συνοδικός
May 7 / April 24
2019 (7527)
MARTYR SABBAS STRATELATES (“THE GENERAL”) OF ROME, AND 70 SOLDIERS WITH HIM (272). MARTYRS PASICRATES, VALENTINE AND JULIUS IN MOESIA (BULGARIA) (228). MARTYRS EUSEBIUS, NEON, LEONTIUS, LONGINUS, AND OTHERS AT NICOMEDIA (303). VEN. THOMAS THE FOOL OF SYRIA (550). VEN. ELIZABETH THE WONDERWORKER OF CONSTANTINOPLE (540). VENN. SABBAS AND ALEXIUS THE HERMIT OF THE KYIV CAVES (13TH C.)
Tuesday of St Thomas week
RADONITSA • Day of Rejoicing. Commemoration of the Dead
On this day, the Tuesday of St Thomas week, according to the order instituted by our Holy Fathers, we call to remembrance, in Paschal joy, all those who have died from the beginning of the ages in faith and in the hope of resurrection and life eternal. The Slavs, like many ancient peoples, had a tradition of visiting family members' graves during the springtime and feasting together with them. After their conversion to Christianity, this custom transferred into the Russian Orthodox Church as the festival of Radonitsa, the name of which comes from the Slavic word "radost’", meaning "joy". In Kievan Rus' the local name is "Krasnaya Gorka" (Красная горка, "Beautiful Hill"), and has the same meaning. It may seem strange to call a memorial for the departed "joyful", but the Christian belief that lies behind this joy is the remembrance of Jesus' Resurrection and the joy and hope it brings to all. The commemoration of the departed after Pascha was also done in extreme antiquity. St Ambrose of Milan (340 – 397) says in one of his sermons: "It is truly meet and right, brethren, that after the celebration of Pascha, which we have celebrated, to share our joy with the holy martyrs and by them as participants in the suffering of the Lord, to announce the glory of the resurrection of the Lord". Although these words of St Ambrose relate to martyrs, they may be an indication of our custom to commemorate the departed after Pascha on Monday or Tuesday of Thomas Week because the beginning of the solemn commemorations in the faith of those who died is established in the New Testament Church as a pious custom to the memory of the martyrs, both among the martyrs buried in antiquity and the others who have died. Having previously celebrated the radiant feast of Christ's glorious Resurrection, the faithful commemorate the dead today with the pious intent to share the great joy of this Pascha feast with those who have departed this life in the hope of their own resurrection. This is the same blessed joy with which the dead heard our Lord announce His victory over death when He descended into Hades, thus leading forth by the hand the righteous souls of the Old Covenant into Paradise. This is the same unhoped-for joy the Holy Myrrhbearing Women experienced when discovering the empty tomb and the undisturbed grave clothes. In addition, this is the same bright joy the Holy Apostles encountered in the Upper Room where Christ appeared though the doors were closed. In short, this feast is a kindred joy, to celebrate the luminous Resurrection with our Orthodox forefathers who have fallen asleep. There is evidence of the commemoration of the dead today in the writings of the Church Fathers. St John Chrysostom mentions the commemoration of the dead performed on Tuesday of St Thomas week in his "Homily on the Cemetery and the Cross". The faithful departed are remembered in Divine Liturgies, 'koliva' is prepared and blessed in the churches in memory of those who have fallen asleep, and the Orthodox graves in cemeteries are blessed by the priests and visited by the faithful. On this day alms are given to the poor. Furthermore, it should be noted that due to the great spiritual joy this jubilant commemoration bears, it is called in the Slavonic tongue, "Radonitsa", or Day of Rejoicing.
• MOLCHENSK Icon (1405) of the Mother of God
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Μόλχᾳ τῆς Ρωσίας
The Molcha Icon of the Mother of God appeared on September 18, 1405 in the Molcha swampland not far from Putivl, Russia. At first it was in the Molcha Sophroniev Monastery, but it was transferred to the Putivl Monastery on April 24, 1605.
• A marvelous statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Child called Our Lady of BONARIA (Good Air; Our Lady of Fair Winds); located in Cagliari of Sardinia, Italy; Star of the Sea and patron of sailboats
Mary portrayed carrying the Child Jesus, along with a golden sailboat and a lighted candle in her right arm is invoked as the Patroness of Sardinia as well as Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A Greek by birth and the friend and companion of St Epipodius of Lyons in France. He was arrested and martyred with thirty-four others.
• Martyr SABAS 萨瓦 the Goth (Sabas Stratelates 将军, "the General") of Rome (272) Military officer of Gothic descent. Tortured and murdered with 70 soldier Companions in the persecutions of Aurelian for the crime of visiting Christians in prison
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σάββας ὁ Στρατηλάτης
军官萨巴斯
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Στρατιῶτες Μάρτυρες
萨巴斯在皇帝奥雷里安在位时期是罗马的指挥官。萨巴斯具有哥特人血统。他经常探访监狱中的基督徒，并用自己所拥有的财物帮助他们。由于他极度圣洁，又恒常斋戒，因此，上帝赋予他驱赶魔鬼的能力。有人指控萨巴斯为基督徒，但是他却勇敢地来到皇帝面前将军带仍在地上，公开地表白了自己的基督信仰。萨巴斯受尽了各种折磨：鞭打、铁器割刮，以及在火上烧烤等。萨巴斯没有屈服于这些折磨，而是活生生地、完好无损地出现在大家的面前。他的战友们看到上帝帮助萨巴斯，由此也都皈依了基督信仰。皇帝下令，将这70名士兵立即斩首。主基督在监狱中亲自在大荣光中向萨巴斯显现，鼓励他。之后，萨巴斯被判处溺水之刑。萨巴斯被投入到深水中，这位荣耀的圣人于公元272年将灵魂交托在上帝的手中。
An officer of Gothic descent, martyred with seventy companions in Rome under Aurelian. He came from a noble Gothic family. Like St George, he was an officer in the imperial army. He lived a life of great purity, fasted greatly, and often visited imprisoned Christians. Because of this his Christian faith became known, and when he was summoned before the Emperor, he boldly confessed his faith. He was tortured in many ways, but emerged unharmed. Seeing this miracle, seventy of his fellow-soldiers confessed Christ and were beheaded at the Emperor's command. Sabbas himself was condemned to death by drowning, and gave his soul to God in 272.
• Martyrs PASICRATES 帕西克拉提, VALENTINE 瓦伦提诺 and JULIUS 犹利 in Moesia (228) Bulgaria
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Πασικράτης καὶ Βαλεντίων οἱ Μάρτυρες
殉道者帕斯克拉特斯和瓦棱斯
帕斯克拉特斯和帕皮亚努斯是亲兄弟，在基督徒遭受迫害期间，由于害怕折磨，帕皮亚努斯早先就离弃了基督。当审判官命令他们兄弟两人拜祭偶像的时候，帕斯克拉特斯将手放在火上叫道：“身躯是必有一死的，可以被火烧尽，但是灵魂是不死的，灵魂不能感受到有形的痛苦！”不管怎样，他的母亲一直都在鼓励他坚守到底。帕斯克拉特斯同瓦棱斯于公元288年一同被斩首，得以进入基督永生的国度。
The Martyrs Pasikrates and Valentine came from the city of Durostorum, Silistria (now Bulgaria) and were soldiers under the governor Absolanus. Pasikrates was twenty-two years old, and Valentine was thirty. When a persecution against Christians began, Saints Pasikrates and Valentine openly confessed their faith in Christ. At the trial Pasikrates spit at the idol of Apollo, and refused to offer sacrifice. The brother of Saint Pasikrates wept and urged him merely to appear to offer sacrifice to the idols. The martyr placed his hand on the sacrifice in the fire and said, “The body is mortal and burns in the fire, the soul, however, is immortal and is not harmed by these torments.” Saint Valentine also showed his readiness to suffer for Christ. When they led the martyrs to execution, the mother of Saint Pasikrates followed them and exhorted her son not to fear death for Christ. Both martyrs were tortured and then beheaded in 288.
• Martyrs EUSEBIUS 艾弗塞维, NEON 奈翁, LEONTIUS 莱翁提, LONGINUS 隆吉诺 of Lydda and 40 others at Nicomedia (303) CHRISTOPHORUS, DEMETRIUS, DANABOS, DONATUS, THERINOS, NESTABUS, NIKEAS and Companions
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Δάναβος, Δημήτριος, Εὐσέβιος, Λεόντιος, Λογγίνος, Νεστάβος, Νέων καὶ Χριστόφορος οἱ Μάρτυρες
殉道者艾弗塞维、纽安、里昂蒂乌斯和隆吉努斯
这四名殉道者是圣格奥尔吉的战友。在看到圣格奥尔吉勇敢地忍受痛苦以及在圣格奥尔吉身上所发生的奇迹之后，这四人也成了基督徒，由此他们被斩首。
The Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus, and 40 Others were present at the sufferings of the Great Martyr George (April 23), through which they came to believe in Christ. They were then locked up in prison. After the execution of Saint George, the emperor Diocletian (284-305) issued an edict stating that all the prisoners were to offer sacrifice to the idols. The martyrs refused. They were beaten with iron rods, almost exposing their inner organs, and then their heads were cut off with a sword.
• VMM MARCIA, THEODESTIA, FORTUNATA and VALERIA together with MM FAUSTINUS, VICTURINUS and others in Africa
• BOVA (Beuve) the Foundress and 1st Abbess of St Peter’s at Rheims and DODA Abbess of St Peter’s at Rheims (7th c.)
Saint Bova, sister of Saint Balderic (Baudry) and near relative of King Dagobert, edified the royal court and entire kingdom by her virtues. She rejected all marriage proposals because she decided to devote herself to the service of God. After her brother founded Montfauçon Abbey, in 639 he built a convent near Rheims, where Bova ruled as abbess until her death c. 680. Her niece Doda followed in her footsteps and succeeded her as abbess. The relics of both saints were later translated to Saint Peter's Abbey in Rheims. Although their original vitae were destroyed in a fire, a later writer recorded the traditions related by the nuns in the 10th century.
• SYMEON (Stefan) (1656), ELIAS (Iorest) 伊利亚 a calligrapher and an iconographer (1678) and SAVA 萨瓦 (1683) Brancovici, metropolitans of Ardeal, confessors in Romania (Transylvania) against the Calvinists
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἠλίας ὁ Ὁμολογητής ἐκ Ρουμανίας
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σάββας ὁ Ὁμολογητής ἐκ Ρουμανίας
• New Martyrs LUKE, AKYLINA, NICHOLAS and GEORGE of Magnesia
• Hieromartyrs PHYLIKOS, FOURTUNATOS and ACHILLEOS
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀχιλλέας, Φήλικας καὶ Φορτουνάτος οἱ Ἱερομάρτυρες
• Martyrs in Chalcedon
• Repose of ALEXIS 阿莱克西 Toth, priest of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania (1854-1909) Confessor & Defender of Orthodoxy in America
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξιος ὁ Ὑπερασπιστὴς τῆς Ὀρθοδόξου Πίστεως
A Russian Orthodox church leader in the Midwestern United States who, having resigned his position as a Byzantine Catholic priest in the Ruthenian Catholic Church, became responsible for the conversions of approximately 20 000 Eastern Rite Catholics to the Russian Orthodox Church, which contributed to the growth of Eastern Orthodoxy in the United States and the eventual establishment of the Orthodox Church in America.
• Blessed STEPANIDA Samartseva, Confessoress of Orenburg, Nun (1833-1930)
Nun Stepanida Matveyevna Samartseva was born in 1883, a native of the village of Vetlyanki, Sol-Iletsk region, Orenburg province. Before her arrest she lived alone in her birthplace. On January 27, 1930 she was arrested on charges of belonging to an antisoviet group and systematically conducting anti-soviet agitation together with other nuns (articles 58-10, 58-11, 58-12). On April 24, 1930 she was condemned to deprivation of liberty for three years.
• Hieromartyr presbiter VICTOR Karakulin (1887-1937) day of death in KZ, lagpunkt of Sredne Belsk, Dal’lag NKVD, Khabarovsk
• Martyr SERGIUS 塞尔吉 Archangelskij, psalmist (1898-1938)
• Hieromartyr BRANKO 博兰科 Dobroslavlevich, presbiter of Veljusa, Serbia (1941)
Branko Dobrosavljevic was born in the village of Skadar near Vojnic on January 4, 1886. He completed Grammar school as well as the Seminaryin Sremski Karlovci in 1908. He was ordained deacon on March 15, and presbyter on March 22, 1909. He performed his duties in the villages ofBuvaca, Radovica and Veljun. Branko received St Sava's Order and Yugoslav Crown Order of the Fifth Degree. On the Feast of St George, May 6, 1942, - the very day of his own Slava - Branko was arrested by the Ustase, headed by Ivan Sajfor from Veljun. Over 500 Serbs were arrested that day, among them Dimitrije Skorupan, parish priest of Cvijanovic Brdo, and Nebojsa, priest Branko's son. At first they were imprisoned in police station in Veljun, and next day (May 7) they were taken away and killed in the woods called "Kestenovac", near Hrvatski Blagaj. The Ustase forced priest Branko to perform the service for the repose of the soul of the dead to his own son Branko, who was alive at the time. In 1946 priest Branko's martyr relics and the remains of the other killed Serbs were transported to a common grave in Veljun. At the regular session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, priest Branko Dobrosavljevic was canonized and his name was entered into the List of Names of the Serbian Church Saints.
• Repose of Schemamonk NICHOLAS of Valaam (1947)
• Venerable ALEXIUS 阿莱克西 the Recluse of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1220) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Anthony Near Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀλέξιος ὁ Ἔγκλειστος
Saint Alexius, Hermit of Caves, lived a life of asceticism in the Near Caves of the Kiev Caves monastery during the thirteenth century. His relics were uncovered after 1675. The memory of Saint Alexius is celebrated on April 24, because his relics rest beside the relics of Saint Sava of Caves. His memory is also celebrated on the Synaxis of the Monastic Fathers of the Near Caves (September 28) and on the Synaxis of all the Wonderworkers of the Kiev Caves (Second Sunday of Great Lent).
• Martyr ALEXANDER 亚历山大 of Lyons (177)
Friend and worker with Saint Epipodius of Lyon. Imprisoned, scourged until his ribs showed, and executed with 34 companions during the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius.
• Hieromartyr ANTHIMOS Bishop of Nicomedia (303) in the persecutions of Diocletian for refusing to sacrfice to idols
• AUTHAIRE (Oye) of La-Ferté (7th c.) known for his charity for the poor; a courtier at the palace of King Dagobert I of France and father of St Ouen of Rouen. He is the patron-saint of the village of La-Ferté-sous-Jouarre where he lived
• COIPP (5th c.)
• Abbot DEODATUS (Dié) (525) a hermit near Blois in France. Later the town of Saint-Dié grew up around his cell
• DIARMAID of Armagh (852) Bishop of Armagh, Ireland in 834. Renowned for his learning. Driven from his see by the usurper Foraunan in 835, Diarmaid ruled for a year from Connacht, and then returned in 836. In 841 the see was destroyed by Vikings
• New Martyr DOUKAS 杜喀 of Mitylene (1564)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Δούκας ὁ Νεομάρτυρας
• DYFNAN (5th c.) of the many saintly sons of the Welsh chieftain Brychan; born in Wales, he founded a church in Anglesey
• EGBERT 埃格博尔特 of Iona (729) a monk at Lindisfarne in England, he moved to Ireland and lived at Rathelmigisi in Connaught. Here he prepared several monks to preach the Gospel in Germany. He went to Iona in Scotland and persuaded the monks to adopt the Orthodox date for Easter
• Venerabless ELIZABETH (Elisabeth) 埃利撒维特 Wonderworker of Constantinople, Abbess of Monastery of Sts Cosmas and Damian (540)
Ἡ Ὁσία Ἐλισάβετ ἡ Θαυματουργός
可敬的伊莉莎白
伊莉莎白在年少时期就来到了位于君士坦丁堡的圣科斯马斯修道院和圣达弥安修道院，为了主基督和自己灵魂的拯救而在这里潜心苦行。伊莉莎白将自己看成是基督的新娘，将这个世界看成乌有。出于对上帝的爱，伊莉莎白对人们充满了极大的同情心，尤其是对病人和遭受苦难的人。上帝赋予了她恩典，使她能够医治各种各样的疾病。在她晚上进行祷告的时候，她的全身被来自天国的光照耀。在伊莉莎白去世后，她的圣髑仍然具有医治病症的能力，各个年龄的许多病人和遭受苦难的人都聚集到她的坟墓前请求帮助。伊莉莎白于公元540年平安地离世，得以进入上帝喜乐的永生国度。
St Elizabeth the Wonderworker was from Constantinople, and was chosen for the service of God at birth. It was revealed to her mother that the girl would become a chosen vessel of the Lord (Acts 9:15). Her parents sent their daughter to a monastery as a child. She grew up in an atmosphere of fasting and constant prayer, and received the gift of healing physical and spiritual infirmities. The sisters of the monastery chose Elizabeth to be abbess of the Sts Cosmas and Damian Monastery. She wore a coarse hairshirt all year round. Her body was chilled in winter, but her spirit blazed with ardent love for God. Elizabeth’s asceticism was very strict. For many years she ate only grass and vegetables, but would not partake of bread, wine, or oil. Many times St Elizabeth ate nothing at all during the forty days of the Great Fast. Imitating the Publican in humility, for three years she did not lift up her eyes to the heavens, but looked constantly to God with her spiritual eyes. At midnight prayers, she shone with a heavenly light. St Elizabeth performed many miracles – a vicious serpent was killed by her prayers; she healed a woman with issue of blood who had been ill for many years; and she cast out unclean spirits from people. At her tomb many were healed of various illnesses, and the blind received their sight. Many were cured with just some earth from her grave.
• Martyr EUTEXIUS
Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐτέξιος ὁ Μάρτυρας
• New Martyr GEORGE 格奥尔吉 in Anatolia (1796)
• GREGORY of Elvira (394/400) Bishop of Elvira in the south of Spain (now in the diocese of Granada). He was one of the champions of Orthodoxy against Arianism and one of the few bishops who at Rimini in 359 consistently refused to compromise with them. In good faith he sided with the party of Lucifer of Cagliari, but never left the communion of the Roman see
• HONORIUS of Brescia (586) a hermit near Brescia in Italy who was chosen bishop of that city (c 577)
• INNOCENT 英诺肯提 presbyter on the Mount of Olives (4th c.)
• Uncovering of the relics of IVO (Ivia, Yvo) a Persian bishop who became a hermit in Huntingdonshire in England. St Ives in Huntingdonshire is called after him
• JOSEPH 约熙福 the Confessor, bishop of Maramures (1711) Romania
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωσὴφ ὁ Ὁμολογητής ἐκ Ρουμανίας
Saint Joseph was born in the seventeenth century, and was consecrated as a bishop in Moldavia (northern Romania) in 1690 by Metropolitan Dositheus. This was a period of great trials and sufferings for the people of Maramures (in northern Romania) because the Roman Catholic authorities wanted to wipe out Orthodoxy in the region. St Joseph was a zealous defender of the Orthodox Faith, and therefore he was jailed by the civil authorities. He died in 1711 after suffering for the truth and defending his flock.
• Translation (1128) of Relics in Werden of Sainted LIUDGER (Ludger) Bishop of Münster (742-809) a missionary among the Frisians and Saxons, founder of Werden Abbey and first Bishop of Münster in Westphalia
On Passion Sunday, 809, Ludger heard Mass at Coesfeld early in the morning and preached, then went to Billerbeck, where at nine o'clock he again preached, and said his last Mass. That evening he expired peacefully amidst his faithful followers. A dispute arose between Munster and Werden for the possession of his body. His brother Hildegrim being appealed to, after consultation with the emperor, decided in favour of Werden, and here the relics have rested for eleven centuries.
• New Martyr LUKE the Tailor of Mytilene (1564)
路喀从事裁缝职业，他为了基督的缘故于公元1564年荣耀殉道。
• MARY of Cleophas
Mother of Saint James the Lesser. Sister of Our Lady. Present at the Crucifixion, and went to Christ's tomb on Easter morning. All else that we know about her is legend.
• MELLITUS (624) Abbot of St Andrew's on the Coelian Hill in Rome, he was sent by St Gregory the Great to England in 601. He spent three years in Kent, and then became Bishop of London. He was exiled to France for refusing to give communion to apostates. In 619 he was recalled to Kent to succeed St Laurence as third Archbishop of Canterbury
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μελίτων Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Καντουαρίας
• Virgin MUSA of Rome (6th c.) a child living in Rome who was favored with visions and other mystical experiences. She is referenced by Saint Gregory the Great, her contemporary
• New Martyr NICHOLAS 尼科拉 of Magnesia (1795)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας
尼科拉于公元1776年殉道。
• Venerable SABBAS 萨瓦 of Kiev Caves, from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev (1244) Ukraine. The Relics are kept at St Anthony Near Caves of the Lavra
Ὁ Ὅσιος Σάββας ὁ Θαυματουργός
Saint Sava of the Caves lived in the Near Caves of the Kiev Caves monastery during the thirteenth century. In the manuscripts, in the “Book of the Saints”, and in the Canon of the Services to the Fathers of the Kiev Caves, he is called a wonderworker. His memory is celebrated on April 24 because of his namesake, the Holy Martyr Sabbas Stratelates. The memory of Saint Sava is also celebrated on the Synaxis of the Monastic Fathers of the Near Caves (September 28), and on the Synaxis of all the Wonderworkers of the Kiev Caves (Second Sunday of Great Lent).
• Mary SALOME (Irene: Greek equivalent to Salome) the Myrophore
Wife of Zebedee. Mother of Saint John the Apostle, and Saint James the Greater. May have been a cousin of the Blessed Virgin Mary. One of the "three Marys", the holy women who ministered to Jesus during his earthly ministry, and may have accompanied him on his travels. Witnessed Christ's death on the cross, his entombment, and his resurrection. Mark mentions Salome as one of the women who came to anoint the body of Jesus on the morning of the Resurrection. One gospel story that shows Jesus and Salome has her asking Jesus what places her sons will have in His Kingdom. Jesus responds that it is the Father who assigns places in the Kingdom and that James and John will have to follow His own example of humility and sacrifice to earn places there. Legend says that after the Resurrection she went to Veroli, Italy and spent the rest of her life there spreading the Good News.
• Venerable THAUMASTOS (the Wonderworker) (6th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θαυμαστός
• THEONA (Theonas)
• Venerable THOMAS 多马 the Fool of Syria (550)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Θωμᾶς ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός
可敬的托玛斯，“圣愚”
当托玛斯在安提约希亚城为修道院办事时，托玛斯总是装疯卖傻，这都是为了基督的缘故。托玛斯当时为修道院寻求周济，一个名叫阿纳斯塔西的人不但没有进行施舍，而且还用拳头击打了托玛斯。托玛斯预言说：“从现在起，我不想从阿纳斯塔西那里收到任何施舍，阿纳斯塔西也不会给我任何东西。”一天之后，阿纳斯塔西死了，而托玛斯在返回修道院之前也死了。由此，托玛斯的预言实现了。圣托玛斯在靠近安提约希亚的达弗尼去世，当时正值牧首杜穆努斯管理教会期间（公元546－560年）。
Saint Thomas the Fool for Christ was a monk in one of the monasteries in Caesarea of Cappadocia (Asia Minor). His obedience was to collect alms for the monastery. When the Blessed Thomas arrived in the city of Antioch, Syria he began his exploit of foolishness for the sake of Christ. The steward of one of the churches, a certain Anastasius, became annoyed with the entreaties of Saint Thomas, and struck him on the cheek. Those present reproached Anastasius for his inappropriate manner of dealing with the fool, but Saint Thomas quieted them saying, “From this moment I shall accept nothing further from Anastasius, nor will Anastasius be able to give me anything further.” These words proved prophetic. Anastasius died the very next day, and the saint also died along the road to his monastery, at the church of Saint Euthymius in the suburb of Daphne. They buried him at a place set aside for the burial of strangers. After a certain while they buried another stranger in the saint’s grave. After four hours the ground on the grave of the stranger was thrown aside. They again covered the grave, but in the morning the ground on the grave again lay open. They reburied the stranger in another place. The same thing happened when they buried two women nearby. Everyone realized that Saint Thomas did not wish to have a woman buried over him. The occurrence was reported to Patriarch Domnus of Antioch (546-560). At his command the relics of Saint Thomas were transferred to Antioch and placed in a cemetery where the relics of many holy martyrs rested. A small church was built over these relics, from which many healings occurred. Through the prayers of Saint Thomas a deadly plague ceased at Antioch. From that time the inhabitants began to honor the memory of Saint Thomas every year.
• Martyr TIBERIO of Pinerolo, Italy (3rd c.) of the Theban Legion
• Translation of the relics of WILFRID 维尔弗里德 Bishop of Hexham and Archbishop of York (709)
• XENOPHON 克塞诺丰 founder of the monastery of St George (Xenophontos) on Mt Athos (1018)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ξενοφῶν κτήτορας τῆς φερωνύμου μονῆς τοῦ Ἁγίου Ὄρους
Μνήμη ἐγκαινίων ἱεροῦ ναοῦ τοῦ Ἁγίου Γεωργίου ἐν Κυπαρισσίῳ
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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