17 febbraio santi feste e memorie
Sainte
MARIAMNE ou MARIANE (MARIANNE), soeur du saint Apôtre Philippe,
missionnaire en Lycaonie, Egale-aux-Apôtres (Ier siècle).
Saint AUXIBE, Romain de nation, évêque de Soles en Chypre (vers 112).
Saint FAUSTIN et plusieurs autres, martyrs à Rome.
Saint AUXIBE, Romain de nation, évêque de Soles en Chypre (vers 112).
Saint FAUSTIN et plusieurs autres, martyrs à Rome.
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Saints SATURNIN, CASTULE, MAGNE, LUCE, ROGAT, JEAN et plusieurs autres, martyrs à Terni en Ombrie (vers 273).
Saints DONAT, SECONDIEN et ROMULE, martyrs à Concordia en Vénétie (303).
Saints SATURNIN, CASTULE, MAGNE, LUCE, ROGAT, JEAN et plusieurs autres, martyrs à Terni en Ombrie (vers 273).
Saints DONAT, SECONDIEN et ROMULE, martyrs à Concordia en Vénétie (303).
Saint THEODORE TIRON (LE CONSCRIT), martyr sous Dioclétien et Maximien (vers 303). (Office traduit en français par le père Denis Guillaume au tome II des Ménées.)
Troparion — Tone 2
Great are the accomplishments of faith, / For the Holy Martyr Theodore rejoiced in the flames as though at the waters of rest, / Offering himself as sweet bread to the Trinity. / So by his prayers, O Christ God,Kontakion — Tone 8
Your faith in Christ was like a breastplate upon your heart: / With its aid, you overcame the power of the enemy. / Therefore you are crowned in eternity with a heavenly diadem.http://oca.org/saints/lives/2014/02/17/100547-greatmartyr-theodore-the-tyro-ldquothe-recruitrdquo
Saint THEOSTERICTE.
Saint LOMAN (LUMAN), neveu de saint Patrick, évêque de Trim en Irlande (vers 450).
Saints MARCIEN (457) et PULCHERIE son épouse (453), qui confessèrent la foi orthodoxe face au monophysitisme lors du concile de Chalcédoine.
Saint FORTCHERN, évêque de Trim en Irlande, puis ermite (VIème siècle).
Saint HABET-DEUS, évêque de Luna en Italie, probablement martyr par la main des Vandales ariens (vers 500).
Saint GUIRREC (GUIREG, GUEVROK, GUEROC), Gallois de nation, abbé en Bretagne (547 ou 584).
Saint FINTAN, ermite puis higoumène en Irlande (603). Nel monastero di Clúain Ednech in Irlanda, san Fintáno, abate, fondatore di quel cenobio e celebre per austerità di vita.
Saint FINAN, évêque de Lindisfarne (661).
Circa l'origine di Finan, esistono due tradizioni: una lo dice nativo dell'Irlanda, figlio di Rimed o Ryves; per l'altra, invece, era nato in Scozia e questa tradizione è accolta nei Martirologi di Tallaght, del Donegal e di Gorman che, tutti, lo definiscono "sassone". Baring-Gould, inoltre, precisa, non sappiamo su quali prove, il suo distretto, che era quello degli Scoti Dalriadiani.
Comunque, è noto che le prime notizie su Finan risalgono al periodo della sua permanenza a Iona, dove fu per molto tempo, sotto il governo di Seghine, quinto abate (623-652). Morto s. Aidano (31 agosto 651), Finan fu eletto a succedergli e prese possesso della diocesi di Lindisfarne (corrispondente alle attuali contee di Northumberland, (Durham e York), nel 652.
L'organizzazione di Lindisfarne era analoga a quella di Iona; il monastero era governato da un abate, scelto dal vescovo col consenso della comunità e tutto il clero, entro e fuori il monastero, compreso il vescovo, seguiva la regola monastica. Fermo sostenitore degli usi celtici, e perciò sgradito a Beda (che, però, ammette le sue grandi virtù) Finan costruì la sua grande cattedrale in legno ed ebbe una disputa con un certo Ronan, difensore della Pasqua romana, il quale, però, non riuscì a convincerlo. In realtà, non sembra che Ronan si sia rivolto a Finan nei termini di rispetto che si dovevano a un vescovo, e questo traspare anche dalla narrazione di Beda, che lo definisce "acerrimus veri Paschae defensor". Va detto tuttavia che il vescovo non ostacolò mai i seguaci degli usi romani.
Amico di Oswiu, re di Northumbria (654-670), Finan ottenne due grandi successi nel suo apostolato. Battezzò infatti nel 653 Peada, principe degli Angli Mediterranei e figlio del pagano Penda, re di Mercia, al quale Oswiu aveva posto come condizione, per concedergli la mano della figlia Alchfleda, la sua adesione al Cristianesimo. Successivamente, anche Sigeberto II detto Sanctus o Bonus, re dei Sassoni Orientali (ca. 653-664), si fece battezzare da Finan; alla conversione dei princip. seguì quella dei loro sudditi, e dopo qualche tempo Finan poté ordinare Diuma vescovo degli Angli Mediterranei e s. Cedd vescovo dei Sassoni Orientali. Il luogo del Battesimo di Peada e Sigeberto è detto da Beda Ad Murum ed è da identificarsi forse con Benwell, presso Newcastle; era comunque una delle ville di Oswiu site lungo il Tyne.
Un altro figlio di Penda, Wulpher, si fecè battezzare da Finan, ma fu spinto alla conversione dal timore che Oswiu (che tenne la Mercia dal 654 al 657) volesse vendicare su di lui la morte di Oswald, ucciso da Penda nel 641. La precarietà dell'adesione di Wulpher al Cristianesimo si mostrò ben presto, perché egli, istigato da un certo Belial, abiurò e diede il martirio ai suoi figli Vulfado e Rufino.
Secondo gli analisti scozzesi, l'autorità di Finan si estendeva anche oltre i confini della sua pur grande diocesi, ed essi narrano della sentenza di scomunica pronunciata dal vescovo di Lindisfarne contro un certo Fergus, re degli Scoti Dalriadiani, che aveva suscitato le proteste del clero per le sue violenze e la sua avidità.
La morte di Finan è posta al 656 negli Annali di Clonmacnoise mentre il ms. di Parigi Nonv. acq. Iat. 1615, ff. 13v-14r, ha 1'anno 657: la data esatta è però il 661, perché concordemente si assegnano a Finan dieci anni di episcopato. La sua festa è ricordata al 9 gennaio nell'agiografia irlandese, al 17 febbraio, invece, negli autori inglesi e scozzesi. Nel Breviario di Aberdeen aveva un Ufficio con nove lezioni
Saint SILVAIN, ancien courtisan à la cour de Childéric II et Thierry III, puis évêque régionnaire au pays de Thérouanne et enfin moine à Auchy-les-Moines près de Boulogne-sur-Mer (718).
Nulla ci è stato tramandato circa le
origini del santo oggi festeggiato, anche se la tradizione vuole che
fosse uno scozzese o un irlandese errante approdato alla corte del re
franco Childerico II. Silvino, quasi sul punto di sposarsi, sentì
improvvisamente la vocazione al celibato e ad una vita di povertà.
Abbandonò perciò la fidanzata e la corte per recarsi a Roma, ove
ricevette l ordinazione presbiterale. Gli fu poi addirittura conferita
la consacrazione episcopale, ma probabilmente fu un vescovo privo di
sede fissa, sebbene talvolta il suo nome sia stato associato alle città
francesi di Thérouanne o di Tolosa.
L intera sua vita fu da allora impiegata nel dispiegare ogni sua ricchezza in opere di carità, evangelizzando ed edificando chiese nella Francia nord-orientale, a quel tempo ancora in gran parte pagana. Silvino di distinse per la sua grande umiltà e per l’austerità della sua vita: si nutriva infatti esclusivamente di verdure e di frutta e solo in età avanzata accettò di possedere un cavallo di cui servirsi quale mezzo di trasporto per ridurre la fatica del visitare a piedi il territorio della diocesi.
Il santo pastore fu particolarmente amato per la sua santità e per la carità che lo contraddistinse, ma in vita fu già venerato anche per le sue doti di taumaturgo. Morì verso l’anno 720 nei pressi di Arras e ricevette sepoltura nel monastero di Auchy-les-Moines.
L intera sua vita fu da allora impiegata nel dispiegare ogni sua ricchezza in opere di carità, evangelizzando ed edificando chiese nella Francia nord-orientale, a quel tempo ancora in gran parte pagana. Silvino di distinse per la sua grande umiltà e per l’austerità della sua vita: si nutriva infatti esclusivamente di verdure e di frutta e solo in età avanzata accettò di possedere un cavallo di cui servirsi quale mezzo di trasporto per ridurre la fatica del visitare a piedi il territorio della diocesi.
Il santo pastore fu particolarmente amato per la sua santità e per la carità che lo contraddistinse, ma in vita fu già venerato anche per le sue doti di taumaturgo. Morì verso l’anno 720 nei pressi di Arras e ricevette sepoltura nel monastero di Auchy-les-Moines.
Saint SILVAIN, évêque de Crémone en Italie (763).
Invention des reliques du saint martyr Ménas d'Alexandrie (entre 867 et 886).
The
Holy Martyr Menas Kallikelados (Well Speaking), an Athenian, died as a
martyr with Sts Hermogenes and Eugraphus in about the year 313 (December
10). During the reign of Emperor Basil the Macedonian (867-886), the
military commander Marcian discovered the saint's relics after St Menas
appeared to a certain pious man in a dream to reveal where they were.
Saint THEODORE le Silencieux de la Laure des Grottes de Kiev (XIIIème siècle).
Saint
Theodore the Silent of the Caves chose the exploit of silence, in order
to dwell constantly in remembrance of God, and to safeguard himself
from temptation even by a word. He was glorified by the Lord with the
gift of wonderworking. His memory is celebrated also on August 28.
Saint THEODOSE le Bulgare et son disicple saint ROMAIN, moines de Tarnovo (Bulgarie 1362).
Saint MICHEL MAVROÏDIS, aristocrate d'Andrinople, martyr par la main des Musulmans (1490).
Saint HERMOGENE, patriarche de Moscou (1606-1612), martyr par la main des Catholiques-Romains dix jours avant la libération de la ville de Moscou de l'oppression cruelle des Polonais (1612). (Office traduit en français par le père Denis Guillaume au tome II du Supplément aux Ménées. Acathiste traduit en français par le père Denis Guillaume au tome II du Supplément aux Ménées.)
The
Hieromartyr Hermogenes, Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus, was born in
Kazan around 1530), and was descended from the Don Cossacks. According
to the Patriarch's own testimony, he served as priest in Kazan in a
church dedicated to St Nicholas (December 6 and May 9), near the Kazan
bazaar. Soon he became a monk, and from
1582 was archimandrite of the Savior-Transfiguration monastery at Kazan.
On May 13, 1589 he was consecrated bishop and became the first
Metropolitan of Kazan.
While he was the priest at St Nicholas, the wonderworking Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (July 8) was discovered in Kazan in 1579. With the blessing of Archbishop Jeremiah of Kazan, he carried the newly-appeared icon from the place of its discovery to the Church of St Nicholas. Having remarkable literary talent, the saint in 1594 compiled an account describing the appearance of the wonderworking icon and the miracles accomplished through it. In 1591 the saint gathered newly-baptized Tatars into the cathedral church and for several days he instructed them in the Faith.
The relics of St Germanus, the second archbishop of Kazan (September 25, November 6, and June 23), who died at Moscow on November 6, 1567 during a plague, were transfered and buried in St Nicholas Church in 1592. With the blessing of Patriarch Job (1589-1605), St Hermogenes reburied the relics at the Sviyazhsk Dormition monastery.
On January 9, 1592 St Hermogenes addressed a letter to Patriarch Job, in which he asked for permission to commemorate in his See of Kazan those Orthodox soldiers who gave their lives for the Faith and the nation in a battle against the Tatars. In the past, it was customary to enter into the diptychs the names of all Orthodox warriors who had fallen in battle, and to commemorate them.
At the same time he mentioned three martyrs who had suffered at Kazan for their faith in Christ, one of whom was a Russian named John (January 24) born at Nizhny Novgorod and captured by the Tatars. The other two, Stephen and Peter (March 24), were newly-converted Tatars.
The saint expressed regret that these martyrs were not inserted into the diptychs read on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, and that "Memory Eternal" was not sung for them. In answer to St Hermogenes, the Patriarch issued a decree on February 25, which said: " to celebrate at Kazan and throughout all the Kazan metropolitanate a panikhida for all the Orthodox soldiers killed at Kazan and the environs of Kazan, on the Saturday following the Feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos (October 1), and to inscribe them in the great Synodikon read on the Sunday of Orthodoxy," and also ordered that the three Kazan martyrs be inscribed in the Synodikon, leaving it to St Hermogenes to set the day of their memory. St Hermogenes circulated the Patriarchal decree throughout his diocese, and required all the churches and monasteries to serve Liturgies, Panikhidas and Lityas for the three Kazan martyrs on January 24.
St Hermogenes displayed zeal in the faith and firmness in the observance of Church traditions, and he devoted himself to the enlightenment of Kazan Tatars with the faith of Christ.
In 1595, with the active participation of the St Hermogenes, the relics of the Kazan Wonderworkers St Gurias, the first archbishop of Kazan (October 4, December 5, June 20), and St Barsanuphius bishop of Tver (October 4, April 11) were discovered and uncovered. Tsar Theodore Ioannovich (1584-1598) had given orders to erect at the Kazan Savior-Transfiguration monastery a new stone church on the site of the first one, where the saints were buried.
When the graves of the saints were discovered, St Hermogenes came with a gathering of clergy. He commanded the graves to be opened and, when he saw the incorrupt relics and clothing of the saints, he notified the Patriarch and the Tsar. With the blessing of Patriarch Job and by order of the Tsar, the relics of the newly-appeared wonderworkers were placed in the new church. St Hermogenes himself compiled the lives of hierarchs Gurias and Barsanuphius.
Having been found worthy of the patriarchal throne, Metropolitan Hermogenes was elected to the primatial See, and on July 3, 1606 he was installed as Patriarch by the assembly of the holy hierarchs at Moscow's Dormition cathedral. Metropolitan Isidore handed the Patriarch the staff of the holy hierarch Peter, Moscow Wonderworker (October 5, December 21, August 24), and the Tsar gave as a gift to the new Patriarch a panagia, embellished with precious stones, a white klobuk and staff. In the ancient manner, Patriarch Hermogenes made his entrance riding upon a donkey.
The activity of Patriarch Hermogenes coincided with a difficult period for the Russian state: the appearance of the false Tsarevich Demetrius and the Polish king Sigismund III. The first hierarch devoted all his powers to the service of the Church and the nation.
Patriarch Hermogenes was not alone in this exploit: his self-sacrificing fellow-countrymen followed his example and assisted him. With special inspiration His Holiness the Patriarch stood up against the traitors and enemies of the nation, who wanted to spread Uniatism and Western Catholicism throughout Russia and to wipe out Orthodoxy, while enslaving the Russian nation.
When the imposter arrived at Moscow and settled himself at Tushino, Patriarch Hermogenes sent two letters to the Russian traitors. In one of them he wrote: "...You have forgotten the vows of our Orthodox Faith, in which we are born, baptized, nourished and raised. You have violated your oath and the kissing of the Cross to stand to the death for the house of the Most Holy Theotokos and for the Moscow realm, but have fallen for your false would-be Tsarevich ... My soul aches, my heart is sickened, all within me agonizes, and all my frame shudders; I weep and with sobbing I lament: Have mercy, have mercy, brethren and children, on your own souls and your parents departed and living ... Consider, how our nation is devastated and plundered by foreigners, who offer insult to the holy icons and churches, and how innocent blood is spilled, crying out to God. Think! Against whom do you take up arms: is it not against God, Who has created you? Is it not against your own brothers? Do you not devastate your own country?... I adjure you in the name of God, give up your undertaking, there is yet time, so that you do not perish in the end." In the second document the saint appeals: "For the sake of God, come to your senses and turn around, gladden your parents, your wives and children; and we stand to pray God for you..."
Soon the righteous judgment of God fell upon the "Brigand of Tushino: he was killed by his own close associates on December 11, 1610. But Moscow continued to remain in peril, since the Poles and traitors, loyal to Sigismund III remained in the city. The documents sent by Patriarch Hermogenes throughout the cities and villages, exhorted the Russian nation to liberate Moscow from the enemies and to choose a lawful Russian Tsar.
The Muscovites rose up in rebellion, and the Poles burned the city, shutting themselves up in the Kremlin. Together with Russian traitors they forcefully seized Patriarch Hermogenes from the patriarchal throne and imprisoned him in the Chudov monastery.
On Bright Monday in 1611, the Russian militia approached Moscow and began the seige of the Kremlin, which continued for several months. Besieged within the Kremlin, the Poles often sent messengers to the Patriarch with the demand that he order the Russian militia to leave the city, threatening him with execution if he refused.
The saint firmly replied, "What are your threats to me? I fear only God. If all our enemies leave Moscow, I shall bless the Russian militia to withdraw from Moscow; but if you remain here, I shall bless all to stand against you and to die for the Orthodox Faith."
While still in prison, the hieromartyr Hermogenes sent a final epistle to the Russian nation, blessing the liberating army to fight the invaders. The Russian commanders could not come to an agreement over a way to take the Kremlin and free the Patriarch. He languished more than nine months in dreadful confinement, and on February 17, 1612 he died a martyr's death from starvation.
The liberation of Russia, for which St Hermogenes stood with such indestructible valor, was successfully achieved. The body of the hieromartyr Hermogenes was buried in the Chudov monastery, but in 1654 was transferred to the Moscow Dormition cathedral. The glorification of Patriarch Hermogenes as a saint occurred on May 12, 1913.
While he was the priest at St Nicholas, the wonderworking Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (July 8) was discovered in Kazan in 1579. With the blessing of Archbishop Jeremiah of Kazan, he carried the newly-appeared icon from the place of its discovery to the Church of St Nicholas. Having remarkable literary talent, the saint in 1594 compiled an account describing the appearance of the wonderworking icon and the miracles accomplished through it. In 1591 the saint gathered newly-baptized Tatars into the cathedral church and for several days he instructed them in the Faith.
The relics of St Germanus, the second archbishop of Kazan (September 25, November 6, and June 23), who died at Moscow on November 6, 1567 during a plague, were transfered and buried in St Nicholas Church in 1592. With the blessing of Patriarch Job (1589-1605), St Hermogenes reburied the relics at the Sviyazhsk Dormition monastery.
On January 9, 1592 St Hermogenes addressed a letter to Patriarch Job, in which he asked for permission to commemorate in his See of Kazan those Orthodox soldiers who gave their lives for the Faith and the nation in a battle against the Tatars. In the past, it was customary to enter into the diptychs the names of all Orthodox warriors who had fallen in battle, and to commemorate them.
At the same time he mentioned three martyrs who had suffered at Kazan for their faith in Christ, one of whom was a Russian named John (January 24) born at Nizhny Novgorod and captured by the Tatars. The other two, Stephen and Peter (March 24), were newly-converted Tatars.
The saint expressed regret that these martyrs were not inserted into the diptychs read on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, and that "Memory Eternal" was not sung for them. In answer to St Hermogenes, the Patriarch issued a decree on February 25, which said: " to celebrate at Kazan and throughout all the Kazan metropolitanate a panikhida for all the Orthodox soldiers killed at Kazan and the environs of Kazan, on the Saturday following the Feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos (October 1), and to inscribe them in the great Synodikon read on the Sunday of Orthodoxy," and also ordered that the three Kazan martyrs be inscribed in the Synodikon, leaving it to St Hermogenes to set the day of their memory. St Hermogenes circulated the Patriarchal decree throughout his diocese, and required all the churches and monasteries to serve Liturgies, Panikhidas and Lityas for the three Kazan martyrs on January 24.
St Hermogenes displayed zeal in the faith and firmness in the observance of Church traditions, and he devoted himself to the enlightenment of Kazan Tatars with the faith of Christ.
In 1595, with the active participation of the St Hermogenes, the relics of the Kazan Wonderworkers St Gurias, the first archbishop of Kazan (October 4, December 5, June 20), and St Barsanuphius bishop of Tver (October 4, April 11) were discovered and uncovered. Tsar Theodore Ioannovich (1584-1598) had given orders to erect at the Kazan Savior-Transfiguration monastery a new stone church on the site of the first one, where the saints were buried.
When the graves of the saints were discovered, St Hermogenes came with a gathering of clergy. He commanded the graves to be opened and, when he saw the incorrupt relics and clothing of the saints, he notified the Patriarch and the Tsar. With the blessing of Patriarch Job and by order of the Tsar, the relics of the newly-appeared wonderworkers were placed in the new church. St Hermogenes himself compiled the lives of hierarchs Gurias and Barsanuphius.
Having been found worthy of the patriarchal throne, Metropolitan Hermogenes was elected to the primatial See, and on July 3, 1606 he was installed as Patriarch by the assembly of the holy hierarchs at Moscow's Dormition cathedral. Metropolitan Isidore handed the Patriarch the staff of the holy hierarch Peter, Moscow Wonderworker (October 5, December 21, August 24), and the Tsar gave as a gift to the new Patriarch a panagia, embellished with precious stones, a white klobuk and staff. In the ancient manner, Patriarch Hermogenes made his entrance riding upon a donkey.
The activity of Patriarch Hermogenes coincided with a difficult period for the Russian state: the appearance of the false Tsarevich Demetrius and the Polish king Sigismund III. The first hierarch devoted all his powers to the service of the Church and the nation.
Patriarch Hermogenes was not alone in this exploit: his self-sacrificing fellow-countrymen followed his example and assisted him. With special inspiration His Holiness the Patriarch stood up against the traitors and enemies of the nation, who wanted to spread Uniatism and Western Catholicism throughout Russia and to wipe out Orthodoxy, while enslaving the Russian nation.
When the imposter arrived at Moscow and settled himself at Tushino, Patriarch Hermogenes sent two letters to the Russian traitors. In one of them he wrote: "...You have forgotten the vows of our Orthodox Faith, in which we are born, baptized, nourished and raised. You have violated your oath and the kissing of the Cross to stand to the death for the house of the Most Holy Theotokos and for the Moscow realm, but have fallen for your false would-be Tsarevich ... My soul aches, my heart is sickened, all within me agonizes, and all my frame shudders; I weep and with sobbing I lament: Have mercy, have mercy, brethren and children, on your own souls and your parents departed and living ... Consider, how our nation is devastated and plundered by foreigners, who offer insult to the holy icons and churches, and how innocent blood is spilled, crying out to God. Think! Against whom do you take up arms: is it not against God, Who has created you? Is it not against your own brothers? Do you not devastate your own country?... I adjure you in the name of God, give up your undertaking, there is yet time, so that you do not perish in the end." In the second document the saint appeals: "For the sake of God, come to your senses and turn around, gladden your parents, your wives and children; and we stand to pray God for you..."
Soon the righteous judgment of God fell upon the "Brigand of Tushino: he was killed by his own close associates on December 11, 1610. But Moscow continued to remain in peril, since the Poles and traitors, loyal to Sigismund III remained in the city. The documents sent by Patriarch Hermogenes throughout the cities and villages, exhorted the Russian nation to liberate Moscow from the enemies and to choose a lawful Russian Tsar.
The Muscovites rose up in rebellion, and the Poles burned the city, shutting themselves up in the Kremlin. Together with Russian traitors they forcefully seized Patriarch Hermogenes from the patriarchal throne and imprisoned him in the Chudov monastery.
On Bright Monday in 1611, the Russian militia approached Moscow and began the seige of the Kremlin, which continued for several months. Besieged within the Kremlin, the Poles often sent messengers to the Patriarch with the demand that he order the Russian militia to leave the city, threatening him with execution if he refused.
The saint firmly replied, "What are your threats to me? I fear only God. If all our enemies leave Moscow, I shall bless the Russian militia to withdraw from Moscow; but if you remain here, I shall bless all to stand against you and to die for the Orthodox Faith."
While still in prison, the hieromartyr Hermogenes sent a final epistle to the Russian nation, blessing the liberating army to fight the invaders. The Russian commanders could not come to an agreement over a way to take the Kremlin and free the Patriarch. He languished more than nine months in dreadful confinement, and on February 17, 1612 he died a martyr's death from starvation.
The liberation of Russia, for which St Hermogenes stood with such indestructible valor, was successfully achieved. The body of the hieromartyr Hermogenes was buried in the Chudov monastery, but in 1654 was transferred to the Moscow Dormition cathedral. The glorification of Patriarch Hermogenes as a saint occurred on May 12, 1913.
Saint THEODORE de Byzance, peintre, martyr à Mytilène par la main des Musulmans (1795).
Saint BARNABE, du skite de Gethsémani à Sergiev Possad (1906).
L'icône de la Mère de Dieu "QUI VERSE DES LARMES", icône de Notre-Dame de Tikhvine vénérée au skite du Prophète-Elie au Mont Athos. (Canon paraclitique traduit en français par le père Denis Guillaume au tome XIII du Supplément aux Ménées.)
The
Weeping Tikhvin Icon of Mt. Athos is to be found behind the altar in
the Prophet Elias Skete. On February 17, 1877 (Thursday of the Second
Week of Lent) seven monks remained in the church after the Hours had
been read. They were astonished to see tears flowing from the right eye
of the icon, and collecting on the frame. Then a single large tear came
from the left eye.
The monks wiped the tears from the icon's face, then left the church and locked the doors behind them. Three hours later, they returned for Vespers and saw traces of tears on the icon, and a single tear in the left eye. Again they wiped the tears from the icon, but they did not reappear.
Regarding this manifestation of tears as a sign of mercy from the Mother of God, the monks established an annual commemoration of the icon on February 17. The weeping Tikhvin Icon of Mt. Athos is not to be confused with the original wonderworking Tikhvin Icon (June 26).
The monks wiped the tears from the icon's face, then left the church and locked the doors behind them. Three hours later, they returned for Vespers and saw traces of tears on the icon, and a single tear in the left eye. Again they wiped the tears from the icon, but they did not reappear.
Regarding this manifestation of tears as a sign of mercy from the Mother of God, the monks established an annual commemoration of the icon on February 17. The weeping Tikhvin Icon of Mt. Athos is not to be confused with the original wonderworking Tikhvin Icon (June 26).
http://oca.org/saints/lives/2014/02/17/100547-greatmartyr-theodore-the-tyro-ldquothe-recruitrdquo
St Nicholas Kandaurov
Hieromartyr Theodore of Atchara
http://oca.org/saints/lives/2014/02/17/205443-hieromartyr-theodore-of-atchara
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