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+{
+  "050300": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerables Juliana (1393) and Eupraxia (1394) of Moscow",
+      "short": "Venerables Juliana"
+    }
+  },
+  "050301": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Priest Nicholas († 1941)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "050302": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "St. Theophanes of Peritheorion († after 1353)",
+      "short": "St. Theophanes"
+    }
+  },
+  "050400": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Priest John († 1942)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "050401": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Deacon Nicholas († 1943)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "050402": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Martyrs of Palestine: Afrodisus, Leontius, Anthony, Valerianus, Macrobius, and others",
+      "short": "Venerable Martyrs"
+    }
+  },
+  "050403": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "St Athanasius, Bishop of Corinth",
+      "short": "St Athanasius"
+    }
+  },
+  "050404": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Transfer of the Relics of the Righteous Lazarus and the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene",
+      "short": "Transfer of"
+    }
+  },
+  "050406": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Nicephorus of Midicea",
+      "short": "Venerable Nicephorus"
+    }
+  },
+  "05041200": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Another Venerable Nicephorus",
+      "short": "Another Venerable Nicephorus"
+    }
+  },
+  "050500": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Icon of the Mother of God “the Inexhaustible Cup” (1878)",
+      "short": "Icon of"
+    }
+  },
+  "050501": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Martyrs Neophyte, Gaius, and Gaianus",
+      "short": "Martyrs Neophyte"
+    }
+  },
+  "050502": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Hadrian of Monzensk",
+      "short": "Venerable Hadrian"
+    }
+  },
+  "050504": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Micah, disciple of St Sergius of Radonezh",
+      "short": "Venerable Micah"
+    }
+  },
+  "050507": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "St. Hilary, Archbishop of Arles († 449)",
+      "short": "St. Hilary"
+    },
+    "life": {
+      "id": "",
+      "copyright": "Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints, Volume 5. (J. Murphy, 1815) pg 78-84",
+      "text": "<p> From his life, by a contemporary bishop of his province, who had been his disciple. Ceillier shows this author to have been St. Honoratus, bishop of Marseilles. See Rivet, Hist. Littér, de la France, t. 2, p. 209.  THIS saint was nobly born, about the year 401, and was related to St. Honorates of Arles, and of the same country in Gaul, which was probably Lorrain, or some other part of Austrasia. He was brought up in a manner suitable to his birth, in the study of the liberal arts, and of every branch of polite learning, especially of eloquence and philosophy. But how little value we ought to set on all things that appear great in the eyes of the world he himself has taught us. “We are all equal,” says he, “in Jesus Christ; and the highest degree of our nobility is to be of the number of the true servants of God. Neither science nor birth, according to this world, can exalt us, but in proportion to our contempt of them.” Before God had put these sentiments into his heart, he seems to have been not altogether insensible to the advantages of this world, in which he was raised to the highest dignities. His kinsman, St. Honoratus, who had forsaken his country to seek Christ, in the solitude of the isle of Lerins, where he had founded a great monastery, was the instrument made use of by the Almighty to open his eyes. This holy man had always loved Hilary, and thought he could not give him more solid proof of his friendship than by endeavouring to gain him entirely to God. He therefore left his retirement for a few days to seek him out, and endeavour to move him by the same powerful weighty reflections, which had made the deepest impression on his own mind, and induced him to break the chains of the world. “What floods of tears,” says St. Hilary, “did this true friend shed to soften the hardness of my heart! How often did he embrace me with the most tender and compassionate affection, to obtain of me, that I would take into serious consideration the salvation of my soul! Yet, by an unhappy victory, I still remained conqueror.” Honoratus, finding his endeavours to wean him from the charms of a deceitful world ineffectual, had recourse to prayer, his ordinary refuge. “Well,” said he to Hilary, “I will obtain of God, what you will not now grant me.” Upon which they took leave of each other. Hilary, reflecting on what Honoratus had said to him, was not long before he began to feel a violent conflict within himself. “On one side,” says he, “methought I saw the Lord calling me; on the other the world offering me its seducing charms and pleasures. How often did I embrace and reject, will and not will the same thing! But in the end Jesus Christ triumphed in me. And three days after Honoratus had left me, the mercy of God, solicited by his prayers, subdued my rebellious soul.” He then went in person to seek St. Honoratus, and appeared before him as humble and tractable as the saint had left him haughty and indocile.  From this moment there appeared in Hilary that wonderful change which the Holy Ghost produces in a soul which he truly converts. His words, looks, and whole comportment breathed nothing but humility, patience, sweetness, mortification, and charity. Every one saw in him a man who began to labour in earnest to save his soul, and who had put his hand to the plough to look no more behind him, or to send a single thought after what he had left for Christ’s sake. Aspiring to perfection, he sold all his several estates to his brother, and distributed all the money accruing from the sale among the poor, and the most indigent monasteries. Thus disengaged from the world, and naked, no less in the inward disposition of soul than in his exterior, he, like Abraham, took leave of his own country, and made the best of his way to Lerins; where, from his first entrance, he made it appear that he was worthy to live in the company of saints. He set out in the pursuit of monastic perfection with such zeal and fervour, as to become in a short time the pattern of those on whose instructions and example he came to form his own conduct. His application to prayer and mortification, and his watchfulness and care to avoid the smallest faults and imperfections, prepared him to receive the gift of tears. It is thought that his baptism was posterior to his retirement. St. Honoratus having been chosen archbishop of Arles, in 426, Hilary followed him to that city; but it was not long before his love of solitude occasioned his return to Lerins. All the holy inhabitants of that isle testified as great joy to receive him again, as he felt to see himself among them. But God, who had other designs upon him, did not permit him to enjoy long his beloved retirement. St. Honoratus begged his assistance, and the comfort of his company, and as he did not yield to entreaties, went himself to fetch him from Lerins. Soon after God called St. Honoratus to himself, his death happening in 428 or 429. HilLine truncated
+    }
+  },
+  "050600": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyr Vuka&#353;in († 1943)",
+      "short": "New Martyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "050700": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Martyr Domitilla",
+      "short": "Martyr Domitilla"
+    }
+  },
+  "050701": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyr Pachomius",
+      "short": "New Martyr Pachomius"
+    }
+  },
+  "050800": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyr Nicephorus († 1942)",
+      "short": "New Martyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "050801": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Righteous Emily († 375)",
+      "short": "Righteous Emily († 375)"
+    }
+  },
+  "050802": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Translation of the relics (1785) of Venerable Arsenius of Novgorod",
+      "short": "Translation of"
+    }
+  },
+  "05080399": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Herax of Egypt (5<sup>th</sup> C)",
+      "short": "Venerable Herax"
+    }
+  },
+  "050900": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Priest Demetrius († 1938)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "050901": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Priest Vasily († 1939)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "050902": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Martyr Gordian",
+      "short": "Martyr Gordian"
+    }
+  },
+  "05090299": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Transfer of the relics of the Martyr child Gabriel",
+      "short": "Transfer of"
+    }
+  },
+  "050903": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Nicholas Buneni",
+      "short": "Venerable Nicholas Buneni"
+    }
+  },
+  "05090399": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Martyr Epimachus the New",
+      "short": "Martyr Epimachus"
+    }
+  },
+  "05090699": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Icon of the Mother of God of Perekop",
+      "short": "Icon of"
+    }
+  },
+  "051000": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Lawrence, the Monk of Egypt",
+      "short": "Venerable Lawrence"
+    }
+  },
+  "051100": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Priest Michael († 1920)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "051101": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Alexander, Archbishop of Khar′kov († 1940)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "051102": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Commemoration of the Founding of Constantinople (324)",
+      "short": "Commemoration of"
+    },
+    "rank": 1
+  },
+  "051103": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyrs Dioscorus and Argirus (1808)",
+      "short": "New Martyrs"
+    }
+  },
+  "05110499": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Icon of the Mother of God of Constantinople",
+      "short": "Icon of"
+    }
+  },
+  "051200": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Priest Peter († 1937)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "051201": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyr John Vlachos († 1662) (Romanian)",
+      "short": "New Martyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "051202": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Pancratius the Youth",
+      "short": "Venerable Pancratius"
+    }
+  },
+  "051300": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "103 New Martyrs of Cherkassy (20<sup>th</sup> C)",
+      "short": "103 New"
+    }
+  },
+  "051303": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop of Tiberiada",
+      "short": "Hieromartyr Alexander"
+    }
+  },
+  "051304": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Gabriel the Iberian (Georgian)",
+      "short": "Venerable Gabriel"
+    }
+  },
+  "051305": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable John, father of St. Euthymius",
+      "short": "Venerable John"
+    }
+  },
+  "051400": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Isidore the Fool-For-Christ and Wonderworker of Rostov († 1474)",
+      "short": "Venerable Isidore"
+    },
+    "rank": 2
+  },
+  "051401": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Priest Peter († 1939)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "051402": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyr Mark of Smyrna († 1643)",
+      "short": "New Martyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "051403": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyr Raiko (John) of Bulgaria († 1802)",
+      "short": "New Martyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "051500": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "St. Isaiah the Bishop and Wonderworker of Rostov († 1090)",
+      "short": "St. Isaiah"
+    },
+    "rank": 3
+  },
+  "051600": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Monk-martyrs of the community of St. Sava the Sanctified († 614)",
+      "short": "Monk-martyrs of"
+    }
+  },
+  "051601": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "St. Nicholas the Mystic, Patriarch of Constantinople († 930)",
+      "short": "St. Nicholas"
+    }
+  },
+  "051602": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Hieromartyr Abdiesus the Bishop and with him 16 priests, 9 deacons, 7 virgins, and 6 monks († c. 418)",
+      "short": "Hieromartyr Abdiesus"
+    }
+  },
+  "051603": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyr Nicholas († 1617)",
+      "short": "New Martyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "051604": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyr Vukasin of Klepci, Serbia († 1941)",
+      "short": "New Martyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "051700": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Nektarios († 1550) and Theophanes († 1544)",
+      "short": "Venerable Nektarios"
+    }
+  },
+  "051701": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Finding of the Relics (1551) of Venerable Hadrian of Ondrussovsk († 1549)",
+      "short": "Finding of"
+    }
+  },
+  "051800": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of Seven Ecumenical Councils",
+      "short": "Commemoration of"
+    }
+  },
+  "051801": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Macarius of Altai († 1847)",
+      "short": "Venerable Macarius"
+    }
+  },
+  "051802": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Priest Michael († 1932)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "051803": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Priest Basil († 1942)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "051804": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Holy Martyrs Simeon, Isaac and Bachtisius in Persia (4<sup>th</sup> C)",
+      "short": "Holy Martyrs"
+    }
+  },
+  "051805": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Martyr Euphrasia of Nicæa (3<sup>rd</sup>-4<sup>th</sup> C)",
+      "short": "Martyr Euphrasia"
+    }
+  },
+  "051811": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Hieromartyr Potamon, Bishop of Heraclea († 341)",
+      "short": "Hieromartyr Potamon"
+    },
+    "life": {
+      "id": "",
+      "copyright": "Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints, Volume 5. (Duffy, 1845) pg 240-241",
+      "text": "<p>He was bishop of Heraclea in Egypt. St. Athanasius says he was doubly a martyr, under the heathens and under the Arians. When Maximinus Daia, or Daza, persecuted the Christians in 310, he gloriously confessed the faith, for which one of his eyes was bored out, and probably the sinews of one ham were cut, as in the case of St. Paphnutius and others. The marks of his sufferings rendered him conspicuous in the council of Nice in 325, in which he exerted his zeal against the Arians. He accompanied and defended St. Athanasius in the council of Tyre in 335, as was related in the life of that saint on the 2<sup>nd</sup> of May. When the tyrant Gregory had usurped the patriarchal chair of St. Athanasius, he, with Philagrius, prefect of Egypt, an apostate to Arianism under Constantius, travelled over all Egypt, tormenting and banishing the Catholics; and St. Potamon, for his distinguished zeal, was by their order beaten on his back with clubs so long as to be left for dead. However, by the help of medicines, he came to himself, but died shortly after a martyr for the divinity of the Son of God in 341, as St. Athanasius relates. See St. Athanasius, Ep. ad Solit. et Apolog. Rufin. 1. 2. c. 4. St. Epiph. Hær. 68.</p>"
+    }
+  },
+  "051900": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Viktor († 1937)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "051901": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyrs Anthony, bishop of Belgorod and those with him: the Priests Mitrophan, Alexander, Michael, Matthew, Hippolytus, Nicholas, Basil, Nicholas, Maxim, Alexander, Paul, and Paul and the Martyrs Michael and Gregory († 1938)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyrs"
+    }
+  },
+  "051902": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Venerable Martyr Valentine († 1940)",
+      "short": "New Venerable"
+    }
+  },
+  "051913": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Virgin Martyrs Cyriaca and Theotima of Nicomedia († 311)",
+      "short": "Virgin Martyrs"
+    },
+    "life": {
+      "id": "",
+      "copyright": "Dunbar, Agnes B.C. A dictionary of saintly women, Volume 1. (Bell, 1904) pg 216",
+      "text": "<p>St. Cyriaca, in Africa, with five other holy virgins, one of whom was Theotima, sister of Philetærus. Cyriaca was burnt, and Theotima was slain with a sword.  When Diocletian was in Nicomedia, some time after the publication of his edict for the extermination of Christianity, he was told of a Christian who worshipped God openly with impunity. He was very angry, and ordered him to be brought before him. He had a very white skin and golden beard, and the Emperor was so struck by his youth, beauty, and gentleness, that he thought he was a god, and afterwards tried to persuade him to renounce his religion and accept honours among the heathen. Philetærus rebuked him, and wrought a miracle in the name of Jesus Christ, which made Diocletian again say that Philetærus was one of the gods. When he had seen some more miracles he ordered Philetærus to be set at liberty. Soon afterwards Diocletian died, but the persecution was continued under Maximian, and Philetærus was brought before him as an irrepressible Christian. Hearing that he had a sister younger and more beautiful than himself, who was hiding among the mountains with other Christian virgins, Maximian ordered them all to be brought to him, and offered them the greatest honours, promising to treat them as his daughters on condition that they should sacrifice to his gods. Theotima answered, “What honour can you (yourself worthy of no honour) confer on us, who are servants of the true God?” The Emperor commanded those that stood by to strike her on the face. Whereupon Cyriaca told him he ought to be ashamed of his brutality. Maximian then had Cyriaca beaten until she was quite exhausted.  As Philetærus prayed that she might have strength and courage to undergo these sufferings for her Master”s sake, she revived. Maximian ordered her to be tortured in many cruel ways, and finally burnt. Philetærus and the six surviving virgins were condemned to hard labour in the island of Prceconesum. On the journey the women entreated Aristides, the captain of their guard, to have their fetters taken off, promising to make no attempt to escape, and saying that the fatigue was greater than they could bear. He hesitated to comply with their request, and, when they had gone a little further, the holy maidens suddenly disappeared from before his eyes, and were never seen or heard of more. St. Philetærus, after many miracles and sufferings, received the crown of martyrdom. R.M. AA.SS.</p>"
+    }
+  },
+  "052000": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Thalassius († 660)",
+      "short": "Venerable Thalassius († 660)"
+    }
+  },
+  "052001": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Nikita, John, and Joseph of Chios († 1050)",
+      "short": "Venerable Nikita"
+    }
+  },
+  "052100": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Uncovering of the relics of Blessed Andrew of Simbirsk (1998)",
+      "short": "Uncovering of"
+    }
+  },
+  "052101": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Synaxis of All Saints of Karelia",
+      "short": "Synaxis of"
+    }
+  },
+  "052103": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Agapit of Markushev († 1584)",
+      "short": "Venerable Agapit"
+    }
+  },
+  "052104": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyr Pachomius († 1730)",
+      "short": "New Martyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "052200": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Priest Michael († 1942)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "052201": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Righteous Melchisedek, King of Salem",
+      "short": "Righteous Melchisedek"
+    }
+  },
+  "052202": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Martyr Sophia the healer",
+      "short": "Martyr Sophia"
+    }
+  },
+  "052300": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Finding of the relics (1164) of St Leontius the Bishop and Wonderworker of Rostov",
+      "short": "St Leontius"
+    }
+  },
+  "052301": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Synaxis of All Saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl",
+      "short": "Synaxis of"
+    }
+  },
+  "052302": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Holy Myrrh-Bearer Mary of Cleopas",
+      "short": "Holy Myrrh-Bearer"
+    }
+  },
+  "052400": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Martha, Abbess of Monemvasia and three nuns with her († 990)",
+      "short": "Venerable Martha"
+    }
+  },
+  "052404": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Vincent of Lérins († c.450)",
+      "short": "Venerable Vincent"
+    },
+    "life": {
+      "id": "",
+      "copyright": "Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints, Volume 5. (J. Murphy, 1815) pp 301-305",
+      "text": "<p>St. Vincent was of Gaulish extraction, had a polite education, was afterwards for some time an officer in the army, and lived with dignity in the world. He informs us in his Prologue, that having been some time tossed about in the storms of a bustling military life, he began seriously to consider the dangers with which he was surrounded, and the vanity and folly of his pursuits. He desired to take shelter in the harbor of religion, which he calls the safest refuge from the world. His view in this resolution was, that he might strenuously labor to divest his soul of its ruffling passions, of pride and vanity, and to offer to God the acceptable sacrifice of a humble and Christian spirit, and that being further removed from worldly temptations, he might endeavor more easily to avoid not only the wrecks of the present life, but also the burnings of that which is to come. In these dispositions he retired from the crowds of cities, and made for the desired haven with all the sail he could. The place he chose for his retirement was in a small remote island, sheltered from the noise of the world. This Gennadius assures us to have been the famous monastery of Lérins, situated in the lesser of the two agreeable green islands which formerly bore the name of Lérins, not far from the coast of Lower Provence towards Antibes. In this place he shut himself up, that he might attend solely to what God commands us, and study to know him. Vincent reflected that time is always snatching something from us: its fleeting moments pass as quick as they come, never, never more to return, as water which is gone from its source runs to it no more. Our course is almost run out; the past time appears as a shadow; so will that which is now to come when it shall be once over, and no tears, no entreaties, no endeavors, can recall the least moment we have already let slip unimproved. In these reflections the fervent servant of God assures us that he earnestly strove to redeem time, (<a href=“bible=Col#4:5\">Col. iv. 5</a>) and to be always turning it to the best account, that this invaluable grace might not rise up at the last day in judgment against him. He considered that true faith is necessary to salvation no less than morality, and that the former is the foundation of Christian virtue; and he grieved to see the church at that time pestered with numberless heresies, which sucked their poison from their very antidote, the Holy Scriptures, and which, by various wiles, spread on,, every side their dangerous snares. To guard the faithful against the false and perplexing glosses of modern subtle refiners, and to open the eyes of those who had been already seduced by them, he, with great clearness, eloquence, and force of reasoning, wrote a book, which he entitled, A Commonitory against Heretics, which he composed in 434, three years after the general council of Ephesus had condemned the Nestorians. He had chiefly in view the heretics of his own times, especially the Nestorians and the Apollinarists, but he confuted them by general, clear principles, which overturn all heresies to the end of the world. Together with the ornaments of eloquence and erudition, the inward beauty of his mind, and the brightness of his devotion, sparkle in every page of his book.</p><p>Out of humility, he disguises himself under the name of Peregrinus, to express the quality of being a pilgrim or stranger on earth, and one by his monastic state, in a more particular manner, estranged from the world. He styles himself the least of all the servants of God, and less than the least of all the saints, unworthy to bear the holy name of a Christian. He lays down this rule, or fundamental principle, in which he found, by a diligent inquiry, all Catholic pastors and the ancient fathers to agree, that such doctrine is truly Catholic as hath been believed in all places, at all times, and by all the faithful. By this test of universality, antiquity, and consent, he saith, all controverted points in belief must be tried. He showeth, that while Novatian, Photinus, Sabellius, Donatus, Arius, Eunomius, Jovinian, Pelagius, Celestius, and Nestorius expounded the divine oracles different ways, to avoid the perplexity of errors, we must interpret the Holy Scriptures by the tradition of the Catholic church, as the clew to conduct us in the truth. For this tradition, derived from the apostles, manifesteth the true meaning of the Holy Scriptures, and all novelty in faith is a certain mark of heresy; and, in religion, nothing is more to be dreaded than itching ears after new teachers. He saith: “They who have made bold with one article of faith will proceed on to others; and what will be the consequence of this reforming of religion, but only that these refiners will never have done till they have reformed it quite away.” (C. 29.) He elegantly expatiates on the divine charge given to the church, to maintain inviolable the sacred depositum of faith. (C. 27 and 30.Line truncated
+    }
+  },
+  "052500": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable New Martyr Tavrio († 1939)",
+      "short": "Venerable New"
+    }
+  },
+  "052501": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "St Dodo, Prince of Georgia (6<sup>th</sup> C)",
+      "short": "St Dodo"
+    }
+  },
+  "052502": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Commemoration of the return of 3,000,000 uniates to the Orthodox Church in Vilnya (1831)",
+      "short": "Commemoration of"
+    }
+  },
+  "052503": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Martyr Celestine",
+      "short": "Martyr Celestine"
+    }
+  },
+  "05250399": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Synaxis of the Saints of Volyn: Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor, and Juliana",
+      "short": "Synaxis of"
+    }
+  },
+  "052504": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Olbian",
+      "short": "Venerable Olbian"
+    }
+  },
+  "052600": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyr Alexander of Thessaloniki († 1794)",
+      "short": "New Martyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "052607": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "St. Augustine of Canterbury, Evangelizer of England († c. 605)",
+      "short": "St. Augustine"
+    },
+    "life": {
+      "id": "",
+      "copyright": "Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints, Volume 5. (J. Murphy, 1815) pg 347-365",
+      "text": "From Bede, b. 1, ch. 23, &c., and the letters and life of St. Gregory.  The Saxons, English, and Jutes, pagan Germans, who in this island began in 454 to expel the old Britons into the mountainous part of the country, had reigned here about one hundred and fifty years, when God was pleased to open their eyes to the light of the gospel. St. Gregory the Great, before his pontificate, had desired to become himself their apostle; but was hindered by the people of Rome, who would by no means suffer him to leave that city. This undertaking, however, he had very much at heart, and never ceased to recommend to God the souls of this infidel nation. When he was placed in the apostolic chair, he immediately turned his thoughts towards this abandoned part of the vineyard and resolved to send thither a select number of zealous laborers. For this great work none seemed better qualified than Augustine, then prior of St. Gregory”s monastery, dedicated to St. Andrew in Rome. Him, therefore, the pope appointed superior of this mission, allotting him several assistants, who were Roman monks. The powers of hell trembled at the sight of this little troop, which marched against them armed only with the cross, by which they had been stripped of their empire over men.  Zeal and obedience gave these saints courage, and they set out with joy upon an expedition, of which the prize was to be either the conquest of a new nation to Christ, or the crown of martyrdom for themselves. But the devils found means to throw a stumbling-block in their way. St. Gregory had recommended them to several French bishops on their road, of whom they were to learn the circumstances of their undertaking, and prepare themselves accordingly. But when the missionaries were advanced several days” journey, probably as far as Aix in Provence, certain persons, with many of those to whom they were addressed, exaggerated to them the ferocity of the English people, the difference of manners, the difficulty of the language, the dangers of the sea, and other such obstacles, in such a manner that they deliberated whether it was prudent to proceed: the result of which consultation was that Augustine should be deputed back to St. Gregory to lay before him these difficulties, and to beg leave for them to return to Rome. The pope, well apprized of the artifices of the devil, saw in these retardments themselves greater motives of confidence in God; for where the enemy is most active, and obstacles seem greatest in the divine service, there we have reason to conclude that the work is of the greater importance, and that the success will be the more glorious. Souls are never prepared for an eminent virtue and the brightest crowns, but by passing through great trials. This, though often immediately owing to the malice of the devil, is permitted by God, and is an effect of his all-wise providence to raise the fervor of his servants for the exceeding increase of their virtue. St. Gregory, therefore, sent Augustine back with a letter of encouragement to the rest of the missionaries, representing to them the cowardice of abandoning a good work when it is begun; exhorting them not to listen to the evil suggestions of railing men, and expressing his desire of the happiness of bearing them company, and sharing in their labors, had it been possible. The temptation being removed, the apostolic laborers pursued their journey with great alacrity, and, taking some Frenchmen for interpreters along with them, landed in the Isle of Thanet, on the east side of Kent, in the year 596, being, with their interpreters, near forty persons. From this place St. Augustine sent to Ethelbert, the powerful king of Kent, signifying that he was come from Rome, and brought him a most happy message, with an assured divine promise of a kingdom which would never have an end. The king ordered them to remain in that island, where he took care they should be furnished with all necessaries, while he deliberated what to do. This great prince held in subjection all the other English kings who commanded on this side the Humber, nor was he a stranger to the Christian religion; for his queen Bertha, a daughter of Caribert, king of Paris, was a Christian, and had with her Luidhard, bishop of Senlis, for her director and almoner. After some days, the king went in person to the isle, but sat in the open air to admit Augustine to his presence, for he had a superstitious notion that if he came with any magical spell, this would have an effect upon him under the cover of a house, but could have none in the open fields. The religious men came to him in procession, \"carrying for their banner a silver cross, and an image of our Saviour painted on a board; and singing the litany as they walked, made humble prayer for themselves, and for the souls of those to whom they came.\" Being admitted into the presence of the king, they announced to him the word of life. His majesty listened attentively; but answered, Line truncated
+    }
+  },
+  "05270200": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable New Martyrs Macarius, Dionysius, Hieromartyr Deacon Nicholas, Martyrs Ignatius and Peter († 1931)",
+      "short": "Venerable New"
+    }
+  },
+  "05270300": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable New Martyr Hermogena († 1942)",
+      "short": "Venerable New"
+    }
+  },
+  "05270400": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Sophronius of Bulgaria († 1510)",
+      "short": "Venerable Sophronius"
+    }
+  },
+  "05270600": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyr Zachariah of Prussa († 1802)",
+      "short": "New Martyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "052708": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Martyr Julius the Veteran, at Durostorum, Mœsia († c. 302)",
+      "short": "Martyr Julius"
+    },
+    "life": {
+      "id": "",
+      "copyright": "Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints, Volume 5. (J. Murphy, 1815) pg 392-393",
+      "text": "<p>This martyr was a veteran soldier, and was impeached by his officers for the Christian faith, before Maximus, governor of the Lower Mœsia, which was afterwards called Bulgaria. Pasicrates and Valention, both of the same regiment, had received the crown of martyrdom a little before. The judge employed caresses, promises, and threats; but Julius professed that to die for Christ, in order to live eternally with him, would be the accomplishment of all his desires. Whereupon he was condemned to lose his head, and led forth to the place of execution. As he went, Hesychius, a Christian soldier, who was also a prisoner, and suffered martyrdom a few days after him, said: \"Go with courage, and run to the crown which the Lord hath promised; and remember me, who shall shortly follow you. Commend me to the servants of God, Pasicrates and Valention, who, by confessing the holy name of Jesus, are gone before us.\" Julius, embracing Hesychius, said, \"Dear brother, make haste to come to us; they whom you salute have already heard you.\" Julius bound his eyes with a handkerchief, and presenting his neck to the executioner, said, \"Lord Jesus, for whose name I suffer death, vouchsafe to receive my soul in the number of thy saints \"His martyrdom happened on the 27<sup>th</sup> of May, two days after that of St. Pasicrates, about the year 302, in the reign of Dioclesian, at Durontoro, on the Danube, in the second Mœsia. See his genuine acts in Ruinart p. 615. Tillem. t. 5. </p>"
+    }
+  },
+  "052800": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "St. Ignatius the Bishop and Wonderworker of Rostov († 1288)",
+      "short": "St. Ignatius"
+    },
+    "rank": 2
+  },
+  "052801": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Venerable Helen of Diveyevo († 1832)",
+      "short": "Venerable Helen"
+    }
+  },
+  "052811": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "St. Germanus the Bishop of Paris († 576)",
+      "short": "St. Germanus"
+    },
+    "life": {
+      "id": "",
+      "copyright": "Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints, Volume 5. (J. Murphy, 1815) pg 393-400",
+      "text": "<p>See his life by Fortunatus of Poitiers, St. Gregory of Tours, Hist. 1. 4, c. 26. Mabillon, Annal Bened. 1. 5. p. 132 and Acta Ord. Bened. t. 1, p. 234. Also Dom. Bouillart, Hist. de l”Abbaye de St. Germain des Prez, de Paris, 1723. Dom. Lobineau, Hist. de Paris, n. 25, 29, &c.  St. Germanus, the glory of the church of France in the sixth age, was born in the territory of Autun about the year 469. He was brought up in piety and learning under the care of Scapilion his cousin, a holy priest. In his youth no weather could divert him from always going to Matins at midnight, though the church was above a mile from the place of his abode. Being ordained priest by St. Agrippinus bishop of Autun, he was made abbot of St. Symphorian”s in the suburbs of that city, a house since converted into a priory of regular canons. Fortunatus, bishop of Poitiers, who was well acquainted with our saint, tells us that he was favored at that time with the gifts of miracles and prophecy. It was his custom to watch great part of the night in the church in prayer, while his monks slept. One night in a dream he thought a venerable old man presented him with the keys of the city of Paris and said to him, that God committed to his care the inhabitants of that city, that he should save them from perishing. Four years after this divine admonition, in 554, happening to be at Paris when that see became vacant, on the demise of the bishop Eusebius, he was exalted to the episcopal chair, though he endeavored by many tears to decline the charge. His promotion made no alteration in his continual fasts and other austerities; and the same simplicity and frugality appeared in his dress, table, and furniture. In the evening at nine o”clock he went to the church, and staved there in prayer till after Matins, that is, in summer till about break of day His house was perpetually crowded with the poor and the afflicted. and he had always many beggars at his own table, at which no dainty meats were ever served; he took care that the souls of his guests should be refreshed at the same time with their bodies, by the reading of some pious book. God gave to his sermons a wonderful influence over the minds of ale ranks of people; so that the face of the whole city was in a very short time quite changed. Vanities were abolished, dances and profane amusements laid aside, enmities and discord extinguished, and sinners reclaimed. King Childebert, who till then had been an ambitious worldly prince, by the sweetness and the powerful discourses of the saint, was entirely converted to piety, and by his advice reformed his whole court. And so desirous did that prince become of exchanging the perishing goods of this world for eternal treasures, that, not content with making many religious foundations, to be nurseries of piety in all succeeding ages, and with sending incredible sums of money to the good bishop, to be distributed among the indigent after his coffers were drained he melted down his silver plate, and gave away the chains which he wore about his neck, begging the bishop, whom he made the steward of his charities, never to cease giving, assuring him that on his side he should never be tired with supplying all things for the relief and comfort of the distressed.  In the year 542, king Childebert, together with his brother Clotaire, making war in Spain, besieged Saragossa. The inhabitants of that city reposed a particular confidence in the patronage of St. Vincent, whose relics they carried in procession within sight of the French camp. King Childebert was moved with their devotion, and desiring to speak with the bishop of the city, promised to withdraw his army, on condition he might obtain some portion of the relics of St. Vincent. The bishop gave him the stole which that holy deacon wore at the altar. Upon which the king raised the siege, and, at his return to Paris, built a church in honor of St. Vincent, and of the Holy Cross; which is now called St. Germain”s in the meadows, and stands in the suburbs of Paris. Childebert falling sick at his palace at Celles, near Melun, at the confluence of the Yon and Seine, St. Germanus paid him a visit; and when the physicians had in vain tried every thing, all human means failing, the saint spent the whole night in prayer for his recovery, and in the morning laid his hands on him; and at the same moment the king found himself perfectly healed. The king relates himself this miracle in his letters patent, in which, in gratitude to God for this benefit, he gave to the church of Paris and the bishop Germanus, the land of Celles, where he had received this favor. The good king did not long survive. As the king had chosen the church of St. Vincent for the place of his burial, the saint, assisted by six other bishops, performed the ceremony of the dedication on the 23d of December, 558, the very day on which that prince died. The king likewise had built a large monastery joining to this new church,Line truncated
+    }
+  },
+  "05281200": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyr Dimitrius (Mitra) († 1794)",
+      "short": "New Martyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "05290100": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Deacon John and Martyr Andrew († 1938)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "05290200": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Saint Alexander, Pope of Alexandria († 328)",
+      "short": "Saint Alexander"
+    }
+  },
+  "05290300": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Martyr John (or Nannus) at Smyrna († 1802)",
+      "short": "New Martyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "05300000": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Priest Basil († 1942)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  },
+  "05300100": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "St. Macrina, grandmother of St. Basil the Great (4<sup>th</sup> C)",
+      "short": "St. Macrina"
+    }
+  },
+  "05300200": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Martyr Natalius",
+      "short": "Martyr Natalius"
+    }
+  },
+  "05310000": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "St Eustathius, Patriarch of Constantinople († 1025)",
+      "short": "St Eustathius"
+    }
+  },
+  "05310099": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "Martyr Magus the Magician",
+      "short": "Martyr Magus"
+    }
+  },
+  "05310100": {
+    "name": {
+      "nominative": "New Hieromartyr Hierotheos, Bishop of Nikolsk († 1928)",
+      "short": "New Hieromartyr"
+    }
+  }
+}