St. Symeon Stylites (the Younger) of the Wonderful Mountain (596).
St. Nicetas the Stylite, wonderworker, of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski (1186).
Martyrs Meletius Stratelates, Stephen, John, and 1,218 soldiers with women and children, including: Serapion the Egyptian, Callinicus the Magician, Theodore, Faustus, the women Marciana, Susanna, and Palladia, two children Cyriacus and Christian, and twelve tribunes: Faustus, Festus, Marcellus, Theodore, Meletius, Sergius, Marcellinus, Felix, Photinus, Theodoriscus, Mercurius, and Didymus—all of whom suffered in Galatia (ca. 218). St. Gregory, archbishop of Novgorod (1193).
St. Vincent of Lerins (ca. 450). Nun-martyr Martha, abbess, of Monemvasia (990). Translation of the relics of St. George of the Holy Mountain and Georgia (ca. 1067).
Repose of Monk Cyriacus of Valaam (1818) and Blessed Amphilochius of Rostov (1824).
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.