συνοδικός
June 23 / June 10
2019 (7527)
HIEROMARTYR TIMOTHY, BISHOP OF PRUSA (362). MARTYR ALEXANDER AND VIRGIN-MARTYR ANTONINA AT CONSTANTINOPLE (313). VEN. THEOPHANES, MONK, OF ANTIOCH (369), AND ST. PANSEMNE, THE FORMER HARLOT OF ANTIOCH. ST. BASSIAN, BISHOP OF LODI IN LOMBARDY (409). VEN. SILVANUS OF THE FAR CAVES IN KYIV (14TH C.)
1st Sunday after Pentecost: ALL SAINTS. The last day before the Apostolic Fast
五旬节后第一主日 Synaxis of ALL SAINTS 诸圣主日 // 1ST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST // 2019 //
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Πάντες
The Sunday following Pentecost is dedicated to All Saints, both those who are known to us, and those who are known only to God. There have been saints at all times, and they have come from every corner of the earth. They were Apostles, Martyrs, Prophets, Hierarchs, Monastics, and Righteous, yet all were perfected by the same Holy Spirit. The Descent of the Holy Spirit makes it possible for us to rise above our fallen state and to attain sainthood, thereby fulfilling God’s directive to “be holy, for I am holy” (Lev. 11:44, 1 Peter 1:16, etc.). Therefore, it is fitting to commemorate All Saints on the first Sunday after Pentecost. The hymnology for the feast of All Saints also lists six categories: “Rejoice, assembly of the Apostles, Prophets of the Lord, loyal choirs of the Martyrs, divine Hierarchs, Monastic Fathers, and the Righteous....” Some of the saints are described as Confessors, a category which does not appear in the above lists. Since they are similar in spirit to the martyrs, they are regarded as belonging to the category of Martyrs. They were not put to death as the Martyrs were, but they boldly confessed Christ and came close to being executed for their faith. Saint Maximus the Confessor (January 21) is such a saint. The order of these six types of saints seems to be based on their importance to the Church. The Apostles are listed first, because they were the first to spread the Gospel throughout the world. The Martyrs come next because of their example of courage in professing their faith before the enemies and persecutors of the Church, which encouraged other Christians to remain faithful to Christ even unto death. Although they come first chronologically, the Prophets are listed after the Apostles and Martyrs. This is because the Old Testament Prophets saw only the shadows of things to come, whereas the Apostles and Martyrs experienced them firsthand. The New Testament also takes precedence over the Old Testament. The holy Hierarchs comprise the fourth category. They are the leaders of their flocks, teaching them by their word and their example. The Monastic Saints are those who withdrew from this world to live in monasteries, or in seclusion. They did not do this out of hatred for the world, but in order to devote themselves to unceasing prayer, and to do battle against the power of the demons. Although some people erroneously believe that monks and nuns are useless and unproductive, Saint John Climacus had a high regard for them: “Angels are a light for monks, and the monastic life is a light for all men” (LADDER, Step 26:31). The last category, the Righteous, are those who attained holiness of life while living “in the world.” Examples include Abraham and his wife Sarah, Job, Saints Joachim and Anna, Saint Joseph the Betrothed, Saint Juliana of Lazarevo, and others. The feast of All Saints achieved great prominence in the ninth century, in the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise (886-911). His wife, the Holy Empress Theophano (December 16) lived in the world, but was not attached to worldly things. She was a great benefactor to the poor, and was generous to the monasteries. She was a true mother to her subjects, caring for widows and orphans, and consoling the sorrowful. Even before the death of StTheophano in 893 or 894, her husband started to build a church, intending to dedicate it to Theophano, but she forbade him to do so. It was this emperor who decreed that the Sunday after Pentecost be dedicated to All Saints. Believing that his wife was one of the righteous, he knew that she would also be honored whenever the Feast of All Saints was celebrated.
• TOBOLSK Icon of the Mother of God
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τοῦ Ταμπὺνσκ ἐν Ρωσία
• Icon of the Mother of God OF THE SIGN of Kursk
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τοῦ Σημείου ἐν Κούρσκ Ρωσίας
Σύναξις Πάντων τῶν Ἁγίων ἐν Ριαζάν
• Finding of the relics (1609) of St BASIL bishop of Ryazan (1295) // APR 12 // MAY 21 // JUN 10 // JUL 3 // JUL 10 // WEEK OF ALL SAINTS //
• Hieromartyr Archipriest NICHOLAS Dinariev (1918)
• BORIS and GLEB (1015) Christian names Roman and David, respectively, were the first saints canonized in Kievan Rus' after the Christianization of the country // MAY 2 // JUL 24 //
• THEOPHAN the Recluse the Bishop of Tambov (1894) // JAN 6 // JAN 10 // JUN 16 //
• Metropolitan JONAH of Kiev & Moscow (1461) Wonderworker // MAR 31 // MAY 27 TR REL 1472 // JUN 15 //
• Priest SERGIUS Pravdolübov, Confessor (1950) // SEP 21 // DEC 5 //
• Venerable THEODUL Dweller of Solovki (17 c.)
• Hieromartyr Priest MATTHIAS Ryabtsev (1918)
• Martyress NATALIA Kozlova (1937) // SEP 1 //
• Hieromartyr ELIAS Bazhanov, Priest (1937) // SEP 3 //
• THEODORIT Archbishop of Riazan (1617) // SEP 10 //
• Martyr Vladimir Pravdolübov (1937) // SEP 21 //
• Venerabless DOSITHEA the Recluse of Kiev (1776) // SEP 25 //
• Hieromartyr BASIL Tsvetkov, Archimandrite, of Stary Kelets, Ryazan (1937) // OCT 4 //
• Venerable MATTHEW Hegumen of Cherneevo of Shatsk (16 c.) // OCT 5 //
• Hieromartyr JUVENALIUS Maslovsky, Bishop of Riazan (1937) // OCT 11 //
• New Hieromartyr MENAS Shelajev, Archimandrite (1937) // OCT 22 //
• Hieromartyr ALEXANDER Andrejev, Archipriest (1937) // OCT 22 //
• Hieromartyrs NICHOLAS Probatov, priest (1918) and with him COSMA, VICTOR Krasnov, NAUM, PHILIP, JOHN, PAUL, ANDREW, PAUL, BASIL, ALEXIS, JOHN and Virgin Martyress AGATHA (1918) // OCT 29 //
• Hieromartyr Archipriest JOHN Kochurov of Chicago and St Petersburg, First Hieromartyr of the Bolshevik Yoke (1917) // OCT 31 //
• Martyr PAVEL Parfenov (1918) // OCT 31 //
• Venerable HILARION the Recluse of Trojekurovo (1853) // NOV 5 //
• Hieromartyr GABRIEL Maslennikov, Priest of Ryazan (1937) // NOV 5 //
• Hieromartyr MICHAIL Dmitrev, Archipriest (1937) // NOV 19 //
• Hieromartyr ALEXIS Amanov, Archipriest (1937) // NOV 20 //
• Hieromartyr NAZARIUS Gribkov, Archipriest (1937) // NOV 26 //
• Hieromartyr SERGIY Amanov, Priest (1937) // NOV 27 //
• Hieromartyr PETR Krestov, Archipriest (1941) // DEC 6 //
• Hieroconfessor Ambrose Polyansky, Bishop of Kamenets-Podolsk (1932) // DEC 7 //
• Martyrs GREGORY Berdenev, EUSEBIUS Tryakhov, PETER Grishin, DOROTHEUS Klimashev, MICHAEL Yakunkin, LAURENTIUS Kogtyev (1937) // DEC 10 //
• New Hieromartyrs Archipriests EUGENE Kharkov, ANATOLIUS Pravdolübov, CONSTANTINE Bazhanov, ALEXANDER Tuberovsky (1937) // DEC 10 //
• Hieromartyr NICHOLAS Karasiov, Priest (1937) // DEC 10 //
• Hieromartyr SERGIUS Sorokin, Hieromonk of Sreznevo, Ryazan (1937) // DEC 10 //
• Virgin Martyresses ALEXANDRA Ustiukhina and TATIANA Yegorova (1937) // December 10 //
• Virgin MartyressEUDOCIA Martishkina (1937) // DEC 10 //
• Virgin Martyresses ANNA Ivashkina and TATIANA Byakirevoy, Confessors (1948) // DEC 10 //
• Virgin Martyress THECLA Makusheva, Confessor (1954) // DEC 10 //
• Venerable Hosiosconfessoress Nun ANNA Stoliarova, Schema-nun of Sreznevo, Ryazan (1958) // DEC 10 //
• Hieroconfessor BASSIAN Pyatnitsky, Archbishop of Tambov (1940) // DEC 14 //
• Venerable ELIAS of Murom the Wonderworker of the Kiev Near Caves (1188) // DEC 19 //
• Sainted PHILARET (Theodosius in schema) metropolitan of Kiev (1857) // DEC 21 //
• Hieromartyr THEOCTISTUS Hoperskov, Archipriest (1937) // DEC 28 //
• Hieromartyrs Priests ARETHUS Nasonov and ALEXANDER Tsitseronov (1938) // DEC 28 //
• Righteous JULIANA of Lazarevo (1604) // JAN 2 //
• Hieromartyr PETER Uspenskiy, Archpriest of Radushino (Zaraisk) (1930) // JAN 10 //
• MELETIUS Yakimov bishop of Riazan (1900) // JAN 14 //
• New Hieromartyr PAUL Dobromyslov, Archpriest, of Ryazan (1940) // JAN 20 //
• Sainted SOFRONIJ Lisin, of Iberdsk (1914) // JAN 25 //
• Hieromartyr BASIL Zelentsov, Bishop of Priluki (1930) // JAN 25 //
• Hieromartyr IGNATIUS Sadkovsky, Bishop of Skopin (1938) // JAN 28 //
• Hieromartyr ANDREW Yasenev, Archpriest (1938) // FEB 2 //
• Blessed LYUBOV of Ryazan, Fool for Christ (1921) // FEB 8 //
Ἡ Ἁγία Ἀγάπη ἡ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλή
• Abbess SERAPHIMA of Sezenovo (1877) // FEB 13 //
• Hieromartyr PHILARET Pryakhin (1942) // FEB 22 //
• Hieromartyr MICHAEL Bukrinsky, priest (1938) // MAR 1 //
• Hieromartyr NICHOLAS Postnikov, Priest (1931) // MAR 28 //
• GAVRIIL Gorodkov, Archbishop of Riazan (1862) // APR 7 //
• Hieromartyr MISAEL Archbishop of Shatsk (1656) // APR 10 //
• Hieromartyr ALEXANDER Orlov, Confessor, Priest (1941) // APR 14 //
• Hieromartyr JOHN Anserov, Priest of Alma-Ata (1940) // APR 23 //
• Blessed BASIL of Kadom (1848) // MAY 2 //
• Venerable CONSTANTINE (in baptism Yaroslav) and his wife IRINA (1129) with his children MICHAEL and THEODORE, Wonderworkers of Murom (12 c.) // May 21 //
• Virgin-martyr VERA Samsonov (1940), Ktetor // JUN 1 //
• Hieromartyr SERGIY Krotkov, Archpriest (1938) // JUN 18 //
• Holy Prince PETER (David in monasticism) and Holy Princess FEBRONIA (Euphrosyne in monasticism) Wonderworkers of Murom (1228) // JUN 25 //
• Confessoress MATRONA Belyakova, Fool for Christ of Anemnyasevo (1936) // JUL 16 //
• ROMAN Olegovich, prince & martyr (1270) // JUL 19 //
• New Hieromartyr NICKOLAI Pravdolubov, Priest (1941) // JUL 31 //
• Hieromartyr DEMETRIUS Milovidov, Priest (1937) // AUG 7 //
• Martyr EUGENE Dmitriev (1937) // AUG 18 //
• Hieromartyr and Venerable KUKSHA of the Kiev Near Caves (1114) // AUG 27 //
• Hieromartyrs Priests JOHN Lebedev and JOHN Smirnov (1937) // AUG 27 //
• Martyrs YURIJ, OLEH, ROMAN, HLIB and DAVID (1237)
• Princess AGRIPINNA
• Hieromartyr St EUPHROSYN Bishop of Ryazan
Οἱ Ἅγιοι εἶναι οἱ πρίγκιπες Μπόρις καὶ Γκλέμπ, οἱ Ἐπίσκοποι Βασίλειος τοῦ Ριαζὰν καὶ Ἰωνᾶς τῆς Μόσχας, οἱ εὐσεβεῖς πρίγκιπες Κωνσταντίνος τοῦ Μούρωμ, Θεόδωρος τοῦ Μούρωμ, Μιχαὴλ τοῦ Μούρωμ, Πέτρος καὶ Φεβρωνία τοῦ Μούρωμ, ἡ δίκαιη Ἰουλιανὴ τοῦ Λαζάρεβο καὶ ἡ διὰ Χριστὸν σαλὴ Ἀγάπη τοῦ Ριαζάν
Σύναξις Πάντων τῶν Ἁγίων ἐν Σιβηρία
• JOHN 约安 Maximovitch of Tobolsk, Metropolitan of Tobolsk and All Siberia, wonderworker (1715) // JUN 10 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης Μητροπολίτης Τομπόλσκ καὶ πάσης Σιβηρίας
• BASIL of Mangazea (1602) // MAR 22 // MAY 10 TR REL 1670 // MAY 23 ALL SAINTS OF ROSTOV AND OF YAROSLAVL //
• SIMEON of Verkhoturye (1642) // SEP 12 TR REL 1704) // DEC 18 GLORIFICATION 1694) //
• NECTARIUS Archbishop of Tobolsk (1666)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νεκτάριος Ἐπίσκοπος Τομπόλσκ
• SIMEON Metropolitan of Smolensk (1699) // JAN 4 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Συμεὼν Μητροπολίτης Σμολένσκ καὶ Ντορογκομπούζ
• JOHN of Verkhoturye, Fool for Christ (1701) // APR 16 //
• COSMAS of Verkhoturye (1706) // NOV 1 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Κοσμᾶς ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός
• DEMETRIUS of Rostov, Metropolitan of Rostov (1709)
// OCT 28 // SEPTEMBER 21 UNCOV REL 1752 //
• PHILOTHEUS Leschynsky, Metropoltian of Tobolsk, Apostle of Siberia (1727) // MAY 31 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Φιλόθεος Μητροπολίτης Τομπόλσκ Ρωσίας
• Sainted INNOCENT 英诺肯提 bishop of Irkutsk (1731) // FEB 9 // NOV 26 //
• ANTHONY Metropolitan of Tobolsk (1740) // MAR 27 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀντώνιος Ἐπίσκοπος Τομπόλσκ
• PAUL Metropolitan of Tobolsk (1770) // NOV 4 //
• SOPHRONIUS of Irkutsk, Bishop & wonderworker of Irkutsk (1771) // MAR 30 // JUN 30 GLORIFICATION 1918 //
• SINESIUS of Irkutsk (1787) // MAY 10 //
Ὁ Ὅσιος Συνέσιος τῆς Σιβηρίας
• BARLAAM Archbishop of Tobolsk (1802) // DEC 27 //
• ANDREW Igumen of Raphael in Tobolsk (1820) // MAY 14 //
• PETER Michurin (Peter of Tomsk) youth of Tobolsk (1820) // MAR 4 //
Ὁ Ὅσιος Πέτρος τοῦ Τόμσκ
• HERMAN of Alaska (1837) // DEC 13 // JUL 27 // AUG 9 GLORIFICATION 1970) //
• MELETIUS Bishop of Kharkov (1840) // FEB 12 //
• DANIEL of Achinsk (1843) // APR 15 //
• BARLAAM desert-dweller of Chikoysk (1846) // OCT 5 //
• MACARIUS 玛喀里 Glukharev of Altai (1847) // MAY 18 //
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μακάριος ὁ Ἱεραπόστολος ἐκ Ρωσίας
• MACARIUS 玛喀里 Nevsky, metropolitan of Moscow, Apostle to Altai (1926)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μακάριος ὁ Ἀπόστολος τῶν Ἀλταΐων Μητροπολίτης Μόσχας
• MISAEL of Abalatsk, Hieromonk (1797) // DEC 17 //
Ὁ Ὅσιος Μισαὴλ ἐκ Ρωσίας
• PHILARET Metropolitan of Kiev (1857) // DEC 2 //
• THEODORE Kuzmich, Elder of Tomsk (1864) // JAN 20 //
• Blessed Eldress DOMNA of Tomsk, Fool for Christ (1872) // DEC 16 //
Ἡ Ἁγία Δόμνα ἡ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλή
• STEPHEN of Omsk (1876) // JUN 30 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Στέφανος τοῦ Ὄμσκ τῆς Ρωσίας
• INNOCENT of Alaska, Metropolitain of Moscow, Enlightener of Alaska & Siberia // MAR 31 (1879) // SEP 23 GLORIFICATION 1977 // SUNDAY BEFORE AUGUST 26 ALL SAINTS OF MOSCOW //
• GERASIMUS Bishop of Astrakhan and Enotaeva (1880) // JUN 24 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεράσιμος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀστραχάν
• MELETIUS Bishop of Ryazan (1900) // JAN 14 //
• ARETHAS of Valaam & Verkhoturye (1856-1910) // MAY 15 //
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρέθας ἐκ Ρωσίας
• Elder DALMAT (Dimitry Mokrinsky) of Isetsk (1697) // JUN 25 //
• BASILISCUS of Siberia (1824)// DEC 29 //
• Hieromartyr Priest INNOCENT (1937) // OCT 13 //
Οἱ Ἅγιοι εἶναι ὁ Μάρτυς Βασίλειος τῆς Μανγκαζίας, οἱ Ἐπίσκοποι Νεκτάριος τοῦ Τομπόλσκ, Δημήτριος τοῦ Ροστώβ, Φιλόθεος τοῦ Τομπόλσκ, Ἰωάννης τοῦ Τομπόλσκ, Ἀντώνιος τοῦ Τομπόλσκ, Ἰννοκέντιος τοῦ Ἰρκούτσκ, Παῦλος τοῦ Τομπόλσκ, Βαρλαάμιος τοῦ Τομπόλσκ, Φιλάρετος τοῦ Κιέβου, Ἰννοκέντιος τῆς Μόσχας, Συμεὼν τοῦ Σμολένσκ, Μελέτιος τοῦ Χάρκωβ, Γεράσιμος τοῦ Ἀστραχάν, Μελέτιος τοῦ Ριαζάν, οἱ Ὅσιοι Μοναχοὶ Συνέσιος τῆς Σιβηρίας, Ἀρέθας τῆς Ἀλταΐων, Μισαὴλ τοῦ Ἀμπαλάσκ, Δανιὴλ τοῦ Ἀσίνσκ, Βαρλαάμιος τοῦ Σικίζσκ, οἱ δίκαιοι καὶ οἱ διὰ Χριστὸν σαλοὶ Συμεὼν τῆς Βερχοτοῦρε, Ἰωάννης τῆς Βερχοτοῦρε, Δόμνα τοῦ Τόμσκ, Στέφανος τοῦ Ὄμσκ, Κοσμᾶς τῆς Βερχοτοῦρε
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μητροφάνης ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ μαρτυρήσαντες
Τατιανὴ ἡ Πρεσβυτέρα, Ἡσαΐας, Ἰωάννης, Μαρία καὶ ἕτεροι διακόσιοι εἴκοσι Μάρτυρες
The Yihetuan Rebellion, also known as the "Boxer" Rebellion due to a mistranslation by English sinologists, left a terrible bloody mark on history of the beginning of the 20th century. Among those brutally killed and tortured by the rebels were not only foreign preachers and technical experts, merchants and scientists, but also Chinese officials, soldiers and officers, peasants. One of the best-kept secrets in the Orthodox world has to be the existence of the Chinese Martyrs who celebrate their feast day on June 11th. Almost everyone was unaware of the fact that not even one hundred years ago [now a little less than one hundred years ago], a group of Chinese Orthodox Christians gave up their lives for Christ and His Church in the great city of Beijing. It was the time of the Boxer Rebellion, which held foreigners responsible for every misfortune that took place. The first to suffer were the Christians, and in 1899 the first English missionary was killed. On the 10th of June, proclamations were posted on walls all over Beijing, calling on the Chinese to slaughter all Christians and threatening all those Christians who tried to hide with martyrdom. On the 11th of June, China shone in glory as it would offer her share of martyrs for the Church. According to Dr Piperakis of the University of Athens, the events are described as follows: "The executioners' procession set off triumphantly with burning torches, as the idols of the traditional god of the Chinese were carried aloft. Censers were held so that the Christians could cense the idols, and thus deny their 'alien' faith. The pressure was unbearable, the martyrdoms most terrible. The fear was great. The Orthodox Christians' homes were surrounded. Threats and violence were used to force the Orthodox to sacrifice to false gods and deny Christ. "Unfortunately, as with all oppression, many capitulated and burnt incense to the idols to save their lives, while others who were stronger in faith boldly confessed Christ. The latter, the confessors, were led out of the city to the Boxers' idol worshipping temples. Here, after indescribable torture, cutting them open and pulling out their entrails and the like, they were finally beheaded or burnt to death. The martyrs' houses suffered the same fate as their owners. Churches and Orthodox institutions were also given over to the flames. All the church buildings (with the exception of the one in Hankow), the Sino-Russian Library and the print shop with its 30 000 wood-carved Chinese characters were set alight and burnt to ashes. The Russian missionaries managed to flee to Chien-Chin and then to Shanghai. Of the 700 Orthodox Chinese believers, 300 were martyred for their faith. Taking into account its low numbers, the Orthodox Church of China gave up more martyrs than the more populous heterodox Churches." Included in those who received the crown of martyrdom was the first Chinese heiromartyr, St. Mitrophan Chi-Sung: "St Mitrophan was the first Orthodox Chinese priest. He was ordained by St Nicholas of Japan and served the Orthodox mission for fifteen years. He sat among the ruins of the burnt-out Orthodox Mission, enveloped by the men, women and children of his flock, then they started to hit his chest with fists. His Presbytera Tatiana and his 23-year-old son, Isaiah, were slaughtered before his very eyes, while they cut off the nose, ears and toes of his younger son, John. Not only did the child martyr refuse to complain of protest, but miraculously he felt no pain. "The executioners taunted him, calling him a 'child of demons'. He answered saying, 'I am an Orthodox Christian and I believe in Christ, not in demons'. After Father Mitrophan's execution, his future daughter-in-law, 19 year old fiancée of now-martyred Isaiah, arrived at the priest's house. She wanted to die together with the family of her betrothed. When the Boxers surrounded the house, Maria helped many of the faithful jump over garden walls. She faced her executioners with courage and reproached them for the unjust murder of so many innocent souls, who were not tried by any court. The executioners pierced her feet and wounded her hands, encouraging her to leave and be saved. Brave Maria answered boldly, 'I was born here at the Church of the All-Holy Mother of God, I will die here, too.' Then the Boxers executed her." Of the 1 000 people that were in the Beijing parish, 222 received the crown of martyrdom and constituted the glorious sacrificial beginning of the 20th century, which would soon turn purple by the river of blood that flowed out of the vast expanses of Russia.
Accounts of the Martyrs of the Chinese Orthodox Church who fell victim in Beijing in 1900:
• Hieromartyr MITROPHAN (Metrophanes) 1st Chinese priest, and the Chinese New Martyrs of the Boxer Uprising (1900)
• TATIANA 44 years of age
• ISAIAH served in the artillery for 23 years
• IOANN (John) aged 7 at the time
• MARIA aged 19, bride of Fr Mitrophan's son Isaiah
• PAVEL (Paul) Wang Wenheng, aged 36
• JOACHIM aged 19, nephew of Pavel, was seized by the Boxers on June 4th and killed near the northeast tower of the city wall. He was the first among Orthodox Christians to die as a martyr
• INNOKENTY (Innocent) Fang Zhihai
• Albazinian KLIMENT (Clement) Kui Ling, aged 36 – sacristan. His wife from the Zhun family BARBARA aged 35. Their children: MARIA aged 14; OLGA aged 11, IA aged 9 and IRINA aged 4
• MATFEI (Matthew) Hai Qun, aged 31, assistant to the sacristan, his wife from the Rui family MATRONA aged 32
• VITT Hai aged 29, Matfei's brother, on June 11th was killed in the Cheng'ensi pagan temple during the day and burned
• Albazinian SIMEON Xi Lin'a aged 50; formerly a sacristan and bellringer, had lately been baking prosfora (church bread)
• Albazinian maidens EKATERINA aged 24 and MUZA aged 17 daughters of Alexander Ai died as martyrs in the house of Vitt Hai, which was on a site which now has a women's monastery
• MARINA Xu aged 44; widowed for many years, was a teacher at the Mission's school for females
• Albazinian ANNA Rui aged 57; a widow. Her 2 married daughters are among those who died as martyrs; a third daughter, presently the nun Fiva and son, now the priest Mikhail Min, had been in the hands of the Boxers, but were saved
• PYOTR (Peter) Li Yongan aged 27; chorister conducted meteorological observations
• Albazinian ALEXANDRA Li aged 32; widow, sister of the catechist PAUL; her deceased husband EVMENY brother of Peter Li, had assisted Archimandrite Flavian with translations
• Albazinian ALEXEY Yin, aged 27 - a chorister from early childhood
• AFANASY (Athanasius) Yu aged 21; studied in the Mission school since an early age and was a chorister
• Albazinian AFANASY Ah aged 58-59; crippled
• Albazinian MYRON Rui aged 49. His wife MARIA aged 43. Their children: MARTHA aged 21; ANASTASIA aged 19; EUDOXIA aged 16; INNOKENTY aged 14 SAVVA aged 12; NIL aged 10; Maria aged 7; ELENA aged 4
• LYUBOV Chang aged 22 maiden
• DOROTHEA wife of Tikhon Wu, aged 43, limped
• KAPITON Ying-yuan aged 43, his wife PARASKEVA aged 40
• VICTOR Fu aged 48, baptized as an adult
• PETER Wang aged 51, was a humble man
• PHILLIP Antoniev Li Ruixing aged 45; his aged 37 wife ANNA and aged 7 son THOMAS lived at the Russian embassy, where Phillip was the senior servant
• ALEXEY Hang Wenheng aged 42, his wife THECLA aged 34, their children: THEOKTIST aged 14, ANNA aged 12, IULITA aged 7, SOFONIA aged 5, NICHOLAS aged 1
• THEODORE Yue aged 60, his wife ELIZABETH aged 51
• ELIAS Quan aged 32, his 2 wife ELENA aged 26, and their son JOHN aged 2
• MINODORA Wang aged 59, her son ANDREW aged 35, his wife ANNA aged 29, daughter SOPHIA aged 5; Minodora's second son JOHN aged 33, his wife DARIA aged 22, their son THEODOSIUS aged 5; MARIA aged 23, wife of Minodora's third son DAVID, her son MARK aged 3 - they were all martyred on the evening of June 10 in the Vitta Hai home, where there is now a women's monastery. Maria was pregnant at the time
• SERGIY Filippov Zhang aged 49; widower who studied at the Mission school in early childhood; knew Russian and was a chorister all his life
• Albazinian ALEXANDER Heng Gui the son of Gorodiy, aged 33 merchant
• LEV Hai Ling aged 39; when the Boxer pogroms began, he fled to an unknown location together with his father SAVVA Tsin aged 61 and son JOHN aged 14
• SAMPSON Nikolaev Pan aged 36, his wife ANNA aged 32, their son EVDOKIM aged 7; at first he purchased his life for money, but the Boxers were dissatisfied with the sum he gave
• Albazinian PAUL Sang aged 60, the brother of Monk Papiy
• DANIEL De aged 30
• GEORGE Lian Xi aged 42
• ANNA Lin aged 81; widow, from among the wards of the Mission
• MATRONA Lian aged 46
• EVFIMY Pan aged 42
• AKILINA Shuang aged 25, her widowed mother-in-law ANNA Chang aged 61, her husband PAUL Konstantinov Shuang aged 39, and children: IOANN aged 10, MAKRINA aged 4, IOANN aged 2- hid on Mǎsháo Hútòng Lane
• IRINA Gui Ruishi aged 54
• Albazinian IRINA Fu aged 35, wife of IVAN Fu. Irina's children: ANNA aged 17; ATHANASIA aged 10; EVPRAKSIYA aged 8; PROKHOR aged 6; NATRIA aged 3
• ANNA Bai widow, aged 62
• ZOYA Shuang about aged 45, widow
• Albazinian KAPITOLINA Huai widow, aged 62
• Albazinian AGAFIYA Rui widow, aged 55
• AKILINA Guang widow, aged 47. She lived at the Mission alms house. Her children: EVSTOLIA aged 14, and KIFA aged 11
• EVGENI Vasilevich Ji aged 47, Manchurian soldier, endured martyrdom on June 7th near Dōngzhímén Gate, at a place called Hónglǐng (红领), and there was thrown down a well
• EVFIMIA aged 12, daughter of the Albazinian Paul Yong, endured martyrdom on June 10, in Fr Mitrophan's house
• Albazinian FEODOT Gordiev Rui aged 60, endured martyrdom in his house near the Mission, on June 10th
• The son of Luke Quan MIKHAIL with his wife and 3 children fled to their cemetery, but not finding a haven, went from place to place and were seized
• ELENA Huo widow, aged 73; OLIMPIADA Jin widow, aged 61; Olimpiada's
daughter OLGA aged 19, all endured martyrdom on June 10 near the Mission
• FEVRONIA Fu, aged 72, endured martyrdom June 1, beyond the Āndìngmén Gate
• ANNA Li widow, aged 58
• NIKON Huo aged 23
• ANDREI Zhu Ling aged 54, suffered on June 10 at the Mission site
• PETR Chang aged 57, endured martyrdom on June 11
• IONA adopted son of Alexei Hang Wenheng, aged 19
• DARIA De aged 54, widow mother of Gerasim Fu and Gerasim's daughter Agafia, endured martyrdom on June 11 at Shíchàhǎi (什刹海) beyond the Hòumén Gate (后门)
• Albazinian PAVEL Nikolaevich Dong aged 48; his wife EVGENIA Mihailovna aged 38, and their children: IULIANIA aged 13; LUKIA aged 9; STEFAN aged 7, endured martyrdom on June 20 in Zhuāngqīn Wángfǔ (庄亲王府) in the western city
• DARIA aged 33 sister of Nikolai Ji endured martyrdom on June 23rd beyond the Dōngchímén Gate
• ISAIAH Se aged 62. Manchurian, died June 22nd beyond the Dōngzhímén Gate
• ANNA aged 56; wife of the Albazinian Georgy A, and ANNA Georgy's daughter aged 36, both Albazinians endured martyrdom on Hǎidàimén near Shiyiyuan
• Albazinian NIKOLAI aged 22; nephew of Nikon Quan
CHRISTIANS SLAUGHTERED IN THE VILLAGE of Dōngdìngān (东定安):
• ALEXEI Zhang aged 48
When the church was burnt on the 11th of the 6th month, Alexei with all his family went to Beijing. His family consisted of: his wife EVFIMIA aged 44 and his children: EVDOKIA aged 11; NIKITA aged 10, MICHAEL aged 6; MARIA aged 1. Having arrived in Beijing and having seen the ashes of the destroyed Mission, Alexei departed for the northern mountains; but local inhabitants did not accept him, and only one family sheltered his elder daughter as their son's future bride. Alexei and the rest of his family returned to Dōngdìngān, where he was soon seized by the Boxers and together with his two boys was killed at a place called Sānjiǎo Kēng (三角坑, Triangular Pit), near a road to the west of the Mission site. Alexei's wife and younger daughter were martyred in a field on the northern side of the village of Maozhuang.
• STEFAN Wang Yuguang aged 61
• KIR Zhin Fucheng aged 60
• IRINA aged 55, was Paul Zhang Yu's stepmother
• 23 Martyrs of Rome: BASILIDES, TRIPOS, MANDAL and Companions (270-275) on the Aurelian Way under Aurelian
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Βασιλείδης, Τρίπος καὶ Μάνδαλος οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς μαρτυρήσαντες
• MM CRISPULUS and RESTITUTUS (1st c.) under Nero, either in Rome or else in Spain
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κρίσπουλος καὶ Ρεστιτοῦτος οἱ Μάρτυρες
• MM GETULIUS, CAEREALIS, AMANTIUS and PRIMITIVUS (120)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Γέτουλος καὶ Ἀμάνδιος οἱ Μάρτυρες οἱ αὐτάδελφοι καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς μαρτυρήσαντες
Getulius, a Roman officer, is said to have been the husband of Saint Symphorosa. Upon his conversion to the faith, he resigned his commission and retired into the country. His brother Amantius, also a zealous Christian, remained a tribune in the legion. Getulius, his brother, and the two officers sent to capture him ― and who were converted by Getulius ― were clubbed to death at Tivoli, Italy, under Hadrian. Saint Symphorosa buried them in an arenarium on her estate.
• VM ANTONINA 安托尼纳 of Krodamos and M ALEXANDER 亚历山大 at Constantinople (313)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀλέξανδρος καὶ Ἀντωνίνα οἱ Μάρτυρες
圣殉道者亚历山大和安托尼纳
亚历山大和安托尼纳都来自亚力山大。安托尼纳是一位荣耀的童女，而亚历山大则是皇室的士兵。他们都是基督徒。安托尼纳首先被带到法庭前受审，并遭受了刑罚。刽子手将安托尼纳投入到监狱中，在上帝的天使的命令下，亚历山大来到监狱中（直到当时为止他也不认识安托尼纳），用他的军衣盖住她的头，并对她说低下头以通过大门。就这样，童女安托尼纳逃脱了，而亚历山大则留在了监狱。之后，他们将亚历山大带到法官前，并因基督的名开始对他进行折磨。听到这之后，安托尼纳自己来到法官前，而后法官判处他们两个人经受各种严刑拷打。他们的手被砍掉、身体经受鞭打，并用蜡烛烧他们的伤口，最后，他们被投入到火坑中，然后用土将他们盖上。为了对基督的爱，他们经受了苦难，并于公元313年5月3日得以进入天国之家。邪恶的法官费斯图斯就在殉道者死亡的那一时刻成了哑巴，邪恶之灵进入了他并对他进行折磨长达7天之久，最后将他杀死。
• PANSEMNE 庞塞穆尼 the former harlot of Antioch, Pen., and Venerable THEOPHANES 德奥梵 Monk, Solitaries of Antioch (4th c.)
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Θεοφάνης καὶ Πανσέμνη
• Hosiosmartyrs the Athon monks who suffered in the prisons of the Muslims in Thessaloniki (1821-1823)
• Repose of Elder NAHUM (1843) of Solovki and Schemamonk SERGIUS of Valaam (1860)
• New Hieromartyr Priest TIMOTHY Ul’janov (1900-1940) day of death in lazaret of Khabarovsk KZ
Ὁ Ἅγιος Τιμόθεος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ὁ Πρεσβύτερος
• Hieromartyr THEOGNOST (1940)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόγνωστος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ Ἐρημίτης ἐκ Ρωσίας
• Hieromartyrs Priests NICHOLAS, BASIL and Martyr PAUL (1918)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Νικόλαος καὶ Βασίλειος οἱ Ἱερομάρτυρες τοῦ Ἁγίου Μάρτυρος Παύλου ἐν Ρωσία
• Repose of PHAMAR Mardzhanova, schemaabbess of the Seraphim-Znamenski Skete (1936)
• ALEXIUS 阿莱克西 of Bithynia, bishop
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξιος Ἐπίσκοπος Βιθυνίας
• APOLLO bishop
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀπολλώ
• ASTERIUS 阿斯特里 bishop of Petra (362)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀστέριος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Πέτρας
Conversion is possible. Asterius was a heretic Arian who converted and became bishop of Petra in Arabia. He earned the hatred of his former co-religionists by publishing the story of their intrigues at the Council of Sardica in 347. He was banished to Libya by Constantius and recalled by Julian the Apostate. Asterius took part in the Council of Alexandria in 362, and was chosen to be the bearer of letter from the council to the Church of Antioch. Asterius died shortly thereafter.
• BARDO (Bardon) of Mainz) (982-1053) // JUN 24 //
• Venerable BARLAAM of Khutyn
Ὁ Ὅσιος Βαρλαάμ
• Finding of the relics of Sainted BASIL 瓦西里 Bishop of Ryazan
Εὕρεσις Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Βασιλείου Ἐπισκόπου Ριαζὰν καὶ Μούρωμ
• BASSIAN 瓦西安 bishop of Lodi in Lombardy (409)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασσιανὸς Ἐπίσκοπος Λόντι Ἰταλίας
圣巴斯安，罗蒂的主教
巴斯安出生于斯拉库斯一个显赫、富有的异教徒家庭。巴斯安在罗马学习了哲学。出于自己真诚的愿望，长老格迪亚努斯为他进行了浸礼。这触犯了他的父母，神学家约安曾经向他显现；为了逃离他们的怒火，以及根据神学家约安的命令，巴斯安来到了拉瓦纳，拜访他的亲戚－主教乌尔苏斯。在主教的劝告下，巴斯安在城市外面的圣殉道者阿波里纳里乌教堂安顿下来。在那里，巴斯安过着禁欲生活，期间劳作、斋戒和祷告，高龄之际才去世。当利古里亚的罗蒂城的主教去世后，巴斯安在梦中得到启示被按立为主教，其实这并不是他的愿望。米兰的安布罗斯和拉瓦纳的乌尔苏斯按立巴斯安为主教。巴斯安拥有治愈疾病的恩典，并能使死人复活。在圣安布罗斯生命的最后时刻巴斯安曾经在场，并亲耳听到他讲述如何看到主耶稣基督。巴斯安一生劳作，在90岁高龄之际才去世，得以进入上帝的国度，当时为公元409年。巴斯安的圣髑能够创造奇迹，由此得以见证上帝的力量以及上帝圣人的伟大。
• Translation of Relics of BRIGID (Bride, Brigit, Bríd, Bridget, Brigide, Brighid or Ffraid) of Ireland, Fndr. and Abs. of Kildare (Kildara); Healer; Second Pat. of Ireland; Pat. of Poets, Healers and Blacksmiths; Pat. of Scholars; Pat. of Travellers and Pilgrims; Protectress of Women (525)
• CANIDES 喀尼迪 monk of Cappadocia (460)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Κανίδης ὁ ἐκ Καππαδοκίας
• CENSURIUS (486) the successor of St Germanus as Bishop of Auxerre in France Ὁ Ἅγιος Κενσούριος Ἐπίσκοπος Ὡξέρρης
Successor to St Germanus, Bishop St Censurius governed the see of Auxerre from 448 to 486. He was buried in the church of Saint Germanus, which he himself built.
• Elder DANIEL of Achinsk (1843)
• Venerable EVERMUND (Ebremund) (720)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἐβρεμούνδιος
Born in Bayeux in France, he married but with his wife's consent founded several monasteries and convents, including Fontenay-Louvet near Séez, where he became monk and abbot. His wife had entered a convent as a nun.
• Martyress FAUSTINA of Cyzicus (303)
• FORTUNATUS Bishop of Trier, confessor (247)
• AMALAR (Hamularius, Ameler) FORTUNATUS, Archbishop of Trier, Primate of Gaul (816/832)
• GERASIMOS Hegumenos of the Monastery of Simeon the Miracle Worker on the Wonderful Mountain at Antioch (13th c.)
• GREGORY Bishop of Assos
• ILLADAN (Illathan, Iolladhan) (6th c.) Bishop of Rathlihen in Offaly in Ireland
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰλλαδανὸς Ἐπίσκοπος Ράθλιχεν Ἰρλανδίας
• ITHAMAR (Ythamar) Bishop of Rochester (656)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰθαμέριος Ἐπίσκοπος Ρότζεστερ
• JOHN 约安 Maximovitch of Tobolsk, Metropolitan of Tobolsk and All Siberia, wonderworker (1715) // JUN 10 //
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης Μητροπολίτης Τομπόλσκ καὶ πάσης Σιβηρίας
• LANDRY (Landericus) Bishop of Paris, Confessor (661)
• Hosiosmartyr LANDERICUS (1050) monk at Novalese in Savoy in Italy, drowned in the River Arc by evildoers
• Departure of MARTHA of Egypt
• Hosiosmartyr MAURINUS (671) Abbot of St Pantaleon in Cologne in Germany, where he was martyred
• Hieromartyr MAXIMUS 10th Bishop of Naples in Italy (359) reposed in exile and is honoured as a martyr
• Martyr NEANISCUS 奈阿尼斯科 the Wise of Alexandria
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νεανίσκος ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ Σοφώτατος
• VM OLIVA (Olive or Olivia) of Palermo, Solitary (13 Year Old CS) (9th c.)
St Olive was a beautiful girl of thirteen, of a noble Palermo, Italy family who was carried off to Tunis by raiding Muslims, in the ninth century. She was allowed to live in a nearby cave, but when they found that her miracles and cures had converted people to Christianity, she was imprisoned, tortured, and after converting her executioners trying to burn her to death, was beheaded. At the time of her death, her soul, in the form of a dove, was seen to soar upward.
• Hosiosmartyr SAVVAS the Stageiritis (1821)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Σάββας ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Σταγειρίτης
• Venerable SILVANUS 息庐安 of the Far Caves in Kiev (14th c.)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Σιλουανὸς ὁ ἐν Κιέβῳ
The Holy Schemamonk Silvanus of the Kiev Caves labored in asceticism in the Far Caves during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. One time, by the power of his prayer, he held fast to the spot robbers, who had come into the monastery garden, and for three days they were not able to move. When they repented, the monk then freed them. The memory of Saint Silvanus is celebrated also on August 28, and on the second Sunday of Great Lent.
• Finding (1115) of the Relics of SUITBERT bishop of Verden (807)
• Hieromartyr TIMOTHY 提摩太 bishop of Prusa (362)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Τιμόθεος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Προύσης
司祭殉道者提摩泰，布鲁萨的主教
由于提摩泰在灵性上的纯洁，上帝赋予了他施行奇迹的恩典，他治愈了人们所有的疾病和痛苦。邪恶的犹利安皇帝否认基督，在他在位期间，提摩泰被投放到监狱中。即使是在监狱中，信徒们也去拜访提摩泰，以倾听他们的牧者对他们的明智的教诲。听到这之后，犹利安皇帝下令将提摩泰在监狱中斩首，当时为公元362年。提摩泰的灵魂升入到了天堂，而他的圣髑却依然能够创造奇迹，以帮助人们，展示出了来自上帝的力量。
• New Hieromartyr THEOGNOST hieromonk of Alexandr-Nevsky hermitage
• YODOK of Brittany of Teyo, Priest, Anachoret
• Translation of the relics of St YVO of Slepe
• Martyr ZACHARY of Nicomedia
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζαχαρίας ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ ἐν Νικομηδείᾳ
SYNAXARION FOR THE SUNDAY OF ALL SAINTS
On this day, the Sunday after Pentecost, we celebrate the feast of all the Saints from throughout the inhabited world, in Asia, Libya and Europe, in North and South.
Our most godlike Fathers decreed that we should celebrate the present feast after the descent of the All-holy Spirit, as showing in a certain way that the coming of the All-holy Spirit acted through the Apostles like this: sanctifying and making wise human beings taken from our mortal clay and, for the completion of that fallen angelic order, restoring them and through Christ sending them to God, some by the witness of martyrdom and blood, others by their virtuous conduct and way of life; and things beyond nature are achieved. For the Spirit descends in the form of fire, whose natural momentum is upwards; while dust, whose natural momentum is downwards, ascends on high, that dust which forms our mortal clay, the flesh added to and made divine by God the Word, which a short time before, had been exalted and taken its seat at the right hand of the Father’s glory. But he now also draws all those who wish, according to the promise, just as God the Word had manifested the works of reconciliation and what was the end, most suitable to its purpose, of his coming to us through flesh and of his dispensation, namely that he brings those who were rejected before to union and friendship with God—human nature offering to God the ungrateful people from the nations like first fruits—those who were outstandingly well-pleasing to him. This is one reason that we celebrate the feast of All Saints.
A second reason is because, though many people have been well-pleasing to God, they were through outstanding virtue unknown to humanity by name, or for some human reason or other, but nevertheless have great glory in God’s sight. Or again, because there are many who have lived following Christ in India, Egypt, Arabia. Mesopotamia and Phrygia and in the lands beyond the Black Sea, even as far as the British Isles themselves; in short, in both East and West, but it was not easy to honour them all properly because of their vast numbers, in the way that ecclesiastical custom has been received. And therefore, so that we may attract the help of them all, wherever on earth they were well-pleasing to God, and generally for those who would later become Saints, the most godly Fathers ordained that we should celebrate the feast of All Saints, honouring the earlier and later ones, the unknown and the known — all those in whom the Holy Spirit has dwelt he has made holy.
A third reason is this. It was necessary for the Saints who are celebrated individually day by day to be gathered together on one day, in order to demonstrate that, as they struggled for the one Christ and all ran the race in the same stadium of virtue, so they were all fittingly crowned as servants of one God and sustained the Church, having filled the world on high. They stir us also to accomplish the same struggle in its different and many forms, to the degree of power that each of us has to press onwards with all eagerness.
For all these Saints from every age the revered and wise Emperor Leo erected and vast and very beautiful church. This is very near the church of the holy Apostles, within the city of Constantine. He built it originally, it is said, for his first wife Theophano, who was outstandingly well-pleasing to God, which was indeed a marvel in the midst of turmoil and in royal palaces. When he informed the Church of his idea, he did not succeed in making it agree with his wishes
The most wise Emperor, with the approval of the whole Church, dedicated to all the Saints everywhere in the world the building that had been erected, observing that ‘Since Theophano is a Saint, let her be numbered with the rest. ‘
Note that we are celebrating everything that the Holy Spirit, in giving good things, has made holy. I mean the highest and sanctifying Minds, that is to say the Nine Orders; the Ancestors and Patriarchs; the Prophets and sacred Apostles; the Martyrs and Hierarchs; the Priest Martyrs and Ascetic Martyrs; the Ascetics and the Just and all the choirs of holy women and all the other anonymous Saints, with them let there be all who will come afterwards. But before all, in all and with all, the Saint of Saints, the most holy and quite incomparably mightier than the angelic Orders, our Lady and Sovereign, Mary, Ever-Virgin.
At the prayers of your all-pure Mother, Christ God, and of all your Saints from every age, have mercy and save us, for you alone are good and love mankind. Amen.
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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