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Феодор Смоленский и чада его Давид и Константин Святой князь Игорь Черниговский Святой преподобный Алексий Зосимовский.
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18th Week after Pentecost. Tone 8.
Fast Day.
Wine and oil allowed.

Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомAfterfeast of the Exaltation of the Cross. Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомMartyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon, of Synnada (276-282). Совершается служба со славословиемSt. Theodore, prince of Smolensk and Yaroslavl (1299), and his sons Sts. David (1321) and Constantine (ca. 1322). St. Alexis, hieroschemamonk of Zosima Hermitage (1928).

Martyr Zosimas, hermit, of Cilicia (4th c.). Blessed Igor-George, tonsured Gabriel, great prince of Chernigov and Kiev (1147).

New Hieromartyr Constantine Golubev, priest, of Bogorodsk, and two martyrs with him (1918). New Hieromartyr Nicholas Iskrovsky, archpriest, of Ukraine (1919). New Hieromartyr Nilus Smirnov, archpriest, of Ivanovskoye-na-Lamo (Moscow) (1938).

Hieromartyrs Januarius, bishop of Benevento, and his companions: Festus, Proclus, and Sosius, deacons; Martyrs Desiderius, reader, and Gantiol, Eutychius, and Acutius, at Pozzuoli (305). St. Seguanus of Gaul (ca. 580). St. Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury (690).

Articles

Finding of the relics of St Theodore the Prince of Smolensk, and Yaroslavl, and His Children

On March 5, 1463, the relics of holy Prince Theodore and his sons, David and Constantine were uncovered at Yaroslavl .

St. Theodore the Prince of Smolensk and Yaroslav

To give his daughter in marriage to a Russian prince meant to acknowledge him as an equal. More importantly, it meant that the khan would acknowledge the primacy of Orthodoxy, since before the wedding, the Tatar princess had to accept holy Baptism.

Sts. David and Constantine of Smolensk and Yaroslavl

Saint David and his brother Saint Constantine were sons of the holy right-believing Prince Theodore of Smolensk and Yaroslavl. They were born at the Golden Horde.

Hieroschemamonk Alexiy, Elder of St. Zosima Hermitage

Bishop Arseny (Zhadanovsky)

Fr. Alexiy’s special character traits were his sociability, accessibility, and attentiveness to all. Both old and young, educated and illiterate, all felt that Batiushka was never burdened by anyone, but would show a lively interest each one’s fate.

Martyrs Zosimus the Hermit and Athanasius the Commentarisius (Superintendent of Prisoners), Anchorites, of Cilicia

The Monk Martyr Zosimus came from Cilicia and was an inhabitant of the wilderness.

Martyr Zosimas the Hermit of Cilicia

The Martyr Zosimas the Desert Dweller lived during the fourth century. Once, while hunting, Dometian, the governor of Sicily, saw the Elder calmly and amiably conversing with the beasts around him.

Right-believing Great Prince Igor of Kiev and Chernigov

The mob rushed into church during the Holy Liturgy and seized Igor, who was praying before the icon of the Mother of God, and they dragged him out to kill him.
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