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Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1521). Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine (337) and Helen, his mother (327). 
St. Constantine (Yaroslav) (1129). and his children Sts. Michael and Theodore, wonderworkers of Murom (12th c.). Uncovering of the relics of St. Andrew Ogorodnikov, fool-for-Christ, of Simbirsk (1998).
St. Cassian the Greek, monk, of Uglich (1504). Synaxis of the Saints of Simbirsk and Karelia. Synaxis of the New Hieromartyrs and Confessors of Ufa. St. Cyril, bishop of Rostov (1262). St. Basil, bishop of Ryazan (1295). Monk-martyr Agapitus, founder of Markushev Monastery (Vologda) (1584).
Hieromartyr Secundus and those with him, in Alexandria (356). St. Hospicius of Trier (581). St. Helen of Decani, Serbia (ca. 1350).
Repose of Elena Pavlova of Chepel, Kharkov (1885) and Elder Isaac of Dionysiou Monastery, Mt. Athos (1932).
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.
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