Akathist of the Pious Confessors Visarion and Sophronius and of the Martyr Oprea (October 21)translated

Condac 1: Come, all lovers of Christ, to the celebration of the blessed confessors Visarion, Sophronius and Oprea, who served the truth and confessed the right faith and honoring their labors with piety and praising them, so to speak: rejoice, good confessors and zealous of the truth!
Ikos 1: Chosen pillar, from a healthy root, you raised Visarioane and from infancy you learned the right faith. The angelic face you took upon yourself from your youth and the angelic life you followed accordingly. For this we also, the humble, honor you with praise, saying to you:
Rejoice, you who sprung from faithful parents, chosen offspring;
Rejoice, that from childhood you followed in the footsteps of the saints;
Rejoice, you who, through Holy Baptism, received divine grace;
Rejoice, for all your life you proved yourself worthy of the holy hierarch whose name you bore;
Rejoice, you who as a young man explored many holy places;
Rejoice, that you have drunk from the fountain of the Orthodox faith in abundance;
Rejoice, you who reached the Holy Sepulcher with piety;
Rejoice, because there with hot tears, of joy, you cried;
Rejoice, the one in the Lavra...



