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St. Nikita the Confessor, Abbot of Midice Nikita, originally from Caesarea Bithynia, from a young age devoted himself to serving the Lord and, coming to the Midice monastery, not far from the city of Plusiada, he was tonsured by the local abbot Nikephoros. A few years later he was convinced to accept the rank of presbyter and was ordained by Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople. After the death of Abbot Nicephorus, the brethren elected him as abbot. His virtuous life was a model for everyone, and the Lord glorified him with the grace of healing. When Emperor Leo the Armenian and Patriarch Theodotus, who were of one mind with him, pronounced a curse on those who venerated icons at their wicked council in May 815, the emperor summoned the abbots of the best monasteries and urged them to agree with the definition of that council. Those who disagreed were imprisoned. Among them was Rev. Nikita, who was soon exiled to the town of Masaleon, where he suffered both from the winter cold and from an merciless guard. Five days later he was again returned to Constantinople along with others and put in a damp prison, where they served both rotten bread and unclean water. Finally, the heretics said to the confessors: “Communicate once only from the hands of Patriarch Theodotus, and we will not demand anything more from you!” Then the abbots decided to yield to circumstances and, coming to Nikita, convinced him to enter into communication with the patriarch for a while. They almost forcibly removed him from prison and... went with him to Theodotus. And this one, having brought them to a certain house church decorated with icons, and hypocritically presenting himself as their admirer, performed the liturgy and communed with them from his own hands. After that, everyone went to their own monastery; but Rev. Nikita, regretting the deviation, decided to go in the other direction and repent of his sin there. Therefore, he went to the island of Prokonnis (now Marmara), but soon returned to Constantinople and, walking around the city, openly taught to adhere to Orthodox dogmas. Having learned about this, the king ordered him to go to his monastery, but the confessor said: “I will not go to my monastery, and I will not leave my faith. Obeying the fathers who begged me, I received communion from the false patriarch, but now I regret and repent. From now on I am not in communication with you; You, king, do with me as you please!” The king sent him under supervision to the island of St. Glykeria, near the city of Iraklia, where there was a monastery, and the heretic Anthimus was abbot there. And the saint remained there in need and torment from heretics for six years, until the death (December 25, 820) of Leo the Armenian, and then he was released; but he did not go to his monastery, but settled in a certain deserted place near Constantinople, where he died a short time later. His body was immediately transferred to his monastery after his death. On the same day St. much Agony, Chionia and Irina Solunyanka. They suffered for Christ during the persecution of Maximian, in 304; burned. At the site of their martyrdom, outside the city walls, there was a monastery in the 6th century. † Repose of Rev. Nektary Bezhetsky In the RKP. In the calendar we read about the saints of Tver: “Rev. Nektarios, head of the Vvedensky Monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos, reposed in the summer of April 7000 (1492), 3 days.” According to these words, Rev. Nektary was the founder of the Vvedensky Monastery, located in Bezhetsk and closed since 1764. His relics rest in secret 28. Mixed. about the monastery 519. According to the census of 1662, there are 6 households at the Bezhetsky Vvedensky Monastery.