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Собор новых мучеников и исповедников Российских, за Христа пострадавших, явленных и неявленных
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35th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 2.
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Совершается всенощное бдениеSunday of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомApostle Timothy of the Seventy (ca. 97). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомMonk-martyr Anastasius the Persian (628). St. Macarius, founder of Zhabyn Monastery (Belev) (1623).

Hieromartyrs Manuel, George, Peter, and Leontius, bishops; Sionius, Gabriel, John, Leontus, and Parodus, priests; and 377 companions, in Bulgaria (ca. 817). Martyr Anastasius, hierodeacon of the Kiev Caves (12th c.).

St. Brithwald, bishop of Ramsbury (1045). St. Joseph Samakus the Sanctified, of Crete (1511). New Monk-martyr Gregory of Pec (17th-18th c.).

Articles

Apostle Timothy of the Seventy

The Holy Apostle Timothy was from the Lycaonian city of Lystra in Asia Minor. Saint Timothy was converted to Christ in the year 52 by the holy Apostle Paul.

Monkmartyr Anastasius the Persian

The Monk Martyr Anastasius the Persian was the son of a Persian sorcerer named Bavi. As a pagan, he had the name Magundates and served in the armies of the Persian emperor Chozroes II, who in 614 ravaged the city of Jerusalem and carried away the Life-Creating Cross of the Lord to Persia.

Venerable Macarius of Zhabyn the Wonderworker

The saint spent his life in austere monastic struggles, suffering cold, heat, hunger and thirst, as the monastery accounts relate. He often went deep into the forest, where he prayed to God in solitude.

377 Martyred Companions in Bulgaria

These 377 Christians were captured in Thrace by the Bulgars, and were slain in various ways.

Monkmartyr Anastasius the Deacon of the Kiev Near Caves

In the Service to the Synaxis of the Fathers of the Near Caves, it says that the Monk Martyr Anastasius possessed such steadfastness in God, that he received everything he asked for.

St. Brihtwald of Wilton

Saint Brihtwald (Berhtwald) was the last Bishop of Ramsbury, Wiltshire.
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