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"nominative": "Finding of the relics of Venerable Alexander, Abbot of Svir (1641)",
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"short": "Finding"
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (4<sup>th</sup> C)",
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"short": "Martyr Alexander"
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"text": "Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica, suffered for Christ during the reign of the Emperor Maximian. Arrested for his confession of Christ, he was brought to sacrifice to idols, but overturned the altar of oblations and for this, after being tortured, he was beheaded."
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Martyr Justin the Philosopher, another Justin, and those with them at Rome: Chariton, his wife Charita, Euelpistus, Hierax, Peonus, and Valerian († 166)",
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"short": "Martyr Justin"
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"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
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"text": "<p>The Holy Martyr Justin the Philosopher was born at Sykhem—an ancient city of Samaria. Justin’s parents, being Greeks, were pagan. From the time of his childhood the saint displayed profundity of mind, love for knowledge and a fervent devotion to the cognition of Truth. When he came of age he studied the various schools of Greek philosophy: the Stoics, the Peripatetics (Aristotelians), the Pythagoreans, the Platonists—and he concluded, that none of these pagan teachings revealed the way to the knowledge of the True God.</p><p>Once, when he was strolling in a solitary place beyond the city and pondering about where to seek out the way to the knowledge of Truth, he met an old man, who in the ensuing conversation revealed to Justin the essential essence of the Christian teaching and advised him to seek out the solutions to all the questions of life in the books of Holy Scripture. “But before anything else,—said the holy elder,—pray diligently to God, so that He might open to thee the doors of Light. No one is able to comprehend Truth, unless it be given him in understanding by God Himself, Who revealeth it to each that seeketh Him in prayer and in love.” </p><p>In his 30<sup>th</sup> year of life Justin accepted holy Baptism (between the years 133 and 137). From this time Saint Justin devoted his talents and vast philosophical knowledge to preaching the Gospel among the pagans. He began to journey about throughout the Roman empire, everywhere sowing the seeds of the faith of salvation. “Whosœver is able to proclaim Truth and does not proclaim, that one will be condemned by God,”—he wrote.</p><p>Justin opened up a school, where he preached Christian philosophy. Saint Justin subsequently defended the veracity and the salvificity of the Christian teaching, persuasively confuting pagan sophistry (thus, for example, in a debate with the Cynic philosopher Crescentius) and heretical distortions of Christianity (in particular, he spoke out against the teachings of the Gnostic, Marcian).</p><p>In about the year 155, when the emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161) started a persecution against Christians, Saint Justin personally gave him an “Apologia” (Apology) in defense of Christians innocently condemned to execution—Ptolemy and Lucias, the name of a third remaining unknown. In the “Apologia” he demonstrated the falseness of the slander against Christians accused “unjustly for the mere name as loathsome and transgressive Christians.” The “Apologia” made such a favourable effect upon the emperor, that he ceased with the persecution. Saint Justin journeyed with the decision of the emperor to Asia Minor,—where they were persecuting Christians with particular severity, and he himself distributed the joyous message about the imperial edict throughout the surrounding cities and countryside.</p><p>At Ephesus occurred the debate of Saint Justin with the Rabbi Trypho. The Orthodox philosopher on the basis of the Old Testament prophetic writings demonstrated the truth of the Christian teaching of faith. Saint Justin gave an account of this debate in his work “Dialogue with Trypho the Jew.”</p><p>A second “Apologia” of Saint Justin was addressed to the Roman Senate. It was written in the year 161, soon after Marcus Aurelius (161-180) ascended the throne.</p><p>Having returned to Italy, Saint Justin, like the Apostles, preached everywhere the Gospel and by his Divinely-inspired words he converted many to the Christian faith. When the saint arrived at Rome, the envious Crescentius—whom Justin always defeated in debate—brought against him many false accusations before the Roman court. Saint Justin was put under guard, subjected to torture and accepted a martyr’s death († 166).</p><p>In addition to the above-mentioned works, the following array of compositions belong to the holy martyr Justin the Philosopher: “Observations about the Soul,” “Demonstration against the Hellenes,” “Speech against the Hellenes.” Saint John Damascene preserved a significant part of a non-surviving work of Saint Justin “About the Resurrection.” The church historian Eusebios asserts, that by Saint Justin were written books entitled “The Singer,” “Denunciation of all Existing Heresies” and “Against Marcian.”</p><p>The relics of Saint Justin the Philosopher rest in Rome. </p><p>In the Russian Church the memory of the martyr is particularly glorified in temples of his name. </p><p>The Holy Martyrs Justin, Chariton, Euelpistos, Ierax, Peonus, Valerian, Justus and the Martyress Charita suffered at the same time with Saint Justin the Philosopher, in the year 166. They were brought to Rome and thrown into prison. The saints bravely confessed their faith in Christ before the court of the city-commander Rusticus. Rusticus asked Saint Justin, whether in actuality he thought, that after undergoing tortures he would go to heaven and receive recompense from God. Saint Justin answered, that not only did he think, but truly he knew and believed in this.</p><p>The city-commander proposed to all the Christian prisoners that they offer sacrifice to the pagan gods. But he received their refusal and issued a sentence of death. The saints were beheaded.</p>"
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"text": "<p>In their sufferings, O Lord, * Thy martyrs received imperishable crowns from Thee our God; * for, possessed of Thy might, * they set at nought the tormentors and crushed the feeble audacity of the demons. ** By their supplications save Thou our souls.</p>",
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"text": "<p>Adorned with the wisdom of thy divine words, O Justin, * the whole Church of God illumineth the world with the radiance of thy life. * Having received a crown because of the outpourings of thy blood, ** standing with the angels before Christ pray thou unceasingly for us all.</p>",
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"1209": {
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Translation of the relics (1472) of Saints Cyprian, Photius, and Jonah, Hierarchs of Moscow",
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"short": "Translation of"
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"1211": {
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Translation of the Relics of the Holy Martyrs, Unmercenaries and Wonderworkers, Cyrus and John (412)",
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"short": "Unmercenaries"
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"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
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"text": "<p>The Transfer of the Relics of the Holy Martyrs, Unmercenaries and Wonderworkers, Cyrus and John from the city of Konopa, near Alexandria (where they suffered in the year 311) to the nearby village of Manuphin, was done in the year 412. This Egyptian village prompted fear in everyone, since in a former time there was here a pagan temple and residence of evil spirits. Patriarch Theophilos (385-412) wanted to cleanse this place of demons, but he died. His wish was fulfilled by his successor upon the Alexandrian cathedra-chair, holy Patriarch Cyril (412-444). He prayed fervently in carrying out this project. An Angel of the Lord appeared in a vision to the sainted-hierarch and commanded the venerable relics of Saints Cyrus and John be transferred to Manuphin. His Holiness Patriarch Cyril did the Angel’s bidding and built at Manuphin a church in the name of the holy martyrs.</p><p>From that time this place was cleansed from the powers of the enemy, and by the prayers of the holy Martyrs Cyrus and John there began to occur many miracles, healings of the sick and infirm. An account about the holy Martyrs Cyrus and John is located under 31 January.</p>"
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"TROPARION/1": {
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"text": "<p>O Christ God, Thou hast given us an impregnable rampart * in the miracles of Thy holy martyrs. * Through their supplications destroy Thou the councils of the heathen * and strengthen the scepters of kingdoms, ** in that Thou alone art good and lovest mankind.</p>",
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"KONTAKION/1": {
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"text": "<p>Receiving the gift of miracles from grace divine, O saints, * ye work wonders unceasingly, * cutting down all our passions with invisible skill, * O divinely wise Cyrus and glorious John: ** for ye are divine physicians.</p>",
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"1219": {
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Holy Martyrs Lucillian, the Youths Claudius, Hypatius, and Dionysius, and Paula the Virgin († 270-275)",
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"short": "Holy Martyrs"
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"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
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"text": "<p>The Holy Martyrs Lucillian, the Lads Claudius, Ipatius, Dionysius, and Paula the Virgin: Lucillian was a pagan priest during the time of the Roman emperor Aurelian (270-275). In his old age he became persuaded of the falseness of the pagan religion, and with all his heart he turned to the faith in Christ the Saviour, and was baptised.</p><p>Under the influence of his preaching many a pagan was converted to Christianity. Then certain Jews, out of concern for his spreading faith in the Christ crucified by them, reported against Lucillian to the Nicomedia city-governor Sylvanus, who thereupon urged the elder to return to idol-worship. For his refusal, they smashed the jawbone of Saint Lucillian, beat him with canes and suspended him head downwards, and then they locked him away in prison. Here he met up with four lads that were confessors of Christianity—Claudius, Ipatius, Paul and Dionysius. Saint Lucillian urged them to stand firm in the faith, and to fear neither tortures nor death. After a certain while they brought them to trial and then thrown into a red-hot furnace, but suddenly rain poured down extinguishing the flames, and the martyrs remained unharmed. The governor sentenced them to death by execution, sending them off to Byzantium for carrying out the sentence. The holy lads were beheaded by the sword, and the holy Martyr Lucillian was nailed to a cross with quite many nails.</p><p>Witness to the deed of the holy martyrs was the holy Virgin Paula, who had dedicated herself to the service of those suffering for the faith in Christ. She provided food to Christian prisoners, washed their wounds, brought medications and also buried the bodies of martyrs. After the death of Saint Lucillian and the four lads, she returned to Nicomedia and continued on with her holy service. The holy virgin was arrested and cast into a furnace, but by the power of God she remained unharmed. Then they sent her off to Byzantium, where the holy martyress was beheaded by the sword. </p>"
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"1220": {
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Hieromartyrs Lucian the Bishop, Maximian the Presbyter, Julian the Deacon, Martyrs Marcellinus, and Saturninus († 81-96)",
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"short": "Hieromartyrs Lucian"
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"1221": {
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria († 444)",
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"short": "Hierarch Cyril"
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"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
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"text": "<p>Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria, a distinguished champion of Orthodoxy and a great teacher of the Church, came from an illustrious and pious Christian family. He studied the secular sciences, among which number also was philosophy, but most of all he strove to acquire knowledge of the Holy Scriptures and the truths of the Christian faith. In his youth Saint Cyril entered the skete-monastery of Saint Makarios in the Nitreia hills, where he stayed for six years. The Patriarch of Alexandria Theophilos (385-412) ordained him to the dignity of deacon, numbered him among the clergy and, seeing his giftedness, entrusted him to preach.</p><p>Upon the death of Patriarch Theophilos, Saint Cyril was unanimously chosen to the patriarchal throne of the Alexandrian Church. He headed the struggle against the spread in Alexandria of the Novatian heresy, which taught that a Christian, having fallen away from the Church during time of persecution, is not able to be received back by it again.</p><p>Saint Cyril, seeing the futility of admonishing the heretics, sought their expulsion from Alexandria. The Jews appeared a greater danger for the Church, repeatedly making riots, accompanied by the brutal killing of Christians. The saint long contended with them. And to end with the remaining paganism, the saint cast out devils from an ancient pagan temple and built on the place a church. Into it were transferred the relics of the holy Unmercenaries Cyrus and John. Still more difficult a struggle awaited the saint with the emergence of the Nestorian heresy.</p><p>Nestorius, a presbyter of the Antioch Church, was chosen in 428 to the Constantinople cathedra and therein got the chance to widely spread about his heretical teaching, directed against the dogma about the uncommingled union of two natures in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nestorius called the Mother of God not the Bogoroditsa (Theotokos or “Birth-giver of God”), but rather Khristoroditsa (Christotokos or “Birth-giver of Christ”), implying that she gave birth not to God, but only to the man Christ. The holy Patriarch Cyril repeatedly wrote to Nestorius and pointed out his error, but Nestorius continued to persevere in it. Then the saint sent out epistles against Nestorianism to the clergy of the Constantinople Church and to the holy nobleborn emperor Theodosius the Younger (408-450)—two treatises with a denunciation of the heresy. Saint Cyril wrote also to other Churches—to Pope Celestine and to the other Patriarchs, and even to monks of several monasteries, warning about the emergence of a dangerous heresy.</p><p>Nestorius started an open persecution against the Orthodox. In his presence one of his partisans, bishop Dorotheos, pronounced from the church cathedra an anathema for anyone who would call the Most Holy Virgin Mary the Bogoroditsa (Theotokos).</p><p>Nestorius hated Saint Cyril and brought out against him every kind of slander and fabrication, calling him an heretic. The saint with all his powers continued to defend Orthodoxy. The situation became so aggravated, that it became necessary to convene an Œcumenical Council, which opened in the year 431 in the city of Ephesus. At the Council arrived 200 bishops from all the Christian Churches. Nestorius, awaiting the arrival of the bishop of Antioch John and other Syrian bishops, did not agree to the opening of the Council. But the fathers of the Council began the sessions. The Alexandrian Patriarch Saint Cyril presided. Having examined the teaching of Nestorius, the Council condemned him as an heretic. Nestorius did not submit to the Council, and the arriving bishop John opened a “robber council,” which decreed Saint Cyril an heretic. The unrest increased. By order of the emperor, Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria and Archbishop Memnon of Ephesus were locked in prison. And in this measure, Nestorius also was deposed.</p><p>Soon Saints Cyril and Memnon were freed, and the sessions of the Council continued. Nestorius, not submitting himself to the determinations of the Council, was deprived of priestly rank and by order of the emperor sent to the faraway place Sasim in the Libean wilderness, where he died in grievous torments: his tongue, having blasphemed the Mother of God, was overtaken by punishment—in it there developed worms. Even Bishop John of Antioch and the remaining Syrian bishops signed the decretals of the Ephesus Council.</p><p>Saint Cyril guided the Alexandrian Church for 32 years: towards the end of his abundant activity the flock was cleansed of heretics. Gently and cautiously Saint Cyril approached towards anyone, who by their own simpleness and lack of knowledge fell into false wisdom. To a certain elder, an ascetic of profound life,—who incorrectly considered the Old Testament Righteous HighPriest Melchisedek to be the Son of God,—Saint Cyril turned with a request to pray to the Lord so that He should reveal, correctly how to consider that righteous one. After three days the elder came to Saint Cyril and said, that the Lord revealed to him, that Melchisedek was high-priest and a mere man.</p><p>Saint Cyril learned to overcome his prejudice against the memory of the great Saint-hierarch John Chrysostomos (Zlatoust′) († 407, Comm. 13 November). The Patriarch of Alexandria Theophilos, by birth an uncle of the saint, was an antagonist of Saint John, and presided in a council in judgement of him. Saint Cyril from his youthful years found himself thus in a circle antagonistic to John Chrysostom and involuntarily acquired prejudice against him. The Monk Isidoros Pelusiotes († c. 436-440, Comm. 4February) repeatedly wrote to Saint Cyril and urged him to include the name of the great father of the Church into the diptych-list of the saints, but Saint Cyril would not agree. But once in a dream he saw a wondrous temple, in which was present the Mother of God surrounded by an host of Angels and saints, in which number stood also Saint John Chrysostom. When Saint Cyril wanted to approach the Most Holy Lady and offer to Her veneration, Saint John Chrysostom would not let him. The Mother of God asked Saint John to forgive Saint Cyril, for having sinned against him through ignorance. Seeing that Saint John hesitated, the Mother of God said: “Forgive him for Me, since he hath laboured much for My honour, and hath glorified Me among the people calling Me the Mother of God, the Theotokos Bogoroditsa.” Saint John answered: “By Thy intercession, Lady, I do forgive him,”—and then with love he hugged and embraced Saint Cyril.</p><p>Saint Cyril repented himself that he had maintained anger against the great saint of God. Having convened all the Egyptian bishops, he made a solemn festal celebration in honour of Saint John Chrysostom. </p><p>Saint Cyril died in the year 444, leaving behind many works. In particular ought to be mentioned: Commentaries—On the Gospel of Luke, On the Gospel of John, On the Epistles of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians and to the Hebrews; also an Apologia in Defence of Christianity against the Emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363). Of vast significance are: Five Books against Nestorius; a work About the Most Holy Trinity;—under the title “Thesaurus,” written against Arius and Eunomios; also two dogmatic compositions About the Most Holy Trinity,—distinguished by a precise exposition of the Orthodox teaching about the Procession of the Holy Spirit. Saint Cyril wrote a composition—Against Anthropomorphism, for several Egyptians, who through ignorance depicted God in human form. Amidst a number of works by Saint Cyril are also the “Discussions,” among which is the moving and edifying “Discourse on the Exodus of the Soul,” inserted in the Slavonic “Following Psalter.” </p>"
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"text": "<p>O instructor of Orthodoxy, teacher of piety and purity, * beacon for the whole world, divinely inspired adornment of hierarchs. * O most wise Cyril by thy doctrines thou hast illumined all. ** O harp of the Spirit, entreat Christ God that our souls be saved.</p>",
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"text": "<p>Thou hast manifestly poured forth upon us an abyss of doctrines of theology * from the well-springs of the Savior, * drowning heresies and saving thy flock unharmed by threefold waves, O blessed Cyril; ** for thou art shown to be a guide for all lands, O venerable one, revealing things divine.</p>",
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"nominative": "St. Metrophanes the first Patriarch of Constantinople († c. 326)",
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"short": "St. Metrophanes"
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"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
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"text": "<p>Saint Mitrophanes, Patriarch of Constantinople, was a contemporary of Saint Constantine the Great (306-337). His father, Dometius, was by birth a brother of the Roman emperor Probus (276-282). Having reasoned out the falseness of the pagan religion, Dometius came to believe in Christ. During a time of terrible persecution of Christians at Rome, Saint Dometius set off to Byzantium with two of his sons, Probus and Mitrophanes, and began to be instructed in the law of the Lord by Bishop Titus, a man holy of life. Seeing the ardent desire of Dometius to labour for the Lord, Saint Titus ordained him presbyter. And after the death of Titus there was elevated upon the bishop’s throne first Dometius (272-303), and thereafter his sons, Probus (303-315) and in 316—Saint Mitrophanes.</p><p>Upon a time having come to Byzantium, the emperor Constantine was delighted by the beauty and comfortable setting of the city. And having seen the holiness of life and sagacity of Saint Mitrophanes, the emperor took him back along to Rome. Soon Constantine the Great transferred the capital from Rome to Byzantium and he brought Saint Mitrophanes there. In the year 325 there was convened the First Œcumenical Council for resolving the Arian heresy. Constantine the Great had the holy fathers of the Council bestow upon Saint Mitrophanes the title of Patriarch. In such manner, the saint became the first Patriarch of Constantinople. Saint Mitrophanes was himself very old, and was not able to be present at the Council, and he sent in place of himself the khore-bishop (vicar bishop) Alexander. At the close of the Council the emperor together with the holy fathers visited with the ailing Patriarch. At the request of the emperor, the saint disclosed his choice of worthy successor to himself—Bishop Alexander, foretelling, that after Alexander there would be elevated upon the patriarchal throne Paul (at that time a reader), and to the Patriarch of Alexandria Alexander he foretold, that his successor would be the archdeacon Saint Athanasias.</p><p>Saint Mitrophanes peacefully expired to God in the year 326, at age 117. His relics rest at Constantinople, in a church, erected in his memory.</p>"
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"text": "<p>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 Metrophanes our father, entreat Christ God that our souls be saved.</p>",
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"text": "<p>Thou didst manifestly preach the Faith of Christ, * and preserving it, thou didst truly cause thy faithful flock to grow into a multitude. * Wherefore, thou dost rejoice with the angels, O MetropEanes, ** entreating Christ unceasingly for us all.</p>",
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"text": "<p>From childhood thou wast shown to be a precious vessel, becoming a chosen hierarch of God; * and to Him thou hast cried out with gladness: ** O Christ, Thou art equal to the Father and the Spirit!</p>",
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Holy Martyr Concordius († c. 175)",
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"short": "Holy Martyr"
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"nominative": "Hieromartyr Astius the Bishop of Dyrrachium (2<sup>nd</sup> C)",
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"short": "Hieromartyr Astius"
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"nominative": "Holy Martyrs Frontasius, Severinus, Severianus and Silanus (1<sup>st</sup> C)",
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"nominative": "St. Zosimus, bishop of Babylon in Egypt (6<sup>th</sup> C)",
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"nominative": "Venerable Cyril, Abbot and Wonderworker of Novoezersk († 1532)",
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Holy Hierarch Cyril, Bishop of Turov († c. 1183)",
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"short": "Holy Hierarch"
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Hieromartyr Dorotheus the Bishop of Tyre (c. † 362)",
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"short": "Hieromartyr Dorotheus"
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"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
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"text": "</p><p>The Hieromartyr Dorotheos was bishop of the Phœnician city of Tyre, during the time of the persecution against Christians under the emperor Diocletian (284-305). Heeding the words of the Gospel (Mt. 10: 23), the saint withdrew from Tyre and hid away from the persecutors. He returned to Tyre during the reign of Saint Constantine the Great (306-337, Comm. 21 May), again occupying the bishop’s throne he guided his flock for more than 50 years, and converted many of the pagans to Christianity. When the emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363) began openly to persecute Christians, Saint Dorotheos was already over 100 years old. He withdrew from Tyre to the Myzean city of Udum (present day Bulgarian Varna). Delegates of the emperor arrested him there. For his refusal to offer sacrifice to idols they began cruelly to torture the holy elder, and under torture he gave up his soul to the Lord († c. year 362, at age 107).</p><p>To Saint Dorotheos is ascribed by some the compiling of a work, “The Synopsis,” a collection of sayings, and including lives of the holy prophets and apostles."
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||
},
|
||
"rank": 1,
|
||
"services": {
|
||
"LITURGY": {
|
||
"TROPARION/1": {
|
||
"text": "<p>As thou didst share in the ways of the apostles * and didst occupy their throne, * thou didst find thine activity to be a passage to divine vision, * O divinely inspired one. * Wherefore, ordering the word of truth, * thou didst suffer for the Faith even to the shedding of thy blood. ** O hieromartyr Dorotheas, entreat Christ God, that our souls be saved.</p>",
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"Type": "1",
|
||
"Tone": "4"
|
||
},
|
||
"KONTAKION/1": {
|
||
"text": "<p>Resplendent with virtues brighter than the sun * and with thy sufferings, O blessed Dorotheus, * thou didst shine forth and illumine the land, * dispelling the darkness of polytheism and vile heresy. * Wherefore, we celebrate thy memory with splendor.</p>",
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||
"Type": "1",
|
||
"Tone": "5"
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1234": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Cyrill, Abbot of Chelmogorsk († 1378)",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Cyrill"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1236": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Finding of the relics (1599) of the Venerable Bassian and Jonah of Solovki",
|
||
"short": "Finding of"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1237": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Holy Martyrs Marcian, Nicander, Hyperechius, Apollos, Leonidus, Arius, Gorgius, Selenius, Irenæus, and Pambon in Egypt († 305-311)",
|
||
"short": "Holy Martyrs"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1238": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"short": "Forty Martyrs",
|
||
"nominative": "On this day we sing the service for the Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste († c.320): Cyrion, Candidus, Domnus, Hesychius, Iraclius, Smaragdus, Eunoicus, Valentus, Vivian, Claudius, Priskus, Theodulus, Eutichius, John, Xanthus, Ilian, Sisinius, Angius, Aetius, Flavius, Dometian, Gaius, Leontius, Athanasius, Cyrill, Sakerdonus, Nicholas, Valerius, Philoctimon, Seberian, Chudionus, Aglaius, and Meliton",
|
||
"cmd": "nday == -19 || nday == -26 || nday == -14"
|
||
},
|
||
"rank": 4
|
||
},
|
||
"1239": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Theodore the Wonderworker and Hermit of the Jordan (c. 6<sup>th</sup> C)",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Theodore"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1240": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Abba Dorotheus of Palestine (6<sup>th</sup> C)",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Abba"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1244": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Igorevskaya Icon of the Mother of God (1147)",
|
||
"short": "Igorevskaya Icon"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1246": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Hilarion the New, Abbot of the Dalmatian Monastery († 845)",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Hilarion"
|
||
},
|
||
"life": {
|
||
"id": "",
|
||
"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
|
||
"text": "<p>The Monk Ilarion (Hilary) the New was born of pious parents, Peter and Theodosia, who raised him in the virtues and instructed him in Holy Scripture. At twelve years of age Saint Ilarion was tonsured into monasticism at the Isykhia monastery near Byzantium, and from there he transferred to the Dalmatia monastery, where he took on the great schema and became a disciple of the Monk Gregory Dekapolites (Comm. 20November). The monk deeply venerated his God-bearing patronal-name saint—the Monk Ilarion the Great (Comm. 21 October), and he strove to imitate his life, whereby he came to be called Ilarion the New. At the Dalmatia monastery they ordained him presbyter. After the death of the hegumen the brethren wanted to elect Saint Ilarion to this position, but learning of this, he secretly withdrew away to Byzantium. </p><p>Then the monks of Dalmatia monastery sent off a petition to Saint Patriarch Nikephoros, asking that the Monk Ilarion be assigned as hegumen. The Patriarch summoned the saint and persuaded him to give his assent. The Monk Ilarion submitted out of holy obedience. Over the course of eight years he peacefully guided the monastery. But in the year 813 the iconoclast Leo the Armenian (813-820) occupied the imperial throne. The monk refused to blaspheme holy icons and he boldly accused the emperor of heresy, for which he endured many torments. They locked him up in prison for awhile, and vexed him with hunger and thirst. The impious patriarch Theodotos, having replaced the exiled Patriarch Nikephoros, caused the monk much suffering in demanding a rejection of Orthodoxy. The monks of the Dalmatia monastery went to the emperor and besought him to release the saint, promising to submit to the imperial will. But having returned to the monastery, the Monk Ilarion and all the monks continued to venerate holy icons. The enraged emperor again locked up the monk in prison. With all the powers at his disposal to demand a renunciation, he gave the saint over to torture and confined him in prison.</p><p>But the wrath of God overtook the wicked emperor: he was cut down by his own soldiers in church at that very spot, where once before he had thrown down an holy icon. The new emperor Michael II the Stammerer (820-829) set free the Monk Ilarion from his imprisonment, and the saint settled into a solitary cell. Upon the death of the Monk Theodore the Studite (Comm. 11 November)—who likewise had suffered for holy icons, the Monk Ilarion was vouchsafed to behold holy Angels lifting up to Heaven the holy soul of Saint Theodore. </p><p>Under the iconoclast emperor Theophilos (829-842), the Monk Ilarion was again put under guard, and beaten terribly, and they confined him on the island of Athysia.</p><p>After the death of Theophilos, the holy empress Saint Theodora (842-855) gave orders to restore the confessors from exile. The Monk Ilarion returned to the Dalmatia monastery, again accepting to be hegumen at it, and he peacefully died in the year 845. </p>"
|
||
},
|
||
"rank": 1,
|
||
"services": {
|
||
"LITURGY": {
|
||
"TROPARION/1": {
|
||
"text": "<p>O God of our fathers, * deal with us ever according to Thy meekness. * Deprive us not of Thy mercy, * but through their supplications ** direct our life in peace.</p>",
|
||
"Type": "1",
|
||
"Tone": "4"
|
||
},
|
||
"KONTAKION/1": {
|
||
"text": "<p>Like a shepherd didst thou preserve within thy fold * the flock of thy life-bearing pasture, * and wast shown to be great by the loftiness of thy works, O Hilarion the New, * having undergone much suffering and sorrow in thy piety. * Wherefore, thou hast made thine abode in the most joyful life in heavenly Sion. ** Pray for us, O venerable one!</p>",
|
||
"Type": "1",
|
||
"Tone": "2"
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1247": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Bessarion the Wonderworker of Egypt (4<sup>th</sup>-5<sup>th</sup> C)",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Bessarion"
|
||
},
|
||
"life": {
|
||
"id": "",
|
||
"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
|
||
"text": "<p>The Monk Bessarion, Wonderworker of Egypt, by descent an Egyptian, was baptised while still in his youth and he led a strict life, striving to preserve the grace given him during Baptism. Seeking to become more closely acquainted with the monastic life, he undertook a journey to the holy places,—he was in Jerusalem, he visited the Monk Gerasimos (Comm. 4 March) in the Jordanian wilderness, he viewed other monastic wilderness-monasteries, and assimilated all the rules of monastic life. Upon his return, he accepted monastic tonsure and became a disciple of the Monk Isidor Pelusiotes (Comm. 4February). Saint Bessarion took upon himself a vow of silence, he partook of food only once a week, and sometimes he remained without food or drink for 40 days. There was an instance when the monk, immersed in prayer, stood motionless for 40 days and 40 nights without food or sleep.</p><p>The Monk Bessarion received from God the gift of wonderworking: when on a journey his disciple was strongly beset by thirst, he sweetened bitter water; by his prayer the Lord sent rain upon the earth, and he could as though on dry land cross a river; with but a single word he cast out devils, but he did this privately to avoid glory. His humility was so great, that when one time a priest ordered someone from the skete settlement to leave church for having fallen into sin, together with him went also the monk with the words: “I too am a sinner.” The Monk Bessarion slept only standing or sitting. A large portion of the life of the saint was spent under the open sky in prayerful solitude. He peacefully expired to the Lord, having reached old age.</p>"
|
||
},
|
||
"rank": 1,
|
||
"services": {
|
||
"LITURGY": {
|
||
"TROPARION/1": {
|
||
"text": "<p>O God of our fathers, * deal with us ever according to Thy meekness. * Deprive us not of Thy mercy, * but through their supplications ** direct our life in peace.</p>",
|
||
"Type": "1",
|
||
"Tone": "4"
|
||
},
|
||
"KONTAKION/1": {
|
||
"text": "<p>Emulating the powers on high, * by example thou didst live the life of the birds, O venerable one; * and putting transitory things from thy mind, * led to the heavenly beauties of Christ the King by thy constant desire, * thou didst come even unto Him. ** O Bessarion, entreat Him unceasingly in behalf of us all!</p>",
|
||
"Type": "1",
|
||
"Tone": "2"
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1249": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Holy Virgin Martyrs Archelais, Thekla and Susanna († 293)",
|
||
"short": "Holy Virgin"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1252": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Hieromartyr Marcellinus, Pope of Rome and Martyrs Claudius, Cyrinus, and Antoninus († 304)",
|
||
"short": "Hieromartyr Marcellinus"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1253": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Hieromartyr Marcellus, Pope of Rome, and those with him: Martyrs Sisinius and Cyriacus the deacons, Smaragdus, Largius, Apronian, Saturnian, Papius, Maurus, and Cryscentian, and Martyred women Priscilla, Lucina, and Artemia the Princess († c. 310)",
|
||
"short": "Hieromartyr Marcellus"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1254": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Holy Women Martyrs Caleria (Valeria), Kyriaki and Maria in Cæsarea of Palestine († 284-305)",
|
||
"short": "Holy Women"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1256": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Apostle Quadratus of the Seventy († c. 130) [his service is sung on the 22<sup>nd</sup>]",
|
||
"short": "Apostle Quadratus"
|
||
},
|
||
"rank": 1
|
||
},
|
||
"1261": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Saint Ephraim, Patriarch of Antioch († c. 545)",
|
||
"short": "Saint Ephraim"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1262": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Zosimus of Phœnicia, Syria (6<sup>th</sup> C)",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Zosimus"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1265": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Icon of the Mother of God of Yaroslavl (13th C) and Uryupinsk (1821)",
|
||
"short": "Icon of"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1270": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine the Great († 337) with his Mother Helen († 327)",
|
||
"short": "Sts Constantine and Helen"
|
||
},
|
||
"life": {
|
||
"id": "",
|
||
"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
|
||
"text": "<p>The Holy Emperor Constantine (306-337), has received from the Church the title “Equal-to-the-Apostles,” and in world history he received the name “the Great.” He was the son of Cæsar Constantius Chlorus (305-306), governing the lands of Gaul and Britania. The immense Roman empire was at this time divided into a Western and an Eastern empire, at the head of which were two independent emperors and also co-rulers titled “Cæsars,”—such in the Western half of the Roman empire was the aforementioned father of Saint Constantine. Saint Contantine’s mother was the empress Helen, who was a Christian. The future ruler of all the whole Roman empire—Constantine—was raised to have respect for the Christian religion. His father did not persecute Christians in the lands governed by him, this at a time, when through all the rest of the Roman empire Christians were subjected to fierce persecutions by the emperors Diocletian (284-305) together with his co-ruler Maximian Galerius (305-311) in the East, and the emperor Maximian Hercules (284-305) in the West. After the death of Constantius Chlorus, his son Constantine in 306 was proclaimed by the army as emperor of Gaul and Britania. The first act of the new emperor was to promulgate in the lands subject to him the freedom of confession of the Christian faith. The pagan-fanatic Maximian Galerius in the East and the fierce tyrant Maxentius in the West hated the emperor Constantine and they plotted to overthrow and kill him, but Constantine bested them in a series of battles, and he defeated his opponents with the help of God. He prayed to God to give him a sign, which should inspire his army to fight valiantly, and the Lord manifest to him in the heavens a radiant Sign of the Cross with the inscription “With this Sign thou wilt conquer.” Having become sole ruler of the Western half of the Roman empire, Constantine in the year 313 issued the Edict of Milan concerning religious toleration, and in the year 323, when he came to rule as the sole ruler over the whole Roman empire, he extended the conditions of the Milan Edict also over the Eastern half of the Roman empire. After three hundred years of persecution, Christians finally received the possibility to openly confess their faith in Christ.</p><p>Renouncing paganism, the emperor did not let his capital remain in ancient Rome, the former centre of the pagan realm. He transferred his capital to the East, to the city of Byzantium, which also was renamed Constantinople [“Constantinopolis” means “the city of Constantine”]. Constantine was deeply convinced, that only the Christian religion could unify the immense Roman empire with its diverse peoples. He supported the Church in every way, he brought back from banishment the Christian confessors, he built churches, and he showed concern for the clergy. The emperor deeply revered the victory-bearing Sign of the Cross of the Lord, and he wanted also to find the actual Life-Creating Cross, upon which was crucified our Lord Jesus Christ. For this purpose he dispatched to Jerusalem his own mother—the holy Empress Helen, granting manifold plenitude of power and material means. Together with the Jerusalem Patriarch Makarios, Saint Helen set about the search, and through the Will of God the Life-Creating Cross was discovered in a miraculous manner in the year 326. (The account about the finding of the Cross of the Lord is located under the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, 14 September). Situated in Palestine, the holy empress did much of benefit for the Church. She gave orders, that all places connected with the earthly life of the Lord and His All-Pure Mother, should be freed of all traces of paganism, and she commanded that churches should be built at these places of memory. Over the Cave of the Sepulchre of the Lord the emperor Constantine himself gave orders to construct a magnificent church to the glory of the Resurrection of Christ. Saint Helen gave the Life-Creating Cross to the Patriarch for safe-keeping, and part of the Cross she took with her for the emperor. Having distributed generous alms at Jerusalem and seeing to the feeding of the needy, during which times she herself attended them, the holy Empress Helen returned to Constantinople, where she soon after died in the year 327.</p><p>For her great services to the Church and her efforts in finding the Life-Creating Cross, the empress Helen is titled “Equal-to-the-Apostles.”</p><p>The peaceful state of the Christian Church was rent by the rise from within the Church by dissensions and quarrels from heresies which had appeared. Already at the beginning of the emperor Constantine’s reign there had arisen in the West the heresies of the Donatists and the Novatians, demanding a second baptism over those who lapsed during the times of the persecutions against Christians. These heresies, repudiated by two local Church councils, were finally condemned at the Milan Council of 316. But particularly ruinous for the Church was the rise in the East of the heresy of Arius, daring to repudiate the Divine Essence of the Son of God, and teaching that Jesus Christ was a mere creature. By order of the emperor, in the year 325 there was convened the First Œcumenical Council in the city of Nicæa. At this Council were gathered 318 bishops. Among its participants were confessor-bishops from the period of the persecutions and many other luminaries of the Church, among whom—was Saint-hierarch Nicholas of Myra in Lycia. (The account about the Council is located under 29 May). The emperor was present at the sessions of the Council. The heresy of Arius was condemned and a Symbol-Creed of Faith compiled, in which was included the term “of One-Essence with the Father,” always confirming in the consciousness of Orthodox Christians the truth of the Divinity of Jesus Christ, Who took on and assumed upon Himself human nature for the redemption of all the human race.</p><p>The deep churchly awareness and feeling of Saint Constantine might possibly surprise one, where the working-out of the definition “of One-Essence”heard by him in the disputes of the Council, was at his insistence included within the Symbol-Creed of Faith.</p><p>After the Council of Nicæa, Saint Constantine continued with his active role in the welfare of the Church. He accepted holy Baptism at the end of his life, having prepared for it all his whole life. Saint Constantine died on the day of Pentecost in the year 337 and was buried in the church of the Holy Apostles, in a crypt earlier prepared by him.</p>"
|
||
},
|
||
"rank": 4,
|
||
"services": {
|
||
"LITURGY": {
|
||
"TROPARION/1": {
|
||
"text": "<p>Beholding the image of Thy Cross in the sky, * and like Paul receiving a call not from men, * Thine apostle among kings placed the imperial city in Thy hands, O Lord. * Do Thou save it ever in peace, through the supplications of the Theotokos, ** O Thou Who alone lovest mankind.</p>",
|
||
"Type": "1",
|
||
"Tone": "0"
|
||
},
|
||
"KONTAKION/1": {
|
||
"text": "<p>Today Constantine and his mother Helena * reveal the Cross, the most precious Tree, which putteth to shame all the Jews * and is the weapon of faithful kings against the adversary, * For our sake hath the great standard appeared, ** terrible in battle.</p>",
|
||
"Type": "1",
|
||
"Tone": "3"
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1271": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Holy Women Martyrs Thekla, Martha and Mary in Persia († 346)",
|
||
"short": "Holy Women"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1273": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Hieromartyr Timothy, Bishop of Prussa († 361-363)",
|
||
"short": "Hieromartyr Timothy"
|
||
},
|
||
"life": {
|
||
"id": "",
|
||
"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
|
||
"text": "<p>The Hieromartyr Timothy, Bishop of Prussa (Bithynia), received from the Lord the gift of wonderworking because of his purity and sanctity of life. At Prussa he converted many pagans to the faith in Christ. The emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363), upon hearing about Saint Timothy had him locked up in prison, but even there also the saint continued to preach the Gospel. Julian forbade him to anymore teach about the Name of Jesus Christ, but the saint continued to spread about the Christian faith. Finally, the emperor gave orders to behead the saint. The holy relics of the saint were afterwards transferred to Constantinople.</p>"
|
||
},
|
||
"rank": 1,
|
||
"services": {
|
||
"LITURGY": {
|
||
"TROPARION/1": {
|
||
"text": "<p>No troparion in the Menaion</p>",
|
||
"Type": "1",
|
||
"Tone": "4"
|
||
},
|
||
"KONTAKION/1": {
|
||
"text": "",
|
||
"Type": "1",
|
||
"Tone": "1"
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1276": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Prince Yaroslav, (in baptism Constantine) († 1129), with his children Michael and Theodore, Wonderworkers of Murom (12th C)",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Prince"
|
||
},
|
||
"life": {
|
||
"id": "",
|
||
"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
|
||
"text": "<p>The Blessed Holy Princes Konstantin (Constantine) and his sons Michael and Theodore (Feodor) of Murom lived during the XI-XII Centuries. Blessed Prince Konstantin, a descendant of Equal-to-the-Apostles Vladimir, besought of his father, prince Svyatoslav of Chernigov, to give him as his appenage-holding the city of Murom, which was inhabited by pagans, so as to enlighten this land with the light of the Christian faith. The prince sent his son Michael in the capacity of emissary to the Muromsk people, but the pagans murdered him. When prince Konstantin arrived in the city with his retinue, the people quieted down and accepted him, but for a long time they would not consent to give up their paganism. One time they made their way down to the dwelling of the prince, with the intent to kill him, but the prince intrepidly came out to the crowd with the Icon of the Murom Mother of God. The mutinous people unexpectedly quieted down and consented to accept holy Baptism, which was made over them at the River Oka. At the place of the murder of his son Michael, Saint Konstantin built a church in honour of the Annunciation, and later on another church in the name of the holy Passion-Bearers Boris and Gleb. In the propagation of the Christian faith amongst the Muromsk people, prince Konstantin zealously assisted his son, prince Theodore. In 1129 Saint Konstantin died and was buried in the church of the Annunciation alongside his sons, Blessed Michael and Theodore.</p>"
|
||
},
|
||
"rank": 3,
|
||
"services": {
|
||
"LITURGY": {
|
||
"TROPARION/1": {
|
||
"text": "<p>Need English translation</p>",
|
||
"Type": "1",
|
||
"Tone": "4"
|
||
},
|
||
"KONTAKION/1": {
|
||
"text": "<p>Need English translation</p>",
|
||
"Type": "1",
|
||
"Tone": "0"
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1277": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Theophanes and Pansemia of Antioch († 363)",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Theophanes"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1278": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Saint Bassian, Bishop of Lodi († 409)",
|
||
"short": "Saint Bassian"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1285": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Icon of the Mother of God “Axion Estin” (“It Is Truly Meet”) (10<sup>th</sup> C)",
|
||
"short": "Icon of"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"1287": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Onuphrius the Great (4<sup>th</sup> C)",
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"short": "Venerable Onuphrius"
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"text": "<p>The Vitæ/Lives of the Monk Onuphrios the Great and of other hermits of the IV Century, asceticising in the inner Thebaid wilderness in Egypt (among them were the Monk Timothy the Wilderness-Dweller, and the Monks John, Andrew, Herakleimon (Heraklambonos), Theophilos and others)—was written down by their contemporary and fellow monk of the Thebaid, the Monk Paphnutios.</p><p>One time the thought occurred to Saint Paphnutios to go off into the depths of the wilderness, in order to see for himself the fathers asceticising there and to hear from them, as to how they sought after salvation. He set out from his monastery and went into the wilderness. Over the span of four days the monk reached a cave and found in it the body of a long since dead elder. Having buried the hermit, the Monk Paphnutios went on further. After another four days he came across yet another cave and from the marks in the sand he realised, that the cave was inhabited. At sundown he saw an herd of buffalo and walking amidst them a man. This man was naked, but covered over literally as though by clothing by long hair. This was the Monk Timothy the Wilderness-Dweller. Catching sight of a fellow man, the Monk Timothy thought that he was seeing an apparition, and he began to pray. Saint Paphnutios finally convinced the hermit, that he was actually a live man and a fellow Christian. The Monk Timothy readied him a guest-place and related, that he had been already asceticising in the wilderness for 30 years, and this was the first he had seen of another man. In his youth, the Monk Timothy had lived in a common-life monastery, but he was troubled by thoughts of being saved alone. The Monk Timothy left his monastery and went to live nearby a city, sustaining himself by the work of his own hands (he was a weaver). One time a woman came to him with an order and he fell into sin with her. Having come to his senses, the fallen monk went far off into the wilderness, where with patience he underwent tribulation and sickness as a merited chastisement from God. And when he was already at the point of dying from hunger, just then in a miraculous manner he received healing.</p><p>From that time the Monk Timothy had lived peacefully in complete solitude, eating dates from the trees, and quenching his thirst with water from a spring. The Monk Paphnutios besought the elder that he might remain with him in the wilderness. But he was told, that he would be unable to bear the demonic temptations which beset wilderness-dwellers, and instead he blessed him and supplied him on his way with dates and water.</p><p>Having rested up at the wilderness monastery, the Monk Paphnutios undertook a second journey into the depths of the wilderness. He went on for 17 days. His supply of bread and water was exhausted, and the Monk Paphnutios twice collapsed from weakness. An Angel strengthened him. On the 17<sup>th</sup> day the Monk Paphnutios reached an hilly place and sat down to rest. Here he caught sight of a man approaching him, from head to foot covered with white hair and with a belt of leaves about the loins. The sight of the elder frightened Saint Paphnutios, and he jumped up and fled off towards the hill. The elder sat down at the foot of the hill. And when, lifting his head, he caught sight of the Monk Paphnutios, he called out to him to come over. This was the great wilderness-dweller—the Monk Onuphrios. At the request of Saint Paphnutios, he told him about himself.</p><p>The Monk Onuphrios had lived in complete isolation in the wilds of the wilderness for 60 years. In his youth he had been raised at the Erita Thebaid monastery. Having learned from the elders about the hardships and lofty life of the wilderness-dwellers, to whom the Lord dispatched help through His Angels, the Monk Onuphrios blazed up in his spirit to copy their exploits. By night he secretly left the monastery and saw before himself a ray of light. Saint Onuphrios became frightened and decided to go back, but the voice of his Guardian Angel urged him on upon his utmost path. In the depths of the wilderness the Monk Onuphrios came upon a wilderness dweller and he stayed with him to learn of the wilderness manner of life and the struggle with demonic temptations. When the elder was convinced, that Saint Onuphrios was strong enough in this terrible struggle, he then led him off to this bidden place of exploits and left him alone. Once a year the elder was wont to come to him, and after several years, having finally come to the Monk Onuphrios, he then died.</p><p>At the request of the Monk Paphnutios, the Monk Onuphrios told about his exploits and efforts and about how the Lord had cared for him: roundabout the cave where he lived, there grew a date-palm tree and a spring of pure water issued forth. Twelve different branches of the palm tree in succession bore fruit, and so the monk endured neither hunger nor thirst. The shade of the palm tree sheltered him from the noonday heat. An Angel brought the saint bread and each Saturday and Sunday communed him, as also with the other wilderness dwellers, with the Holy Mysteries.</p><p>The monks conversed until evening. At evening there appeared amidst the saints white bread, and they partook of it with water. The elders spent the night at prayer. After the singing of matins the Monk Paphnutios saw, that the face of the Monk Onuphrios had become transformed, which frightened him. Saint Onuphrios was saying: “God, Merciful to all, hath sent thee to me, so that thou might give burial to my body. On this present day I shalt finish my earthly course and pass over to life unending, in rest eternal, going to my Christ.” The Monk Onuphrios bid Saint Paphnutios, that he should tell the account about him to his brother ascetics and to all Christians, for the sake of their salvation. </p><p>The Monk Paphnutios besought blessing to remain in the wilderness, but Saint Onuphrios said, that this was not the will of God, and he ordered him to return to the monastery and relate to everyone about the lives of the Thebaid Wilderness-Dwellers. Having then blessed the Monk Paphnutios and made farewell, Saint Onuphrios prayed long with tears, and then he lay down upon the earth, uttering his final words: “Into Thine hands, my God, I commend my spirit,”—and he died.</p><p>The Monk Paphnutios with weeping tore off a portion of his garb and with it wrapped the body of the great wilderness dweller, which he placed in the crevice of a large rock, and in the semblance of a grave, he covered it over with a multitude of small stones. Then he began to pray, whether it was that the Lord had decided he should stay til his life’s end at the place of the exploits of the Monk Onuphrios. Suddenly the cave fell in, the palm tree withered, and the water spring dried up. </p><p>Realising that he had not been given the blessing to remain, the Monk Paphnutios set out on his return journey. </p><p>After 4 days the Monk Paphnutios reached a cave, where he met a wilderness dweller, who was there in the wilderness for more than 60 years. Except for the two other elders, with whom he asceticised, this wilderness dweller had seen no one in that time. Each week these three had gone on their solitary paths into the wilderness, and on Saturday and Sunday they gathered for psalmody. They ate the bread, which an Angel brought them. And since it was Saturday, they had gathered together. Having partaken of the bread from the Angel, they spent the whole night at prayer. In leaving, the Monk Paphnutios asked the names of the elders, but they said: “God, Who knoweth all, knoweth also our names. Remember us, that we be vouchsafed to see one another in God’s habitations on high.”</p><p>Continuing on his way, the Monk Paphnutios came upon an oasis, which impressed him with its beauty and abundance of fruit-bearing trees. And then the four youths inhabiting this place came to him from out of the wilderness. The youths told the Monk Paphnutios, that in their childhood they had lived in the city of Oxyrhynchus (Upper Thebaid) and they had studied together. They had been ardent with the desire to devote their lives to God. Making their plans to go off into the wilderness, the youths left the city and after several days journey they reached this wilderness area. A man radiant with light met them and led them to a wilderness elder. “We are living here six years already,—said the youths,—Our elder dwelt here one year and then he died. We live here at present alone, we eat of the fruit of the trees, and we have water from a spring.” The youths gave him their names: they were Saints John, Andrew, Heraklambonos (Herakleimon) and Theophilos. The youths asceticised separately from one another the whole week long, but on Saturday and Sunday they gathered at the oasis and offered up common prayer. On these days an Angel would appear and commune them with the Holy Mysteries. This time however, because of the Monk Paphnutios, they did not go off into the wilderness, but spent the whole week together at prayer. On the following Saturday and Sunday Saint Paphnutios together with the youths was granted to commune the Holy Mysteries from the hands of the Angel and to hear the words of utterance of the Angel: “Receive ye the Food Imperishable, the Bliss Unending and Life Eternal, the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, our God.”</p><p>The Monk Paphnutios made bold to ask of the Angel the permission to remain to the end of his days in the wilderness. The Angel answered, that God had decreed for him another path—to return to Egypt and to make report to all Christians about the life of the wilderness dwellers.</p><p>Having made his farewell of the youths, the Monk Paphnutios after three days journey reached the edge of the wilderness. Here he found a small skete monastery, and the brethren received him fondly. The Monk Paphnutios related everything, that he had learned about the holy fathers, whom he had encountered in the depths of the wilderness. The brethren wrote down in detail the account of the Monk Paphnutios and spread it about through other sketes and monasteries. The Monk Paphnutios gave thanks to God, Who had granted him to learn about the lofty lives of the hermits of the Thebaid wilderness, and he returned to his own monastery.</p>"
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"text": "<p>O God of our fathers, who dealest always with us according to Thy meekness, take not away Thy mercy from us but through their prayers guide our lives in peace.</p>",
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"text": "<p>Illumined by the radiance of the all-holy Spirit, * O divinely wise one, * thou didst forsake all the tumults of life; * and on reaching the desert, O venerable father, * thou didst gladden God the Creator, Who is over all things. ** Wherefore, Christ, the great Bestower of gifts, doth glorify thee, O blessed one.</p>",
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Venerable Martyr Cornelius, Abbot of the Pskov Caves and his disciple, Venerable Bassian of Murom († 1570)",
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"short": "Venerable Cornelius"
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"life": {
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"copyright": "Bulgakov Handbook. Copyright 1997 by translator Fr. S. Janos.",
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"text": "<p>The MonkMartyr Kornilii of Pskovo-Kiev Caves was born in the year 1501 at Pskov into the boyar-noble family of Stefan and Maria. In order to give their son an education, his parents sent him to the Pskov Mirozh monastery, where he worked under the guidance of an elder: he made candles, chopped wood, studied his letters, transcription and adornment of books, and also iconography. Having finished his studies, Kornilii returned to his parental home with the resolve to become a monk.</p><p>One time the government clerk Misiur Munekhin took Kornilii with him to the Pskovo-Kiev Caves monastery set amidst the woods, and which then was in more miserable a condition than any other Pskov churchyard. The beauty of nature there, and the calm of services in the cave church produced so very strong an impression on Kornilii, that he left his parental home forever and accepted monastic tonsure at the Pskovo-Kiev Caves monastery.</p><p>In 1529, at age 28, the Monk Kornilii was elevated to hegumen and became head of the monastery. While he was hegumen, the Pskovo-Kiev Caves monastery reached the height of its prime. The number of brethren increased from 15 to 200 men. This number of residents was not exceeded under any other subsequent head of the monastery. </p><p>The activity of the Monk Kornilii extended far beyond the bounds of the monastery: he disseminated Orthodoxy amongst the Esti (Aesti) and Sæti people living around the monastery, he built churches, hospices, homes for orphans and those in need. During the time of a terrible plague in the Pskov region the Monk Kornilii walked through the plague-infested villages to give communion to the living and to sing burial-service at the circular pits with the dead.</p><p>During the time of the Livonian war the Monk Kornilii preached Christianity in the occupied cities, built churches there, by hand distributed generous aid from the monastery storerooms to the Esti and Livonians suffering during the time of war; at the monastery he selflessly doctored and fed the injured and the maimed, preserved the killed within the caves and inscribed their names in the monastery synodikon-record for eternal remembrance. </p><p>In the year 1560, on the feast of the Uspenie (Dormition) of the Mother of God, the Monk Kornilii sent by way of blessing for the Russian armies, besieging the city of Thellin, a prosphora and holy water. On that very day the Germans surrendered the city. In 1570 at the establishing of a cathedra-see in Livonian Yur′ev, there was appointed as bishop of Yur′ev and Vel′yansk (i.e. Thellin) a certain hegumen Kornilii. Some have identified him with the Monk Kornilii, but this does not correspond with actual events. The Monk Kornilii was a great expert and lover of books—at the monastery was gathered quite solid a collection of books. In 1531 came out his work entitled, “An Account Concerning the Origin of the Kiev Caves Monastery.” In the mid-XVI Century the Pskovo-Kiev Caves monastery took over from the Spaso-Eleaszarov monastery the tradition of chronicle-keeping. At the start of the chronicles was put accounts of the first two Pskov chronicles in rough-draft continuation from 1547 to 1567. Besides this, Hegumen Kornilii left behind a great monastery Synodikon for remembrance of deceased brothers and benefactors of the monastery, and he began to maintain the “Stern-side Book” [“Kormovaya kniga,” <i>i.e.</i> the ship-stern is the back-side (sic) the sense of “looking back in remembrance”] from the year 1588; he compiled also a “Description of the Monastery” and a “Description of the Miracles of the Kiev Caves Icon of the Mother of God.”</p><p>The Monk Kornilii expanded and beautified the monastery, he dug out further the monastery caves, he transported the wooden church named for the Forty Martyrs of Sebasteia beyond the monastery enclosure to the entryway monastery gate, and on its site in the year 1541 he built a church in the name of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God, and in 1559 he constructed a church in honour of the Protection-Pokrov of the Most Holy Mother of God.</p><p>The Kiev Caves monastery, risen up on the frontier of the Russian state, was not only a luminary of Orthodoxy, but also a bulwark against the external enemies of Russia.</p><p>In the years 1558-1565 the Monk Kornilii erected round about the monastery a massive stone wall, and over the holy gates in accord with his plan he built a stone church in the name of Saint Nicholas, entrusting to him the guarding of the monastery. Within the temple was set a wooden sculpted image of “Nikola the Warrior.”</p><p>In the chronicle, compiled by the monk-deacon Pitirim, was thus recorded about the martyr’s death of the Monk Kornilii: “This worthy-blest hegumen Kornilii… was as hegumen 41 years and 2 months; by his fast-keeping and holy life not only as a monk was he an image unto salvation… in these times being then in the Russian land evil sufferance of much unrest, and finally, from this perishable life the earthly tsar did dispatch him unto the Heavenly Tsar unto eternal habitation, in the year 1570 on the 20<sup>th</sup> day of February, in his 69<sup>th</sup> year from birth.” (This information is on the ceramic plate—from the ceramics covering the mouth of the tomb of the Monk Kornilii).</p><p>In the ancient manuscripts of the Trinity-Sergiev Lavra it was written, that when Hegumen Kornilii came out the monastery gates with a cross to meet the tsar, tsar Ivan the Terrible, angered by a false slander, with his own hand cut off his head, but then immediately repented of his deed and, taking up the body, in his own hands he carried it into the monastery. The pathway made scarlet by the blood of the Monk Kornilii, along which the tsar carried his body to the Uspenie-Dormition church, became called the “Bloody Path.” Evidence of the tsar’s repenting his deed was the generous recompense to the Pskovo-Kiev Caves monastery, made by him after the death of the Monk Kornilii. The name of the Hegumen Kornilii was inscribed in the tsar’s remembrance-synodikon.</p><p>The body of the Monk Kornilii was set into the wall of “the cave formed by God,” wherein it passed 120 years without corruption. In the year 1690 Markell, metropolitan of Pskov and Izborsk, had the relics transferred from the cave to the Uspenie-Dormition cathedral church and placed in a new crypt in the wall.</p><p>On 17 December 1872 the relics of the Monk Kornilii were transferred from the former tomb into a copper-silver reliquary, and in 1892—into a new reliquary. It is presumed, that the service to the monk-martyr was compiled for the day of the Uncovering of the Relics, in the year 1690.</p>"
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"1289": {
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Hieromartyr Cornelius the Centurion (1<sup>st</sup> C)",
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"short": "Hieromartyr Cornelius"
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}
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},
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"1290": {
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Venerable Onuphrius the Abbot of Malsk, Pskov († 1492)",
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"short": "Venerable Onuphrius"
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}
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},
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"1291": {
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Venerable Stephen of Komel the Abbot of Ozersk Monastery, Vologda († 1542)",
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"short": "Venerable Stephen"
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}
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},
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"1294": {
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia, and their mother, Saint Theodotia (3<sup>rd</sup> C)",
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"short": "Unmercenaries"
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"life": {
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"text": "<p>Brothers by birth, they were born in Asia. Their father was a Greek pagan, and their mother, Theodotia, confessed the Christian faith. She became widowed in her youth and led a pious life, accustoming her children to a charitable life and teaching them good works. Brought up in strict piety, Cosmas and Damian from infancy tried to fulfill the law of God, and having come of age, like two candlesticks shone with good deeds. In order to better bring benefits to their neighbour, they were occupied with medical science, learned the healing properties of herbs and plants, and became skilful physicians. From their success of healing the infirm, they “neither received anything from anyone for doing this, for they did this not for the sake of their estate, to enrich themselves with gold and silver, but for the sake of God.” They “helped not only people, but also cattle.” Having lived in peace and hardworking, they quietly departed to the Lord, and were buried in Thereman in Mesopotamia and “in accordance with their holy repose granting healing flowing in abundance to all.” The commemoration of the Unmercenaries on July 1 and October 17 are separate from them.</p>"
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"rank": 2,
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"services": {
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"TROPARION/1": {
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"text": "<p>O Holy Unmercenaries and Wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian, visit our infirmities. Freely have you received; freely grant to us.</p>",
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"Type": "1",
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"Tone": "0",
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"Translator": "Aleksandr Andreev"
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},
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"KONTAKION/1": {
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"text": "<p>Having received the grace of healings, you extend health to those in need, O Physicians [and] Most Glorious Wonderworkers. But by your visitation, destroy the insolence of the enemies, healing the world through your wonders.</p>",
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"Type": "1",
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"Tone": "2",
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"Translator": "Aleksandr Andreev"
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}
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}
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},
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"1295": {
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Martyrs and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian in Cilicia (Arabia), with their brothers the Martyrs Leontius, Anthymus and Eutropius († 287 or 303)",
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"short": "Martyrs and"
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}
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},
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"1296": {
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"name": {
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"nominative": "St. Triphyllius, Bishop of Leucosia (Nicosia) in Cyprus († c. 370)",
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"short": "St. Triphyllius"
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},
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"life": {
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"id": "",
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"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
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"text": "<p>Saint Triphyllios, Bishop of Leukyssa, was born in Constantinople, and he received his education at Berit (Beirut, in Lebanon). He was very intelligent and eloquent. In spite of this, the saint chose as his guide a man not bookish nor learned, but of profound holiness—Saint Spyridon of Trimiphunteia († 348, Comm. 12 December). The emperor Constantine II (337-340) fell grievously ill and, having received no help from the doctors, he turned with fervent prayer to God. In a dream he saw an Angel, directing him to a gathering of saintly hierarchs. Pointing out two of them, the Angel said that only through them could he receive healing. Constantine circulated an imperial edict throughout all the districts, commanding the bishops to gather. Saint Spyridon also received this order. Together with his disciple Saint Triphyllios, he set out to the emperor. The sick one immediately recognised them as the healers pointed out by the Angel. He bowed to them and asked them to pray for his health. Saint Spyridon with a prayer touched the head of the emperor, and he became well. Saint Triphyllios was charmed by the beautiful palace, the majestic figure of the emperor, and the pomp of palace life. Saint Spyridon said to this: “Why art thou astonished? Doth then this lustre make the emperor any more righteous? All of them—emperors and dignitaries—will alike die and stand together with the very poorest before the judgement-seat of God. One ought to seek after the eternal blessings and Heavenly glories.”</p><p>Soon Saint Triphyllios was made bishop of the city of Leukyssa on Cyprus. He often visited with Saint Spyridon. One time they passed together through an area of vineyards and gardens of especial beauty and abundance, named Parimnos. Saint Triphyllios, attracted by the beauty of nature, began to consider how they might explore this land. Saint Spyridon discerned the thoughts of Saint Triphyllios and said: “Why dost thou incessantly think about earthly and transitory blessings? Our habitation and riches art in Heaven, to which we ought to strive.” Thus did Saint Spyridon constantly lead his student towards spiritual perfection, which Saint Triphyllios attained through the prayers of his preceptor. Saint Triphyllios had a charitable soul, an heart without malice, right faith and love towards all, and many other virtues.</p><p>One time a Council of bishops assembled on Cyprus. The father of the Council requested that Saint Triphyllios, known for his erudition and eloquence, give an edifying speech to the people. Speaking about the healing of the paralytic by the Lord (Mk. 2 : 11). in place of the word “cot” he used the word “bed.” Impatient with the imprecise rendering of the Gospel text, Saint Spyridon roused himself and said to Saint Triphyllios: “Art thou better than He that spake “cot,” that thou be ashamed of His wording?”—and abruptly he left the church. Thus did Saint Spyridon give Saint Triphyllios a lesson in humility, so that he would not get puffed up with pride over the talent of eloquence bestown on him. Saint Triphyllios wisely shepherded his flock. From the means left him by his mother, he built a monastery at Leukyssa. The saint died in old age in about the year 370.</p><p>At the beginning of the XII Century the Russian pilgrim Hegumen Daniel saw the relics of Saint Triphyllios on Cyprus.</p>"
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"text": "<p>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 Triphyllius our father, entreat Christ God that our souls be saved.</p>",
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"text": "<p>Receiving the purity of virginity through the excellence of thy life, O Triphyllius, * thou wast the first hierarch of Leucosia * and wast shown to be its evangelizer and instructor in the knowledge of God. ** Wherefore, with joy we cry out to thee: Rejoice, O adornment of hierarchs!</p>",
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"Tone": "0"
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}
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}
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}
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},
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"1297": {
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerables Anna († 826) and her son John in Constantinople (9<sup>th</sup> C)",
|
||
"short": "Venerables Anna"
|
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}
|
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},
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"1298": {
|
||
"name": {
|
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"nominative": "Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs at Rome († 284)",
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"short": "Unmercenaries"
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},
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"life": {
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"id": "",
|
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"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
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"text": "<p>The Holy Martyrs, Wonderworkers and UnMercenaries Cosmas and Damian—were brothers by birth, born at Rome, and physicians by profession. They accepted a martyr’s death at Rome under the emperor Carinus (283-284). They were brought up by their parents in the rules of piety, they led strict and chaste lives, and they were granted by God the graced gift of healing the sick. By their good and unselfish attitude towards people, combined with their exceptional kindliness, the brothers converted many to Christ. The saints usually said to the sick: “It be not by our power that we treat the sick, but by the power of Christ, the True God. Believe in Him and be healed.” For their unselfish doctoring of the infirm, the holy brothers were called “unmercenary physicians.”</p><p>Their active service towards neighbour and spiritual influence on the surroundings, leading many into the Church, attracted the attention of the Roman authorities. Soldiers were sent after the brothers. Hearing about this, Christians implored Saints Cosmas and Damian to hide themselves away for a while until they could render them help. But the soldiers, not finding the brothers, arrested instead other Christians of the settlement, where the saints lived. Saints Cosmas and Damian then came out of hiding and delivered themselves over into the hands of the soldiers, asking them to set free those arrested because of them.</p><p>At Rome, the saints were at first locked up in prison, and then were taken for trial. The saints openly confessed before the Roman emperor and the judge their faith in Christ God, having come into the world to save mankind and redeem the world from sin, and they resolutely refused to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods. They said: “We have caused evil for no one, we have not involved ourselves with the magic or sorcery, of which you accuse us. We doctor the infirm by the power of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and we do not take any sort of recompense for rendering aid to the sick, because our Lord commanded His disciples: “Freely ye have received, freely give” (Mt. 10: 8).</p><p>The emperor however continued with his demands. Through the prayer of the holy brothers, imbued with the power of grace, God suddenly struck Carinus blind, so that he too in his own experience might know the almightiness of the Lord, not forgiving blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. The people, beholding the miracle, cried out: “Great is the Christian God and no other is God, except Him!” Many of those that believed besought the holy brothers to heal the emperor, and he himself implored the saints, promising to convert to the True God Christ the Saviour. The saints healed him. After this, Saints Cosmas and Damian were with honour set free and again they set about doctoring the sick.</p><p>But what the hatred of the pagans and the ferocity of the Roman authorities could not do, was done by black envy, one of the strongest passions of the sinful nature of man. An older physician—an instructor, under whom in their time the holy brothers had studied the medical craft, became jealous of their fame. Driven to madness by this malice, and all overcome by passion, he summoned the holy brothers, formerly his most beloved students, that they should all get together for a gathering of various medicinal herbs, and setting far off into the mountains, he murdered them, throwing their bodies into a river. </p><p>Thus as martyrs ended the earthly journey of these holy brothers—the Unmercenary Healers Cosmas and Damian. They had devoted all their life to a Christian service to neighbour, having escaped the Roman sword and prison, but treacherously murdered by a teacher.</p><p>The Lord glorified His God-pleasing ones. And now through the prayers of the holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian is received healing from God for all, who with faith recourse to their saintly intercession.</p>"
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"text": "<p>O holy unmercenaries and wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian, visit our infirmities. ** Freely have ye received, freely give unto us.</p>",
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"Type": "1",
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"Tone": "0"
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},
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"KONTAKION/1": {
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"text": "<p>Having received the grace of healings, * ye extend health to those in need, * O all-glorious physicians and wonderworkers. * By your visitation cast down the audacity of the enemy, ** healing the world with miracles.</p>",
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"Type": "1",
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"Tone": "2"
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}
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}
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Repose of the Venerable Alexander, Abbot of Svir († 1533)",
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"short": "Venerable Alexander"
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"rank": 3,
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"life": {
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"id": "",
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"copyright": "The Clergyman’s Handbook. Moscow. 1978. English translation Copyright 1997 Fr. S. Janos.",
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"text": "<p>The Monk Alexander of Svirsk was born on July 15<sup>th</sup> 1448, on the day of memory of the Prophet Amos, and at Baptism was named in honour of him. Dwelling all his life far off from historical events, the Monk Alexander—a beacon light of monasticism in the deep forests of the Russian North—worked a different and spiritual history and was bestown extraordinary gifts of the Holy Spirit.</p><p>His parents, Stefan and Vassa (Basil/Vasilisa) were peasants of the nigh-close to Lake Ladoga village of Mandera, at the bank of the River Oyata, a tributary of the River Svira. They had two children, who were already grown and lived away from their parents. But Stefan and Vassa wanted still to have another son. They prayed fervently and heard a voice from above: “Rejoice, good wedded, ye shall bear a son, in whose birth God wilt give comfort to His Church.”</p><p>Amos grew up a special lad. He was always obedient and gentle, he shunned games, jokes and foul-talk, he wore poor clothes and so weakened himself with fasting, that it caused his mother anxiety. Upon coming of age he once met Valaamsk monks who had come to the Oyata for the purchase of necessities and concerning other economic needs. Valaam at this time had already the reputation as a monastery of deep piety and strict ascetic life. Having spoken with them, the youth became interested by their account about the scete (with two or three together) and about the monastic hermit life. Knowing that his parents wanted to marry him off, the youth at age 19 went secretly to Valaam. Under the guise of being a companion, an Angel of God appeared to him, showing the way to the island. </p><p>Amos lived for seven years at the monastery as a novice, leading an austere life. He spent his days at work, and his nights—in vigilance and prayer. Sometimes bare of chest, all covered by mosquitœs and gnats, he prayed in the forest to the morning song of the birds.</p><p>In the year 1474, Amos took monastic vows with the name Alexander. After some several years his parents eventually learned from Karelians arriving in Mandera, whither their son had disappeared. Through the example of their son, even the parents soon went to the monastery and took vows with the names Sergei and Varvara (Barbara). After their death the Monk Alexander, with the blessing of the hegumen of the monastery, settled on a solitary monastery island, where in the crevice of a cliff he built a cell and continued his spiritual exploits.</p><p>The fame of his exploits spread far. Then in 1485 the Monk Alexander departed from Valaam and, upon a command from above, chose a place in the forest on the shore of a beautiful lake, which afterwards was named Holy (Svyata). Here the monk built himself an hut and in solitude he dwelt for seven years, eating only that which he gathered in the forest (Afterwards at this place,—Lake Svyata, 38 km [36 versts] from the future city of Olonets and 6.4 km [6 versts] from the River Svira, the Monk Alexander founded the monastery of the Life-Originating Trinity, and 280 m [130 sazhen] off from it, at Lake Roschina, he built himself a “withdrawing place,”—on the spot where the Alexandro-Svirsk monastery later emerged). During this time the saint experienced fierce sufferings from hunger, frost, sickness and demonic temptations. But the Lord continually sustained the spiritual and bodily strength of the righteous one. Once when suffering with terrible infirmities, the monk not only was not able to get up from the ground, but also even was unable to lift his head, he just lay there and sang psalms. And hereupon there appeared to him a glorious man. Placing his hand on the pained spot, he signed the saint with the sign of the cross and healed him.</p><p>In 1493 while hunting for deer, the adjoining land-owner Andrew Zavalishin happened to come upon the hut of the monk. Andrew spoke to him about a light, seen earlier at this place, and he entreated the monk to tell him about his life. From that point Andrew started often to visit with the Monk Alexander, and finally through the monk’s guidance, he himself departed for Valaam, where he took vows with the name Adrian, founding later on the Ondrusovsk monastery, and glorifying himself with a saintly life (Commemorated August 26<sup>th</sup> and May 17<sup>th</sup>, † 1549).</p><p>Andrew Zavalishin was not able to keep quiet about the ascetic, in spite of the promise given to him. News about the righteous one began to spread widely, and monks started to gather about him. The monk thereupon withdrew himself from all the brethren and built himself a “withdrawing spot” a distance of 280 m [130 sazhen] from the common dwelling. There, he encountered a multitude of temptations. The demons took on beastly shapes, they hissed like snakes, urging the monk to flee. But the prayer of the saint, as it were a fiery flame, scorched and dispersed the devils.</p><p>In 1508, the 23<sup>th</sup> year of the monk’s dwelling at this secluded spot, there appeared to him the Life-Originating Trinity. The monk was praying at night at his “withdrawing spot.” Suddenly an intense light shone, and the monk beheld approaching him Three Men, robed in radiant white garb. Hallowed by Heavenly Glory, They did shine in a pure brightness greater than the sun. Each of Them held in Their hand a staff. The monk fell down in terror, and having come to his senses, prostrated himself on the ground. Taking him up by the hand, the Men said: “Trust thou, blessed one, and fear not.” The monk received orders to construct a church and to build up a monastery. He again fell to his knees, crying out about his own unworthiness, but the Lord raised him up and ordered him to fulfill the commands. The monk asked, in whose name the church ought to be. The Lord thereupon said: “Beloved, as thou beholdest Those speaking with thee in Three Persons, so also construct thou the church in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity One-in-Essence. I leave thee peace and My peace I give thee.” And immediately the Monk Alexander beheld the Lord with out-stretched wings, going as though along the ground, and He became invisible. In the history of the Russian Orthodox Church this Divine Descent is acknowledged as unique. After this vision the monk began to think, where to build the church. Once during a time of prayer to God, he heard a voice from above. Having gazed up to the heights, he saw an Angel of God in mantle and klobuk [cylindrical monastic headgear], such as the Monk Pachomius had seen. The Angel, standing in the air with outstretched wings and up-raised hands, proclaimed: “One is Holy, One is the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Glory of God the Father, Amen.” And then he turned to the monk: Alexander, upon this spot construct the church in the Name of the Lord Who hath appeared to thee in Three Persons, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, the Trinity Undivided.” And having thrice made the cross over the place, the Angel became invisible.</p><p>In that same year was built a wooden church of the Life-Originating Trinity (in 1526, there was built a stone church). And at the same time as the building of the church, the brethren began to urge the monk to accept the priesthood. For a long time he refused, considering himself unworthy. Then the brethren began to implore Saint Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod († 1516, Commemorated March 16<sup>th</sup>), that he convince the monk to accept the dignity. And so in that very year the monk journeyed to Novgorod and received ordination from the holy archbishop. Soon afterwards the brethren also besought the monk to accept being hegumen.</p><p>Having become hegumen, the monk became even more humble than before. His clothes were all in tatters, and he slept on the bare ground. He himself prepared food, kneaded dough, and baked bread. One time there was not sufficient firewood and the steward asked the hegumen to dispatch after firewood any of the monks that were idle. “I am idle,”—said the monk, and he began to chop firewood. Another time likewise he began to carry water. And by night when all were asleep, the monk was often grinding away with hand-stones for making more bread. By night the monk made the round of the cells and if he heard anywhere vain conversations, he lightly tapped on the door and departed, but in the morning he admonished the brother, imposing a penance on the culprit.</p><p>Towards the end of his life the Monk Alexander decided to build a stone church of the Protection (Pokrov) of the Most Holy Mother of God. One time in the evening, after doing an acathistos (akafist) to the Most Holy Mother of God, the monk settled down to rest in the cell and suddenly said to the cell-attendant Athanasius: “Child, be sober and alert, because in this hour will be a wondrous and astounding visit.” There followed a voice, like thunder: “Behold cometh the Lord and His Birth-Giver.” The monk hastened to the entrance to the cell, and a great light illumined it, spreading over all the monastery brighter than the rays of the sun. Gazing, the monk beheld over the foundation of the Protection church sitting at the altar place, as it were an empress upon a throne, the All-Pure Mother of God. She held the Infant-Christ in Her arms, and a multitude of the angelic rank, shining with an indescribable brightness, stood before Her. The monk fell down, unable to bear the great light. The Mother of God said: “Rise up, thou chosen one of My Son and God. For I have come here to visit thee, My dear one, and to look upon the foundation of My church. And for this, I have made entreaty for thy disciples and monastery, from hence all wilt be abundant; not only during thine life, but also upon thy departure persistently from thy monastery will be a granting of all necessities in abundance. Behold and watch carefully, how many monks are gathered into thy flock, which by thee must needs be guided on the way of salvation in the Name of the Holy Trinity.” The monk rose up and beheld a multitude of monks. Again said the Mother of God: “My dear one, if someone doth bear one brick for the building of My church, in the Name of Jesus Christ, My Son and God, his treasure perisheth not.” And She became invisible.</p><p>Before his death the monk displayed wondrous humility. He summoned the brethren and bid them: “Bind my sinful body by the legs and drag it to a swampy thicket and, having enclosed it in skins, submerse it by the legs.” The brethren answered: “No, father, it is not possible to do this.” Then the monk bid that his body not be kept at the monastery, but at a place of withdrawal, the church of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Having lived 85 years, the monk expired to the Lord on August 30<sup>th</sup> 1533. </p><p>The Monk Alexander of Svirsk was glorified by wondrous miracles during his life and upon his death. In 1545 his disciple and successor, Hegumen Irodion, compiled his life. In 1547 was begun the local celebration of the monk and a service compiled to him. In the year 1641, on April 17<sup>th</sup>, during the rebuilding of the Transfiguration church, the incorrupt relics of the Monk Alexander of Svirsk were uncovered and the universal Church celebration to him was established on two dates: the day of repose—August 30<sup>30</sup>, and the day of glorification (Uncovering of Relics)—April 17<sup>th</sup>. </p><p>The Monk Alexander of Svirsk instructed and raised up a whole multitude of disciples, as the Mother of God had bequeathed him. These are the Saint-Monks: Ignatius of Ostrovsk (XVI), Leonid of Ostrovsk (XVI), Cornelius of Ostrovsk (XVI), Dionysius of Ostrovsk (XVI), Athanasius (Afanasii) of Ostrovsk (XVI), Theodore (Feodor) of Ostrovsk (XVI), Ferapont of Ostrovsk (XVI). Besides these saints, there are known disciples and those conversing with the Monk Alexander of Svirsk, which have separate days of memory: the Monk Athansius (Afanasii) of Syandemsk († XVI, Commemorated January 18<sup>th</sup>), the Monk Gennadius of Vasheozersk († January 8<sup>th</sup> 1516, Commemorated February 9<sup>th</sup>), the Monk Macarius of Orodezhsk († 1532, Commemorated August 9<sup>th</sup>), the Monk Adrian of Ondrosovsk († August 26<sup>th</sup> 1549, Commemorated May 17<sup>th</sup>), the Monk Nicephorus of Vasheozersk († 1557, Commemorated February 9<sup>th</sup>), the Monk Gennadius of Kostroma and Liubimograd († 1565, Commemorated January 23<sup>th</sup>). All these saints (except the Monk Gennadius of Kostroma) are shown on the Icon of the Monastic Fathers, illumined in the Karelia land (icon from the church at the Spiritual Seminary in the city of Kuopio, Finland). The festal celebration of the Sobor-Assemblage of the Saints Illumined in the Karelian Land is done by the Finnish Orthodox Church on the Saturday falling between October 31<sup>st</sup> and November 6<sup>th</sup>.</p>"
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"120209": {
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"name": {
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"nominative": "Finding of the Relics of Venerable Joannichius of Black River",
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||
"short": "Finding of"
|
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}
|
||
},
|
||
"120504": {
|
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Nectarius of Bulgaria and his teacher, Philotheus of Mt Athos (14<sup>th</sup> C)",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Nectarius"
|
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}
|
||
},
|
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"120901": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Repose of St Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia († 1406)",
|
||
"short": "St. Cyprian"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"121905": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Saint Gregory, Bishop of Omiritia († c. 552)",
|
||
"short": "Saint Gregory"
|
||
},
|
||
"services": {
|
||
"0": {},
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||
"1": {
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"LITURGY/0": {
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"text": ""
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}
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},
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"2": {
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"LITURGY/0": {
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"text": ""
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}
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}
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},
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"life": {
|
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"id": "",
|
||
"copyright": "Bulgakov Handbook. Copyright 1999-2008 Archpriest Eugene D. Tarris.",
|
||
"text": "<p>He was born in Mediolanum (Milan) where he served the Lord as a deacon. Elesbaan, King of Ethiopia (see Oct. 24), after defeating Dunaan, King of the Omirites in 528, asked Patriarch Asterius of Alexandria that he send a worthy shepherd for the Omirite see. After a revelation from above, Asterius consecrated Deacon Gregory to be the Archbishop of the Omirites. In Tafar, the capital of the Omirite Kingdom (in southern Arabia), St. Gregory converted many people to Christ, built churches and after ruling his flock for 30 years died in peace in 552. St. Gregory while still living became glorified for many miracles. </p>"
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}
|
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},
|
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"122501": {
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||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Hieromartyr Cyril, Bishop of Gortyna in Crete (3<sup>rd</sup>-4<sup>th</sup> C)",
|
||
"short": "Hieromartyr Cyril"
|
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}
|
||
},
|
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"122600": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Holy Hierarch Archelaus, Bishop of Kaskhara",
|
||
"short": "Holy Hierarch"
|
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}
|
||
},
|
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"122802": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Babilas",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Babilas"
|
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}
|
||
},
|
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"122901": {
|
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Finding of the Relics of Venerable Cyril of New Lake (1649)",
|
||
"short": "Finding"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
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"123002": {
|
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Martyrs Paulinus, Birus, Ombrius, Sebirus, Callistratus, Florence, Arian, Anthimius, Ubricius, Isidore, Euculus, Sampson, Studius, and Thespesius",
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"short": "Martyrs Paulinus"
|
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}
|
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},
|
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"123101": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Apodosis of the Nativity of Christ",
|
||
"short": "Feast"
|
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},
|
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"rank": 3
|
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},
|
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"123601": {
|
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Bassian and Jonah of Petroma, Solovki († 1561)",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Bassian"
|
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}
|
||
},
|
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"123801": {
|
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "<i>The Service for the Martyrs is sung on Theodore Saturday</i>",
|
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"cmd": "nday < -43"
|
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}
|
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},
|
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"123802": {
|
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Anubius the Confessor and Anchorite of Egypt († 4<sup>th</sup> C)",
|
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"short": "Venerable Anubius"
|
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}
|
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},
|
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"123803": {
|
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"name": {
|
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"short": "40 Martyrs",
|
||
"nominative": "Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste"
|
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}
|
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},
|
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"127001": {
|
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Alexander the Abbot of Kushta, Vologda († 1439)",
|
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"short": "Venerable Alexander"
|
||
}
|
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},
|
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"12010000": {
|
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Martyr Ananias the Persian",
|
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"short": "Martyr Ananias"
|
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}
|
||
},
|
||
"12020000": {
|
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable John, Heraclemon, Andrew, and Theophilus of Egypt",
|
||
"short": "Venerable John"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"12020100": {
|
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Cyrill Phileot",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Cyrill Phileot"
|
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}
|
||
},
|
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"12020200": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Athanasius the other, the Hermit of the Kiev Caves (13th C)",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Athanasius"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"12020300": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Solomon, Archbishop of Ephesus",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Solomon"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"12030000": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Theodulus of Constantinople",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Theodulus"
|
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}
|
||
},
|
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"12030100": {
|
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Hieromartyr Theodore, Archbishop of Alexandria († 606)",
|
||
"short": "Hieromartyr Theodore"
|
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}
|
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},
|
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"12030200": {
|
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "New Martyr Angelos of Chios († 1813)",
|
||
"short": "New Martyr"
|
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}
|
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},
|
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|
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"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Hieromartyr Gabriel, Bishop of Ganeia († 1659)",
|
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"short": "Hieromartyr Gabriel"
|
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}
|
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},
|
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"12030499": {
|
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"name": {
|
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"nominative": "Icon of the Mother of God “Pakhromskaya”",
|
||
"short": "Icon of"
|
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}
|
||
},
|
||
"12040000": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable John, Bishop of Polybotum (8<sup>th</sup> C)",
|
||
"short": "Venerable John"
|
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}
|
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},
|
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"12040199": {
|
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"name": {
|
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"nominative": "Hieromartyr Seraphim, Bishop of Phanarium",
|
||
"short": "Hieromartyr Seraphim"
|
||
}
|
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},
|
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"12040299": {
|
||
"name": {
|
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"nominative": "Saint Heracles, Patriarch of Alexandria",
|
||
"short": "Saint Heracles"
|
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}
|
||
},
|
||
"12050100": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable Martyrs of Mt Athos, who suffered at the hands of the latinizers",
|
||
"short": "Venerable Martyrs"
|
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}
|
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},
|
||
"12060000": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Holy Hierarch Nicholas, Bishop of Patara",
|
||
"short": "Holy Hierarch"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"12060099": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Saint Maxim, Metropolitan of Kiev († 1305)",
|
||
"short": "Saint Maxim"
|
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}
|
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},
|
||
"12060100": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Holy Hierarch Theophilus the Confessor, Bishop of Antioch",
|
||
"short": "Holy Hierarch"
|
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}
|
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},
|
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"12060400": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Martyr Nicholas Karamanes († 1657)",
|
||
"short": "Martyr Nicholas"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"12070000": {
|
||
"name": {
|
||
"nominative": "Venerable John, the Faster of Palestine",
|
||
"short": "Venerable John"
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"12070200": {
|
||
"name": {
|
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