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28th Week after Pentecost. Tone 2.
Nativity Fast.
Fish, wine and oil allowed.

Совершается всенощное бдениеSt. Sabbas the Sanctified (532).

St. Karion (Cyrion) and his son St. Zachariah the Recluse, of Egypt (4th c.). St. Gurias, archbishop of Kazan (1563).

New Hieromartyrs Elias Chetverukhin, archpriest, of Moscow (1932) and Gennadius (Petlyuk), hieromonk of the Belogostitsky Monastery (Yaroslavl) (1941). New Hiero-confessor Sergius Pravdolyubov, archpriest, of Lebedyan (Ryazan) (1950).

Monk-martyr Justinian of Ramsey Island, South Wales (560). St. Nicetius, bishop of Trier (566). St. Cosmas of Vatopedi (1276) and the monks of Karyes, Mt. Athos, all martyred by the Latins (1283). St. Nectarius of Bitol (1500), and his elder, St. Philotheus (late 15th c.), of Karyes Skete, Mt. Athos.

Articles

St. Savva the Sanctified and His Return to the Holy Land in 1965

When he was seventeen years old he received monastic tonsure, and attained such perfection in fasting and prayer that he was given the gift of wonderworking.

Venerable Sava the Sanctified

Saint Sava composed the first monastic Rule of church services, the so-called “Jerusalem Typikon”, accepted by all the Palestine monasteries.

St. Gurias the Archbishop of Kazan

In 1561 the saint fell grievously ill and could no longer perform the divine services himself. On feastdays they carried him into the church, and he either sat or lay down, since he did not have the strength to walk or even stand.

And Their Coffins Were Not Destroyed

Nun Natalia (Kaverzneva)

St. Gurius’s coffin was filled with fragrant myrrh resembling pure water; moreover the saint’s relics were afloat at the surface of this liquid.

Holy Confessor Archpriest Sergiy Pravdoliubov

All the priests in the town of Kasimov, including Fr. Sergiy, were arrested, taken to a forest, and ordered to dig a large trench near the railroad tracks. The clergy were convinced they were digging their own graves.
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