26 agosto Saints ADRIEN, officier de l'armée impériale, NATHALIE son épouse, et leurs VINGT-TROIS compagnons, martyrs sous Maximien à Nicomédie en Bithynie (vers 300). (Office traduit en français par le père Denis Guillaume au tome VIII des Ménées.)

 

 

 

 

 

Troparion — Tone 4

Your holy martyrs Adrian and Natalia, 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

Martyr of Christ, Adrian, / you kept the words of your godly and devoted wife Natalia in your heart. / With her you accepted every kind of suffering and obtained the crown of victory!

 

Saints ADRIEN, officier de l'armée impériale, NATHALIE son épouse, et leurs VINGT-TROIS compagnons, martyrs sous Maximien à Nicomédie en Bithynie (vers 300). (Office traduit en français par le père Denis Guillaume au tome VIII des Ménées.)

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Troparion for Ss. Adrian & Natalie (Tone 3)Thou didst value the Faith as imperishable wealth, O thrice blessed one, and didst abandon thy father's ungodliness. Accepting thy spouse's word thou wast made radiant in contest. O glorious Adrian, pray to Christ our God for us, together with godly-minded Natalie.

 

 

 

 

Husband and wife, they were both of noble and wealthy families in Nicomedia. Adrian was the governor of the Praetorium and a pagan, and Natalia was a secret Christian. They were both young, and had lived in wedlock for thirteen months in all before their martyrdom. When the wicked Emperor Maximian visited Nicomedia, he ordered that the Christians be seized and put to torture. There were twenty-three Christians hidden in a cave near the city. Someone handed them over to the authorities and they were cruelly flogged with leather whips and staves, and thrown into prison. They were then taken from prison and brought before the Praetor for their names to be noted. Adrian looked at these people, tortured but unbowed, peaceful and meek, and he put them under oath to say what they hoped for from their God, that they should undergo such tortures. They spoke to him of the blessedness of the righteous in the Kingdom of God. Hearing this, and again looking at these people, Adrian suddenly turned to the scribe and said: "Write my name along with those of these saints; I also am a Christian." When the Emperor heard of this, he asked him, "Have you lost your mind?" Adrian replied, "I haven't lost it, but found it!" Hearing this, Natalia rejoiced greatly, and, when Adrian sat chained with the others in prison, came and ministered to them all. When they flogged her husband and put him to various tortures, she encouraged him to endure to the end. After long torture and imprisonment, the Emperor ordered that they be taken to the prison anvil, for their arms and legs to be broken with hammers. This was done and Adrian, along with the twenty-three others, breathed his last under the vicious tortures. Natalia took their relics to Constantinople and there buried them. After several days, Adrian appeared to her, bathed in light and beauty and calling her to come to God, and she peacefully gave her soul into her Lord's hands. (The Prologue from Ochrid) Natalie is English for Natalia.