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Great-martyr Irene of Thessalonica (1st c.-2nd c.).
St. Barlaam of Serpukhov (1377). Uncovering of the relics of St. James, founder of Zhelezny Borok Monastery (Kostroma) (1422) New Monk-martyr Ephraim of Nea Makri (1426) (Конст.). St. Adrian, founder of Monza Monastery (Galich) (1610).
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Inexhaustible Cup” (1878).
Sts. Martin and Heraclius, of Illyria (4th c.). St. Eulogius the Confessor, bishop of Edessa (ca. 386). St. Hilary, bishop of Arles (449). St. Euthymius the Wonderworker, bishop of Madytos on the Hellespont (ca. 990).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Monday. [Acts 17:1–15; John 11:47–57]
What do we? for this man doeth many miracles (John 11:47). Jewish erudition found the Saviour to be guilty. And in our days, German erudition[1] finds what is supernatural to be out of place in the Gospels of Christ: everything is good, only this [the miraculous] just won’t work. These two ways of thinking meet in the final analysis. Jewish erudition decided: it is expedient that one man should die (John 11:50), and that the rest might not perish, while German erudition states: we will eliminate the supernatural to preserve all the other Gospel truths. And what came of this? The Jews destroyed their people, while the Germans lost all Christian truths, and now are left with almost nothing. The Lord is the cornerstone of the house of salvation; similarly faith in the supernatural is the cornerstone of the entire building of God-inspired truth. The Saviour Himself, in His Person, is the crown of the supernatural, and its inexhaustible Source is in the Church. He who touches this point is touching the apple of God’s eye.
[1] By “German erudition” St. Theophan is most likely referring to the Protestant German philosophers of his time.