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Martyrs Terence, Africanus, Maximus, Pompeius, and 36 others, including Zeno, Alexander, and Theodore, at Carthage (ca. 249-251).
Hieromartyrs James, priest, and Azadanes and Abdicius, deacons, of Persia (ca. 380). Nun-martyr Anastasia, abbess, and 34 nuns with her, of Uglich (1609). New Hieromartyr Gregory V, patriarch of Constantinople (1821). Hieromartyr Misael, archbishop of Ryazan (1656). Synaxis of the Holy Fathers of Mt. Sinai.
New Hieromartyr Flegont Pongilsky, archpriest, of Yaroslavl (1938).
“Kasperov” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (16th c.).
Prophetess Huldah (Olda). St. Miltiades, pope of Rome (314). The Holy Martyrs of Kvabtakhevi Monastery (Georgia), who suffered during the invasion of Tamerlane (1386). New Martyr George of Cyprus, at Acre (Palestine) (1753). New Martyr Demos of Smyrna (1763). New Monk-martyr Chrysanthus of Xenophontos, Mt. Athos (1821).
Consecration of Ioasaph (Bolotov) as Bishop of Kodiak, Alaska (1799).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Wednesday. [Acts 2:22–36; John 1:35–51]
The mind can prove the truth of the Resurrection through reason based on the scriptures, and a non-believer cannot but admit the power of its arguments, as long as a sense of truth is not yet dead in him. A believer does not need proof, because the Church of God is filled with the light of the Resurrection. Both of these indicators of truth are faithful and convincing. But counter-reasoning can spring up and contradict mind’s reason, and faith can be trampled and shaken by perplexities and doubts, coming from without and arising within. Is there no invincible wall around the truth of the Resurrection? There is. It will occur when the power of the Resurrection, received already at baptism, begins to actively be revealed as it purges the corruption of soul and body, and establishes within them the beginnings of a new life. He who experiences this will walk in the light of the Resurrection, and anyone talking against the truth of the Resurrection will seem to him insane, like a person saying in the daytime that it is night.
Articles
 The Holy Martyrs Africanus, Publius and TerenceThe Holy Martyrs Africanus, Publius and Terence suffered in the third century at Petrium. |
 Martyr Terence and 40 others beheaded at CarthageThe Holy Martyr Terence and his companions suffered under the emperor Decius (249-251). |
