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Saint Agapitus, Bishop of Rome, was a zealous adherent of Orthodoxy. By his pious life he won the general esteem and was elevated to the See of Rome in the year 535.
Saint Zosimas, Igumen of Solovki a great luminary of the Russian North, was the founder of cenobitic monasticism on Solovki Island.
Saint Acacius, Bishop of Melitene, was born into a pious family in the Armenian city of Melitene.
According to Athonite tradition, all of the processions symbolize the Heavenly Queen’s rounds of her earthly Portion.
St. Gregory of Nazianzus
We were put to death together with Him, that we might be cleansed; we rose again with Him because we were put to death with Him; we were glorified with Him, because we rose again with Him.
