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Cathedral of St. Seventy Apostles Cathedral of St. Seventy Apostles In addition to the 12, the Lord Jesus Christ chose 70 more and sent them before Him throughout the cities and villages to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God (Luke 10). After the descent of the Holy Spirit, they preached in different countries, and some accompanied the 12 Apostles, such as Mark and Luke the Evangelists. In the church celebration of the seventy, some of those who were not directly chosen by the Lord, but who labored apostolically, are also glorified. The day of the council in honor of the 70 Apostles was established without a doubt with the same pious intention with which the day in honor of the 12th council, that is, for the sake of the equality of each of the 70 Apostles and to protect the believers from disagreement - in honoring them. The Lord Himself glorifies all of them together and equally, saying: Rejoice, for your names are written in heaven, and He called them all blessed (Luke 10:20, 23). The 70th Apostles are glorified by the Orthodox Church in the following order: 1) Jacob the brother of the Lord (October 23). 2) Mark the Evangelist (April 25). 3) Luke the Evangelist (October 18). 4) Cleopas, the younger brother of Joseph the betrothed, traveled with Luke to Emmaus and saw the Lord after His resurrection from the dead (Luke 24:18, 35). For preaching the Gospel, he was killed by the Jews in the very house where he knew the risen Jesus, in the breaking of bread. 5) Simeon, the son of Cleopas, a relative of the Lord, after James, was the second bishop in Jerusalem, and there he himself was crucified on the cross for preaching the crucified Jesus Christ (April 27). 7) Joseph or Josiah, also called Justus or Barsabas in the book of Acts (Acts 1:23; Col. 4:11), was installed as Apostles along with Matthias when elected one of the twelve Apostles in the place of Judas. Some consider Josiah to be the son of Joseph the betrothed. He was a bishop in the Jewish city of Eleutheropolis, and there he died painfully (October 30). 8) Thaddeus from the disciple of St. John the Baptist became a disciple of Jesus Christ: he baptized and healed the Edessa prince Abgar from leprosy, and after many works of apostolic service he died in Berit (Beirut) (August 21). 9) Ananias, at the command of God, baptized Saul (Paul) in Damascus (Acts 9:10–17); in the same city he was a bishop, and ended his life in Eleutheropolis, a city in Palestine. The hegemon of this city, Lucian, ordered him to be stoned (October 1). 10) Stephen the Archdeacon and First Martyr (December 27). 11) Philip with Mariamne, one of the 7 deacons chosen by the Apostles, baptized Simon the Magus along with other Samaritans, and the eunuch of the Ethiopian queen Candace (Acts 8); was a bishop in Trallia, a Lydian city, where he converted many to Christ, and reposed in old age (October 11). 12) Prochorus, also one of the 7 deacons (Acts 6:5), accompanied St. John the Theologian and participated in his apostolic labors; was the first bishop in Nicomedia, the city of Bithynia, and preached the teachings of Christ in Antioch, where he died as a martyr (July 28). 13) Nicanor, one of the 7 deacons (Acts 6:5), on the very day on which the first martyr Stephen was killed and a strong persecution was raised against the Church of Jerusalem (Acts 8:1), was killed by the Jews along with two thousand who believed in Christ (July 28 and December 28). 14) Timon, of the 7 deacons (Acts 6:5), was a bishop in the Arabian city of Bostra; for preaching the name of Christ he suffered much from the Jews and Greeks; was thrown into a red-hot furnace, but came out of it unharmed and soon died (July 28 and December 30). 15) Parmen, one of the 7 deacons (Acts 6:5), labored zealously in preaching the word of God and suffered martyrdom (July 28). 16) Timothy, companion and accomplice in the labors of the Apostle Paul, who ordained him bishop of Ephesus and wrote two letters to him (January 22). 17) Titus, employee of Ap. Paul in evangelism; He was ordained bishop in Crete for the establishment there of the Church founded by Apostle. Paul, who, for instruction on this subject, wrote a letter to him from Nicopolis, a city of Macedonia, about the year 66 A.D. (August 25). 18) Philemon with Anthia was a preacher and bishop in the Palestinian city of Gaza; to him St. Paul wrote a special letter from Rome around A.D. 62. (November 22 and February 19). 19) Onesimus was a servant of Philemon, to whom the Apostle Paul wrote a letter, converted to Christ by the Apostle Paul: after Timon he was a bishop in Ephesus; for the name of Christ he suffered under Trajan from the Roman eparch Tertillus in the Italian city of Puteol (February 15). 20) Epaphras was a bishop in the Macedonian city of Colossae. From St. Ap. Paul he was in Rome in bonds and is called in the letter to Philemon the captive of the Apostle Paul about the Xpucm Jesus (v. 23). Ap mentions him. Paul in his letter to the Colossians (IV:12-13), written from Rome around A.D. 62, praises his prayers and concerns for the Colossians. 21) Archippus, mentioned in the letter to Philemon (v. 2), occupied the episcopal see in Colossae after Epaphras left for Rome. About him St. Paul writes to the Colossians: “Say to Archippus, see that you fulfill the ministry which you have received in the Lord” (4:17) (November 22 and February 19). 22) Strength together with Ap. Paul preached the word of God (Acts 15:40–41) and with him endured many sufferings and imprisonment. Ordained a bishop in Corinth, he worked zealously to instill faith, reinforcing his teaching with signs and wonders (July 30). 23) Silouan, who is mentioned in the conciliar epistle of Peter (1 Pet. 5:12) and in the letter to the Corinthians (2 Cor. 1:19), labored in spreading the Gospel faith together with St. Apostle Paul; then he was a bishop in the Macedonian city of Thessaloniki, where he suffered a lot for the name of Christ (July 30). 24) Kriskent or Krisk, on behalf of Ap. Paul, planted the Church of God in Galatians (2 Tim. 4:10), in the rank of bishop; He also preached in Gaul and appointed his disciple Zacharias bishop in the city of Vienna; then he returned to Galatia, and here he died as a martyr during the reign of Emperor Trajan (July 30). 25) Crispus (1 Cor. 1:14), converted to the Christian faith by Ap. Paul, during his preaching in Corinth (Acts 18:8), was a bishop on the Aegean island of Aegip. 26) Epenetus (Rom. 16:5) bishop in Carthage (July 30). 27) Andronicus with Junia (Rom. 16:7) - in Pannonia (May 17 and July 30). 28) Stachy (Rom. 16:9) - in Byzantium, ordained by St. Ap. Andrew the First-Called (October 31). 29) Amplius (Rom.6:8) testified in Lydda or Diospolis, a city of Judea (October 31). 30) Urvan (Rom.16:9) – in Macedonia (October 31). 31) Narcissus (Rom.16:11) – in Athens (October 31). 32) Apellius or Apellus (Rom. 16:10) – in Irakleia (October 31). 33) Aristobulus (Rom. 16:10) - in Britain (October 31 and March 16). 34) Herodion or Rodion (Rom. 16:10) - in the Achaian city of Patras (April 8 and November 11). 35) Agav had the gift of prophecy (Acts 11:28, 21:10, 11) and predicted the famine that happened under Claudius Caesar, as well as the suffering of Ap. Paul in Jerusalem (April 8). 36) Rufus (Rom. 16:13) bishop in Thebes of Viotia (April 8). 37) Asinkrit (Rom. 16:14) - in Hyrcania, part of present-day Dagestan (April 8). 38) Phlegon (Rom. 16:14) – in the city of Marathon (April 8). 39) Hermas (Rom.16:14) - in Philippopolis (November 5). 40) Patrov (Rom. 16:14) - in Naples and Puteoli (November 5). 41) Hermias (Rom.16:14) – in Dalmatia (April 8). 42) Lin, mentioned in Paul's second letter to Timothy (4:21), served as a priest in Rome (November 5). 43) Gaius (Rom.16:23) – in Ephesus after St. Timothy (November 5). 44) Philologist (Rom. 16:15) - in Sinope, ordained by St. Ap. Andrey (November 5). 45) Lucius (Rom. 16:21) - in Laodicea, a Phrygian city (September 10). 46) Jason (Rom. 16:21) - in the Cilician city of Tarsus (April 28). 47) Sosipater (Rom. 16:21) - in Iconium, the city of Lycaon (April 28). 48) Olympan or Olympus (Rom. 16:15) followed Ap. Peter to Rome, and there, by order of Nero, he was beheaded with a sword along with St. Ap. Rodion (November 10). 49) Tertius (Rom. 16:22) bishop in Iconium after St. Ap. Sosipatra (November 10). 50) Erastus (Rom. 16:23) - in Paneas or Caesarea Philippi, a city of Galilee (November 10). 51) Quart or Quart (Rom. 16:23) - in the Phoenician city of Beirut (November 10). 52) Evod was the bishop of Antioch. His successor, Ignatius the God-Bearer, speaks about him in his letter to the Antiochians: “Remember the blessed Evodas of your father, who was appointed your first shepherd by the Apostles” (September 7). 53) Onesiphorus, mentioned by St. Paul, in his letter to Timothy: may the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus (2 Tim. 1:16), was a bishop in Colophon, a city in Asia Minor, and Cyrinthus, a city in Africa (September 7 and December 8). 54) Clement or Klim (Phil.4:3) occupied the episcopal see in Rome after Linus and Clitus; for the faith of Christ he was exiled to prison in Kherson, endured many sufferings and was drowned in the sea in 100 AD. (November 25). 55) Sosthenes (Acts 18:17) is addressed to the faith of Ap. Paul, who in his letter to the Corinthians puts his name along with his own (1 Cor. 1:1); episcopated in Colophon (December 8). 56) Apollos, employee of St. Paul (Acts 18:24–25; 1 Cor. 3:6), was a bishop in Smyrna before St. Polycarp (September 10 and December 8). 57) Tychicus, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 20:4), in Paul's letters to the Ephesians (6:21), to Timothy (2 Tim.4:12) and the Colossians; The Apostle calls him a beloved brother, a faithful servant and fellow worker in the Lord (Col. 4:7) (December 8). 58) Epaphroditus, whom St. Paul, in his letter to the Philippians, called him his brother and companion and companion (2:25), served as bishop in Andriania, a city of Thrace on the Black Sea (December 8). 59) Carp, which has Ap. Paul, who was in Troas, left both the phelonion and his books, brought to him after St. Timothy (2 Tim. 4:13), bishop in Beria, a Macedonian city (May 26). 60) Codratus, a former bishop in Athens, suffered martyrdom there from the Greeks under the emperor Hadrian (September 21). 61) Mark, also called John, companion of Ap. Paul and Barnabas (Acts 16:25), was a bishop in the Phoenician city of Bivla (September 27). 62) Zina, called (Titus 3:13) a lawyer, that is, a teacher of the law of Moses, was bishop in Lydda (September 27). 63) Aristarchus, companion of St. Paul, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles (19:29), Colossians (4:10), and Philemon (v. 23), was bishop of Anamea, a Syrian city (April 15 and September 27). 64) Pud (2 Tim. 4:21), a pious Roman senator, received Ap. in his house. Paul and others who believed in the Lord. His house was later turned into a church, called pastoral, in which, as they say, Ap served as a priest. Peter (April 15). 65) Trophim, which is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 20:4) and in the letter to Timothy (2 Tim.4:20), together with Ap. Pudom and Aristarchus shared the suffering of St. Paul in Rome, and there, by order of Nero, all three were beheaded (April 15). 66) Mark, nephew of Barnabin (Col. 4:10), served as bishop in the Samaria city of Apollonias (October 30). 67) Artema (Titus 3:12) was a bishop in the Lycaonian city of Lystra (October 30). 68) Aquila (Rom.16:3; Acts 18:2) bishop in Irakleia, a Thracian city; also preached the word of God in Asia Minor and Achaia, and here he was killed by infidels (July 14). 69) Fortunatus (1 Cor. 16:17) suffered martyrdom while preaching. 70) Achaik, who (1 Cor. 16:17), together with Fortunatus, came to Ap. Paul to Ephesus. 71) Cephas the Apostle to whom the Lord appeared after the resurrection (1 Cor. 15:5–6). 72) Simeon, nicknamed Niger (Acts 13:1). That he also belongs to the apostolic host is testified by St. Epiphanius, putting his name along with the names of Mark, Luke, Barnabas and other lesser Apostles. Although the council of the lesser Apostles contains 72, it is called the council of 70, because this number is the original number - Christ's; Christ chose seventy (Luke 10:1). On the day of the Council in honor of the 70 disciples of Christ, the Church, among other things, praises them for the fact that they taught us to honor the Trinity, consubstantial and indivisible, and to this day remain lamps of the Divine faith. In the 9th century, the Orthodox Church accepted a canon from Joseph the hymnist for the day of Council 70. abbot at Cucuma Sicilian, near Panorma (now Palermo); died around 800. † Repose of St. Eustathius, Archbishop of Serbia St. Eustathius, Archbishop of Serbia In the monthly Gospel written in 1329, under January 4, “the memory of St. Eustathius, Archbishop of Serbia" 4. His relics rest hidden in the cathedral church of the Pecs Archdiocese 5. Blessed Eustathius, the son of God-fearing parents from Budimlya Zhupa, having studied book wisdom in his youth, accepted monasticism in the Zeta St. Michael's Monastery; from the hand of Bishop Neophytos. Having lived here in fasting, he went with two monks to St. places and, returning from there, entered the Athos Hilandar Monastery. Here, for his virtuous life, he was elected abbot 6, in which rank we have seen him since 1263 7. Then he was ordained Bishop of Zeta, where he became a monk 8. The subsequent civil unrest in Serbia resulted in church confusion in Serbia. When King Uros was expelled from the kingdom (1269), Blessed. Archbishop John, who loved his king, followed him and died far from his see. The Serbian Church, which respected Blessed. Joannikia did not want to recognize anyone as her high priest before due honor was given to the high priest who had died in a foreign land. King Dragutin had to fulfill Serbia's wishes. When they opened the coffin, blessed. Ioannikiy, his body turned out to be incorrupt and it was laid with honor in the Sopochansky monastery near the body of Uroshev. Then they began to elect a new high priest, and the blessed one was elected. Eustathius. The high virtues of Eustathius earned him the respect of the new king Milutin. With the rank of archbishop of all Serbia, he and 12 bishops were present at the council at which King Milutin approved the lands and lands of the Serbian country for the Hilandar monastery 9 . When, after 7 years of his reign, he is blessed. Eustathius felt the proximity of his death, then, calling his nearby bishops and abbots, said goodbye to everyone, and communed with St. secrets and, with a cheerful face, saying: “Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit,” he died peacefully. The Serbian Church sings St. Eustathius: “You trusted in him, O saint, from a young age, rejoicing like the tree you climbed onto the holy mountain, you left everything on earth, clinging to the law of the Creator and Master by fulfilling the commandments.” “Having cleansed your soul and body from filth, you showed yourself to be a righteously reverend and kindly teacher, O Blessed Father: you were a nourisher of the orphans, a helper of the offended, and a host of strangers: and you also cried out with boldness: I love you, O Jesus my God, the uneven light and the ruler of the world” 10. St. Onuphry, baptized Matthew, was born in Gabrovo, Ternov diocese 11. His Bulgarian parents were rich and famous. Matthew studied at school and, despite his excellent abilities, studied well. His father punished him severely for some prank; the ardent and proud young man shouted out loud to the Turks that he would turn out to be a Turk. The Turks would certainly have circumcised him, but he was deftly snatched from the hands of the Turks, and, hidden from them, he remained a Christian. When Matthew reached adulthood, he retired to Athos and joined the brotherhood of the Hilandar monastery. Having accepted monasticism with the name of Manasseh, he was ordained a hierodeacon. Since Fr. Manasseh sincerely and zealously served the Lord - and the more diligently they strive for spiritual perfection, the more clearly and strongly they feel their shortcomings and errors - so does Fr. Manasseh began to strongly feel the weight of his renunciation of St. faith accomplished in ardent, semi-conscious youth. And whoever denies Me before men, I will deny him and I before My Father (Matthew 10:33), these words of the Lord resounded loudly in his soul and gave it no rest. He constantly carried fear in his soul that if he did not bear fruits worthy of repentance, Christ the Lord would abandon him. So fear for his eternal fate gave rise to the thought of a bloody feat in him. Then the desire for martyrdom, as he grew in spiritual life, became the fruit of his fiery love for the Lord, ready to do anything for the glory of His name. Before he decided on a great feat, he revealed his desire to the elders. They advised him to test himself. After a long self-examination, he goes to the confessor Nicephorus and asks to be accepted into his cell in order to prepare him for martyrdom. “I do not refuse to accept you to myself,” answered the elder, but so that you would not have relations with anyone, and before the bloody martyrdom you would struggle as if you were in torment.” “I agree to the terms,” Manasseh said cheerfully. Returning to the monastery, he disposed of his belongings: he gave a sufficient amount to the monastery, so that the monastery would rest his father, who lived in it. Having told the monastery that he was going to Jerusalem, he went to Elder Nicephorus. He gave him a special cell, ordered the student to serve him and not allow anyone else, gave him instructions on how he should strive, and left him in the peace of God. Confined in a cell, for the first 40 days the monk ate food, sometimes after two days, sometimes after three, and sometimes even after a week, and even then in a small amount of bread and water; He made up to 3,500 prostrations a day, and tears constantly flowed from his eyes. Since he was very weak from such exploits, the elder moderated his fast. At this time he accepted the schema with the name Onuphry. At the end of the test, Elder Nikephoros sent Onuphrius to Chios for his desired feat; The experienced monk Gregory was given to him as a companion. Arriving in Chios on December 29, the travelers stayed with a pious Christian. Onuphry spent seven days in fasting, prayer and silence and received Holy Communion more than once. secret One night, in a light dream, he saw the following: a host of priests, bishops, and soldiers announced to him: “Go, the Tsar wants to see you.” Onuphry replies in awe: “Why should the King see me, an empty man?” Please fire me if possible. “It’s impossible,” was the answer, “you’re following us.” Onuphry came after them to some bright, wonderful place and, seeing the Tsar, fell before him. The king said: “The place is ready,” and pointed to the place of the inexplicable light. The blessed one woke up in delight, and his heart was full of joy. The next night he felt the absence of this joy and spoke with sorrow about it to his companion. Experienced Gregory told him to ask all Christians for prayers for himself, and the humble Onuphry bowed to everyone, asking them to pray for him. Appearing in court in a green bandage and red shoes, Onuphry said: “15 years ago I was wounded in a similar place; since that time my wound has not healed; the doctors tell me: if I do not appear at the place where I am wounded, I will not be healed.” -What kind of wound do you have? - asked the qadi. “When I was young,” answered the blessed one, “out of foolishness I expressed a desire to become a Turk, although I never served your faith, but always lived as a Christian. Having reached adulthood, I feel the sting of this wound and say with complete conviction: “Mohammedanism is the destruction of the soul.” Having said this, he threw off the green bandage from his head. The judges were speechless. Finally, the young Turk, who seemed very smart and dexterous, said: “What are you doing, brother? This is a sacred thing: pick it up and cover yourself with it.” The confessor replied: “Calling an empty thing holy is blasphemy. This is the trouble with lost people, that they reject, trample in the mud the revealed truth and the God-sent shrine, and honor the dreams of the sick human imagination, nonsense, ridiculed by a sober mind; just as the pagans do not seek the Redeemer of the sinful world, they created for themselves both morality and paradise according to the taste of animal passions. And we’re still happy with ourselves! Isn’t this a terrible state?” The frenzied shouted: death to a Christian. Another military official took the confessor to the Musselim prison and put the block on him. At the same time, one Mohammedan gave the confessor two slaps in the face. “I thank you for myself and regret you,” said the confessor. The wise judges, having visited the mosque, decided: death for a Christian if he does not bless the Koran. The confessor, again called to the court, did not express a desire to kiss the stupidity of Mohammedanism. The judges sentenced to exterminate his memory. As a result, the headless body and all the clothes of the martyr were thrown into the sea. The suffering took place on January 4, 1818, in the 32nd year of the martyr. St. Martyr Zosima, Hermit of Cilicia, and Athanasius Commentaris St. Zosima, caught in his solitude by the persecutors of Christians under Domitian, was given over to torture. But he was miraculously spared death and released. The former caretaker of the prisoners, Athanasius Commentaris, converted to the Christian faith and followed St. Zosima to his desert, where they both died in a cleft of a stone, during the persecution raised by Diocletian. Grigorovich's journey through Turkey, page 18. Kazan. 1848 Zap. geographer. about. XIII, 174. Herald of friendship Serbsk. lit. VI, 31–33. See note below. 29. Afterword by the grammarian Theodore: “even then (1263) the Khylandar laurels were crowned by our reverend father abbot Eustathius”... Kalaidovich exarch, p. 164. Glasnik V, 32. About Zeta bishops Hilarion and Neophytos Jan. 12 Ave. 29, 24. Grigorovich is on his way. 41.46. a) Glasnik VI, 33–34. Tronosh. letop. in Glasnik V, 50–53. The latter says that after Ioannikios, Daniil I ascended to the see and crowned Dragutin, while according to the genealogy, Daniil I was at the see after Sava II (music Rumyants. p. 159. Glasnik VI, 29). But if the management is blessed. Ioannikios is appointed for only 4 years (Glasnik VI, 31), it could be that after the removal of Ioannikios, Daniel I ascended to the see for the second time, but as the chronicle says. (Vol. V, 51–53), soon left her, due to the displeasure of the people for Urosh. Sava III does not place Daniel between his predecessors (see August 30 note 30). This reinforces the news of tronosh. chronicles, since the wedding of Dragutin by Daniil could seem so guilty for Savva that he did not put Daniil among the archbishops, although according to the news of Daniil II he was an archbishop. According to the reign of Sava 2 (1263 - Feb. 1268) and Ioannikis (4 years with the inclusion of Danilov's reign), it must be assumed that St. Eustathius ascended to the see in 1272. This is how, and not otherwise, the Tronosh chronicle leads us to believe. On the copy of the explanatory Gospel there is an entry: “it was written in the days of the king - Stefan Urosh in the 5th year of his sovereign rule, from the date of the creation of the world 6794 years, in this summer the Most Reverend Archbishop Iakov was appointed” (Miklosic monoum. No. 488, s. 561). Here there is a mistake in writing the number of years of the world's existence. The fifth year of Milyutinov's reign was in 1279 AD. and in the year 6787 of the world. So, St. Eustathius died in 1279 and in the same year his successor, Archbishop, ascended to the throne. Jacob. Serbljak, Belgrade 1861 ff. His suffering under the RKP. Athonite Skete of St. The Forerunners are described in the Athos Patericon 2, 335–352.