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VEN. NICETAS THE CONFESSOR, ABBOT OF MEDIKION (824). VIRGIN-MARTYR THEODOSIA OF TYRE AND MARTYR IRENE (308). VEN. ILLYRICUS. MARTYRS ELPIDEPHORUS, DIUS, BITHONIUS, AND GALYCUS (3RD C.)
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Sixth Week of the Great Lent. DAY 37
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "THE UNFADING ROSE" ("The Unfading Blossom", "The Flower of Incorruption") 不凋之花 (1757)
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τοῦ Ἀμαράντου Ρόδου
On this icon the MostHoly Mother of God holds Her Divine Son upon Her right arm, and in Her left hand ― is a bouquet of white lilies. This bouquet symbolically signifies the unfading flower of virginity and immaculateness of the All-Pure Virgin, to Whom thus also Holy Church turns: "Thou art the Root of virginity and the Unfading Blossom of purity". Copies of this icon were glorified at Moscow, Voronezh and other locales of the Russian Church.
• IVERON 伊维隆 Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
• Martyrs of Greece (3rd c.)
A group of young Christian men who protested to city authorities that gifts to temples of pagan gods should be used to feed the poor during a regional famine. When the officials refused, the group went to local temples, broke up the idols and fixtures, and gave the gold and silver bits to the poor to use to buy food. The group was imprisoned and executed. The only other thing we know about these martyrs are the names – Bythonius, Elpideforus, Dius and Galycus.
• Holy Martyrs ELPIDIPHOROS 埃尔彼迪佛尔, DIUS 迪奥斯, BITHONIUS 维托尼 and GALYCUS 伽利科 (3rd c.) suffered for their confession of faith in Jesus Christ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐλπιδοφόρος ὁ Μάρτυρας
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Βιθύνιος, Γάλυκος καὶ Δίος οἱ Μάρτυρες
They cut off the head of Saint Elpidiphoros with a sword. Saint Dios they stoned. Saint Bythonios was drowned in the sea, and the Martyr Galikos was sent for devouring by wild beasts.
• Martyrs CASSIUS 喀西, PHILIP 斐利普 and EUTYCHIUS 艾弗提希 of Thessalonica (304)
• Martyrs EVAGRIUS 埃瓦格里, BENIGNUS 文尼格诺, CHRESTUS 赫里斯托, ARESTUS 阿瑞斯托, KINNUDIUS 金努迪, RUFUS 路弗, PATRICIUS 帕特里基 and ZOSIMA 佐西玛 at Tomis in Moesia (310)
• Hosiosmartyr THIENTO Abbot in Wessobrunn (955) and 6 Hosiosmartyrs monks of Wessobrunn
At the invasion of Hungary, the monastery was completely destroyed, Thiento and 6 monks died.
• Martyred Monastic Fathers of the Davido-Garedzh Lavra, numbering more than 6 000 accepted a martyr's death in Gruzia (Georgia) for confessing the Christian faith at the beginning of the 17th Century, during the time of shah Abbas I. The saints were buried in the temple of the Davido-Garedzh monastery by the emperor Archil II (21 June)
• Venerable SERAPHIM of Vyritsa (1949) // MAR 21 //
Born in 1866, he married and had three children. In 1920, at the age of 54, he and his wife quietly separated and each entered monastic life. Eventually he became the spiritual father of the St Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St Petersburg, where, as a clairvoyant staretz, he also confessed thousands of laity. He said, "I am the storage room where people's afflictions gather." In imitation of his patron saint, he prayed for a thousand nights on a rock before an icon of St. Seraphim of Sarov. He reposed in the Lord in 1949 and the Church of Russia glorified him in August of 2000. Thus his whole life as a monk was spent under Communist persecution.
• Repose of Elder AMPHILOCHIOS (Athanasios Makris) of Patmos (1889-1970) founder of the Annunciation Monastery in Patmos
May the Lord be merciful to the ever-memorable servant of God, Blessed Amphilochios,and give him rest in Abraham's bosom, and number him among the just.
• ATTALA (Attalus) a monk and abbot of a monastery in Taormina in Sicily (800) Benedictine monk and then abbot of a monastery in Taormina, Sicily.
• BENATIUS Patron of Cill-Chuile (now Kilcooley) County of Roscommon
• COMMAN son of Domangen
Listed in the 9th century Irish martyrologies.
• Venerabless FARA (Burgundofara) 法拉 of Eboriac (now Faremoutiers) Abbess of Faremoutier-en-Brie in Meaux, Normandy (657)
Blessed by St Columbanus as a child, she became a nun despite her father's opposition, and so began the convent of Brige in France. This was later called Faremoutiers, i.e. Fara's Monastery, where she was abbess for thirty-seven years.
• Venerable ILLYRIUS 伊利里科 of Myrsinonos, monk of Mount Myrsinon in the Peloponnese
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἱλλυριός
• Martyress IRENE
• Venerable JOSEPH the Hymnographer, of Sicily (883)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωσὴφ ὁ Ὑμνογράφος
Saint Joseph was from Sicily, the son of Plotinus and Agatha. Because Sicily had been subjugated by the Moslems, he departed thence and, passing from place to place, came with Saint Gregory of Decapolis (November 20) to Constantinople, where he endured bitter afflictions because of his pious zeal. Travelling to Rome, he was captured by Arab pirates and taken to Crete, whence he later returned to Constantinople. He became an excellent hymnographer and reposed in holiness shortly after 886 (according to some, it was in 883). The melismatic canons of the Menaion are primarily the work of this Joseph; they bear his name in the acrostic of the Ninth Ode. He also composed most of the sacred book known as the Paracletike, which complements the Octoechos. For this reason, Joseph is called par excellence the Hymnographer. The "bitter afflictions" which St Joseph suffered were probably due (judging from his dates) to his veneration of the holy icons.
• Venerabless LUITBIRGA (Liutberga of Michaëlstein, Liutberga of Rosstreppe, Liutberga of Thale, Liutberga of Wendhausen, Leutpurga, Liudbirg, Liutbirg, Liutbirga, Liutburga, Luitberga, Luitburg, Lutberga, Lutbirg) the Recluse of Wendhausen; of Solazburg (today Ort in Sulzgau in Bayern) (876-882) in Thale of Magdeburg in Sachsen-Anhalt
Born to the nobility, related to Duke Hessi of Ostfalen. Noted by the nobles for her exceptional skill at managing the estates and houses of her family, and by the poor for her almsgiving and care for the sick and dying as she travelled from estate to estate. She spent her days managing the estates and caring for the needy, and her nights in prayer. In her later years, she retired to the convent at Wendhausen, Germany and with the approval of Bishop Thiatgrim von Halberstadt, eventually was locked into a cell next to the church of the cloister, and lived the rest of her life as an anchoress, praying, doing penance, and giving wisdom and spiritual training to any who visited her, rich and poor, lay, ordained and consecrated. Reported to have had the gift of prophesy. A monk of her aquaintance was so impressed by her piety that he wrote a biography of her soon after her death.
• Martyr MARIN
• Venerable Abbot NECTARIUS 奈克塔里 founder of Bezhetsk Monastery, Tver (1492)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Νεκτάριος τοῦ Μπεζέτσκ
The Monk Nektarii of Bezhetsk was a monastic of the Trinity-Sergiev monastery. In the mid XV Century he settled in a dense forest in the upper part of the Bezhetsk region, where he built himself a cell. The deeds and the spiritual wisdom of the monk attracted to him many, that wanted to live under his guidance. In a short while the monks built a church in honour of the Vvedenie-Entry into the Temple of the MostHoly Mother of God, and they enclosed it about with a fence. The new monastery was one of the poorest, and which in the expression of the chronicler, was built "with tears, fasting and vigil". By common accord of all the brethren of the monastery, its founder the Monk Nektarii was chosen as hegumen. The Monk Nektarii died on 3 April 1492.
• Venerable NICETAS 尼基塔 the Confessor, Abbot of Medikion (824)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικήτας ὁ Ὁμολογητής
宣信者，圣尼基塔
尼基塔出生于恺撒里亚的比特尼亚。在其母亲去世之后，他的父亲菲拉雷特进入修道院成为一名修士，而尼基塔则同他祖母在一起。在长大成人并完成了学业之后，尼基塔进入了麦迪基雍修道院，接受修道院院长尼基佛尔的剪发仪式。经过7年的艰苦修行之后，牧首塔拉息任命他为修士司祭。在他的同伴尼基佛尔和阿塔纳西去世之后，众兄弟们选择尼基塔为修道院院长，但是这违背他的意愿。圣尼基塔为他的兄弟们树立了生活和修行的榜样。当亚美尼亚人莱翁五世登上王位时，在虔诚的艾莱尼和拥有正确信仰的尼基佛尔和弥哈伊尔皇帝时期过后，破坏圣像运动又重新开始。莱翁皇帝罢免了尼基佛尔的牧首职务，并将其流放，将异端邪说者、行为不检的德奥多特•卡斯特拉斯选为牧首。尼基塔也被打入监狱中，并受尽了折磨，但是他始终坚守自己的东正教信仰立场。他被带到各个监狱，忍受饥渴、严寒、酷热的煎熬，并遭受众人的嘲笑。但是尼基塔并没有动摇。一天晚上，尼科拉梦见自己的亡父斥责自己说：“放过上帝的仆人尼基塔”。从那时起，尼科拉开始悔过，不再折磨尼基塔并阻止别人这样作。后来，当亚美尼亚人莱翁五世惨死，由口吃的弥哈伊尔接任皇帝，他是一名东正教信徒，由此，释放了所有遭受折磨的东正教信徒。尼基塔后来隐退到了君士坦丁堡的一个荒野之地，在那里为所有人向上帝祷告、感谢上帝，就这样渡过了他的余生。在有生之年，尼基塔通过祷告施行了无数奇迹。在他死亡后，尸体被运送到他的修道院中。在举行葬礼期间，很多抚摸了他的遗体的病人都获得了痊愈。尼基塔的圣髑被安放在他的精神导师尼基佛尔和阿塔纳西的坟墓旁。尼基塔这位圣人于公元824年去世。
Monk and abbot of Medicion Abbey in Bithynia (in modern Turkey). He and his brother monks suffered in the persecutions of iconclast Emperor Leo, and he was imprisoned for many years.
• Hieromartyr PANCRAS (Pancratius) Bishop of Taormina (40) consecrated by the Apostle Peter and sent to Taormina in Sicily where he was stoned to death
Saint Pancras was an Antiochene by birth, whom Saint Peter consecrated bishop and sent to Taormina (Tauromenium) in Sicily, where he was stoned to death by brigands after a career of preaching and miracle-working.
• New Martyr PAUL 保罗 the Russian (1683) enslaved by the Turks. Not wanting to deny the Faith of Christ and to embrace Islam, he was tortured and slain by the sword in Constantinople
Ὁ Ἅγιος Παῦλος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Ἀπελεύθερος
悲伤的圣帕弗罗
帕弗罗出生于俄罗斯。在他年轻时起被土耳其人劫为奴隶，但是他始终不放弃基督信仰。由此，他遭受了折磨，于公元1683年在君士坦丁堡死于利剑之下。
• SIXTUS I (Xystus) Pope of Rome from 117 to c 125, sometimes referred to as a martyr (125/127) probably killed by the pagan Romans under Antonius the Pious
Little known about his life before he was chosen seventh pope in 116. He concerned himself with the liturgy, and instituted elements still in use today. He decreed that only priests may touch the sacred vessels, that bishops returning from the Apostolic See to their dioceses must present Apostolic letters, and that the priest shall recite the Sanctus with the people during the Mass. Reigned during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Trajan.
• VM THEODOSIA 德奥多西亚 of Tyre (308) // APR 2 //
• THIENTO (Tientone) of Wessobrunn , Bavaria, Germany (955)
Benedictine monk. Abbot of Saints Peter and Paul abbey at Wessobrunn in Bavaria (in modern Germany). Martyred along with six of his brother monks by invading Hungarians.
• Martyr ULPHIANUS (Vulpian, Ulpian, Ulpiano, Ulpianus, Vulpianus) 邬尔斐安 of Tyre (304/306) tied in a sack along with a dog and a snake and tossed into the sea (sewed up in a leather sack with a serpent and a dog and then thrown into the sea to drown at Tyre, Lebanon)
殉道者，圣邬尔斐安
邬尔斐安来自提尔城，他为了基督的缘故而遭到了提尔市市长乌尔班的毒手，乌尔班也是残害安斐亚诺的凶手（4月2日）。最后，邬尔斐安被捆绑在一个大麻袋里，随同一条蛇和一只狗被仍进大海中。邬尔斐安于公元306年荣耀殉道。
He was a young zealous Christian of Tyre, who, being encouraged by the example of St Apian and other martyrs at Cæsarea, boldly confessed Christ before the cruel judge Urbanus. The enraged governor ordered him to be first severely scourged, and then tortured on the rack; his joints being thereby dislocated, his bones broken, and his body so universally sore, that the slightest touch occasioned excessive pain. He was sewed up after this in a leather bag, with a dog and an aspic, laid on a cart drawn by black bulls, carried to the sea-side, and cast into the waves.
• URBICIUS (Ubricius, Urbice, Urbicus, Urbique, Urbitius) of Clermont (312)
Born a member of an imperial Roman senatorial family, Urbicius was drawn to the Church and lived a pious married life. His reputation for learning and piety led to him being chosen the second bishop of the diocese of Clermont in the Auvergne region of modern France in 288; his wife entered a convent and he went to his diocese. However, his wife was unsatisfied with her new life, left the convent, returned to Urbicius and said she did not wish to give up married life. Seeing her, Urbicius realized how much he had missed her, and let her move in with him; they told people she was his sister who was there to keep house for him. The bishop‘s conscience soon got the best of him, and he left both wife and diocese to live in penance in a nearby monastery.
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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