Hieromartyrs Patrick, bishop of Prusa, and his companions: priests Acacius, Menander, and Polyenus (ca. 100). St. Cornelius, founder of Komel Monastery (Vologda) (1537). St. Demetrius Donskoy, great prince of Moscow (1389). and his wife St. Eudocia, in monasticism Euphrosyne, princess of Moscow (1407).
Martyr Acoluthus of Hermopolis, Egypt (284-303). St. John, bishop of Gothia in the Crimea (790). St. Cornelius, founder of Paleostrov Monastery (Karelia) (ca. 1420) and his disciple Abramius (15th c.). St. John, prince of Uglich, tonsured as Ignatius (Vologda) (1523). St. Sergius, monk, of Shukhtom (1609). Right-believing Prince Vladimir II (Basil) Monomakh of Kievan Rus (1125). St. Nicholas Rynin, fool-for-Christ, of Vologda (1837).
New Hieromartyrs Anthony (Pankeyev), bishop of Belgorod, and with him priests Mitrophan, Alexander, Michael, Matthew, Hippolytus, Nicholas, Basil, Nicholas, Maxim, Alexander, Paul, and Paul; and Martyrs Michael and Gregory (1938). New Hieromartyr Onuphrius (Gagaliuk), archbishop of Kursk and Oboyansk (1938). New Hieromartyr Valentin (Lukianov), hieromonk, of Romashkovo (Moscow) (1940). New Hiero-confessor Seraphim (Zagorovsky), hieromonk, of Kharkov (1943). Synaxis of the Hieromartyrs of Kharkov.
Martyrs Parthenius and his brother Calogerius at Rome (250). St. Theotima of Nicomedia (311). Entrance into Georgia of St. Nina (Nino), Equal-to the-Apostles (323). St. Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury (988). Monk-martyrs and confessors John, Conon, Jeremiah, Cyril, Theoctistus, Barnabas, Maximus, Theognostus, Joseph, Gennadius, Gerasimus, Mark, and Herman, of Kantara Monastery on Cyprus, who suffered under the Latins (1231).
Commemoration of the ascetics of St. Athanasius of Syandem Monastery: Elias (also of Valaam), Theophanes, and Dionysius. Repose of Elder Cleopas of Valaam, disciple of St. Paisius (Velichkovsky) (1816).
Tuesday. [Acts 12:25–13:12; John 8:51–59]
The Jews became angry with the Lord
because of His accusation, and picked up stones to cast
at Him. But the Lord went through the midst of
them, and so passed by (John 8:59). They did nothing
to the Lord, but they destroyed themselves, for the
consequence of their unbelief was the terrible sentence of
the Lord: Behold, your house is left unto you
desolate (Matt. 23:38) and also: let us pass from
here. And the Lord passed to another place and chose
other peoples for His habitation, instead of the beloved
Israel. Even now, insignificant people, in the
self-delusion of a proud mind which does not contain the
truth of Christ, take up stones of opposition to the Lord
and cast them at Him. They do not harm Him, because He
nevertheless is the Lord, and His truth is the immutable
truth; they only destroy themselves. The Lord goes by,
leaving such people in their vain wisdom, which whirls
them, like a whirlwind spins loose specks of dust. But
when an entire nation is carried away with false wisdom,
then the destiny of an entire nation is formed, as it was
for the Jews. Understand, ye nations, and submit to the
Lord!