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Passion Week.
Great Lent. |
St. Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (582).
Hieromartyr Archilias, priest, and Martyr Jeremiah, of Rome (3rd c.). St. Platonida (Platonis) of Nisibis (308). 120 Martyrs of Persia (344-347). St. Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, archbishop of Moravia and enlightener of the Slavs (885).
New Hiero-confessor Sebastian (Fomin), archimandrite, of Optina and Karaganda (1966).
St. Gregory (Drimys) of the Great Lavra on Mt. Athos (1326), instructor of St. Gregory Palamas. St. Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos) (1346). New Martyr Nicholas the Deacon, of Mytilene (1463). New Hieromartyr Gennadius of Dionysiou, Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1818). New Martyrs Manuel, Theodore, George, Michael, and another George, of Samothrace, at Makri in Thrace (1835). St. Martyrius, monk of Glinsk Hermitage (1865).
Repose of Hieromonk Arsenius of Valaam (1853), Elder Mardarius of the Nizhni-Novgorod Caves Monastery (1859), and Archimandrite Seraphim (Tyapochkin) of Rakitin (1982).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Saturday. [Rom 6:3–11; Matt. 28:1–20]
The Lord sleeps bodily in the tomb; in soul He descended into hades and preached salvation to the souls there. The Old Testament saints were not in heaven, although they abode in the consoling faith that they would be brought there as soon as the Promised One came to earth, having lived by faith in Him. There also the Forerunner foretold of His coming. When the Lord descended, all who believed cleaved to Him and were lifted up by Him into heaven. But even that heaven is only the threshold of the true paradise which will be revealed after the general resurrection and judgement., Although all of the new-testament saints also are blessed in heaven, they await an even more perfect bliss in the age to come, with a new heaven and new earth (cf. Rev. 21:1), when God will be all in all (cf. I Cor. 15:28).
Articles
 St. Eutychius the Patriarch of ConstantinopleSaint Eutychius, Archbishop of Constantinople, was born in a village called “Divine” in the province of Phrygia. |
 Hieromartyr Archilias, priest, and Martyr Jeremiah, of RomeThe Holy Martyrs Jeremiah and the Priest Archilias (Alchimius) suffered martyrdom in the third century. |
 St. Platonida (Platonis) of Nisibis, SyriaSaint Platonida was at first a deaconess, but afterwards withdrew into the Nisibis desert, where she organized a women’s monastery. |
 120 Martyrs of PersiaThe Holy 120 Martyrs suffered under the Persian emperor Sapor. |
 Sts. Cyril and Methodius |