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{"60": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Agatho, Wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (13th-14<sup>th</sup> C)", "short": "Venerable Agatho"}}, "600": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Demetrius, Wonderworker of Priluki and Vologda (\u2020 1392)", "short": "Venerable Demetrius"}, "life": {"id": "", "copyright": "Bulgakov Handbook. Copyright 1997 by translator Fr. S. Janos.", "text": "<p>The Monk Demetrius of Prilutsk, Wonderworker, was born into a rich merchant\u2019s family in Pereyaslavl\u2032-Zalessk. From the time of his youth the monk was uncommonly handsome. Having accepted monastic tonsure at one of the Pereyaslavl\u2019 monasteries, the saint later founded the Nikol\u2019sk (Saint Nicholas) life-in-common monastery on the Borisoglebsk Hill at the shore of Lake Plescheevo near the city, and became its hegumen. </p><p>In 1534 Saint Demetrius first met with the Monk Sergei Radonezh, who had come to Pereyaslavl\u2019 to bishop Athanasius. From that time he repeatedly conversed with the Monk Sergei and became close with him. The fame of the Pereyaslavl\u2019 hegumen so spread about, that he became godfather to the children of Greatprince Demetrius Ioannovich. Under the influence of the Radonezh wonderworker, the Monk Demetrius decided to withdraw off to a desolate place, and together with his disciple Pakhomii he set off North. In the Vologda forests, at the River Velika, in the Avnezhsk surroundings, they built a church of the Resurrection of Christ and they made ready to lay the foundations for a monastery. But the local inhabitants were fearful of losing out, and the wilderness-dwellers in their wish to be a burden to no one, set off further. </p><p>Not far from Vologda, at the bend of a river in an isolated spot, the Monk Demetrius decided to form the first of the life-in-common monasteries of the Russian North. The people of Vologda and the surrounding gladly consented to help the saint. The owners of the land intended for the monastery, Il\u2032ya and Isidor, even trampled down a grain field, so that a temple might be built immediately. In 1371 the wooden Saviour cathedral was erected, and brethren began to gather. Many a disciple of the monk came thither from Pereyaslavl\u2032. The deep prayer and quite strict asceticism was combined in the Prilutsk hegumen with kindliness: he fed the poor and hungry, he took in strangers, he conversed with those in need of consolation, and he gave counsel. The monk loved to pray in private. His Lenten food was but prosphora with warm water, and even on feastdays he would not partake of the wine and fish permitted by the ustav-rule. Both Winter and Summer he wore only his old sheepskin coat, and into old age he went off with the brethren on common tasks. Contributions to the monastery the saint accepted cautiously, so that the welfare of the monastery be not to the impairment of those living nearby. The Lord vouchsafed His servant the gift of perspicacity. The Monk Demetrius died at an advanced age on 11 February 1392. The brethren approaching found him as though asleep, and his cell was filled with a wondrous fragrance. Miracles from the relics of Saint Demetrius began in the year 1409, and during the XV Century his veneration spread throughout all Rus\u2032. And not later than the year 1440, based on the narratives of Saint Demetrius\u2019s disciple the hegumen Pakhomii, the Prilutsk monk Makarii recorded his life (Great Reading-Menaion, 11 February).</p>"}, "rank": 3, "services": {"LITURGY": {"TROPARION/1": {"text": "<p>Need English translation</p>", "Type": "1", "Tone": "1"}, "KONTAKION/1": {"text": "<p>Need English translation</p>", "Type": "1", "Tone": "0"}}}}, "601": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable C\u00e6sarius, brother of St Gregory the Theologian (\u2020 c. 369)", "short": "Venerable C\u00e6sarius"}}, "602": {"name": {"nominative": "Albazinian Icon of the Mother of God called \u201cThe Word Was Made Flesh\u201d (1666)", "short": "Albazinian Icon"}}, "604": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Quadratus and those with him at Corinth (\u2020 250-258): Cyprian, Dionysius, Anectus, Paul, Criscentus, another Dionysius, Victorinus, Victor, Niciphorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion, Papius, Leonidus, and the holy women Chariessa, Nunechia, Basilissa, Nica, Calisa, Gala, Galina, Theodora, and many others", "short": "Martyr Quadratus"}, "rank": 1}, "605": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Martyrs Quadratus of Nicomedia, Satorinus, Rufinus and others (3<sup>rd</sup> C)", "short": "Holy Martyrs"}}, "607": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Anastasia the Patrician, of Alexandria (\u2020 567-568)", "short": "Venerable Anastasia"}}, "614": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Hierarch Sophronius the Patriarch of Jerusalem (638-644)", "short": "Holy Hierarch"}, "life": {"id": "", "copyright": "Bulgakov Handbook. Copyright 1997 by translator Fr. S. Janos.", "text": "<p>Saint Sophronios, Patriarch of Jerusalem, was born in Damascus. From his youthful years he distinguished himself by his piety and his love for the classical sciences. He advanced especially in philosophy, for which they were wont to call him the Wise. But the future hierarch sought out an higher wisdom in the monasteries, and in conversations with the wilderness-dwellers. He arrived in Jerusalem at the monastery of Saint Theodosios, and there he became close with the PriestMonk John Moskhos, becoming his spiritual son and devoting himself to him in obedience. They journeyed together through the monasteries, and they wrote down descriptions of the lives and precepts of the ascetics found there. From these jottings was afterwards compiled their reknown book, the \u201cLeimonarion\u201d or \u201cSpiritual Meadow,\u201d which was highly esteemed at the Seventh \u0152cumenical Council.</p><p>To save themselves from the devastating incursions of the Persians, Saints John and Sophronios quit Palestine and withdrew to Antioch, and from there they went to Egypt. In Egypt Saint Sophronios became seriously ill. During this time he also decided to become a monk and so he accepted tonsure from the Monk John Moskhos. After the return to health of Saint Sophronios, they both decided to remain in Alexandria. There they were fondly received by the holy Patriarch John the Merciful (Comm. 12 November), to whom they rendered great aid in the struggle against the Monophysite heresy. At Alexandria Saint Sophronios\u2019 eyesight was afflicted, and he recoursed with prayer and faith to the holy UnMercenaries Cyrus and John (Comm. 31 January), and he received healing in a church named for them. In gratitude, Saint Sophronios then wrote the Vita of these holy unmercenaries.</p><p>When the barbarians began to threaten Alexandria, the holy Patriarch John, accompanied by Saints Sophronios and John Moskhos, set out for Constantinople, but along the way he died. Saints John Moskhos and Sophronios with eighteen other monks then set out for Rome. At Rome the Monk John Moskhos also died (\u2020 622). His body was conveyed by Saint Sophronios to Jerusalem and buried at the monastery of Saint Theodosios. </p><p>In the year 628 the Jerusalem patriarch Zacharias (609-633) returned from the Persian Captivity. After his death, the patriarchal throne was occupied for a space of two years by Saint Modestos (633-634, Comm. 18 December). After the death of Saint Modestos, Saint Sophronios was chosen patriarch. Saint Sophronios toiled much for the welfare of the Jerusalem Church as its primate (634-644).</p><p>Towards the end of his life, Saint Sophronios with his flock lived through a two year siege of Jerusalem by the Mahometans. Worn down by hunger, the Christians finally consented to open the city gates, on the condition that the enemy spare the holy places. But this condition was not fulfilled, and holy Patriarch Sophronios died in deep grief over the desecration of the Christian holy places.</p><p>Written works by Patriarch Sophronios have come down to us in the area of dogmatics, and likewise his \u201cExcursus on the Liturgy,\u201d the Vita of the Nun Mary of Egypt (Comm. 1 April), and also about 950 tropars and stikhi-verses from Pascha to the Ascension. While still a priestmonk, Saint Sophronios made review and corrections to the \u201custav-rule\u201d of the monastery of the Monk Sava the Sanctified (Comm. 5 December). And the \u201ctri-odic song\u201d of the saint for the Holy Forty Day Great Lent is included in the composition of the contemporary Lenten Triodion.</p>"}, "rank": 1, "services": {"LITURGY": {"TROPARION/1": {"text": "", "Type": "1", "Tone": "1"}, "KONTAKION/1": {"text": "<p>O Sophronius of Jerusalem, most wise among patriarchs, who struggled with divine zeal, * spread the commandments of truth with thy lips, set the foundations of the Church in good order, * and there transmitted them to those in the monastic ranks: * thou didst bring most wise discourses to light; and, instructed thereby, we cry out to thee: ** Rejoice, O splendid boast of the Orthodox!</p>", "Type": "1", "Tone": "0"}}}}, "619": {"name": {"nominative": "Hieromartyr Pionius of Smyrna and those with him: Asclepiades, Macedonia, Linus, and Sabina (\u2020 250)", "short": "Hieromartyr Pionius"}}, "621": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Theophanes the Confessor of Sigriane (\u2020 818)", "short": "Venerable Theophanes"}, "life": {"id": "", "copyright": "Bulgakov Handbook. Copyright 1997 by translator Fr. S. Janos.", "text": "<p>The Monk Theophanes the Confessor was born at Constantinople into a pious and reknown family. the father of Theophanes was a kinsman of the Byzantine emperor Leo the Isaurian (717-741). Three years after Theophanes was born, his father died, leaving his family under the care of the emperor himself. Theophanes grew up at the court and became a dignitary under the emperor Leo the Khozar (775-780). His position obliged him to enter into marriage. With the consent of his bride, Theophanes preserved his chastity, since in his soul matured the desire to assume the monastic form. Visiting upon a time with his spouse at monasteries in the Sygreian district (Asia Minor), Theophanes met the perspicacious elder Gregory Stratitios, who predicted to Theophanes\u2019 wife, that her husband would merit the crown of martyrdom. Awhile later the spouse of Theophanes was tonsured a nun in one of the monasteries in Bithynia, and Theophanes accepted monastic tonsure under the monastic elder Gregory. With the blessing of the elder, Theophanes built a monastery on the Island of Kalon in the Sea of Marmara and secluded himself in his cell, being occupied with the transcription of books. And in this occupation Theophanes attained an high degree of mastery. Later on the Monk Theophanes founded yet another monastery in the Sygreian district, at a place called the \u201cBig Settlement,\u201d and became its hegumen. The monk himself took part in all the monastic tasks and for everyone he gave example by his love for work and effort. He was granted by the Lord the gift of wonderworking: he healed the sick and cast out devils. In the year 787 at Nic\u00e6a was convened the Seventh \u0152cumenical Council, which condemned the heresy of the Iconoclasts. The Monk Theophanes was also invited to the Council. He arrived dressed in his patch-tattered attire, but he shone forth by his God-inspired wisdom in affirming the dogmas of the true Orthodoxy.</p><p>At age 50 the Monk Theophanes fell grievously ill and right up to his very end he suffered terribly. Situated on his sick-bed, the monk toiled incessantly: he wrote his work, \u201cThe Chronographia,\u201d\u2014an history of the Christian Church covering the years 285-813. This work even up into the present has remained an invaluable source in the history of the Church.</p><p>During the reign of the emperor Leo the Armenian (813-820), when the saint was already well up into age, the Iconoclast heresy made a comeback. They demanded of Saint Theophanes that he accept the heresy, but he firmly refused and was locked up in prison. His \u201cBig Settlement\u201d monastery was put to the torch. In prison for 23 days, the holy confessor died (\u2020 818). After the death of the impious emperor Leo the Armenian, the \u201cBig Settlement\u201d monastery was restored and the relics of the holy confessor were transferred there.</p>"}, "rank": 1, "services": {"LITURGY": {"TROPARION/1": {"text": "", "Type": "1", "Tone": "1"}, "KONTAKION/1": {"text": "<p>Receiving divine revelation from on high, * with diligence thou didst depart from the midst of the tumult of life; * and, having become a solitary, O venerable one, * thou didst receive the power to work wonders and the dignity of prophecy, ** having deprived thyself of wealth and wife.</p>", "Type": "1", "Tone": "2"}}}}, "623": {"name": {"nominative": "Righteous Phineas the grandson of Aaron (C 1500 BC)", "short": "Righteous Phineas"}}, "626": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Simeon the New Theologian (\u2020 1021)", "short": "Venerable Simeon"}}, "629": {"name": {"nominative": "Icon \u201cNot Made by Hands\u201d of the Mother of God from Lydda (1<sup>st</sup> C) and \u201cof Rome\u201d", "short": "Icon \u201cNot"}}, "630": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Dionysius the Archimandrite of St Sergius Monastery (\u2020 1633)", "short": "Venerable Dionysius"}}, "631": {"name": {"nominative": "St. Dionysius the Archbishop of Suzdal (\u2020 1385)", "short": "St. Dionysius"}}, "633": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyrs Africanus, Publius and Terence at Carthage (3<sup>rd</sup> C)", "short": "Martyrs Africanus"}}, "634": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Alexander of Macedonia (305-311)", "short": "Martyr Alexander"}}, "635": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Christina of Persia (4<sup>th</sup> C)", "short": "Martyr Christina"}}, "638": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Benedict of Nursia (\u2020 543)", "short": "Venerable Benedict"}, "rank": 1}, "640": {"name": {"nominative": "Right-believing Great Prince Rostislav-Michael of Kiev (\u2020 1167)", "short": "Right-believing Great"}}, "642": {"name": {"nominative": "St. Euschemon the Confessor and Bishop of Lampsacus (9<sup>th</sup> C)", "short": "St. Euschemon"}}, "643": {"name": {"nominative": "Theodore - Kostroma Icon of the Mother of God (1613)", "short": "Theodore -"}}, "646": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Martyrs Agapius, Publius, Timolaus, Romulus, Alexander, Alexander, Dionysius and Dionysius of Palestine (\u2020 303)", "short": "Holy Martyrs"}, "rank": 1}, "647": {"name": {"nominative": "Hieromartyr Alexander of Side, in Pamphylia (\u2020 270-275)", "short": "Hieromartyr Alexander"}}, "648": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Nicander of Egypt (\u2020 c. 302)", "short": "Martyr Nicander"}}, "651": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Nicander, Abbot of Gorodensk (16<sup>th</sup> C)", "short": "Venerable Nicander"}}, "653": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Sabinus (Abibus) of Egypt (\u2020 287)", "short": "Martyr Sabinus"}}, "654": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Papas of Lyconia (\u2020 305-311)", "short": "Martyr Papas"}, "rank": 1}, "655": {"name": {"nominative": "Hieromartyr Alexander, Pope of Rome (\u2020 119)", "short": "Hieromartyr Alexander"}}, "656": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Julian of Anazarbus (4<sup>th</sup> C)", "short": "Martyr Julian"}}, "657": {"name": {"nominative": "Hieromartyrs Trophimus and Thallus, Priests of Laodicea (\u2020 c. 300)", "short": "Hieromartyrs Trophimus"}}, "663": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Marinus", "short": "Martyr Marinus"}}, "665": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Hierarch Cyrill, Archbishop of Jerusalem (\u2020 386)", "short": "Holy Hierarch"}, "rank": 1}, "667": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Martyrs Trophimus and Eucarpion of Nicomedia (\u2020 c. 300)", "short": "Holy Martyrs"}}, "668": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Aninas of the Euphrates", "short": "Venerable Aninas"}}, "673": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria and with them Martyrs Claudius the Tribune with his wife Hilaria and their sons Jason and Maurus, and Diodorus the Priest and Marianus the Deacon at Rome (\u2020 283)", "short": "Holy Martyrs"}, "rank": 1}, "675": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Pancharius at Nicomedia (\u2020 c. 302)", "short": "Martyr Pancharius"}}, "676": {"name": {"nominative": "Icon of the Mother of God called \u201cTenderness,\u201d Smolensk (1103)", "short": "Icon of"}}, "678": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Fathers slain at the Monastery of Saint Sabbas: John, Sergius, Patrick and others (\u2020 796)", "short": "Venerable Fathers"}, "rank": 1}, "680": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Photina (Svetlana), the Samaritan Woman, her sons, and those with her (\u2020 c. 66)", "short": "Martyr Photina"}}, "681": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Virgin Martyrs Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliania, Euthymia and Theodosia (\u2020 310)", "short": "Holy Virgin"}}, "682": {"name": {"nominative": "St. Nicetas the Confessor the Archbishop of Apollonias in Bithynia (9<sup>th</sup> C)", "short": "St. Nicetas"}}, "685": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable James the Confessor and Bishop of Catania (8<sup>th</sup>-9<sup>th</sup> C)", "short": "Venerable James"}, "rank": 1}, "686": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Hierarch Cyrill, Bishop of Catania (1<sup>st</sup>-2<sup>nd</sup> C)", "short": "Holy Hierarch"}}, "687": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Hierarch Thomas, Patriarch of Constantinople (\u2020 610)", "short": "Holy Hierarch"}}, "689": {"name": {"nominative": "Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra (\u2020 363)", "short": "Hieromartyr Basil"}, "rank": 1}, "690": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Drosis the Daughter of the Emperor Trajan (104-117)", "short": "Martyr Drosis"}}, "694": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Nikon in Sicily and his 199 Disciples (\u2020 251)", "short": "Martyr Nikon"}, "rank": 1}, "696": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Martyrs Philetus, Lydia, Macedonus, Theoprepius, Cronidus, and Amphilochius (117-138)", "short": "Holy Martyrs"}}, "6385": {"name": {"nominative": "Prophet Azarias (10<sup>th</sup> C. BC)", "short": "Prophet Azarias"}}, "6416": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Anatoly (another) of the Kiev Caves", "short": "Venerable Anatoly"}}, "6422": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Andrew Rublev, the Iconographer (15<sup>th</sup> C)", "short": "Venerable Andrew"}, "rank": 1}, "6449": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Arsenius of Novgorod", "short": "Venerable Arsenius"}}, "6479": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Barlaam of Shenkursk (\u2020 1462)", "short": "Venerable Barlaam"}}, "6492": {"name": {"nominative": "Finding of the relics of Sts. Basil and Constantine, princes of Yaroslavl (13th C)", "short": "Finding of"}}, "6503": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Domnina and her daughters Birinea (Veronica) and Proskudia (Prosdoki)", "short": "Martyr Domnina"}}, "6516": {"name": {"nominative": "Childmartyr Gabriel of Bialystok (\u2020 1690)", "short": "Childmartyr Gabriel"}}, "6552": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Right-believing Great Prince Demetrius Donskoy of Moscow (\u2020 1389)", "short": "Great Prince"}, "rank": 4}, "6557": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Dionysius the Abbot of Glushetsk, Vologda (\u2020 1437)", "short": "Venerable Dionysius"}, "rank": 2}, "6564": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Euthymius the New, Founder of the Iveron Monastery (\u2020 1028) (Georgian)", "short": "Venerable Euthymius"}}, "6605": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Hypatius the Abbot of Rufinus in Chalcedon (\u2020 c. 446)", "short": "Venerable Hypatius"}}, "6607": {"name": {"nominative": "New Hieromartyr Peter (Polyansky), Metropolitan of Krutitsa (\u2020 1937)", "short": "New Hieromartyr"}, "rank": 3}, "6608": {"name": {"nominative": "New Hieromartyr Metropolitan Seraphim (\u2020 1937)", "short": "New Hieromartyr"}, "rank": 3}, "6609": {"name": {"nominative": "New Hieromartyr Thaddeus, Archbishop of Tver (\u2020 1937)", "short": "New Hieromartyr"}, "services": {"0": {}, "1": {"LITURGY/0": {"text": ""}}, "2": {"LITURGY/0": {"text": ""}}}, "life": {"id": "", "copyright": "", "text": "<p>Thaddeus (Uspensky), murdered by the Bolsheviks December 31, 1937. (Full life needs to be translated).</p>"}}, "6611": {"name": {"nominative": "Blessed John the Prince of Uglich, Tonsured As Ignatius (\u2020 1523)", "short": "Blessed John"}}, "6613": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia", "short": "the New Martyrs"}, "life": {"id": "", "copyright": "Bulgakov Handbook. Copyright 1997 by translator Fr. S. Janos.", "text": "<p>Today we commemorate the uncounted millions of faithful who suffered and died at the hands of the Soviet atheists. These include the Tsar-martyr Nicholas II and the rest of the Russian Royal Family (July 4), Patriarch Tikhon (March 24), Grand Duchess Elizabeth (July 5), thousands of martyrs, both clergy and laity, whose names are known, but also millions upon millions of simple believers whose names have been lost to history. The number of the New Martyrs of Russia far exceeds all those from the \u201cAge of the Martyrs,\u201d the first three centuries of Christianity. May their memory be eternal. The date of this commemoration was first set by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1981, then adopted by the Moscow Patriarchate in 1992. About 1050 new martyrs were glorified by the Patriarchate in 2000, and many more are expected to be recognized in coming years.</p>"}}, "6616": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Righteous John, Wonderworker of Kronstadt and All Russia (ROCOR)", "short": "St John"}, "rank": 4, "services": {"VESPERS": {"SCRIPTURE/1": {"text": "", "Type": "1", "Reading": "Joel_2:12-26"}, "SCRIPTURE/2": {"text": "", "Type": "2", "Reading": "Joel_2:27-32"}, "SCRIPTURE/3": {"text": "", "Type": "3", "Reading": "I Jn_4:20-5:5"}}, "MATINS": {"SCRIPTURE/1": {"text": "", "Type": "1", "Reading": "Lk_6:17-23", "Pericope": "24", "Cmd": "dow != 0"}}, "LITURGY": {"TROPARION/1": {"text": "With the apostles thy sound hath gone forth into all the earth; * with the confessors thou didst endure sufferings for Christ; * thou didst resemble the holy hierarchs in thy preaching of the Word; * and with the venerable hast thou shone forth in the grace of God. * Therefore, the Lord hath exalted the depths of thy humility above the heavens, * and hath given us thy name as a source of most wondrous miracles. * Wherefore, O wonderworker, who livest in Christ forever, * take pity in thy love upon people in misfortunes; * and hearken unto thy children, * who with faith call upon thee, ** O righteous John, our beloved pastor.", "Type": "1", "Tone": "4"}, "TROPARION/2": {"text": "O wonderworker, who livest in Christ forever, * take pity in thy love upon people in misfortunes; * hearken unto thy children who with faith call upon thee, * expecting compassionate aid from thee, ** O John of Kronstadt, our beloved pastor.", "Type": "2", "Tone": "4"}, "KONTAKION/1": {"text": "O father John, namesake of grace, who wast chosen by God from childhood, who in thy youth miraculously received from Him the gift of learning, and in a dream wast most gloriously called to be a priest: Entreat Christ God, that we may all be with thee in the kingdom of heaven.", "Type": "1", "Tone": "4"}}}, "scripture": [{"Type": "1", "Reading": "Joel_2:12-26"}, {"Type": "2", "Reading": "Joel_2:27-32"}, {"Type": "3", "Reading": "I Jn_4:20-5:5"}, {"Type": "1", "Reading": "Lk_6:17-23", "Pericope": "24", "Cmd": "dow != 0"}]}, "6624": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable John, the Faster of the Kiev Caves", "short": "Venerable John"}}, "6627": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable John and Gabriel the Hageorites (Georgian Church)", "short": "Venerable John"}}, "6630": {"name": {"nominative": "Saint John, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, the Wonderworker (\u2020 1966)", "short": "Saint John"}, "life": {"id": "", "copyright": "http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/", "text": "<p>Archbishop John was born on June 4<sup>th</sup>, 1896 in Kharkov province, to the pious aristocrats Boris and Glafira Maximovitch; at baptism he was given the name Michael. Even in childhood Michael displayed a certain striving toward holiness, similar to that displayed by his distant relative, the renowned Siberian missionary Holy Hierarch John of Tobolsk, who was glorified by God through his working of miracles and the witness of his incorrupt relics. Michael was a sickly child with a poor appetite. He would take his toy soldiers and make them into monks, and the fortresses into monasteries. The Sviatogorsk Monastery, not far from the Maximovitch estate, provided the impetus for young Michael to take a seriously contemplative attitude toward life. Under the influence of the youth Michael, his governess converted to Orthodoxy.</p><p>In 1914, Michael completed the Poltava Military Academy, and entered the Kharkov Imperial University school of law. He was an excellent student, although he devoted part of his time to studying saints lives and other religious literature.</p><p>In the religious life of Kharkov, the young Michael was provided with the first step along the path of piety. In the crypt under the Kharkov cathedral church lay the relics of the Miracle-Worker Archbishop Melety Leontovitch, who spent his nights standing, with arms uplifted in prayer. Michael came to love this saint, and began to emulate his spiritual struggle [podvig] by staying awake all night. Thus, gradually, young Michael began to develop the desire to dedicate himself fully to God, and as a concomitant, began to manifest exalted spiritual qualities: abstinence and strictness toward himself, profound humility, and compassion for the suffering.</p><p>Even before his departure from Russia, young Michael made the acquaintance of the Most-blessed Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovistky), founder of the Russian Church Abroad. At the close of the civil war, Michael and his entire family emigrated to Yugoslavia, where he enrolled in the Department of Theology of Belgrade University, from which he graduated in 1925. Metropolitan Anthony came to greatly love Michael, and kept the youth near him. In 1926, Metropolitan Anthony tonsured Michael to the monastic rank with the name John (after St. John, Metropolitan of Tobolsk), and soon thereafter ordained him a hierodeacon. On the Feast of the Entry of the Most-holy Theotokos into the Temple, monk John became a hieromonk. In 1929, he began to teach at the Serbian high school, and soon, with his capacity for inspiring lofty Christian ideals in his students, won their love.</p><p>As a hieromonk, John continued to practice the podvig of strict asceticism, to which he joined a podvig of all-night prayer, a podvig beyond the capacity of most people. It was during this time that, at the request of local Greeks and Macedonians, he began to serve in Greek for them. Like Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt, Vladyka served the Liturgy daily, acquiring thereby great spiritual strength, and having fanned within him the flame of love for God and for men. Hieromonk John began to visit hospitals and to search out the sick, those in need of prayer, consolation, and Communion. Inasmuch as Hieromonk John\u2019s renown was constantly growing, the bishops abroad resolved to elevate him to the episcopate. Wishing to decline such a lofty calling, Hieromonk John emphasized the fact that he had a speech impediment; the bishops remained unmoved, pointing out to him that the Prophet Moses had also had a speech impediment.</p><p>Hieromonk John\u2019s consecration, and his assignment to the Diocese of Shanghai (China) took place in May 1934. The newly-consecrated Vladyka arrived in Shanghai at the end of November, and immediately made efforts to restore church unity. He established ties with the local Orthodox Serbs, Greeks, and Ukrainians. At the same time, he began the work of erecting a huge cathedral church dedicated to the \u201cSurety of Sinners\u201d Icon of the Mother of God, as well as a three-storey parish house and bell tower. Gifted with boundless energy, Vladyka John served as the inspiration for the building of churches, hospitals, and orphanages, and played an active part in many benevolent undertakings in Russian Shanghai.</p><p>But despite such frenetic activities, Vladyka John continued to live as if in another world. In order to avoid secular glory and human praise, he from time to time pretended to act the fool. He remained in constant prayer, and if he did not serve in the church, then he would read the daily cycle of services himself. Often Vladyka would walk barefoot, even on the coldest of days. He would eat once a day, and during the fasts of the church would eat nothing but prosphora. Each morning, to quicken his spirit, he would pour cold water over himself. He did not make social visits, but those in need of help he would visit, at unpredictable times and in bad weather. He would visit those he knew to be sick on a daily basis, taking with him the Holy Gifts. He possessed the gift of clairvoyance, and the gift of powerful prayer. There is documented a multitude of instances in which miraculous help came through the prayers of Vladyka John.</p><p>In 1939, a certain parishioner, beset by a number of tribulations, began to lose her faith. Once, upon entering the Church while Vladyka was serving, she witnessed a flame, shaped like a large tulip, descend into the Chalice during the consecration of the Holy Gifts. After seeing this miracle, her faith returned to her, and she repented of her faint-heartedness.</p><p>It once happened that as the result of constantly being on his feet, Vladykas leg became very swollen, and the physicians, fearing the possibility of gangrene, prescribed that he be hospitalized. After much pleading with him, they succeeded in talking Vladyka into entering the Russian Hospital. But he did not remain there long. The same evening, he secretly left and went to the cathedral, where he served the All-night vigil. By the next day, the swelling had completely gone.</p><p> Often, upon seeing Vladyka, the spiritually ill would become calm, and would piously receive Communion. Once, Vladyka John was asked to commune a dying patient at the Russian Hospital in Shanghai. On that occasion, Vladyka took a priest along with him. Upon their arrival, he noticed a gregarious young man of about 20, playing a harmonica. The lad was to be discharged the following day. Vladyka John called to him and said: I want to give you Communion right now. The young man immediately confessed his sins and received Communion. The astonished priest asked Vladyka why he had tarried with an apparently healthy young man instead of going to the one who was dying. Vladyka answered: He will die tonight, and the other one, who is seriously ill, will live for many years. And so it came to pass.</p><p>An enormous feat of charity was Vladyka\u2019s building in Shanghai of an orphanage to serve orphans and needy children. At first, there were only 8 orphans living there, but over the years, the orphanage gave shelter to hundreds of children, with an overall total of 1,500. Vladyka himself gathered up ailing and starving children from the streets of the Shanghai slums.</p><p>It once happened that during the war, there was not enough food in the orphanage to feed the children. Vladyka prayed all night, and in the morning, the doorbell rang. The representative of some charitable organization had brought a substantial donation to the orphanage. During the Japanese occupation, Vladyka declared himself to be the temporary head of the Russian colony, and showed great courage in defending Russians before the occupying Japanese powers.</p><p>In Shanghai, there was a voice teacher named Anna Petrovna Lushnikova who taught Vladyka proper breathing and enunciation, thereby improving his diction. At the end of each lesson, Vladyka paid her $20.00. During the war, in 1945, she was gravely wounded, and happened to be in a French hospital. Sensing that she might die during the night, Anna Petrovna begged the nurses to call Vladyka John, so that he might give her Communion. Because, as the result of war-time conditions the hospital was locked up at night, the nurses refused. On that stormy night, Anna Petrovna was beside herself, and kept calling upon Vladyka. Suddenly, about 11:00 PM, Vladyka appeared in the ward. Unable to believe her eyes, Anna Petrovna asked Vladyka whether she was dreaming or whether he had actually come to her. Vladyka smiled, prayed, and administered Holy Communion. Afterwards, she calmed down and slept. The next morning she felt healed. As the hospital had been tightly secured, no one believed Anna Petrovnas report that Vladyka had visited her during the night. However, a patient in a neighboring bed confirmed that she had also seen Vladyka. The greatest surprise was the discovery of a $20 bill under Anna Petrovnas pillow. In this way, Vladyka left material evidence of his visit.</p><p>Archpriest George Larin, who had been an altar boy of Vladyka\u2019s in Shanghai, relates: \u201cDespite Vladyka\u2019s strictness, all of the altar boys loved him very much. To me, Vladyka was an ideal, one which I wanted to emulate in every way. Thus, during Great Lent, I would not sleep in bed, and instead lay on the floor. I would not eat my usual meals with the family, but instead would partake of bread and water in solitude. My parents became worried and took me to Vladyka. Hearing them out, the prelate asked the guard to go to the store and bring a sausage. In response to my tearful cries that I did not wish to violate Lent, the wise prelate admonished me to eat the sausage and to always remember that obedience to parents is more important than personal accomplishment. How then should I proceed, Vladyka? I asked, hoping nonetheless to especially apply myself. Go to church as you always did, and at home, do what your mother and father ask. I remember how grieved I was that Vladyka did not assign to me some special deeds to accomplish.\u201d</p><p>With the coming of the Communists to power, the Russians in China were once again forced to flee, most through the Philippine Islands. In 1949, approximately 15,000 refugees from the Chinese mainland were living in a camp on the island of Tubabao. Every night, he made a circuit of the island, and by his prayers and the sign of the Cross, protected the island from the seasonal typhoons , something acknowledged by the Filipinos themselves. By the lobbying efforts of Vladyka in Washington, a law regarding Russian refugees was amended, with the result that many Russians were permitted to enter the United States. It was during this trip to Washington in 1949, that on September 11<sup>th</sup>, the Feast day of the Beheading of St. John the Forerunner, Vladyka founded our parish.</p><p>In 1951, Vladyka was appointed to head the Diocese of Western Europe, with his seat in Paris. Vladyka expended great efforts to unite to the Church Abroad parishes of the French Orthodox Church, and he helped establish the Orthodox Church of Holland. Vladyka turned his attention to the existence of local saints who had lived in antiquity but who were heretofore unknown to the Orthodox Church. At his initiative, the Synod passed a resolution with respect to veneration of a host of saints who had lived in the West prior to the schism of 1054. Vladyka was constantly travelling across Europe, and he sometimes would celebrate the Divine Liturgy in Dutch, in French; later he also served in English. Many revered him as an unmercenary healer.</p><p>E.G. Tchertkoff reminisces about the time during which Vladyka was in Western Europe: On several occasions, I visited Vladyka while he was living in the Cadet Corps building near Parish. He occupied a small cell on the top floor. In the cell, there was a table, an armchair and several chairs, and in the corner, icons and a lectern with books upon it. There was no bed in the cell, as Vladyka did not lie down to sleep, but rather prayed while leaning on a staff topped with a cross-bar. Sometimes he prayed on his knees. It was likely that when he prostrated himself, he would fall asleep for a little while in that position on the floor. That is how he brought himself to exhaustion! Sometimes during our conversation, he appeared to doze. But whenever I stopped talking, he would immediately say, \u201cContinue, I hear you!\u201d</p><p>Whenever he did not serve, but remained home, he usually walked barefoot (to mortify the flesh) even on during the hardest frosts. He would be walking barefoot in the cold, along the rocky road from the military school, which was on a hill inside a park, to the church at the gate. Once he happened to injure his foot. The doctors were unable to heal it, and they feared the possibility of sepsis. They were forced to hospitalize Vladyka, but he refused to lie down in the bed. However, at the urging of the administration, Vladyka finally acceded, and lay down in the bed, but only after placing a boot under himself to make himself uncomfortable. The French hospital nurses said \u201cYou have brought us a saint!\u201d Each morning, a priest would come to serve the Liturgy, and Vladyka would receive Communion.</p><p>\u201dSince for a long time our church did not have a permanent priest, once a priest from another parish came to us to celebrate Vespers. The whole service lasted only 45 minutes (usually it takes 2 and a half hours)! We were horrified! So many parts of Vespers were skipped that we decided to tell about this to Vladyka. We hoped that he would influence the priest to follow the established order of Orthodox services. But Vladyka pleasantly smiling said to us: \u2018How difficult is to please you people. I celebrate too long and he too short!\u2019 With such kindness and meekness he taught us not to judge.\u201d</p><p>Vladyka\u2019s reputation for holiness, too, spread among the non-Orthodox as well as the Orthodox population. In one of the Catholic churches of Paris, a priest strove to inspire his young people with these words: \u201cYou demand proofs, you say that now there are neither miracles nor saints. Why should I give you theoretical proofs, when today there walks in the streets of Paris a Saint\u2014Saint Jean Nus Pieds (Saint John the Barefoot).\u201d Many people testify to the miracles worked by the prayers of Archbishop John in Western Europe.</p><p>V. D. recounts: \u201cMany were aware that it was not necessary to ask Vladyka to visit someone. The Lord Himself inspired him where and to whom to go. Vladyka John was known to many in the French hospitals and was admitted therein at any time. Besides, Vladyka unerringly directed himself where he was needed. My brother, when wounded in the head, was taken to the hospital. The x-ray revealed a large fracture of the skull. His eyes swelled and became sanguineous; he was in critical condition. Vladyka, who did not know my brother, somehow found him in the hospital, prayed over him and gave him communion. When my brother underwent a follow up of head x-rays, there was no fracture to be found. My brother recuperated very fast. The doctor was dumbfounded!\u201d</p><h3>Vladyka John\u2019s Final Years</h3>The Beatitudes contained in the Gospel are sequentially linked to one another, and conclude with a reward for enduring abuse and persecution for the sake of the Truth. Toward the end of his days, the time came for Vladyka John to endure many sorrows. These reached him while he was yet in Brussels. From his spiritual children in San Francisco, he heard the sad news that dissension had appeared in their cathedral. At this time, Vladyka John\u2019s long-time friend Archbishop Tikhon of San Francisco, had retired. In his absence, the building of the cathedral was brought to a halt, and bickering paralyzed the community. In response to persistent requests by thousands of Russian parishioners in San Francisco, the Synod appointed Archbishop John to the San Francisco cathedra, so that peace might be restored and the construction of the cathedral completed.</p><p>Vladyka arrived in San Francisco, that eternally foggy city of the far West, in the Fall of 1962. Under Vladyka\u2019s direction, peace was restored, the majestic cathedral in honor of the \u201cJoy to all Who Sorrow\u201d Icon of the Mother of God was erected and decorated with gold cupolas.</p><p>But things were not easy for Vladyka. He was forced to meekly and silently endure a great deal. He even had to appear in public court to answer absurd charges of financial irregularities by the Parish Council. All the truth triumphed, Vladyka\u2019s last years were filled with the bitterness of slander and persecution. Accounts of several instances of Vladyka\u2019s miraculous assistance during this final period have come down to us. We will cite just a few stories.</p><p>Anna Hodyriva recounts: \u201cMy sister Xenia Yarovoy, who lived in Los Angeles, suffered for a long time with a painful hand. She sought physicians, tried home remedies, yet nothing helped. She finally decided to turn to Vladyka John and wrote to him in San Francisco. Some time went by and the hand was healed. Xenia began to forget about the previous pain in her hand. On one occasion, when she visited San Francisco, she went to the Cathedral for services. At the end of the service Vladyka John held the cross to be kissed. On seeing my sister he asked: \u2018How is your hand?\u2019 Vladyka saw my sister for the first time! How then did he recognize her and know that it was she who had a painful hand?\u201d</p><p>Anna S. recollects: \u201cMy sister Musia and I got into an accident. A drunken young man was traveling towards us. He struck with great force the door on the side where my sister was sitting. The ambulance was called and she was taken to the hospital. Her condition was very serious\u2014a lung was punctured and a rib broken, which caused her great pain. Her eyes were invisible in her swollen face. When Vladyka visited her, she lifted her eyelid with her finger and upon seeing him took his hand and kissed it. She could not speak since she had a tracheotomy, but tears of joy flowed from her eyes. After that Vladyka visited her several times and she began to get better. Once Vladyka entered the ward and announced: \u2018Musia is feeling very poorly now.\u2019 He then went to her and, closing the drape around her bed, he prayed for a long time. During his prayer, we were approached by two physicians and I asked them how serious was my sister\u2019s condition and if I should summon her daughter from Canada? (We kept from the daughter the fact that her mother was in an accident). The physicians answered: \u2018To call or not to call the family is your problem. We cannot guarantee that she will survive until the morning.\u2019 Thank God that she not only survived that night, but was completely cured and returned to Canada My family and I believe that Musia was saved by the prayers of Vladyka John.\u201d</p><p>Vladyka\u2019s life was governed by the standards of the spiritual life, and if this upset the routine order of things it was in order to jolt people out of their spiritual inertia and remind them that there is a higher judgment than the world\u2019s. A remarkable incident from Vladyka\u2019s years in San Francisco (1963) illustrates several aspects of his holiness: his spiritual boldness based on absolute faith; his ability to see the future and to overcome by his spiritual sight the bounds of space; and the power of his prayer, which beyond all doubt worked miracles.</p><p>Our parishioner, Mr. L.A. Liu recalls, \u201cIn San Francisco, my husband, who had been in an automobile accident, was extremely ill. He had lost his equilibrium, and suffered greatly. At that time Vladyka was enduring a multitude of troubles. Knowing the power of Vladyka\u2019s prayers, I thought to myself: \u2018If I ask Vladyka to visit my husband, he will recover.\u2019 However, knowing that Vladyka was so busy, I was hesitant to invite him. Two days passed, and suddenly in came Vladyka, accompanied by his driver, Mr. B.M. Troyan. Vladyka was with us for only 5 minutes, but I began to believe that my husband would recover. After Vladyka\u2019s visit, he endured a crisis, then began to improve. I later saw Mr. Troyan at a Church gathering. He told me that as he was driving Vladyka to the airport, suddenly Vladyka said to him: \u2018Lets go now to the Liu\u2019s.\u2019 He had protested that they would be late for the plane. Vladyka said, \u2018Can you take a man\u2019s life upon yourself?\u2019 He had no choice, and drove Vladyka to our home. As it turned out, Vladyka did not miss his flight, for it was delayed.\u201d</p><p>Several people have asserted that Vladyka John know of the time and place of his death. On June 19<sup>th</sup>, 1966 (on the Julian calendar), Vladyka accompanied the Miraculous Kursk-Root Icon to Seattle, there celebrated the Divine Liturgy, and then spent 3 hours alone in the altar with the Icon. With the Icon, he visited his spiritual children who lived near the cathedral, and, then, proceeded to the room in the parish house where he was staying. Acolytes sat Vladyka down in the chair, and saw that he was already dying. Thus did Vladyka give up his soul to God before the Miraculous Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign.</p><p>Metropolitan Philaret was the principal celebrant of Vladyka\u2019s funeral service. For six days, Vladyka lay in his coffin, and despite the heat, no smell of corruption was evident, and his hand remained soft. Vladyka rests in a crypt chapel of the San Francisco Cathedral. In 1994, a special commission for the glorification of Vladyka John discovered that his relics were incorrupt. On July 2<sup>nd</sup> (new style calendar) of that same year, the blessed founder of our parish was glorified as one of the Holy Worthy Ones of God.</p><p>Soon after his repose, a new chapter began in the story of this holy man. Just as St. Seraphim of Sarov told his spiritual children to regard him as living after his death, and to come to his grave and tell him what was in their hearts, so our Vladyka also has proved to be hearing those who revere his memory. Soon after his death a one-time student of his, Fr. Amvrosy P., saw one night a dream or a vision: Vladyka, clad in Easter vestments, full of light and shining, was censing the cathedral and joyfully uttered to him just one word while blessing him: \u201chappy.\u201d</p><p>As during his life time, Vladyka continues to be very active in helping those who need him. Here are just two of the thousands of cases of Vladyka\u2019s miracles. Victor Boyton, who witnessed the healing of his friend by Vladyka John, recounts: \u201cThe miracle occurred after I had received the copyright to the English publication of Orthodox Life from Jordanville, N.Y., which included photos of Vladyka John. I had a friend, a Moslem from Russia, who was suffering from cancer of the blood and was losing his sight. The doctors concurred that in three months time he would be blind. Placing the picture of Vladyka John by my vigil light, I began to pray daily for my friend. After a short period of time my friend was healed from the blood cancer and began to see normally. The eye doctors were amazed at this occurrence. From then on, my friend has led a normal life and reads without impediment.\u201d</p><p>The archpriest Stephan Pavlenko recollects: \u201cMy brother Paul, although not in the military, lived for some years in Vietnam. There he sought children who were wounded or orphaned due to the then continuing war. He placed them either in orphanages or hospitals. Thus he became close with his future wife, a certain Vietnamese Kim En who was also involved with helping the unfortunate children. My brother introduced Kim to the Christian faith and to the lives of many of God\u2019s Saints. She told my brother that during her very difficult times there appeared to her in her dreams a certain monk who consoled her and told her what to do. Once, towards Easter time, I sent my brother some cassettes of monastic songs as well as some books and journals of a spiritual context. Having received my parcel and having shown the spiritual literature to Kim he was surprised, when upon seeing the cover of a certain journal she exclaimed: `This is the monk who appears to me in my sleep!\u2019 She pointed to a well known picture of Vladyka John, taken among the graves of the Novo Diveevo monastery in Spring Valley. Eventually, Kim was baptized in the Orthodox Church with the name Kyra.\u201d</p><p>By prayers before his incorrupt relics, people are strengthened in faith, receive healing, consolation, and spiritual powers. After the many struggles, cares, sorrows which he endured for the sake of Christ and His Truth, Holy Hierarch John has arrived at the peaceful heavenly harbor, where rejoicing together with the angels, he glorifies the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, God One in Trinity, to Whom from us as well may there be glory, honor and worship, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.</p>"}, "rank": 5, "services": {"LITURGY": {"TROPARION/1": {"text": "Lo, thy care for thy flock in its sojourn prefigured the supplications which thou dost ever offer up for the whole world. Thus do we believe, having come to know thy love, O holy hierarch and wonderworker John. Wholly sanctified by God through the ministry of the all-pure Mysteries and thyself ever strengthened thereby, thou didst hasten to the suffering, O most gladsome Healer. Hasten now also to the aid of us who honor thee with all our heart.", "Type": "1", "Tone": "5"}, "KONTAKION/1": {"text": "Thy heart hath gone out to all who entreat thee with love, O holy hierarch John, and who remember the struggle of thy whole industrious life, and thy painless and easy repose, O faithful servant of the all-pure Directress.", "Type": "1", "Tone": "4"}}}}, "6632": {"name": {"nominative": "Translation of the relics of the Holy Hierarch Job, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (1652)", "short": "Translation of"}}, "6649": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Job, in Schema Joshua, of Anzer (\u2020 1720)", "short": "Venerable Job"}}, "6661": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyrs Capitolina and Eroteida", "short": "Martyrs Capitolina"}}, "6670": {"rank": 4, "services": {"0": {}, "1": {}, "2": {}}, "name": {"nominative": "Venerable Schema-monk Cyrill and Schema-nun Mary, parents of St Sergius of Radonezh (\u2020 c. 1337)", "short": "Venerable Schema-monks"}}, "6673": {"name": {"nominative": "St. Artemon (Menignus) the Bishop of Seleucia (1<sup>st</sup>-2<sup>nd</sup> C)", "short": "St. Artemon"}, "rank": 1}, "6692": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Laurence the Recluse and Euthymius the Silent of the Kiev Caves (13th-14<sup>th</sup> C)", "short": "Venerable Laurence and Euthymius"}}, "6701": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy New Hieroconfessor Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol (\u2020 1961)", "short": "Holy New"}}, "6702": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Luke, Economos of the Kiev Caves (13th C)", "short": "Venerable Luke"}, "life": {"id": "", "copyright": "", "text": "The time of his asceticism is not known with precision. His incorrupt relics repose in the St. Anthony Cave."}}, "6711": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Hierarch Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (\u2020 1563)", "short": "Holy Hierarch"}, "rank": 1}, "6732": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Martyrius the Deacon and Martyrius the Hermit, of the Kiev Caves (13th-15<sup>th</sup> C)", "short": "Venerable Martyrius"}}, "6740": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Mercurius of the Kiev Caves, bishop of Smolensk", "short": "Venerable Mercurius"}}, "6759": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Nikita the Stylite, Wonderworker of Pereyaslavl\u201d Zalesskiy (\u2020 1186)", "short": "Venerable Nikita"}, "rank": 3}, "6782": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Paisius Velichkovsky", "short": "Venerable Paisius Velichkovsky"}, "rank": 1}, "6783": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Paisius the Abbot of Galich (\u2020 1460)", "short": "Venerable Paisius"}}, "6785": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Paisius the Abbot of Uglich (\u2020 1504)", "short": "Venerable Paisius"}}, "6797": {"name": {"nominative": "Right-Believing Prince Peter, Tonsured David, and Princess Febronia, tonsured Evfrosinia, the Wonderworkers of Murom (\u2020 1228)", "short": "Right-Believing Princes"}, "life": {"id": "", "copyright": "The Clergyman\u2019s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.", "text": "<p>Holy Prince Peter, in monasticism David, and Holy Princess Febronia, in monasticsm Evphrosynia, Murom Wonderworkers: Holy Prince Peter was the second son of the Murom prince Yurii Vladimirovich. He entered upon the throne of Murom in the year 1203. Several years before this Saint Peter had fallen ill with leprosy, from which no one was able to heal him. In a dream vision it was revealed to the prince, that the daughter of a bee-keeper would be able to heal him\u2014the pious maiden Febronia, a peasant of Laskova village in Ryazan gubernia. Saint Peter sent his emissaries to this village.</p><p>When the prince saw Saint Febronia, he so fell in love with her for her piety, wisdom and virtue, that he made a vow to marry her after being healed. Saint Febronia healed the prince and became his wife. The holy couple loved each other through all their ordeals. The haughty boyars did not wish to have a princess of commoner\u2019s origin and they urged, that the prince leave her. But Saint Peter refused, and so they banished the couple. They sailed off on a boat from their native city along the River Oka. Saint Febronia continued to console Saint Peter. But soon the wrath of God fell upon the city of Murom, and the people urged, that the prince return together with Saint Febronia. </p><p>The holy couple was famous for its piety and charity. They died on the same day and hour\u201425 June 1228, having before this taken monastic tonsure with the names David and Evphrosynia. The bodies of the saints were put in the same grave. </p><p>Saints Peter and Febronia showed themselves exemplary models of Christian marriage. </p><p>By their prayers they bring down Heavenly blessing upon those entering into marriage. </p>"}, "rank": 3, "services": {"LITURGY": {"TROPARION/1": {"text": "<p>Needs English translation</p>", "Type": "1", "Tone": "0"}, "KONTAKION/1": {"text": "<p>Needs English translation</p>", "Type": "1", "Tone": "0"}}}}, "6800": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Barnabas the Abbot of Vetluga (1445)", "short": "Venerable Barnabas"}}, "6803": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Polycarp, the Archimandrite of the Kiev Caves (\u2020 1182)", "short": "Venerable Polycarp"}}, "6812": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Rostislav, prince of Greater Moravia (\u2020 870)", "short": "Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles"}, "rank": 1}, "6815": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Andronicus (\u2020 1395) and Sava (15<sup>th</sup> C) of Moscow", "short": "Venerable Andronicus"}}, "6825": {"name": {"nominative": "St. Serapion the Archbishop of Novgorod (\u2020 1516)", "short": "St. Serapion"}}, "6832": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Sergius the Obedient of the Kiev Caves (13th C)", "short": "Venerable Sergius"}}, "6865": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Titus the Soldier, of the Kiev Caves (14<sup>th</sup> C)", "short": "Venerable Titus"}}, "6879": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Simon of Yuriev (\u2020 1584)", "short": "Venerable Simon"}, "life": {"id": "", "copyright": "", "text": "<p> The son of a villager, living in the village of Odelev, Nerekhta District, Kostroma Province (not far from the unattached city of Ples), since his early years he distinguished himself with unusual diligence (an artesian well dug by him serves as a memorial of this, and by the way, is found near a chapel by the village of Odelev). Wishing to carry out a virgin life, Simon secretly left the house of his parents and practiced asceticism first near the village of Elnat (Yuriev District), and then in Yurievets Volga region. Here, being homeless, he went to the streets, pretending a deprived mind. His favorite places were church porches, and especially the church porch of the Holy Theophany Monastery where at night he fervently prayed to God. From this severe life and strong winter frosts his body turned black and his skin stuck to his bones. For these God-pleasing efforts he received the gift of insight from God. He died as a martyr, being beaten by the governor who threw him into a cellar in 1584. In 1619 a new church into which his coffin was finally brought inside was built in the Yuriev Theophany Monastery where the Blessed Simon was buried. In 1635 Patriarch Joasaph blessed, \u201cfor the sake of the patient the life and miracles of the Blessed Simon, which existed during his lifetime and after his repose,\u201d to write his icon \u201cwith light around his head, together with his namesake the Apostle Simon the Zealot and to honor him among the saints.\u201d This local celebration of the Blessed Simon stopped since 1722 and has not been subsequently restored. At the present time an easy approach to the tomb is open. The shrine of the Blessed Simon is remodeled, and in it is placed a cypress icon in a covering, representing the blessed one with the fingers of his hands intertwined. The memory of the Blessed Simon is considered holy in Yuriev and its vicinity. </p>"}}, "6892": {"name": {"nominative": "Saint Theophan the Recluse, Bishop of Tambov (\u2020 1894)", "short": "Saint Theophan"}, "rank": 4}, "6916": {"name": {"nominative": "Transfer of the Relics (1991) of St Nicholas (Velimirovi\u0107) of \u017di\u010da (\u2020 1956) (Serb.)", "short": "Transfer of"}, "rank": 1}, "6920": {"name": {"nominative": "Venerable Joannicius of Devich in Serbia (13th C)", "short": "Venerable Joannicius"}}, "6922": {"name": {"nominative": "New Venerable Martyrs Euthymius (\u2020 1814), Ignatius (\u2020 1814), and Acacius (\u2020 1816) of Mt. Athos", "short": "New Venerable"}}, "6934": {"name": {"nominative": "Repose of Saint Stefan Dechani of Serbia (\u2020 c. 1336)", "short": "Repose of"}, "life": {"id": "", "copyright": "", "text": "He became famous by his piety, love for building temples to God (he constructed the Dechani monastery) and compassion for the poor. Having led most of his life under the oppression of various disasters, Saint Stephen died a martyr. He was strangled by agents of his own son in Zvelane __ 1336. His relics are in the Dechani Monastery."}}, "6946": {"name": {"nominative": "Saint Jonah, Bishop of Hankow and Wonderworker of Manzhouli (\u2020 1925)", "short": "Saint Jonah"}, "rank": 4}, "6947": {"name": {"nominative": "The Montreal Iveron Icon of the Mother of God", "short": "The Montreal"}}, "6969": {"name": {"nominative": "Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome (\u2020 101)", "short": "Hieromartyr Clement"}, "rank": 1}, "60001": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Urpasianus of Nicomedia (\u2020 c.295)", "short": "Martyr Urpasianus"}}, "60102": {"name": {"nominative": "Finding of the relics of St Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov (1752)", "short": "Hierarch"}, "rank": 4, "services": {"MATINS": {"SCRIPTURE/1": {"text": "", "Type": "1", "Reading": "Jn_10:1-9", "Pericope": "35 (mid.)"}}, "LITURGY": {"SCRIPTURE/apostol": {"text": "", "Type": "apostol", "Reading": "Heb_7:26-8:2", "Pericope": "318"}, "SCRIPTURE/gospel": {"text": "", "Type": "gospel", "Reading": "Jn_10:9-16", "Pericope": "36"}}}, "scripture": [{"Type": "1", "Reading": "Jn_10:1-9", "Pericope": "35 (mid.)"}, {"Type": "apostol", "Reading": "Heb_7:26-8:2", "Pericope": "318"}, {"Type": "gospel", "Reading": "Jn_10:9-16", "Pericope": "36"}]}, "60103": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Hierarch Dmitri, Metropolitan of Rostov (\u2020 1709)", "short": "Holy Hierarch"}, "rank": 4}, "60401": {"name": {"nominative": "Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica (\u2020 c. 306)", "short": "Great Martyr"}}, "60501": {"name": {"nominative": "Blessed Crown Prince Demetrius of Uglich and Moscow (\u2020 1591)", "short": "Crown Prince"}, "rank": 3}, "60502": {"name": {"nominative": "Translation of the relics (1606) of slain Crown Prince Demetrius of Moscow from Uglich", "short": "Translation"}}, "65301": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyr Sabinus of Egypt (\u2020 287)", "short": "Martyr Sabinus"}, "rank": 1}, "66301": {"name": {"nominative": "Martyrs Marius the Soldier and Asterius the Senator", "short": "Martyrs"}}, "67501": {"name": {"nominative": "New Martyr Dimitrius", "short": "New Martyr Dimitrius"}}, "68501": {"name": {"nominative": "St. James the Confessor the Bishop of Catania (8<sup>th</sup>-9<sup>th</sup> C)", "short": "St. James"}}, "649201": {"name": {"nominative": "Blessed Princes Basil and Constantine of Yaroslav (13th C)", "short": "Blessed Princes"}}, "663001": {"name": {"nominative": "Finding of the Relics of St John, Archbishop and Wonderworker of Shanghai, Western Europe, and San Francisco (1993)", "short": "Finding"}}, "663201": {"name": {"nominative": "Holy Hierarch Job, Patriarch of Moscow", "short": "Holy Hierarch"}, "rank": 4}, "664901": {"name": {"nominative": "Finding of the Relics (2000) of the Venerable Job, in schema Joshua, of Anzer (\u2020 1720)", "short": "Finding"}}, "689201": {"name": {"nominative": "Translation of the Relics of St Theophan the Recluse of Vyshna (2002)", "short": "Translation of"}}} |