Vigile
de l'Exaltation de la vénérable et vivifiante Croix et dédicace de la
Basilique de la Résurrection. (Office traduit en français par le père
Denis Guillaume au tome IX des Ménées.)
Giovanni
Damasceno della croce afferma: «Ogni azione e ogni prodigio operato da
Cristo è grandioso, divino e meraviglioso, ma la realtà più mirabile di
tutte è la sua croce».
La liturgia , a sua volta, così canta: «O croce, segno luminoso tra gli astri, hai prefigurato un trofeo di vittoria al piissimo Costantino; la sua madre, avendoti ritrovata, ha fatto di te l´ornamento del mondo. Esaltandoti in questo giorno, noi, assemblea di fedeli, imploriamo: Illuminaci con il tuo splendore, o croce vivificante; santificaci con la tua virtù, o croce veneranda e rafforzaci per la tua esaltazione».
George Gharib
La liturgia , a sua volta, così canta: «O croce, segno luminoso tra gli astri, hai prefigurato un trofeo di vittoria al piissimo Costantino; la sua madre, avendoti ritrovata, ha fatto di te l´ornamento del mondo. Esaltandoti in questo giorno, noi, assemblea di fedeli, imploriamo: Illuminaci con il tuo splendore, o croce vivificante; santificaci con la tua virtù, o croce veneranda e rafforzaci per la tua esaltazione».
George Gharib
Saint
CORNEILLE le Centurion (cf. Actes X:34) et ses compagnons, citoyens de
Skepsis en Troade, qu'il amena à la foi: saints DEMETRE, EVANTHIA son
épouse et DIMITRIEN leur fils (Ier siècle). (Office à saint Corneille
traduit en français par le père Denis Guillaume au tome IX des Ménées.)
http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/09/saint-aristides-philosopher-as-model-of.html
Saint ARISTIDE l'Eupatride, Athénien, martyr sous Adrien (vers 120).
http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2012/09/the-holy-martyr-aristides-philosopher.html
Saint PHILIPPE, père de sainte Eugénie, martyr (IIIème siècle).
Saint LIGOIRE, martyr en Vénétie.
Saints martyrs CRONIDE, LEONCE et SERAPION d'Alexandrie, qui furent jetés à la mer.
Saints FELICISSIMUS et SECONDIN, martyrs en Apulie (Pouilles actuelles).
Saints MACROBE, GORDIEN, ELIE, VALERIEN, LUCIEN et ZOTIQUE, martyrs à Tomis (aujourd'hui Constanta en Roumanie) sous Licinius (vers 320).
Saint SELEUCUS, martyr en Scythie (Dobroudja actuelle) sous Licinius (vers 320).
Saint STRATON, martyr en Bithynie sous Licinius (vers 320).
Troparion — Tone 4
O Blessed Cornelius, / You were distinguished in works of righteousness. / You received the enlightenment of godliness, / And were a fellow-laborer with the Apostles, / For you shared in their work, / Preaching Christ’s incarnation to all. / With them pray that all who honor your memory may be saved!Kontakion — Tone 4
O Divinely minded Cornelius, / The Church, receiving you as a blessed first-fruit of the Gentiles, / Is enlightened by your holy life, / For you are a perfect seer of the Mysteries! http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/09/saint-aristides-philosopher-as-model-of.html
http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2012/09/the-holy-martyr-aristides-philosopher.html
Saint PHILIPPE, père de sainte Eugénie, martyr (IIIème siècle).
Saint LIGOIRE, martyr en Vénétie.
Saints martyrs CRONIDE, LEONCE et SERAPION d'Alexandrie, qui furent jetés à la mer.
Saints FELICISSIMUS et SECONDIN, martyrs en Apulie (Pouilles actuelles).
Saints MACROBE, GORDIEN, ELIE, VALERIEN, LUCIEN et ZOTIQUE, martyrs à Tomis (aujourd'hui Constanta en Roumanie) sous Licinius (vers 320).
Saint SELEUCUS, martyr en Scythie (Dobroudja actuelle) sous Licinius (vers 320).
Saint STRATON, martyr en Bithynie sous Licinius (vers 320).
Dédicace
de l'église de la Résurrection à Jérusalem (330). (Office traduit en
français par le père Denis Guillaume au tome IX des Ménées.)
The
Dedication of the Temple of the
Resurrection of Christ at Jerusalem celebrates the dedication of the
Church of the Resurrection, built by St Constantine the Great and his
mother, the empress Helen.
After the voluntary Passion and Death on the Cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the holy place of His suffering was long trampled on by pagans. When the Roman emperor Titus conquered Jerusalem in the year 70, he razed the city and destroyed the Temple of Solomon on Mount Moriah, leaving there not a stone upon a stone, as even the Savior foretold (Mt.13:1-2).
Later on the zealous pagan emperor Hadrian (117-138) built on the site of the Jerusalem destroyed by Titus a new city named Aelia Capitolina for him (Hadrian Aelius). It was forbidden to call the city by its former name.
He gave orders to cover the Holy Tomb of the Lord with earth and stones, and on that spot to set up an idol. On Golgotha, where the Savior was crucified, he constructed a pagan temple dedicated to the goddess Venus in 119. Before the statues they offered sacrifice to demons and performed pagan rites, accompanied by wanton acts.
In Bethlehem, at the place the Savior was born of the All-Pure Virgin, the impious emperor set up an idol of Adonis. He did all this intentionally, so that people would forget completely about Christ the Savior and that they would no loner remember the places where He lived, taught, suffered and arose in glory.
At the beinning of the reign of St Constantine the Great (306-337), the first of the Roman emperors to recognize the Christian religion, he and his pious mother the empress Helen decided to rebuild the city of Jerusalem. They also planned to build a church on the site of the Lord's suffering and Resurrection, in order to reconsecrate and purify the places connected with memory of the Savior from the taint of foul pagan cults.
The empress Helen journeyed to Jerusalem with a large quantity of gold, and St Constantine the Great wrote a letter to Patriarch Macarius I (313-323), requesting him to assist her in every possible way with her task of the renewing the Christian holy places.
After her arrival in Jerusalem, the holy empress Helen destroyed all the pagan temples and reconsecrated the places desecrated by the pagans. She was zealous to find the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, and she ordered the excavation of the place where the temple of Venus stood. There they discovered the Sepulchre of the Lord and Golgotha, and they also found three crosses and some nails.
In order to determine upon which of the three crosses the Savior was crucified, Patriarch Macarius gave orders to place a dead person, who was being carried to a place of burial, upon each cross in turn. When the dead person was placed on the Cross of Christ, he immediately came alive. With the greatest of joy the empress Helen and Patriarch Macarius raised up the Life-Creating Cross and displayed it to all the people standing about.
The holy empress quickly began the construction of a large church which enclosed within its walls Golgotha, the place of the Crucifixion of the Savior, and the Sepulchre of the Lord, located near each other. The holy Apostle and Evangelist John wrote about this: "Now in the place where He was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been laid. Therefore they laid Jesus there because of the Jewish preparation day, for the tomb was nearby" (John 19:41-42). The Church of the Resurrection was ten years in building, and the holy empress Helen did not survive to see its completion. She returned to Constantinople, and reposed in the year 327. After her arrival in Jerusalem, the holy empress built churches in Bethlehem, on the Mount of Olives, at Gethsemane and in many other places connected with the life of the Savior and events in the New Testament.
After the voluntary Passion and Death on the Cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the holy place of His suffering was long trampled on by pagans. When the Roman emperor Titus conquered Jerusalem in the year 70, he razed the city and destroyed the Temple of Solomon on Mount Moriah, leaving there not a stone upon a stone, as even the Savior foretold (Mt.13:1-2).
Later on the zealous pagan emperor Hadrian (117-138) built on the site of the Jerusalem destroyed by Titus a new city named Aelia Capitolina for him (Hadrian Aelius). It was forbidden to call the city by its former name.
He gave orders to cover the Holy Tomb of the Lord with earth and stones, and on that spot to set up an idol. On Golgotha, where the Savior was crucified, he constructed a pagan temple dedicated to the goddess Venus in 119. Before the statues they offered sacrifice to demons and performed pagan rites, accompanied by wanton acts.
In Bethlehem, at the place the Savior was born of the All-Pure Virgin, the impious emperor set up an idol of Adonis. He did all this intentionally, so that people would forget completely about Christ the Savior and that they would no loner remember the places where He lived, taught, suffered and arose in glory.
At the beinning of the reign of St Constantine the Great (306-337), the first of the Roman emperors to recognize the Christian religion, he and his pious mother the empress Helen decided to rebuild the city of Jerusalem. They also planned to build a church on the site of the Lord's suffering and Resurrection, in order to reconsecrate and purify the places connected with memory of the Savior from the taint of foul pagan cults.
The empress Helen journeyed to Jerusalem with a large quantity of gold, and St Constantine the Great wrote a letter to Patriarch Macarius I (313-323), requesting him to assist her in every possible way with her task of the renewing the Christian holy places.
After her arrival in Jerusalem, the holy empress Helen destroyed all the pagan temples and reconsecrated the places desecrated by the pagans. She was zealous to find the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, and she ordered the excavation of the place where the temple of Venus stood. There they discovered the Sepulchre of the Lord and Golgotha, and they also found three crosses and some nails.
In order to determine upon which of the three crosses the Savior was crucified, Patriarch Macarius gave orders to place a dead person, who was being carried to a place of burial, upon each cross in turn. When the dead person was placed on the Cross of Christ, he immediately came alive. With the greatest of joy the empress Helen and Patriarch Macarius raised up the Life-Creating Cross and displayed it to all the people standing about.
The holy empress quickly began the construction of a large church which enclosed within its walls Golgotha, the place of the Crucifixion of the Savior, and the Sepulchre of the Lord, located near each other. The holy Apostle and Evangelist John wrote about this: "Now in the place where He was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been laid. Therefore they laid Jesus there because of the Jewish preparation day, for the tomb was nearby" (John 19:41-42). The Church of the Resurrection was ten years in building, and the holy empress Helen did not survive to see its completion. She returned to Constantinople, and reposed in the year 327. After her arrival in Jerusalem, the holy empress built churches in Bethlehem, on the Mount of Olives, at Gethsemane and in many other places connected with the life of the Savior and events in the New Testament.
The
construction of the church of the Resurrection, called "Martyrion" in
memory of the sufferings of the Savior, was completed in the same year
as the Council of Tyre, and in the thirtieth year of the reign of St
Constantine the Great. Therefore, at the assembly of September 13, 335,
the consecration of the temple was particularly solemn. Hierarchs of
Christian Churches in many lands: Bythnia, Thrace, Cilicia, Cappadocia,
Syria, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Arabia, Palestine, and Egypt,
participated in the consecration of the church. The bishops who
participated in the Council of Tyre, and many others, went to the
consecration in Jerusalem. On this day all the city of Jerusalem was
consecrated. The Fathers of the Church established September 13 as the
commemoration of this
remarkable event.
Troparion - Tone 4
As You did show from on High the splendor of the Heavens,
So You did show on earth the splendor of the dwelling of Your Holy Glory!
Make it stand firm forever, and accept there the supplications
Which we offer You unceasingly through the Theotokos,
O Life and Resurrection of All!
As You did show from on High the splendor of the Heavens,
So You did show on earth the splendor of the dwelling of Your Holy Glory!
Make it stand firm forever, and accept there the supplications
Which we offer You unceasingly through the Theotokos,
O Life and Resurrection of All!
http://oca.org/saints/troparia/2015/09/13/102593-commemoration-of-the-founding-of-the-church-of-the-resurrection
Tropario della Dedicazione – Tono 4
Come hai mostrato dall'Alto lo splendore
dei cieli, così hai mostrato sulla terra lo splendore della dimora
della Tua Santa Gloria! Rendila salda per sempre, e accetta le suppliche
che noi incessantemente Ti offriamo attraverso la Theotokos, o vita e
resurrezione di tutti!
Tropario della Croce – Tono 2
La tua vivifica e splendente Croce che a
noi indegni donasti, te la offriamo come supplica, o Signore. Salva i
Re e la tua città, concedendo la pace per le preghiere della Madre di
Dio, o unico che hai amore per l'uomo.
Kontakion – Tono 4
La Chiesa si è rivelata paradiso pieno
di luce che illumina tutti i fedeli. Stando in essa gridiamo: "Rendi
stabile questa casa, o Signore".
http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2009/09/homily-on-dedication-of-church-of-holy.html
Saint LIDOIRE (LITOIRE, LICTOR, LIGOIRE, LITORIUS, LIDORIUS), évêque de Tours en Touraine (371).
Saint CORNELY (KORNELY), évêque itinérant en Bretagne, protecteur du bétail (Vème siècle).
Saint MAURILLE, natif de Milan, évêque d'Angers en Anjou (vers 427 ou 437).
Saint ANTOINE (ANTONIN), moine de Lérins, puis évêque de Carpentras dans le Comtat-Venaissin (473).
Saint AMAND (AMAN), évêque de Vannes en Bretagne (VIème siècle).
Saint ROBIN, ermite à La Poterie en Bretagne (VIème siècle).
Saint NECTAIRE, évêque d'Autun en Bourgogne (vers 550).
Saint VENERE (VENERIUS), ermite, puis abbé, sur l'île de Tino dans le golfe de Gênes (vers 604).
Saint COLOMBIN (COLOMB), Irlandais de nation, higoumène de Lure en Franche-Comté (vers 620).
Saint AME (AMATUS), né près de Grenoble, ermite à Agaune (Saint-Maurice) en Valais, puis premier abbé de Remiremont dans les Vosges, monastère fondé par saint Romaric (627 ou 628).
Saint AMAT (AIME, AMATUS), higoumène de Saint-Maurice d'Agaune en Valais, puis évêque de Sion en Valais, exilé aux monastères de Saint-Quentin puis de Saint-Pierre de Breuil-sur-la-Lys en Picardie (690).
Saint BARSENOIRE (BARSENORE), higoumène de Sainte-Croix en Normandie (fin du VIIIème siècle).
Sainte WILFRIDA, mère de famille devenue moniale, puis abbesse de Wilton (Angleterre, vers 988).
Saint JEAN, ermite près du monastère de Prislop non loin de Hunedoara dans le sud de la Transylvanie (Roumanie XVème-XVIème siècles).
https://doxologia.ro/sfantul-cuvios-ioan-de-la-prislop
Saint CORNEILLE de Padan-Olonets, disciple de saint Alexandre de Svir, et ses compagnons DENYS et MICHEL (Russie XVIème siècle).
Saint MELECE (Pighas), patriarche d'Alexandrie, confesseur de la foi orthodoxe face à l'uniatisme et au papisme (1601).
http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2016/09/saint-meletios-pegas-patriarch-of.html
Sainte grande-martyre KETHEVANE, reine de Kathéklie en Géorgie, martyre à Chiraz en Perse par la main des Musulmans sur ordre du chah Abbas (1624).
Troparia
Being wounded by divine zeal, thou didst receive many wounds and endure multifarious tortures. With boldness having acquired the Kingdom of Heaven instead of the transitory crown of a queen, O thrice-holy Ketevan, intercede with Christ God to have mercy on our souls.
Being wounded by divine zeal, thou didst receive many wounds and endure multifarious tortures. With boldness having acquired the Kingdom of Heaven instead of the transitory crown of a queen, O thrice-holy Ketevan, intercede with Christ God to have mercy on our souls.
Thou
didst renounce the transitory glory uniting thyself with the Queen of
Heaven and Earth, O Queen Ketevan, thou who didst suffer bodily for thy
bridegroom, intercede with Him for us thy servants, the Georgian people.
Queen
Ketevan was great-granddaughter of King Constantine of Kartli and
married David heir to King Alexander II of Kakhetia. After David died,
she ruled alone, doing much to build churches, hospitals and
monasteries. David's brother,
Constantine the Accursed, defected to Islam. Following orders from Shah
Abbas I, he murdered his father, Alexander, and his brother, Georgi. He
commanded that their bodies be strapped to camels and taken to Ketevan.
St. Ketevan mourned their loss and gave them proper burial in the
Cathedral of Alaverdi. The Accursed then asked Ketevan to marry him,
threatening her life if she refused. The queen rallied the people of
Kakhetia and routed Constantine and the Persians. He died in the battle
with a multitude of his men. The Muslims had a practice of taking
hostages to deter neighboring states from attacking them. Shah Abbas I
took Ketevan's son, Teimuraz, and held him for years at his court.
Teimuraz remained steadfast in his Orthodox faith. He was finally
returned. Then Shah Abbas I threatened that he could decimate Georgia
with his army. Queen Ketevan volunteered to go herself in order to try
to avert war, bringing rich gifts, even offering herself as a
hostage. At Isfahan, she and her grandsons, Alexander and Leon were
thrown into a dungeon and spent 10 years of suffering and torture. The
Shah offered to make her queen of Persia, if she would adopt Islam.
Neither torture or bribes could shake her steadfast faith in Christ. Her
answer to the Shah was always a resolute No. They finally crucified her
on a tree, while torturing her with red hot pincers. They then put a
red hot kettle on her head, and thick smoke rose from her head like
incense offered to the Lord Jesus Christ as she gave her soul into His
hands. It was September 13, 1624. Immediately there appeared three
pillars of brilliant light over her body as further witness to the
godless Muslims of the truth of the Trinity. The Patriarch of Georgia
immediately, upon hearing the report declared her a Great Martyr and
designated September 13 as her day of remembrance.
Saint HIEROTHEE le Jeune, qui pratiqua l'ascèse au monastère d'Iviron au Mont Athos et mourut dans la paix (1745). (Office traduit en français par le père Denis Guillaume au tome IX du Supplément aux Ménées.)
Saints ETIENNE et ALEXANDRE, prêtres, et NICOLAS, diacre, martyrs par la main des Communistes (Russie 1937).
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Holy New Martyrs of Jasenovac Concentration Camp
http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/04/holy-new-martyrs-of-jasenovac.html
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