this icon the Mother of God is depicted sitting on a throne with the Divine Infant in Her arms. There is an angel on either side of Her. Renowned copies of the Cyprus Icon are at the Moscow's Dormition Cathedral, and in the Nikolo-Golutvin church in the village of Stromyn (1841), Moscow diocese (Commemorated on the Sunday of Orthodoxy). Other days commemorating the Cyprus Icon are the Day of the Holy Spirit, April 20, and July 9. Some copies of the Cyprus Icon have additional names such as "Cleansing", "Knife", and "Hawk".
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἄρχιππος, Φιλήμων καὶ Ἀπφίας οἱ Ἀπόστολοι
圣徒阿尔悉普、斐利蒙和阿斐雅
阿尔悉普是70圣徒之一。圣徒帕弗罗在他的书信《致科罗西人书》与《致斐利蒙书》中都提到过阿尔悉普：“要对阿尔悉普说，务要谨慎，尽你从主所受的职分”（致科罗西人书／西／哥4：17），在《斐利蒙书》中，帕弗罗称呼阿尔悉普为他在战场上的战友：“与我们同当兵的阿尔悉普”（致斐利蒙书／门／费1：2）在哥罗西这个城市中，基督教会的中心是在斐利蒙的家中，在这里，基督徒们一起聚集进行祷告。帕弗罗在写给斐利蒙的信中也称呼这里为“在你家的教会”（致斐利蒙书／门／费1：2）。当时，圣徒们开始任命自己的门徒为主教，一些人有固定的地方，而另一些人则外出传讲福音，斐利蒙属于后者。斐利蒙的妻子阿斐雅在家中的教会中准备一切。异教徒根据传统习俗在举行敬拜阿特米丝神（月亮女神）的时候，哥罗西城所有的基督徒们都在斐利蒙的家中进行祷告。异教徒们得知这个消息后，闯进斐利蒙的家中，将所有的基督徒抓住，包括基督教会的领导人斐利蒙、阿斐雅和阿尔悉普。起初，他们遭受鞭打，后来他们被齐腰埋起来，并开始向他们投掷石块。这样，异教徒杀死了斐利蒙和阿斐雅，他们把奄奄一息的阿尔悉普从地洞中拉了出来，给孩子们戏弄。孩子们用刀捅他的身体。由此，这位战场上的士兵结束了他在世的生命。
Archippus was the son of Saints Philemon (November 22) and Apphia (February 15) and, like them, was a disciple of the Apostle Paul, who calls him "our fellow soldier" (Philm. 2). He and his father preached the Gospel at Colossae, and Archippus probably served as a priest for the church that gathered there at his family's house (Col. 4:17). Archippus' fervor in preaching the Gospel of Christ so angered the pagans that they seized him and brought him before the governor Androcles. When the Saint refused to sacrifice to Artemis, he was stripped, beaten, tormented in various ways, and finally stoned to death. Then children tormented him by picking him with needles. Finally he was stoned to death.
• Martyrs PUBLIUS, JULIAN, MARCELLUS and Companions in Proconsular North Africa
• MM MAXIMUS 玛克息默, HESYCHIUS (Hesychios) 伊息赫 and THEODOTUS 德奥多特 together with VM ASKLEPIODOTE (Asclepiodotes, Asclepiodotus or Asclepiodota) 阿斯克利彼奥多特 (309) of Marcianopolis
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μάξιμος, Θεόδοτος, Ἡσύχιος καὶ Ἀσκληπιοδότη οἱ Μάρτυρες
• Hieromartyrs presbyters EUGENE 艾弗革尼 and MACARIUS 玛喀里 (363) confessors at Antioch
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Εὐγένιος καὶ Μακάριος οἱ Ὁμολογητές
• Hieromartyrs of Palestine (509) of monks and lay people massacred together for their faith by Saracens led by Mundhir III
Saracen tribes under Persian rule invaded Palestine about this time and martyred the hermits they found there, out of hatred for Rome and Christianity.
• Martyr DEMETRIUS 迪弥特里 Volkov (1871-1942)
• Sainted AUXIBIUS bishop of Soli in Cyprus (102)
Convert, baptized by Saint Mark the Evangelist. Bishop of Soli, Cyprus, ordained by Saint Paul the Apostle.
• Bishop BARBATUS (Barbas) of Benevento (612-682) born in Benevento in Italy, he rendered great service to his native town as a priest and then as bishop, especially when it was under siege. He took part in the Sixth Oecumenical Council in Constantinople at which Monothelitism was condemned
Priest at an early age. Fiery preacher whose flock turned on him because of his zeal; he finally resigned his parish and returned home. There he fought against a resurgent paganism involving the worship of a golden viper and animal skin hung in a tree. For unrelated reasons, the army of Emperor Constans, besieged Benevento; the locals soon listened to the preacher, renounced their errors, and stopped their idolatrous practices. Barbatus assured them that the siege would end; it did. The saint cut down the tree with his own hand, and melted down the golden viper to make a chalice for the altar. Bishop on 10 March 663. Eradicated superstition in the state. Assisted in a council called by Pope Agatho at Rome, Italy in 680. Attended the Sixth General Council held at Constantinople against the Monothelites in 681.
• BEATUS (Bie) of Liébana (789) born in Asturias in Spain, he became a monk and priest at Liebana and was famous for his firm stand against Adoptionism. When Adoptionism was condemned, the saint went to the monastery of Valcavado and wrote his famous Commentary on the Apocalypse
Monk at Saint Martin's monastery, Liebana, Spain. Wrote and preached against the Adoptionist heresy, and worked to bring it's believers back to orthodox Christianity; co-author of Liber Adversus Elipandum as part of the work. When the Adoptionist heresy lost momentum, Beatus retired to the monastery of Valcavado to pray and write scripture commentaries and hymns.
• Venerable CONON 科农 the Baptizer, Abbot of the Pethukla Monastery (555) Palestine
Ὁ Ὅσιος Κόνων
Sixth century monk in the monastery of Pentucla in Palestine. Abbot of his house.
• Venerable DOSITHEUS 多西德奥 of Palestine (622) a disciple of the glorious Abba Dorotheus who lived in the cenobitic monastic community of the Venerables Serdius, John and Barsanuphius the Great
可敬的多西德奥
多西德奥是圣父多若德奥的门徒，这位圣父同可敬的塞尔蒂乌斯、约安和大瓦尔萨努斐一同在修道院中修行。多西德奥是一位大将军的亲属，他来到圣地耶路撒冷朝圣。当他在教堂里凝视着那个名为“可怕的审判”的圣像时，一个身着紫衣的妇女走上前来，向他解释圣像。最后在分手时这位妇女对他说，如果想获得拯救，就应该斋戒、节制肉食，并要恒切向上帝祷告。这位妇女其实就是诞神女。之后，年轻人多西德奥的心开始燃烧起来，他希望自己成为一名修士。多若德奥接受了他作为门徒，并要求他放弃他全部的个人意愿，服从他的神父。一段时间内，多若德奥让多西德奥能吃多少就吃多少，过了一段时间后，多若德奥将多西德奥的饭量减少了四分之一，过了一段时间又减少了四分之一，直到多西德奥能够适应吃最少的食量为止，并不断地对他说：“进食是一个习惯，你习惯了吃多少就吃多少。”正因为多西德奥完全地顺从，由此他获得了拯救，并享受了荣耀。他永远都是修士们学习的榜样，这就是：要遵守诫命，并全心全意地听从神父。多西德奥生活于公元6世纪。
Dositeus was a layman who served as a page to a senior army officer. During a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, a painting of Hell caused him to re-evaluate his life and led to his becoming a monk in Palestine. He devoted himself so completely to giving up a worldly life that he destroyed his health, and died soon after entering the monastery.
• Martyr GABINUS (295) in Rome who was related to the Emperor Diocletian, but was also the brother of Pope Gaius and father of the martyr St Susanna
• GEORGE of Lodève (884) born near Rodez in France, he became a monk at Saint-Foi-de-Conques in Rouergue but later moved to Vabres. He became Bishop of Lodève at an advanced age
Benedictine monk at Saint-Foi-de-Conques, Rouergue. The monastery was destroyed by Norsemen in 862, and George fled to Vabres in the diocese of Rodez, France. In his later years he was elected bishop of Lodeve, France.
• MAELDOBHARCHON ( Maeldobhorchon) Bishop of Kildare, County of Kildare (7-8th c.)
• MANSUETUS of Milan (690) born in Rome, he became Bishop of Milan in Italy (c 672) and showed both vigour and wisdom. He wrote a treatise against Monothelitism
Born to the Italian nobility. Archbishop of Milan, Italy c.672. He revitalized the faith in his diocese, and wrote a treatise against the heresy of Monothelitism.
• Blessed MARIA of Olonets, the Desert Dweller of the Northern Forests (1860) offers an extraordinary account of one woman’s solitary struggle in the Russian forests. Maria’s life is a witness to the world of the reality of Christ’s otherworldly Kingdom // FEB 9 //
Ἡ Ὁσία Μαρία τοῦ Ὅλονετς
• Venerable MESROP 麦斯若普译师 Mashtots, the Translator and Teacher, of Armenia (362-440) an early medieval Armenian linguist, theologian, statesman and hymnologist
He is best known for inventing the Armenian alphabet c. 405 AD, which was a fundamental step in strengthening Armenian national identity. He was also the creator of the Caucasian Albanian and Georgian alphabets, according to a number of scholars and contemporaneous Armenian sources. Saint Mesrop also produced a number of liturgical compositions. Some of the works attributed to him are: «Մեղայ քեզ Տէր» (Megha Qez Ter, "Miserere to you, Lord"), «Ողորմեա ինձ Աստուած» (Voghormea indz Astzvats, "Have mercy of me, God"), «Անկանիմ առաջի քո» (Ankanim Aadgi Qo, "I kneel before You") y «Ողորմեա» (Voghormea, "Miserere"), all of which are hymns of repentance. The invention of the alphabet in 405 was the beginning of Armenian literature, and proved a powerful factor in the upbuilding of the national spirit. "The result of the work of Isaac and Mesrop", says St Martin, "was to separate for ever the Armenians from the other peoples of the East, to make of them a distinct nation, and to strengthen them in the Christian Faith by forbidding or rendering profane all the foreign alphabetic scripts which were employed for transcribing the books of the heathens and of the followers of Zoroaster. To Mesrop we owe the preservation of the language and literature of Armenia; but for his work, the people would have been absorbed by the Persians and Syrians, and would have disappeared like so many nations of the East".
• New Hieromartyr NICETAS 尼基塔 hieromonk (1809) of Epirus and Mt Athos, at Serres
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικήτας ὁ νέος Ἱερομάρτυρας
• NUAD (Nuada or Nodtat) Archbishop of Armagh (8-9th c.)
• Martyr ODRAN (Odhran) of Disert-Odhrain, in Offaly (452) in Ireland; ranks as the first Christian martyr in Irish history
Saint Odran was the chariot-driver for Saint Patrick. He was assassinated in place of his master because he changed places with Patrick in the chariot when he knew that an ambush awaited them.
• Hosiosmartyress PHILOTHEA (Philothei or Filothei) 斐洛德雅 of Athens, Abs., Fndr. of churches, monasteries and charitable institutions (1589)
Ἡ Ἁγία Φιλοθέη ἡ Ὁσιομάρτυς ἡ Ἀθηναία
This bright star of compassion arose in the dark days of the Turkish occupation to shed God's mercy upon the oppressed people of Athens and to guide many endangered souls onto the path of righteousness.
• PROCLUS (Prodo) of Bisignano, Calabria, Italy (970)
As a young layman, he lived a very ascetic life, spending his days roaming from town to town in order to worship in all the churches he could find. Monk. Known for his extensive learning and knowledge, his wide reading, and his ability to speak on many topics.
• Sainted QUODVULTDEUS Bishop of Carthage (450/454) in North Africa, exiled by the Arian Genseric King of the Vandals, after the capture of the city in 439. He reposed in Naples in Italy
Fifth century North African church father. Known to have been living in Carthage c.407. Deacon c.421. Friend, spiritual student and correspondent with Saint Augustine of Hippo who dedicated some of his writings to Quodvultdeus. Bishop of Carthage. When Carthage was invaded by Arian Vandals under Genseric, Quodvultdeus and the bulk of his priests were loaded onto non-seaworthy ships and sent into exile, and an Arian patriarch was installed as bishop. Though they should have sank, the ship carried the Quodvultdeus and his men to safety to Naples. Quodvultdeus continued his ministry, fought the Pelagian heresy in Campagna, but never made it back to North Africa. The Arians would not permit a bishop to be appointed to Carthage for the next 15 years.
• Venerable RABULAS 拉弗拉斯 of Samosata, Phoenicia and Constantinople (530)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ραβουλᾶς
• Venerable Bishop SOPHRONIOS the Asketic
Ὁ Ὅσιος Σωφρόνιος
• Venerable THEODORE 德奥多若 of Sanaxar Monastery (1791) // FEB 19 // APR 21 UNCOV REL 1999 //
Saint Theodore of Sanaxar should not be confused with his famous relative Saint Theodore Ushakov, Admiral of the Russian Fleet (October 2).
• VALERIUS (450) Bishop of Antibes in the south of France
• YAROSLAV the Wise (1054) son of the Varangian (Viking) Grand Prince Vladimir the Great // FEB 20 // FEB 28 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἱεροσλάβος ὁ Σοφὸς
• Bishop ZAMBDAS (Zabdas, Bazas) of Jerusalem (304) said to have been the 37th bishop of Jerusalem. He has been connected with the legend of the Theban legion
Bishop of Jerusalem in the late 3rd and early 4th century. Legend says he is the one who brought the Theban Legion to Christianity. Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian.
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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