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St. torment. Marciana and Martyria of the notaries Notaries were officials at the court of the patriarch who were under the command of the chief notary, who was in charge of correspondence on matters subject to both ecclesiastical and civil courts, for example. regarding wills, manumission of slaves, hiring of churches. estates, etc. Reader Marcian and Subdeacon Martyrius were at the same time the confidants of Patriarch Paul the Confessor (November 6), wrote his letters in defense of the Orthodox faith and were themselves great preachers of the faith. After the expulsion and death of Paul, the Arians tried to win them over to their side and, when they did not have time to do so, they accused the emperor Constantius (whom these heretics ruled) of a state crime and brought them to death; both were beheaded in 355. † St. Callia of Constantinople and the Patient Widow “Blessed are the merciful: they will obtain mercy,” said the Lord (Matthew 5:7). “He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and whoever sows generously, for him the harvest is also bountiful.” God loves a cheerful giver, teaches the Apostle (2 Cor. 9:6,7). We see all this fulfilled over St. Kallia. She is glorified on earth and in heaven for her deeds of sincere mercy. Her husband was a rich merchant. From her youth, Callia loved to do good to the poor; her husband’s wealth provided her with the means to help the poor. But her husband, as rich as he was, was just as greedy for money. Once he sailed on the sea for three whole years, engaged in trade transactions. His merciful wife generously distributed alms without him. She firmly followed the Lord’s instructions: “sell your property and give alms; prepare for yourselves sheaths that do not wear out, a treasure that does not fail in heaven, where no thief comes near and where moth does not destroy” (Luke 13:39). “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Or what ransom will a man give for his soul” (Matthew 16:26). The returning husband, seeing that his wife had wasted a lot of money for the needy, so much of what he loved, became so furious with his wife that he tortured her to death. God glorified the generous wife by the incorruption of her body 308. Blazh. Patriarch Anthony (893–895) built a women's monastery for the relics of St. Calliae 309. “Chromius and the sick bow to her tomb and are healed,” says a Russian admirer who worshiped the squirrel Callia in 1420 310. This is what wealth is squandered on the poor. But patient and godly poverty is also close to the Kingdom of Heaven. About the time Callia lived, the poor widow complacently endured bitter poverty and zealously kept the commandments of the Most High. The priest was called to her, who was dying, to commune with St. Tain; at the same time they called him to the rich prince for the same thing. He neglected the poor widow and went to the rich man. Returning from the prince, he found a new messenger to call to the dying widow. Proud and selfish, he did not go to poverty. His deacon, God-fearing and pious, asked him for permission to go and give communion to the dying woman. Coming to her, to amazement, she sees the Most Holy Virgin here, and the pure virgins dress the poor sick woman in clean clothes. To new amazement, the Heavenly Queen reverently bowed to the holy body of Christ. The pure virgins fell to the ground before him. Standing up, the virgins let the deacon know so that he could perform his service. When the sick woman received the Holy Mysteries, the virgins accepted her holy soul and ascended to heaven. The deacon then went to the rich man's house. Here he sees terrible dark spirits at the bedside of a dying man, and one of them forcibly pulled the soul out of the sinful body. In horror, the deacon fell to the ground. The Most Holy One appears and says: “Do not be afraid, beloved servant! keep the commandments of My Son, and the spirits of evil will have no power over you; The Kingdom of Heaven is ready for you.” The deacon fell before the Queen of Heaven, and She left 311. “Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because he, having been perfected by temptation, has received the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love Him” (James 1:12). “We also glory in our tribulations, knowing that from tribulation comes endurance, and from endurance comes experience, and from experience hope, and hope does not put you to shame” (Rom. 5:3-5). “If you remain without the discipline that is common to all, then you are not legitimate children or sons” (Heb. 12:8). This is the teaching of the word of God. Commemoration of soldiers killed in battle On the Saturday before the 26th of October, the so-called Dmitrievskaya, the Church in the 14th century established the commemoration of Orthodox soldiers. Dmitry Ioannovich Donskoy, born on October 26, after winning a glorious victory over Mamai on the Kulikovo field in 1380. On September 8, traveled to the Moscow monastery of the Life-Giving Trinity to the Monk Sergius, abbot of this monastery, from which two monks, Alexander Peresvet and Ooslabya, were born and fell in battle, and, having commemorated the slain soldiers there, offered to the Church perform this commemoration annually on St. Demetrius Saturday. Since that time, this Saturday has been classified by the Church as a parental Saturday. However, on this Saturday, Orthodox Christians, visiting the cemeteries of the dead, commemorate not only the Orthodox soldiers who laid down their lives in battle for their faith and fatherland, but also with them all their deceased in general. Venerable Martyrius the Deacon and Martyrius the Recluse of Pechersk St. labored. Martyrium in the 14th century in the Kiev-Pechersk monastery; Having pleased God with his great purity and strict fasting life, he was glorified by the gift of miracles during his lifetime. - Another St. Martyrius labored in seclusion. Both acquired incorruption and rest in the Theodosian caves in Kiev. Herod's journey. Zosima, p. 62 (St. Petersburg, 1849). Du Cange Const. ehr. r. 153. He says that the monastery was called either μονή του Καολεα, or μονή Καλεως - (read: Κολλιας), and leaves it unresolved whether St. Anthony, the builder of the monastery, was called Anthony Cauleus after his monastery. Du Cange does not say whether the monastery of Kalia was female or male. But Zosima says: “further away stands the convent of Povasillas (read: Kavleas): there lies St. "Kalia squirrel." Zosima, page 62. This saint is not in Vershinsky’s monthly book. The name of the patient widow is not shown in Agapius; The time of her life is not shown either; but since St. the gifts are attributed to the sick deacon, and this happened in ancient times and was preserved in the IX century, then the event described by Agapius is attributed to the IX century.