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Solemn Holy Day

Heb 9:1-7

Lk 10:38-42 & 11:27-28

St. Cyprian, Priest-Martyr, a cultured Carthaginian, was converted and consecrated Bishop of Carthage.  He wrote much and was a cordial friend of the Martyr Pope, St. Cornelius.  He won his crown of Martyrdom by beheading A.D. 258 under the Emperor Valerian.

St. Justina, Virgin-Martyr, beheaded at Nicomedia under Emperor Diocletian, A.D. 300.

St Andreas, who became "a fool for Christ's sake."

St. Denis, the Areopagite, Priest-Martyr, first Bishop of Athens, converted by St. Paul, the Apostle, and with him Rusticus and Eleutherius, Athenian converts (Acts 17:34).

2 Cor 9:6-11

Lk 5:1-11

St. Hierotheus, Priest-Martyr, Bishop of Athens, disciple of St. Paul. Tradition has it that he was translated on a cloud to Jerusalem to be present at the Dormition of the Theotokos.

Venerable St. Francis of Assisi.

St. Charitina, Martyr, suffered Martyrdom A.D. at Amasa on the Black Sea, under Emperor Diocletian.

St. Thomas, the glorious Apostle, otherwise called Didymus (twin). He is stated to have preached the Gospel in Parthia, in Media and in India, where he is said to have suffered martyrdom.

SS. Sergius and Bacchus, Martyrs, were officers in the Imperial Army and were put to death A.D. 296 during the reign of Maximian, Emperor.

Our venerable mother, Pelagia. Public sinner, but later penitent in a cave on Mt. Olivet near Jerusalem. Pelagia died A.D. 457.

St. James the Lesser, son of Alpheus, Apostle and Brother of St. Matthew, the Apostle and Evangelist.

Our venerable father, Andronicus and his wife, Athanasia, from Antioch of Syria.  On the death of their children they agreed to separate and thenceforth led lives of prayer and penance in the solitude of Upper-Egypt.

SS. Eulampius and his sister, Eulampia, Martyrs at Nicomedia A.D. 302 under the reign of Maximian Herculeus. They were young children, who for their Faith were cast into a cauldron of boiling oil but miraculously came out unhurt, and thereupon were beheaded. Two hundred soldiers witnessing this became converts and were put to death as Christians.

St. Phillip, one of Seven Deacons, converted the Samaritans, baptized the eunuch of Candace, Queen of Ethiopia (Acts 8), and was the host of St. Paul at Caesarea (Acts 21.8). His four daughters are honored as Saints with him. He became Bishop of Tralles in Lydia, and there suffered martyrdom.

Our venerable father, Theophan, Confessor, Bishop of Nicea and composer of Canons, opposed the Iconoclasts at the 2nd Council of Nicea (A.D. 787). Banished by Emperor Leo the Armenian, he died in exile A.D. 818.

Gal 2:16-20; Lk 8:5-15 or
Heb 13:7-16; Jn 17:1-13

SS. Probus, Tarachus, and Andronicus, Martyrs, suffered martyrdom during the reign of Diocletian A.D. 292.

Our venerable father, Cosmas, Bishop of Majuma, composer of Canons.

SS. Carpus, Bishop of the Church in Thyatira, and Papylus, his Deacon, and with them Agathonica, sister of Papylus, and Agathodorus, their servant, suffered A.D. 250 in the persecution under Nero.

St. Paraskevia, Martyr, surnamed "Friday," who endured death at Iconium A.D. 290.

Our venerable father, Euthymius, the New.

St. Lucian, Venerable-Martyr, Presbyter of greater Antioch, was put to death for the Faith at Nicomedia in Asia Minor by order of Emperors Maximian and Galerius, buried at Helenopolis in Bithynia.

St. Longinus, the Centurion, is credited by tradition to have been the one who pierced the side of Our Lord hanging on the Cross (John 19:34). Converted to Christianity, he was put to death in Cappadocia. His body is venerated in the Church of St. Augustine in Rome.

St. Hosea, Prophet, a descendant of Isachar, lived in the 8th century B.C.

St. Andrew of Crete, Venerable-Martyr opposed the Iconoclasts and reproached the Emperor Constantine for his impiety. The enraged monarch ordered him to be seized and tortured, from which he died A.D. 761

Gal 1:11-19

Lk 7:11-16

St. Luke, Apostle and Evangelist, was a physician of Antioch in Syria, converted to Christianity, became the fellow-worker of St. Paul. He is the inspired writer of the Third Gospel and of the Acts of the Apostles, as revealed to the Prophet Ezekiel in the vision on a calf, six centuries B.C.

St. Joel, Prophet, was of the Tribe of Ruben in the 8th century B.C.

St. Varus, Martyr, a Roman soldier, who while guarding some condemned monks in prison for their Faith, on seeing one of them expire in his dungeon, took his place and shared the torture and cruel death of the others A.D. 307.

St. Sadoth, Priest-Martyr, a Bishop in Persia, who, with 128 of his fellow Christians, was put to death A.D. 345 by King Sapor near Ctesiphon.