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Gal 6:11-18

Lk 16:19-31

The holy unmercenary wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian (303). The holy priest-martyr Theodore Romza, Bishop of Mukachevo, brave defender of the Byzantine Catholic Church, killed by the Soviets A.D. (1947).

SS. Akindynos, Pegasius, Aphdonius, Elpidephorus, and Anempodistus, Martyrs, suffered martyrdom for the Faith in Persia under King Sapor II about A.D. 345.

SS. Acepsimas, Bishop of Hanita in Assyria.  Joseph, Presbyter, and Aithalus, Deacon, were imprisoned, tortured, and put to death by King Sapor II of Persia.

Renovation of the Church of St. George the Great-Martyr, in Lydia, where his Relics are reposed.

Our venerable father, Joannicius the Great, a native of Bithynia in Asia Minor. He was in turn a soldier, a solitary hermit near Mt. Olympus, possessed the gift of prophecy and worked miracles. He opposed the Iconoclasts, died at age 94 in A.D. 846.

SS. Nicander, Bishop of Myra, and Hermas, Presbyter, were put to death at Myra in Lycia in Asia Minor, Date uncertain.

SS. Galaction and Episteme, a Christian husband and wife who were converted and baptized during a persecution, after which each retired into a monastery. They confessed the Faith at Emessa in the reign of Decius, Emperor.

SS. Patrobas, Hermias, Linus, Gaius, and Philologus, from among the 70 Apostles.

Our holy father, Paul, Archbishop of Constantinople, Confessor, strenuously upheld Catholicism against the Arians, but fell victim to the bigotry of the Emperor Constantius. In banishment he was left without food and was strangled by the Arians with his own Omophorion A.D. 350.

SS. Hieros and Others with him, Armenian Christians, 33 in number, suffered at Melitene under the Emperor Diocletian in the first years of the 4th Century A.D.

Our holy father, Lazarus, wonderworker, fasting in the hills of Galilee.

Eph 2:4-10

Lk 8:26-39

  Synaxis of St. Michael the Archangel and all Angels. (Feast from the time of Constantine the Great, Emperor)  

SS. Onesiphorus and Porphyrius, Martyrs.  Porphyrius was of the household of Onesiphorus spoken of by St. Paul in his 2nd Epistle to Timothy (2:16-18).  They preached the Gospel towards the close of the 1st century.  Tradition says they were tied to wild horses and torn to pieces.

Our venerable mother, Matrona, died in peace A.D. 466, having lived 100 years.

Venerable, Theoktista, of Lesbos Island.

SS. Erastus, Olympus, Rodeon, Sosipater, Tertius, and Quartus, Apostles.

Erastus was converted by St. Paul and one of his helpers (Acts 19:22). Sosipater was a kinsman and disciple of St. Paul (Rom. 16:21). Quartus was a disciple of the Apostles, mentioned by St. Paul (Rom. 16:23).

SS. Menas, Victor, and Vincent, Martyrs, suffered martyrdom A.D. 296.

St. Stephenida, Martyr, endured death A.D. 213.

Our venerable father, Theodore Studite, Confessor, Hegumen-Abbot. He resisted the Iconoclast Emperor at Constantinople, was banished four times, and ended his days in exile, aged 80, A.D. 826.

St. Josaphat, Priest-Martyr, Archbishop of Polotsk, was the first of the Orientals to be canonized at Rome A.D. 1867.  Born at Vladimir, Poland A.D. 1584, at twenty he entered the Order of St. Basil, became a priest and was consecrated Archbishop in Lithuania.  By his zeal he effected many conversions.  In spite of warning, he visited the parish at Witepsk where the Schismatics cruelly put him to death for the Faith A.D. 1623.

Our holy father, John the "Almoner," a native of Cyprus Island, distributed all his possessions among the poor, yet he left seventy churches in Alexandria in place of the seven he found there, during the reign of Emperor Heraclius.  He died in Cyprus A.D. 619.

Our venerable father, Nilus, lived with the Solitaries of Mt. Sinai; died at Constantinople sometime after A.D. 430.

Our holy father, St. John the Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, most famous of both the Greek and the Latin Church and one of the four great Doctors of the Orient, called "Golden-Tongued" because of his eloquence. The Catholic Church honors him as the "Heavenly Patron of Ecclesiastical Orators." He revised St. Basil's Divine Liturgy. He suffered deposition and exile for his firm stand against the dissolute life at the Court of the Emperor Arcadius and Honorius. He died at Comana in Cappadocia, at the age of 62, A.D. 407 (Confer January 27 and 30.)

1 Cor 4:9-16
Jn 1:43-51

Eph 2:14-22

Lk 8:41-56

SS. Gurias, Samonas, and Habib, Martyrs, at Edessa in Syria, were beheaded A.D. 299 under Emperor Diocletian.

St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist. His early Apostolic work was concerned with the Jews for whom he wrote his First Gospel in their own Aramaic tongue. He was martyred in Africa by fire.

Our holy father, Gregory, "Taumaturgus," i.e., wonderworker, Bishop in Neocaesarea: died A.D. 270 in the reign of Emperor Aurelian. Tradition states that he was instructed concerning the Holy Trinity by the Theotokos and St. John the Evangelist.

SS. Plato and Roman, Martyrs: the former suffered death A.D. 296; the latter A.D. 304.

St. Obadiah, Prophet, is of the Twelve Minor Prophets, having lived in the ninth century B.C.

St. Barlam, Martyr, was a pious peasant who was imprisoned and tortured for the Faith at Antioch A.D. 304, in the persecution under Diocletian and Galerius, Emperors.

Our venerable father, Gregory of Decapolis, suffered much in the Iconoclastic persecution underthe Emperor Leo the Armenian.

Our holy father, Procius, Archbishop of Constantinople, was a disciple of St. John Chrysostom. He died A.D. 446 in the reign of Theodosius the Younger, Emperor.

Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple. (This Feast was introduced in Constantinople about the year A.D. 700.)

Eph 4:1-6

Lk 10:25-37

SS. Philemon and Others with him, Apostles, were disciples of St. Paul the Apostle, suffered martyrdom A.D. 68 under the Emperor Nero.

St. Cecilia, one of the most famous Virgin-Martyrs; she converted her betrothed and his brother to Christianity.  She was seized and suffocated with the stem of a heat bath in her own mansion.  She died probably in the reign of Emperor Septimus Severus.

Our holy fathers, Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium, and Gregory, Bishop of Agrigentum. The former died about A.D. 400, the latter about A.D. 600.

St. Catherine, Great Virgin-Martyr, after confessing the Christian Faith, was scourged for a long time with scorpions and suffered martyrdom by beheading A.D. 250 under the tyrant Maximin Daza, Emperor.

St. Mercurius, Great Martyr, martyred A.D. 250 during the reign of Decius, Emperor.

Our holy father, Clement, Pope of Rome (third after St. Peter the Apostle), was cast into the Black Sea with an anchor around his neck probably A.D. 100 under Trajan, Emperor.

Our holy father, Peter, Bishop of Alexandria, put to death by the order of Emperor Mzximin Daza, A.D. 311.

Our venerable father, Alypius, Stylite, who remained on his lofty perch 53 years and attained the age of 118, A.D. 608.

Dedication of the Church of St. George in Kiev.

St. James the Persian, Great-Martyr, suffered a fearful martyrdom A.D. 421, under the Persian ruler Varanes V. He was progressively cut to pieces, first fingers, then toes, hands, feet, arms, legs were successively cut from his living body, while he praised God in Psalmody.

Our venerable father, Palladius