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She suffered around 177 during the persecution of Christians under Emperor Antoninus. She was the daughter of an anfipat (governor), a Christian. A pagan festival was scheduled, during which all residents of the city (Thracian Heraclea) were supposed to participate in sacrifices to the gods; Glyceria, as the most noble in origin, was offered to be at the head of the celebration. But she appeared without a lamp, with which such processions usually opened. -Where is your lamp? the festival leaders asked her. “I carry an unquenchable lamp with me,” answered the Christian woman, “if everyone extinguishes their lamps, they will see what sacrifice I will make to my God... And, standing on an elevated place so that the people could see her, Glyceria revealed her face, and everyone saw the sign of the cross inscribed on her forehead. - God! - she cried, raising her hands to the sky, - You, who appeared to the youths in the furnace of Babylon and delivered them from the fire, and stopped the mouths of the lions, and showed your servant Daniel as the winner, Jesus Christ, Lamb of God, come to help Your servant! Destroy this idol, destroy the sacrifices to it... A sudden thunder sounded in response to the faith of the praying woman... The stone idol fell and broke into small pieces... The priests became indignant, the people in a rage began to throw stones at the Christian, but the stones did not reach her and formed a pile around... Not recognizing the wonderful power of God in this, the pagans shouted that this was magic... Glycerius was ordered to be taken to prison. Here the presbyter visited her and strengthened her for the upcoming consequences of her wonderful declaration of herself as a Christian. – May the sign of Christ with which you have overshadowed yourself help you to the end! – the elder blessed her, saying goodbye. The trials and tortures of God’s help, which crushed the idols, did not slow down; but they did not overcome the wonderful power of the feat for the sake of Christ... After terrible torture, Glyceria was again thrown into prison. Laodicea, the prison guard, amazed by her patience in torment, believed in Christ. – I believe in the God of Glyceria! I want to be a participant in her death! - he exclaimed in a rush of desire to comprehend God. Laodicea was immediately condemned to be beheaded by the sword. - Christian God! - cried the new confessor, bowing his head under the sword, - counting me in Your Kingdom as Your servant Glyceria! Soon after, after various torments, Glyceria peacefully gave up her soul to God in the midst of prayer. Bishop Dometius buried the remains of the martyr in a picturesque place outside the city. “Myrrh flowed from her tomb, to which Emperor Mauritius (582–602) was an eyewitness. There was also the following miracle with him: the Bishop of Heraclea, wanting to replace the copper vessel into which St. myrrh, silver, bought it in Constantinople. But when it was placed at the saint’s tomb, Miro stopped. After intense prayers, after taking the vessel away and replacing it with an old one, it began to flow again. It turned out that the silver vessel had previously belonged to a man who practiced sorcery, and was used by him for deeds of wickedness. The culprits were punished by death by Emperor Mauritius. A contemporary, Theophylact Simocatta, writes about this around 629 in the history of Mauritius. About the expiration of the world from St. relics of torment The historian Nicephorus also testifies to Glykeria. Her relics were transferred to Lemnos." (See “The Months of the East” by Archim. Sergius, vol. II, part 2, p. 134). Lecturer John, his son Euthymius and nephew George, Iversky The Monk John the Gruzin, of a princely family from the city of Artanucha (near Kars), leaving military service, family and acquisitions, entered one of the Imereti monasteries, and from here, taking his son Euthymius, he moved to the monastery of Mount Olympus, in Greece, and finally to the Athos Lavra of St. Afanasia. He meekly fulfilled all the obediences assigned to him and led a strict and hardworking life; Following his example, other Georgians arrived at the Lavra of Athanasius. Considering that it was inconvenient for the large Georgian brethren to live among the Greeks, John, by general advice, bought a place on the eastern side of Mount Athos and, having built a church in the name of John the Baptist, laid the foundation of the Iveron Monastery, of which he was the first abbot (in 982). During his days, the monastery was honored with a gracious visit from the Mother of God through Her miraculous icon, called Iveron. He died in 998, handing over the abbess, with the general choice of the brethren, to Euthymius. During the lifetime of his parent, Saint Euthymius spent many years working on translations of the books of Holy Scripture and Divine Services from Greek into Georgian, and during his 12-year abbotship he zealously continued the work begun by his father in organizing the monastery and brotherhood, established order and order in the administration of church services and wrote the rules of the hostel, in the implementation of which he served as an example for the brethren. Since, with the acceptance of the abbess, he involuntarily stopped his work on translating the sacred books, many of the highest spiritual and secular Georgian dignitaries convinced him to lay down the burden of abbotship and continue the work he had begun for the good of the Church and his people. Euthymius handed over the abbess to his relative, the monk George, and again began the work that had been interrupted; died in the 65th year of his God-pleasing life, in 1028, immortalizing his name in the memory of the grateful Georgian people. The Monk George, nephew of John, was the sixth abbot of the Iveron monastery, which under St. George, the third abbot, and his two immediate successors was not free from some troubles. He was born in Georgia in 1014 and at the age of 25 he was tonsured at the Khakhul monastery, from where he later visited the holy places of Syria and Palestine, and finally, according to the conviction of the elders, he went to St. Mount Athos to continue the works of Euthymius in translating books into Georgian. He spent seven years in unconditional obedience to the brotherhood and, having been awarded the rank of presbyterate, then only began to bring to an end what Euthymius had begun. In 1047, the brethren elected him as abbot, and he erected the now existing cathedral church in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God, and transferred the relics of John and Euthymius here. After 10 years, he resigned as abbess in order to have more time for educational activities, visited the Marvelous Mountain near Antioch, where there were then many Georgian monks, and at the invitation of King Bagrat IV lived in Georgia for four years to organize church affairs. He died on the way back to Athos, in Constantinople in 1066, at the age of 52. Holy Martyr Alexander of Rome Maximian, the Roman Emperor (285–305), having built a new church near Rome in honor of Jupiter, appointed a celebration and a national holiday on the day of its opening. At the sound of trumpets, heralds walked around the city and cried: “who loves the gods, tomorrow morning go with the sovereign to the church of Jupiter.” And in the morning a lot of people actually went there, partly to worship, partly to bargain. A certain tribune Tiberian invited the soldiers subordinate to him there, but one of these soldiers, named Alexander, replied: “If you invited to go and worship the true God, you would do well; and now you are calling to give honor to Jupiter, who, like all your gods, has nothing good in himself and teaches his worshipers only lawlessness and abominations.” And he went to his house. When the emperor made sacrifices, the tribune Tiberian, who was standing with him, informed him that Alexander did not listen to the royal command, but blamed and condemned the gods. The emperor immediately ordered the disobedient man to be brought to him. It was six o'clock in the afternoon at that time, and Alexander was resting in his house. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream vision, saying: “Be courageous and be strong! You have much to suffer for the name of Christ, and soldiers are already coming after you; but don't be afraid! Arise and pray to God; and I will be with you until you finish your feat.” And, having awakened, Alexander began to sing the psalm Living in the Help of the Most High..., and leaving the house, he met soldiers who put shackles on him and led him to the king. Alexander was eighteen years old, tall, handsome and in full health. The king asked him: “Are you, a madman, insulting my authority, disobeying your superior and not coming to worship the great god Jupiter?” Alexander answered: “I worship one God, but I don’t know another god.” King: “What kind of God is this?” Alexander: “My God is invisible and omnipotent; everything is subject to Him.” King: “I spare your youth; make a sacrifice and you will be accepted into the court.” Alexander began to denounce the madness of the pagans, who deified vices and vicious people, and reproached the king, who took pleasure in abominations and did not know God, who gave him both honor and kingdom. Then Maximian handed him over to the tribune Tiberian, and instructed the tribune himself to go to Thrace to seek out and persecute Christians. Tiberian, having first subjected him to torture (planing with iron) on a tree (equuleus - wooden mare), ordered him to be taken with him to Thrace. The saint's mother, Pimenia, notified of her son's feat, with trust in God, followed him on his journey. The procession of the tribune from Italy to Byzantium was long; He subjected Alexander, who followed him, to torment and torture at various places of his stops (especially in Sardika, Philippopolis, Verreya) and finally, having passed Adrianople, near the city of Drizipera, the last interrogation was made to him at the Erigone River. "Alexander! here is death before you; tell me, will you make a sacrifice to the gods or not? For otherwise they will execute you here and throw your body into the river.” The saint answered: “I will never make a sacrifice to your gods, even if you threaten me with thousands of deaths.” Then the tribune ordered that his head be cut off and his body thrown into the river. The soldiers remained to carry out the sentence, and Tiberian himself set off. Many people from the surrounding area came there, mostly Christians. The saint asked the speculator (executioner, executioner) to wait and allow him to pray. And, having washed his hands and face, he protected himself with the sign of the cross and, having prayed, said to the Christians standing by: “Fathers and brothers! Remember my works; because I was not lazy to suffer for our Lord, may he be merciful to me and to all Christians. You yourself know how I walked from Rome to this place in chains and shackles, with hardships, torment and torture; and I bravely endured all this, not by my own strength, but by the help of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now I am leaving to present myself to my Master, and you will pray for me, so that I may find mercy from Him.” After the execution, the martyr's body was thrown into the river. According to God’s providence, four dogs brought the body to the shore and sat with it, driving away animals and birds, until the saint’s mother arrived. She gave him an honest burial, and the faithful created a church in that place, already during the reign of Constantine. See what was said about this church on August 20 in the life of St. Philip of Irakli. † Memory of the righteous girl Glykeria According to the chronicle, June 14, 1572 in Novgorod at the Church of St. Flora and Lavra were found by the incorruptible relics of the holy maiden Glyceria, who died 50 years earlier; it was the daughter of the headman of Legoshchinskaya Street Panteleimon; Archbishop Leonid and the council of clergy placed the relics in the church itself. On the same day, the four-year-old son of clerk Bogdan Suvorov received healing at the tomb of the righteous woman 214. The memory of the righteous woman is locally honored on May 13th 215. The righteous woman is depicted on the ancient image of the Novgorod miracle workers, which is now in the sacristy of the Chernigov department. The image is worthy of attention! Above is St. Sophia with the upcoming Mother of God and the Forerunner. In the first row: “Nicetas, Niphon, John, Euthymius, Jonah, Moses, Serapion, Gregory, Theoktistus, Luke”; in the second row: “Joachim, Simeon. Martyriy, Vasily, Anthony (hierarchs), Varlaam (Khutyn.), Savva (Visher.), Mikhail (Klop.), Alexander (Svir.).” In the 3rd row: “Alexander (Oshev.), Zosima and Savvaty (Solov.), Nil (Stolb.), Arseny (Con.), Nicodemus (Kozheoz.), Ephraim (Novot.), Anthony (Roman.), Anthony (Siysk.).” In the 4th row: “Antony (Leochn.), Ephraim (Perek.), Varlaam (Schenk.), Sergius and Herman (Valaam.), Euphrosynus (Sinoz.), Vladimir (principal), Anna (principal), Theodore (foolish fool), Nikolai (foolish fool).” In the 5th row: “Arseny (Novg.), Athanasius (Skull.), Cornelius (Palaeos.), Anthony (Dym.), Xenophon (Robeis.), Nikita, Cyril, Nikephoros, Clement, Isaac (Alfanovs).” In the 6th row: “Martirius (Green.), Theophilus and Jacob (Omuch.), Cyril (Chelm.), Theodore (book), Mstislav (book), John Loggin (Yaren.), Diodorus (Yuryeg.), Eliazar (Anz.), Macarius (Ord.), Artemy (Verk.), Jacob and John (Menuj.), Glyceria.” St. Sergius the Confessor, who died in exile under Emperor Theophilus St. Sergius the Confessor, who died in exile under Emperor Theophilus (829–842). He is known as a hymn writer and describer of events from the time of Copronymus to Mikhail Zaika. Collection l. III, 172. Inscription on the shrine of the righteous woman. Makaria Novgor. ancient I. 221. Tikhomirov's legend about miracles. icon of the sign of the Mother of God and Novgorod. saints, pp. 96, 97. Novgorod. 1861