4 febbraio feste santi e memorie

Afterfeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple

 

 

 

Saints PHILEAS, évêque de Thmuis en Thébaïde, et PHILOROME, magistrat à Alexandrie, martyrs sous Dioclétien.

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Saint EUTYCHE, martyr à Rome.

Martirologio Romano: A Roma ad Catacumbas sulla via Appia, santo Eutichio, martire, che, per lungo tempo condannato all  insonnia e alla fame, gettato infine in un baratro, per la fede in Cristo riportò la vittoria su tutti i crudeli ordini del tiranno.

Saints AQUILIN, GEMINE, GELASE, MAGNE et DONAT, martyrs à Fossombrone en Italie.
Saint martyr THEOCTISTE, mort par le glaive.

Saint JEAN, évêque d'Irénopolis en Cilicie, et l'un des 318 Pères du Ier concile oecuménique.

 

Saint ABRAHAM, évêque d'Arbèle (dans l'actuel Kurdistan irakien), martyr par la main des Zoroastriens (344). The Hieromartyr Abraham, Bishop of Arbilia, suffered during a persecution against Christians in Persia under the emperor Sapor II. When they demanded that the saint renounce Christ and worship the sun, he answered, "How foolish to forsake the Creator and instead worship creatures! Isn't the sun just a creation of my God?"

After this, they fiercely beat and tortured him. St Abraham prayed during torture, echoing the words of the Savior: "Lord, do not count this sin against us, for they know not what they do!" The hieromartyr was beheaded by the sword in the village of Felman.



Saint JASIME le Thaumaturge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saint ISIDORE de Péluse, ascète en Egypte (449). (Office traduit par le père Denis Guillaume au tome II des Ménées.)  Saint Isidore of Pelusium lived during the fourth-fifth centuries. He was a native of Alexandria, and was raised among pious Christians. He was a relative of Theophilus, Archbishop of Alexandria, and of his successor, St Cyril (January 18). While still a youth he quit the world and withdrew to Egypt to Mount Pelusium, which became the site of his monastic efforts.

St Isidore's spiritual wisdom and strict asceticism, combined with his broad learning and innate knowledge of the human soul, enabled him to win the respect and love of his fellow monks in a short time. They chose him as their head and had him ordained a priest (The earliest sources for his life, however, say nothing of him being an igumen).

Following the example of St John Chrysostom, whom he had managed to see and hear during a trip to Constantinople, St Isidore devoted himself primarily to Christian preaching, that "practical wisdom" which, in his own words, is both "the foundation of the edifice and the edifice itself", while logic is "its embellishment, and contemplation its crown."

He was a teacher and a willingly provided counsel for anyone who turned to him for spiritual encouragement, whether it was a simple man, a dignitary, a bishop, the Patriarch of Alexandria, or even the emperor. He left behind about 10,000 letters, of which 2,090 have survived. A large portion of these letters reveal profound theological thought and contain morally edifying interpretations of Holy Scripture. St Photius (February 6) calls Isidore a model of priestly and ascetical life, and also a master of style.

St Isidore's love for St John Chrysostom resulted in his support of St John when he was persecuted by the empress Eudoxia and Archbishop Theophilus. After the death of St John, St Isidore persuaded Theophilus' successor St Cyril to inscribe the name of St John Chrysostom into the Church diptychs as a confessor. Through the initiative of St Isidore the Third Ecumenical Council was convened at Ephesus (431), at which the false teaching of Nestorius concerning the person of Jesus Christ was condemned.

St Isidore lived into old age and died around the year 436. The Church historian Evagrius (sixth century) writes of St Isidore, "his life seemed to everyone the life of an angel upon the earth." Another historian, Nicephorus Callistus (ninth century), praises St Isidore thus, "He was a vital and inspired pillar of monastic rules and divine vision, and as such he presented a very lofty image of most fervent example and spiritual teaching."

 

 

 

Troparion — Tone 4

O God of our Fathers, / Take not away Your mercy from us / But ever act towards us according to Your kindness, / And by the prayers of Your Saints / Guide our lives in peace.

Troparion — Tone 8

The image of God was truly preserved in you, O Father, / for you took up the Cross and followed Christ. / By so doing doing you taught us to disregard the flesh for it passes away / but to care instead for the soul, since it is immortal. / Therefore your spirit, venerable Isidore, rejoices with the angels.

Kontakion — Tone 4

Finding you to be another morning star, O glorious One, / the Church is illumined by the brilliance of your words. / She cries out to you: “Rejoice, all-blessed and divinely-wise Isidore.”

 

 

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Saint NICETAS, ascète à Kouri.

Saint NICOLAS de Corinthe.

Saint ALDATE, évêque (?) de Gloucester en Angleterre (VIème siècle?).

 

 

Saint EVAGRE, prince de Tsikhédidi et compagnon d'ascèse de saint Chio des Cavernes (Mrvimévi) (Géorgie VIème siècle). 

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Saint KIDO, ermite en Bretagne (VIème siècle).

Saint AVENTIN, évêque de Chartres, thaumaturge (vers 528). Martirologio Romano: A Châteaudun vicino a Chartres in Francia, transito di sant’Aventino, vescovo, che aveva prima retto la sede di Chartres

 

Saint AVENTIN de Troyes, higoumène du monastère d'Isle en Champagne (537). . 4 febbraio 538

Nasce in Gallia, nella seconda metà del V secolo, a Bourges. Grazie all'educazione cristiana ricevuta, fin da giovane Aventino viene additato come modello. Da adolescente fa visita al vescovo san Lupo di Troyes che nell'anno 451 ha salvato la città dall'invasione di Attila offrendosi come ostaggio. Il presule lo tiene con sé come collaboratore. Insieme i due santi riscattano quanti più prigionieri stranieri di guerra possono, prendendosi cura di questi uomini resi schiavi. Lupo muore nel 479 e gli succede san Cameliano, che nomina Aventino economo. Questi però decide di ritirarsi a vita eremitica. Sebbene non sia incline alle cariche di comando, dopo poco tempo viene eletto superiore della comunità dove è stato accolto. La sua fama, però, va nuovamente diffondendosi tra la gente che spesso lo visita. Decide così di ritirarsi in un luogo solitario lungo la Senna, a sette miglia da Troyes. È il vescovo Cameliano a conferirgli gli ordini sacri. Vive l'ultimo periodo della vita celebrando la Messa nei pressi della sua capanna, per gli abitanti del posto. Muore nel 538
Saint VINCENT, évêque de Troyes (vers 545).

Saint NUDEC, ermite en Bretagne (VIème-VIIème siècles).

Saint MODAN, higoumène de Dryburgh en Ecosse (début du VIIème siècle).

Saint CHAGNOALD, moine à Luxeuil, puis higoumène de Faremoutiers et évêque de Laon en Picardie (620).

Saint LIPHARD ou LIEPHARD, pélerin anglais assassiné en Vermandois (vers 640 ou vers 690).

Saint VULGIS, higoumène et évêque (ou chorévêque?) à Lobbes en Belgique (vers 760).

Saint RABAN MAUR, archevêque de Mayence en Rhénanie (856). (Je l'introduis dans ce calendrier, malgré ma réserve sur les évêques allemands morts après 794 et sous réserve de plus ample information, en raison du nombre considérable d'hérésies contre lesquelles il écrivit - prédestinationnisme et hérésie des judaïsants entre autres -, et de l'estime dans laquelle le père Guettée, in Histoire de l'Eglise, tome VI, pp. 213-225, tenait ses écrits et sa personne.) 

Rabano Mauro fu uno dei protagonisti della cultura carolingia. Nato a Magonza, in Germania nel 780, studiò nella celebre scuola del monastero benedettino di Fulda. Si recò poi a Tours, dove gli fu maestro Alcuino. Ritornato all'abbazia di Fulda, ne divenne la guida e la portò al suo massimo splendore. Nell'847 diventò arcivescovo di Magonza fino alla morte, avvenuta nell'856. Noto come «Magister Germaniae», è considerato il teologo occidentale più erudito del suo tempo. Fine poeta, è autore del «De laudibus sanctae Crucis» e alcuni gli attribuiscono anche l'inno «Veni creator»

 

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Saint NICOLAS le Studite, confesseur des saintes Icônes contre les iconoclastes (868).

 

Saint Nicholas the Confessor, Igumen of the Studion Monastery, lived during the ninth century. He was born on the island of Crete in the village of Kedonia into a Christian family. When he was ten, his parents sent him to Constantinople to his uncle, St Theophanes (October 11), who was a monk at the Studion monastery. With the approval of St Theodore (November 11), the head of the Studion monastery, the boy was enrolled in the monastery school. When he finished school at sixteen years of age, he was tonsured a monk. After several years, he was ordained a priest.

During this time there was a fierce persecution, initiated by the Byzantine emperor Leo the Armenian (813-820), against those who venerated the holy icons. St Nicholas and St Theodore the Studite were repeatedly locked up in prison, tortured in various ways, and humiliated. However, they zealously continued to defend Orthodoxy.

Under the holy Empress Theodora (February 11), who ruled the realm while her son Michael was still a minor, icon veneration was restored, and a time of relative peace followed. St Nicholas returned to the Studite monastery and was chosen its head. But this calm did not last very long.

The Empress Theodora was removed from the throne, and the emperor's uncle, Bardas, a man who defiled himself by open cohabitation with his son's wife, came to power. The attempts of Patriarch Ignatius (October 23) to restrain the impiety of Bardas proved unsuccessful. On the contrary, he was deposed from the patriarchal throne and sent into exile.

Unwilling to witness the triumph of iniquity, St Nicholas left Constantinople. He spent seven years at various monasteries. Later on, he returned as a prisoner to the Studite monastery, where he spent two years imprisoned, until the death of the emperor Michael (855-867) and Bardas. Whenthe emperor Basil I the Macedonian (867-886) ascended the throne, St Nicholas was set free, and again became igumen on the orders of the emperor. Because of his life as a confessor and ascetic he received from God the gift of healing, which continued even after his repose in the year 868.

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Saint GEORGES VSEVOLODOVITCH, prince de Vladimir, mort pour le Christ en combattant les Tatares (Russie 1236). (Office traduit par le père Denis Guillaume au tome II du Supplément aux Ménées. Acathiste traduit en français par le père Denis Guillaume au tome XIII du Supplément aux Ménées.) Holy Great Prince George was a son of Great Prince Vsevolod, nicknamed "Big Nest." He was born in the year 1189, and he assumed the great princely throne of Vladimir in 1212. He was distinguished for his military valor and his piety. In the year 1237 the Tatar (Mongol) Horde of Batu descended upon the Russian land. St George was compelled to leave the capital city in charge of his sons, and went north to meet up with the other princes.

On March 4, 1238 the Battle at the River Sita was fought, in which the Tatars destroyed the small but valiant company of the Great Prince. The saint himself fell in this fight, and Bishop Cyril buried his body at the Rostov cathedral. Two years later, it was transferred to Vladimir's Dormition cathedral with great solemnity.

The Church glorification of the saint occurred in 1645.



Saints ABRAHAM et COPRIUS, moines de Petchenga (Russie XVème siècle).

 

Saint CYRILLE du Lac-Neuf (Novoïezirsk), ermite et thaumaturge (Russie 1532). (Office traduit en français par le père Denis Guillaume au tome XIII du Supplément aux Ménées.) 

 

Saint JOSEPH d'Alep, martyr par la main des Musulmans (1686).

Saint METHODE (Krasnopérov), évêque de Petropavlosk, martyr par la main des Communistes (Russie 1921). (Cf. Polsky, p. 93.)

Saints EUSTHATE, JEAN, ALEXANDRE, SERGE, JEAN, THEODORE, ALEXANDRE, NICOLAS, ALEXIS, ALEXIS, prêtres, et JEAN, laïque, martyrs par la main des Communistes (Russie 1938)