The Monk Isaac lived during the IV Century, accepted monastic vows and pursued asceticism in the wilderness. During the years of the reign of the emperor Valentus (364-378)—a zealous adherent of the Arian heresy, they began to persecute the Orthodox, closing and destroying churches. Having learned of the persecution, the Monk Isaac quit the wilderness and arrived in Constantinople, so as to console and encourage the Orthodox. At this time barbarian Goths, dwelling along the River Danube, were making war against the empire. They seized Thrace and advanced towards Constantinople. When the emperor Valentus was leaving the capital with his soldiers, the Monk Isaac—turning himself towards the emperor, loudly cried out: “Emperor, unlock the churches of the Orthodox, and then the Lord wilt aid thee!” But the emperor, disdaining the words of the monk, confidently continued on his way. Three times did the monk repeat his request and prophecy. The angry emperor gave orders to hurl the Monk Isaac into a deep ravine, grown over with prickly thorns. By day the ravine was a swamp, and to emerge from it was impossible. But the monk with the help of God remained alive, and he emerged, overtook the emperor and said: “Thou wanted to destroy me, but the holy Angels did save me from peril. Hear me, open up the churches to the Orthodox and thou shalt defeat the enemy. If however thou dost not heed me, then thou shalt not return alive, but shalt perish in fire.” The emperor was astonished at the boldness of the monk and ordered his attendants Saturninus and Victor to take the monk and hold him in prison until his return.
The prophecy of the saint soon happened. The Goths defeated and began to chase down the Greek army. The emperor together with his Arian generals took refuge in a barn with straw, and the attackers set it afire. After receiving news about the perishing of the emperor, they set free the Monk Isaac and began to honour him as a prophet of God. Onto the throne was then chosen the holy Emperor Theodosius the Great (379-395), who on the advice of Saturninus and Victor summoned the elder to himself, meeting him with great respect, beseeching prayers to the saints and fulfilling all his instructions: he banished the Arians from Constantinople and restored the churches to the Orthodox. The Monk Isaac wanted to return into the wilderness, but Saturninus and Victor besought him not to leave the city, but rather to protect it with his prayers. In the outskirts of Constantinople they built for the saint a hut, where monks gathered to him. Thus arose a monastery, the hegumen and spiritual guide of which was the Monk Isaac. He nourished also the laypeople, and helped many of the poor and suffering. Having reached extreme old age, the Monk Isaac made cohegumen together with him the Monk Dalmatos (the account about him is located under 3 August), by whose name the monastery was called. The Monk Isaac died in the year 383, and his memory is celebrated also on 22 March.
" }, "rank": 1, "services": { "LITURGY": { "KONTAKION/1": { "text": "Burning with zeal in the Church of Christ as a faithful favorite of God, thou didst hold the reins of Valens, O venerable one, and didst speak to him in prophecy concerning the captivity of the Church and his abominable death. Wherefore, ever pray for us who honor thee, O venerable Isaac.", "Type": "1", "Tone": "0" } } } }, "1103": { "name": { "nominative": "Venerable Cornelius, abbot of Paleostrov and Olonetsky († c. 1420)", "short": "Venerable Cornelius" } }, "1105": { "name": { "nominative": "Venerable Isaacius, Recluse of the Kiev Caves († c. 1090)", "short": "Venerable Isaacius" } }, "1106": { "name": { "nominative": "Saint John, Bishop of the Goths († 790)", "short": "Saint John" } }, "1108": { "name": { "nominative": "Venerable Isaiah the Wonderworker of the Kiev Near Caves († 1115)", "short": "Venerable Isaiah" } }, "1109": { "name": { "nominative": "Prophet Isaiah (8th C BC)", "short": "Prophet Isaiah" }, "life": { "id": "", "copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.", "text": "The holy Prophet Isaiah lived 700 years before the Birth of Christ, and was descended of royal lineage. The father of Isaiah, Amos, raised his son in the fear of God and in the law of the Lord. Having attained the age of maturity, the Prophet Isaiah entered into marriage with a pious maiden-prophetess (Is. 8: 3) and had a son Jashub (Is. 8: 18).
Saint Isaiah was called to prophetic service during the reign of Oziah (Uzziah), king of Judea, and he prophesied for 60 years during the reign of kings Joatham, Achaz (Ahaz), Hezekiah and Manasseh. The start of his service was marked by the following vision: he beheld the Lord God, sitting in a majestic heavenly temple upon an high throne. Six-winged Seraphim encircled Him. With two wings they covered their faces, and with two wings—they covered their feet, and with two wings they flew about crying out one to another “Holy, Holy, Holy Lord Sabaoth, heaven and earth art filled of His Glory!” The pillars of the heavenly temple did shake from their shouts, and in the temple swelled the smoke of incense. The prophet cried out in terror: “Oh, accursed a man am I, granted to behold the Lord Sabaoth, and having impure lips and living amidst an impure people!” Then was sent him one of the Seraphim, having in hand a red-hot coal, which he took with tongs from the altar of the Lord. He touched it to the mouth of the Prophet Isaiah and said: “Here, I have touched it to thine lips and the Lord doth do away with thine offences and doth cleanse thy sins.” After this Isaiah heard the voice of the Lord, directed towards him: “Whom shalt I send and who wilt go to the Jews, who wilt go for Us?” Isaiah answered: “Here am I, send me, Lord, and I shalt go” (Is. 6: 1ff). And the Lord sent him to the Jews to exhort them to turn from the ways of impiety and idol-worship and to offer repentance. To those that repent and turn to the True God, the Lord promised mercy and forgiveness, but punishment and the judgement of God are appointed the unrepentant. Then Isaiah asked the Lord, how long would the falling-away of the Jewish nation from God continue. The Lord answered: “Until that time, as they neglect the city, nor be there people in the houses and this land be made desolate. Just as when a tree be felled and from the stump come forth new shoots, so also from the destruction of the nation wilt remain an holy remnant, from which emergeth a new tribe.”
Isaiah left behind him a book of prophecy, in which he denounces the Jews for their unfaithfulness to the God of their fathers, and he predicts the captivity of the Jews and their return from captivity during the time of the emperor Cyrus, the destruction and renewal of Jerusalem and of the Temple. Together with this he predicts the historical fate also of the other nations bordering the Jews. But what is most important of all for us, the Prophet Isaiah with particular clearness and detail prophesies about the coming of the Messiah—Christ the Saviour. The prophet names the Messiah as God and Man, Teacher of all the nations, Founder of the Kingdom of Peace and Love. The prophet foretells the Birth of the Messiah from a Virgin, and with particular clearness he describes the Suffering of the Messiah for the sins of the world, he foresees His Resurrection and the universal spreading of His Church. By his clear foretelling about Christ the Saviour, the Prophet Isaiah merited being called an Old Testament Evangelist. To him belong the words: “This One beareth our sins and is smitten for us… He was wounded for our sins and tortured for our transgressions. The chastisement of our world was upon Him, and by His wounds we were healed…” (Is. 53: 4-5. Vide Book of Prophet Isaiah: 7: 14, 11: 1, 9:6, 53: 4, 60: 13, etc.).
The holy Prophet Isaiah had also a gift of wonderworking. And thus so, when during the time of a siege of Jerusalem by enemies the besieged had become exhausted with thirst, he by his prayer drew out from beneath Mount Sion a spring of water, which was called Siloam, i.e. “sent from God.” It was to this spring afterwards that the Saviour sent the man blind from birth to wash, and for whom was restored sight by Him. By the prayer of the Prophet Isaiah, the Lord prolonged the life of Hezekiah for 15 years.
The Prophet Isaiah died a martyr’s death. By order of the Jewish king Manasseh he was sawn through by a wood-saw. The prophet was buried not far from the Pool of Siloam. The relics of the holy Prophet Isaiah were afterwards transferred by the emperor Theodosius the Younger to Constantinople and installed in the church of Saint Lawrence at Blakhernai. At the present time part of the head of the Prophet Isaiah is preserved at Athos in the Khilendaria monastery.
About the times and the events which occurred during the life of the Prophet Isaiah, the 4th Book of Kings [alt. 2 Kings] speaks (Ch. 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, etc.), and likewise 2 Chronicles (Ch. 26-32).
" }, "rank": 1, "services": { "LITURGY": { "TROPARION/1": { "text": "Celebrating the memory * of Thy prophet Isaiah O Lord, ** through him do we entreat Thee, save Thou our souls.
", "Type": "1", "Tone": "2" }, "KONTAKION/1": { "text": "Receiving the gift of prophecy, * O martyred Prophet Isaiah, thou herald of God, * thou didst explain to all the incarnation of the Lord, * exclaiming aloud to the ends of the earth: ** \"Behold, a Virgin shall conceive in her womb!\"
", "Type": "1", "Tone": "2" } } } }, "1111": { "name": { "nominative": "Blessed St Dovmont, baptized Timothy, the Prince of Pskov († 1299)", "short": "Blessed St" } }, "1119": { "name": { "nominative": "Hieromartyr Isidore the Presbyter and 72 others at Yuriev in Estonia († 1472)", "short": "Hieromartyr Isidore" } }, "1126": { "name": { "nominative": "Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council (381)", "short": "Commemoration of" } }, "1130": { "name": { "nominative": "St. Michael the Confessor and Bishop of Synnada († 821)", "short": "St. Michael" }, "rank": 1 }, "1131": { "name": { "nominative": "Martyred Soldiers Juventinus and Maximus at Antioch († c. 362)", "short": "Martyred Soldiers" } }, "1135": { "name": { "nominative": "Holy Martyrs Meletius the General, Stephen, John, Serapion the Egyptian, Callinicus the Sorcerer, Theodore and Faustus and with them 1218 Soldiers with their women and children († c. 218)", "short": "Holy Martyrs" } }, "1138": { "name": { "nominative": "Hieromartyr Therapon the Bishop of Cyprus (4th C)", "short": "Hieromartyr Therapon" } }, "1141": { "name": { "nominative": "Apostles of the Seventy Carpus and Alphæus (1st C)", "short": "Apostles of" }, "life": { "id": "", "copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.", "text": "The Holy Disciple Carpus (from the 70)—was a disciple and companion of the holy Apostle Paul. In the 2nd Epistle to Timothy, the apostle mentions the name Carpus, at the house of whom in Troias he left a phelon and books (2 Tim. 4: 13). Knowing Carpus as a man of virtue and possessing a mind of lofty purity, the Apostle Paul made him bishop of Thracian Bereia. The disciple Carpus went preaching the Gospel to the island of Crete. Here he encountered Saint Dionysios the Areopagite (Comm. 3 October). In his reminiscences Dionysios recounts about a miraculous vision to the disciple Carpus.
The holy disciple Carpus died peacefully at Bereia (according to other histories he received a martyr’s end during the persecution under the emperor Nero).
The Holy Disciple Alphæus (of the 70) came from the Galilean city of Capernaum and was the father of the Apostles James Alphæus and Matthew." }, "rank": 1, "services": { "LITURGY": { "TROPARION/1": { "text": "
O holy apostle Carpus * entreat the merciful God ** that He grant to our souls remission of transgressions.
", "Type": "1", "Tone": "3" }, "KONTAKION/1": { "text": "Illumined by the great outpouring of thy miracles, * the Church hath ever acquired thee as an all-radiant star, O Apostle Carpus. ** Save those who honor thy memory with faith.
", "Type": "1", "Tone": "4" } } } }, "1142": { "name": { "nominative": "Great Martyr George the New at Sofia, Bulgaria († 1515)", "short": "Great Martyr George" }, "life": { "id": "", "copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.", "text": "The Holy Martyr George the New was born into an illustrious Bulgarian family, living in the capital city of Bulgaria—Sredets (now the city of Sofia). Saint George was implored of the Lord by the fervent prayer of his parents, John and Mary, who until their declining years remained childless. They baptised the infant in the name of the holy Great Martyr George (Comm. 23 April). Young George received a fine upbringing, he attentively studied the Holy Scriptures, and he was pious and chaste. His parents died when George reached age 25. At that time Bulgaria found itself under the rule of the Turks, who by force converted Christians to Mahometanism. Once several musselmans tried to convert George. They put on the head of the saint a tafta (fez), a circular headpiece, in which musselmans enter their own house of prayer. But George threw the fez (tafta) on the ground. The turks with beatings and abuse led the martyr to their governor. The governor was impressed with the manly form and handsome face of Saint George and he began gently to urge him to accept Mahometanism, promising dignitary honours and wealth from Sultan Selim (1512-1520). But the saint boldly and steadfastly confessed his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and reproached the error of Mahometanism. The governor in a rage gave orders to incessantly flog Saint George with canes, but the saint bravely endured in his confession of faith in Christ. The governor gave orders to intensify the tortures. The passion-bearer enduringly bore all his sufferings, calling for help on the Lord Jesus Christ. They then led the martyr through the city to the beat of a drum and shouts: “Do not insult Mahomet nor abase the musselman faith.” Finally, amidst the city a big bon-fire was fired up, for burning Saint George, but he,—weakened from his wounds, fell upon the ground. They threw him still alive into the fire, and from above they threw on corpses of dogs, so that then Christians would not then be able to find the remains of the martyr. But suddenly heavy rain started pouring and extinguished the bon-fire. With the onset of evening darkness, the place,—where the body of the martyr was thrown, shone with a bright light. They gave permission to a certain Christian priest to take the venerable remains of the martyr for burial. Informed about the occurrence, Metropolitan Jeremiah with accompanying clergy set out to the place of execution. In the extinguished bon-fire they located the body of the holy Martyr George and carried it to the church of the holy Great Martyr George in the city of Sredets.
" }, "rank": 2, "services": { "LITURGY": { "TROPARION/1": { "text": "Need English translation
", "Type": "1", "Tone": "4" }, "KONTAKION/1": { "text": "Need English translation
", "Type": "1", "Tone": "4" } } } }, "1143": { "name": { "nominative": "Holy Martyrs Abercius and Helen (1st C)", "short": "Holy Martyrs" } }, "1144": { "name": { "nominative": "St. John Psichaita the Confessor, of Constantinople (9th C)", "short": "St. John" } }, "1148": { "name": { "nominative": "Hieromartyr Therapontes the Bishop of Sardis (3rd C)", "short": "Hieromartyr Therapontes" }, "life": { "id": "", "copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.", "text": "The Hieromartyr Therapontos, Bishop of Sardis suffered for Christ during the III Century (the city of Sardis, or Sarda, was situated in the Asia Minor district of Lydia). In fulfilling his priestly service, Saint Therapontos enlightened with the light of the Christian faith and baptised many of the pagan-Hellenes (Greeks). For this, he was brought to trial before the governor Julian and fearlessly declared himself a Christian bishop. They threw him into prison, where for a long time he languished with hunger and thirst, and then they gave him over to cruel tortures, but the torments did not break the saint’s valiant confessing of faith. In chains they led off the saint to the city of Sinaion in Phrygia, and thence to Ancyra. In these cities they again tortured him. They took him to the River Astala, where they stretched him cross-form and bare upon the ground, fastened to four posts driven into the ground, and they beat him fiercely. After this torture, they took the passion-bearer of Christ off to the outskirts of the Satalia diocese, part of the Sardis metropolitanate, and here after long beatings Saint Therapontos ended with his martyr’s deed. The dry posts, to which the saint had been tied, and having soaked up his blood, gave forth green shoots and grew into large trees, the leaves of which were found to have curative powers through which many people received graced healing.
" }, "rank": 1, "services": { "LITURGY": { "TROPARION/1": { "text": "Need English translation
", "Type": "1", "Tone": "4" }, "KONTAKION/1": { "text": "", "Type": "1", "Tone": "1" } } } }, "1149": { "name": { "nominative": "Holy Martyrs Theodora the Virgin and Didymus the Soldier († 304)", "short": "Holy Martyrs" } }, "1156": { "name": { "nominative": "Venerable Nicetas the Confessor, Bishop of Chalcedon (9th C)", "short": "Venerable Nicetas" }, "life": { "id": "", "copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.", "text": "The Monk Nikita the Confessor, Bishop of Chalcedon, lived during the 2nd half of the VIII Century. For his God-pleasing life he was elevated to the dignity of bishop of Chalcedon. Saint Nikita distinguished himself by his charity, he always helped the poor, he took in wanderers into his dwelling, he concerned himself about the orphaned and the widowed, and he interceded for the wronged. During the reign of the Iconoclast Leo the Armenian (813-820), Saint Nikita bravely denounced the Iconoclast heresy and urged his flock reverently to venerate the holy icons of Christ, the Mother of God and the holy Saints. Saint Nikita endured much suffering from the impious emperor and his like-minded cohorts; he was subjected to tortures and sent off to exile. The holy Confessor Nikita died at the beginning of the IX Century. From his relics occurred miracles of healing. In the Canon of the service to him, written by the Constantinople presbyter Joseph, it declares as glorified amongst the Saints also the brother of Saint Nikita—Saint Ignatios.
" }, "rank": 1, "services": { "LITURGY": { "TROPARION/1": { "text": "The truth of things revealed thee to thy flock as a rule of faith, * a model of meekness and a teacher of abstinence * wherefore thou hast attained the heights through humility * and riches through poverty. ** O hierarch Nicetas our father, entreat Christ God that our souls be saved.
", "Type": "1", "Tone": "4" }, "KONTAKION/1": { "text": "Thou didst shine forth in the splendor of thy deeds, * and becamest an heir to the throne of the apostles, O venerable Nicetas; * and, wholly filled with divine doctrines, O father, * thou didst shine forth like the sun upon the flock. ** Wherefore, we cry to thee: Rejoice, O adornment of Chalcedon!
", "Type": "1", "Tone": "0" } } } }, "1157": { "name": { "nominative": "Hieromartyr Eutychius, Bishop of Melitene (1st C)", "short": "Hieromartyr Eutychius" } }, "1158": { "name": { "nominative": "Martyr Heliconis (Heliconida) of Thessalonica († 244)", "short": "Martyr Heliconis" } }, "1159": { "name": { "nominative": "Hieromartyr Helladius the Bishop in the East (6th-7th C)", "short": "Hieromartyr Helladius" } }, "1164": { "name": { "nominative": "Icons of the Mother of God: of Nicæa (304), of Antioch, of Orel, “Tenderness”, of Galich (1350)", "short": "Icons of" } }, "1168": { "name": { "nominative": "Commemoration of the First Ecumenical Council (325)", "short": "Commemoration of" } }, "1169": { "name": { "nominative": "Virginmartyr Theodosia of Constantinople († 730)", "short": "Virginmartyr Theodosia" }, "rank": 1 }, "1180": { "name": { "nominative": "Venerable Cassian († 1537) and Laurence († 1548), Abbots of Komel (Vologda)", "short": "Venerable Cassian" } }, "1182": { "name": { "nominative": "Martyr Hermias at Comana (2nd C)", "short": "Martyr Hermias" }, "life": { "id": "", "copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.", "text": "The Holy Martyr Hermias suffered for Christ in the city of Komana during the time of persecution under the emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161). The governor Sebastian, having arrived in Cappadocia to carry out a commission to chase down Christians, urged the saint to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods, promising for this both honours and the mercy of the emperor. But the soldier grey with age bravely confessed his faith in Christ. After long exhortation the governor gave orders to torture the saint. They beat him on the face such that the skin peeled from his face, and they threw him into a red-hot oven. When the oven was opened after 3 days, the Martyr Hermias emerged from it unharmed. The governor Sebastian ordered a sorcerer to poison Saint Hermias with a potion. The poisonous drink did the saint no harm. So likewise a second goblet with even stronger poison failed to kill the saint. The sorcerer believed and offered repentance to Christ the Saviour and was immediately beheaded, baptised by his own blood and receiving a martyr’s crown. But Saint Hermias was subjected to even more terrible torturings: they tore at his sinews, threw him in boiling oil, dug out his eyes, but he humbly gave thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ. Then they suspended the Martyr Hermias head downwards. For three days he hung in such a position. People, sent by the governor to verify his death, found him alive. Struck by the miracle, they were blinded with fright and began to call out to the saint that he should help them. The holy martyr ordered the blind to approach to him, laid hands on and healed them in the Name of Jesus Christ. In anger the governor ordered to flay the skin on the body of the saint, but as before he remained alive. Then the crazed Sebastian by his own hand beheaded him. Christians secretly buried the body of the Martyr Hermias, from whose relics numerous relics were bestowed.
" }, "rank": 1, "services": { "LITURGY": { "TROPARION/1": { "text": "In his suffering, O Lord, * Thy martyr Hermias received an imperishable crown from Thee our God; * for, possessed of Thy might, * he set at nought the tormentors and crushed the feeble audacity of the demons. ** By his supplications save Thou our souls.
", "Type": "1", "Tone": "4" }, "KONTAKION/1": { "text": "Having struggled eagerly for Christ, * thou didst acquire courage at an advanced age, O martyr Hermias; * and having trampled the machinations of the iniquitous underfoot by the power of Christ, * thou didst remain unharmed by sorcerous potions, crying: * \"God is with me! ** Who then can stand against me?\"
", "Type": "1", "Tone": "6" } } } }, "1183": { "name": { "nominative": "Martyr Philosoph (3rd C) of Alexandria", "short": "Martyr Philosoph" } }, "11401": { "name": { "nominative": "Repose of the Great Prince Alexander Nevsky, tonsured Alexei, Wonderworker of All Russia († 1263)", "short": "St. Alexander Nevsky" }, "life": { "id": "", "copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.", "text": "The Holy Noble Born Prince Alexander Nevsky (in monastic-schema Alexei) died on the return journey from the Horde at Gorodtsa on the Volga, on November 14th, 1263, and on November 23rd(under this day is located the account about him) in 1263 he was buried in the Cathedral Church of the Nativity Monastery in the city of Vladimir (there is set up there now a memorial to the holy prince; yet another memorial is set up in the city of Pereslavl′-Zalessk). Veneration of the noble born prince started right at his burial, whereof was a remarkable miracle: the saint himself extended his hand for the absolving prayer. Great Prince John Ioannovich (1353-1359) in his spiritual testament written in the year 1356, left to his son Demetrius (1363-1389), the future victor of the Battle of Kulikovo, “an icon of Saint Alexander.” The undecayed relics of the noble born prince were opened, on account of a vision, before the Kulikovo Battle—in the year 1380, and then were set forth for local feast-celebration. For the prayers of the holy prince, glorified by defence of the Fatherland, Russian commanders resorted to in all the following times. On August 30th, 1721, Peter I, after a lengthy and exhausting war with the Swedes, concluded the Treaty of Nystad. This day was decided upon to hallow by the transfer of the relics of the Noble Born Prince Alexander Nevsky from Vladimir to the new northern capital, Peterburg, arranged on the banks of the Neva. Withdrawn from Vladimir on August 11th, 1723, the holy relics were greeted at Shlissel′burg on September 20th of that year and remained there until 1724, when on August 30th they were placed in the Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Monastery), where now also they rest. By an edict (ukaz) on September 2nd, 1724 there was established a feast day on August 30th (in 1727 the feast was discontinued by reason of non-church matters, and involved clique-struggles at the imperial court. In 1730 the feast was again re-established).
Archimandrite Gabriel Buzhinsky (later Bishop of Riazan, † April 27th, 1731) compiled a special service in remembrance of the Treaty of Nystad, combining with it a service to Saint Alexander Nevsky.
The name of the Defender of the borders of Russia and the Patron of Soldiers is famous far from the regions of our Native Land. The testimony to this: the numerous temples dedicated to Saint Alexander Nevsky. The most famous of them: the Patriarchal Cathedral at Sofia, the Cathedral church in Tallinn, and a church in Tbilisi. These churches are a pledge of friendship of the Russian National-Liberator with brother nations.
" }, "rank": 3, "services": { "LITURGY": { "TROPARION/1": { "text": "Recognize thy brethren, O right-believing Prince Alexander, thou Russian Joseph who reignest not in Egypt, but in heaven; and accept their entreaties, increasing the harvests of thy people through the fertility of thy land, and protecting the cities of thy dominion by thy supplications. And together with our Orthodox hierarchs do battle against all heresies.", "Type": "1", "Tone": "4" }, "KONTAKION/1": { "text": "As thy kinsmen Boris and Gleb appeared to thee, bringing thee help from heaven when thou didst battle against Velgar the Swede and his warriors, so now, O blessed Alexander, come to the aid of thy kinfolk, and contend thou against those who wage war against us.", "Type": "1", "Tone": "4" } } } }, "110100": { "name": { "nominative": "Venerable Isaac the Founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople († 383)", "short": "Venerable Isaac" } }, "110101": { "name": { "nominative": "Venerable Cornelius the Miracle-worker and Abbot of Komel, Vologda († 1537)", "short": "Venerable Cornelius" }, "rank": 3 }, "110501": { "name": { "nominative": "Martyr Caluf of Egypt (284-303)", "short": "Martyr Caluf" } }, "110801": { "name": { "nominative": "Martyrs Thallelæus, Alexander and Asterius († c.284)", "short": "Martyrs" }, "rank": 1 }, "110901": { "name": { 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