16 febbraio feste santi e memorie

Saint HONNÊT, HONESTE ou ZUZEN (HONESIUS), prêtre de Nîmes, disicple de saint Saturnin de Toulouse, apôtre de Pampelune et de la Navarre et martyr (vers 270).

Saints PROCULE, EPHEBE et APOLLONIUS, Athéniens de nation, martyrs à Terni en Ombrie sous Aurélien (vers 273).

Saints PAMPHILE, prêtre, VALENS, diacre, PAUL, SELEUCUS, PORPHYRE, JULIEN, THEODULE, ELIE, JEREMIE, ISAIE, SAMUEL et DANIEL, martyrs sous Maximin Daïa (vers 309). (Office traduit en français par le père Denis Guillaume au tome II des Ménées.) A

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Troparion — Tone 4

Your holy martyrs, Pamphilius and his companions, O Lord, / through their sufferings have received incorruptible crowns from You, our God. / For having Your strength, they laid low their adversaries, / and shattered the powerless boldness of demons. / Through their intercessions, save our souls!

Kontakion — Tone 4

Faced with terrible sufferings, / the fearless athletes of the Lord rejoiced; / they conversed with one another ignoring the flesh. / Therefore, they have inherited eternal glory, / ever praying for us who praise their struggles.

Saint SIMEON, évêque de Metz en Lorraine (vers 380).

Saint FAUSTIN, évêque de Brescia en Lombardie (vers 381).Saint TIGRIDE, prêtre à Clermont en Auvergne (vers 388).

Saint FLAVIEN, ermite en Orient (fin du IVème siècle?). 

Saint MARUTHAS, évêque de Sophène (au sud-ouest de la Grande Arménie), thaumaturge, mort en paix (vers 420), et les saints MARTYRS qui avaient donné leur vie pour le Christ sous Chapour II et dont saint Maruthas put transporter les reliques à Mayerferqat, dès lors appelée Martyropolis, avec l'autorisation de Iazdgerd Ier.

Saint Maruthas was Bishop of Tagrith (Martyropolis), a city which he founded between the Byzantine Empire and Persia. He was famed for his knowledge and his piety, he wrote about the martyrs, and he suffered for his faith in Christ under the Persian emperor Sapor. He also left behind other works in the Syrian language, among which the most famous are: "Commentary on the Gospel," "Verses of Maruthas," "Liturgy of Maruthas" and "The 73 Canons of the Ecumenical Council at Nicea" (325) with an account of the acts of the Council.

In the year 381 St Maruthas participated in the Second Ecumenical Council at Constantinople, convened against the heresy of Macedonius. In 383, he attended the Council of Antioch against the Messalians.

During the years 403-404 St Maruthas set off to Constantinople to plead with the emperor Arcadius to protect Persian Christians. He was twice sent by the emperor Theodosius the Younger to the Shah Izdegerd to secure the peace between the Empire and Persia.

In the year 414 St Maruthas, having done his duty as envoy to the court of Izdegerd, persuaded the Shah to a favorable disposition towards Christians, and he assisted greatly in the freedom of Christians in Persia. He rebuilt Christian churches razed during the persecution by the Persian ruler Sapor. He also located relics of saints who had suffered martyrdom and transferred them to Martyropolis. He died there in 422. The relics of St Maruthas were later transferred to Egypt and placed in a skete monastery of the Mother of God.

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Saint FLAVIEN, patriarche de Constantinople (446-449), qui confessa la foi orthodoxe contre les monophysites lors du brigandage d'Ephèse et mourut suite aux persécutions qui lui furent infligées par Dioscore et Barsauma (450). Fu ordinato sacerdote a Costantinopoli, città della quale, nel 446, diventò poi il patriarca. Due anni dopo, si trovò in mezzo a un'aspra lotta dottrinale. Nel 431 il Concilio di Efeso aveva chiuso la controversia provocata da Nestorio con la dottrina sulle due «nature divise» in Gesù Cristo: quella divina e quella umana. A poco più di 15 anni di distanza un altro conflitto si accese per opera dell'anziano monaco Eutiche, superiore di un monastero presso Costantinopoli, che all'opposto attribuì a Gesù Cristo una sola natura: era il monofisismo. Per Flaviano opporsi a Eutiche poteva essere pericoloso. Il monaco, infatti fu appoggiato da diversi vescovi autorevoli, oltre che dall'imperatore Teodosio II. La condanna di Flaviano, però, arrivò senza esitazione. L'imperatore Teodosio volle allora un nuovo Concilio, che si riunì ancora a Efeso nel 449. Vi intervennero, però, soltanto i sostenitori di Eutiche: Flaviano venne destituito ed esiliato in Lidia, dove morì poche settimane dopo. Venne riabilitato l'anno successivo e fu venerato come martire

Saint ARMENTAIRE, évêque d'Antibes en Provence (451).

Saint EULALIUS, évêque de Syracuse en Sicile, qui donna l'hospitalité à saint Fulgence de Ruspe fuyant l'Afrique (après 503).

Saint TETRADE, évêque de Bourges (509).

Saint ANTIME, abbé de Brantôme en Périgord (fin du VIIIème siècle).

Saint TAUCON ou TATTA, Ecossais de nation, évêque de Werden en Westphalie, martyr par la main de fidèles à qui il avait reproché leur conduite scandaleuse (815).

Sainte MARIE la Nouvelle de Byzie (Thrace), Arménienne de nation, martyre de la vie conjugale et thaumaturge (894).

Saint ROMAIN de Carpennision (Grèce centrale), moine athonite, mort par la main des Musulmans à Constantinople (1694). (Autre mémoire le 5 janvier.) (Office traduit par le père Denis Guillaume au tome II du Supplément aux Ménées. Autre office traduit par le père Denis Guillaume au tome XIII du Supplément aux Ménées.) 

St Nicholas, Equal of the Apostles and Archbishop of Japan

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Troparion — Tone 4

O holy saint Nicholas / The enlightener of Japan, / You share a dignity and the throne of the Apostles; / You are a wise and faithful servant of Christ, / A temple chosen by the Divine Spirit, / A vessel overflowing with the love of Christ. / O hierarch equal to the Apostles, / Pray to the Life-Creating Trinity / For all your flock and for the whole worldSaint MACAIRE (Nevski), métropolite de Moscou (1912-1917), apôtre de l'Altaï (1926).

Saint PIERRE LAGOV, prêtre, martyr par la main des Communistes (Russie 1931).

Saint ELIE TCHETVERUKHINE, prêtre, martyr par la main des Communistes (Russie 1934).

Saint PAUL, prêtre, martyr par la main des Communistes (Russie 1938).