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Собор Киево-Печерских святых Волоколамская икона Божией Матери Святитель Григорий Палама, архиепископ Фессалонитский
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March 16
Second Sunday of Great Lent. Commemoration of St. Gregory Palamas. Tone 5.
Great Lent.
Wine and oil allowed.

Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомCommemoration of St. Gregory Palamas. Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомMartyrs Eutropius and Cleonicus of Amasea, and Basiliscus of Comana (ca. 308).

St. Piama, virgin (337). Synaxis of All Saints of the Kiev Caves and the Ukraine.

Volokolamsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1572).

Martyr Hemetherius of Spain (ca. 298). St. Alexandra of Alexandria (4th c.). St. Winwaloe, abbot of Landevennec, Brittany (ca. 530). St. Caluppan of Auvergne (Gaul) (576). St. Non, mother of St. David of Wales (6th c.). St. John IV (Chrysostom), catholicos of Georgia (1001). Hieromartyr Theodoretus, priest, of Antioch (361-363).

Repose of Metropolitan Laurus (Shkurla) of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (2008).

Articles

Martyrs Eutropius and Cleonicus of Amasea, and Basiliscus of Comana

The Holy Martyrs Cleonicus, Eutropius and Basiliscus suffered in the city of Pontine Amasea (Asia Minor) in about the year 308.

Holy Martyr Vasiliskos

In prison, Vasiliskos was preparing to endure torture. The Lord appeared to the Martyr in a dream and promised to help him; he also foretold that he would die a martyr in Komana.

Virginmartyr Piama

The Virgin Piama lived in asceticism not far from Alexandria.

Icon of the Mother of God of Volokolamsk

The Volokolamsk Icon of the Mother of God is a copy of the Vladimir Icon of the Moscow Dormition cathedral.

Saint Ioane (Chrysostom) the Catholicos (†1001)

Archpriest Zakaria Machitadze

Catholicos Basil III’s “Story of St. Shio’s Miracles” describes how the hitherto childless parents of St. Ioane prayed at length to St. Shio of Mgvime. After the birth of Ioane, his God-fearing parents sent him to be raised at Shio-Mgvime Monastery. There he acquired the sanctity and wisdom for which he would later be called “Chrysostom,” meaning “golden mouth” in Greek. By this name he has been known throughout the history of the Georgian Church.

Second Sunday. St. Gregory Palamas
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