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Holy martyrs Theodosia, the maiden of Tire, and another Theodosia. Tsaregradskaya An 18-year-old girl, a native of the city of Tire, while in Caesarea in Palestine, visited the place of imprisonment of the confessors of Christ, greeted them and asked them to remember her when they appeared before the face of God. The soldiers immediately seized her as a criminal and presented her to the ruler Urban. And this one subjected her to fierce torment, during which her ribs and breasts were cut to the bone; then he ordered the one still breathing to be drowned in the sea. She died on April 6. 308 (Evsev. Tserk. Ist. 8, 17). Theodosia of Constantinople, a nun of a noble family, publicly denounced the wickedness of King Leo the Isaurian and Patriarch Anastasius, who ordered the destruction of the image of Christ the Savior on the cross, which stood at the top of the copper gates of the large imperial palace. As soon as the sent official climbed the stairs and began to hit the image with a hammer, the assembled crowd pushed down the stairs and put the fallen official to death. The army dispersed the people; Many were captured, including Theodosius. As the noblest and most guilty, it was ordered to scourge her for seven days, a hundred blows a day; and in the eighth news of dishonor through the city, and the executioner, irritated by an accidental bruise, killed her with a goat’s horn picked up from the street. Her body was buried in her monastery, at the Golden Horn, and exuded healing. † Repose of the blessed. John the Fool of Ustyug Near old Ustyug, across the Sukhona River, in the village of Pukhov lived pious and wealthy villagers Savva and Maria 450 - their son John was born here; Here, from a young age, he began to live a strict life. On Wednesdays and Fridays I ate nothing, and on other days I was content with bread and water. When his mother remarked to him: why is he fasting at such a age? “To get rid of sins,” he answered; no one is without sin except God; We will not feed the flesh, lest it become our enemy.” When my parents moved to the mountains. Orlets, on the Yug River, for 40 ver. from Ustyug and his father died here, his mother took monastic vows under the name of Natalia in the Trinity Orletsky Monastery. The youth John was with her, still silent. Then he began to act like a fool and his mother left him to the will of God. Having moved to Ustyug, he settled near the Assumption Cathedral Church, in a hut built for him by the devout Andrei Mishnev. Here he spent his nights in prayer, and during the day he ran through the streets in the guise of a holy fool and rested on dung. This is how he lived in winter and summer. What did it cost him to endure the northern frosts in such clothes? He had to endure a lot of beatings, ridicule, and abuse from people who did not understand either themselves or him. In order to endure so much suffering, it was necessary to deeply feel the meaning of the words of the Apostle: “our present suffering, which is instantaneous and easy, is preparing for us eternal glory in great abundance” (2 Cor. 4:17). Blazh. John hid his life from human eyes, fearing human fame, which was harmful to the spirit. The devout priest Gregory wanted to find out the secret activities of John; the priest looked through the crack from another room at the blessed one. John. Looking around and not seeing anyone in the room, bliss. John began to pray with his hands raised to heaven for those who were doing injustice - he prayed like this for more than one hour; Having finished the prayer, he began to stir the coals in the stove - it was a cruel winter then; then, protecting himself with the sign of the cross, he lay down on the coals. The priest, frightened by the thought that John would not be baked, entered the room. The blessed one came out of the oven and, looking menacingly at the inquisitive man, said: “Don’t you dare tell anyone about this until I die.” The priest gave his word to fulfill his will with precision. The wife of the Ustyug governor, Prince. Theodora the Red, Princess Maria, was sick with a severe fever and sent a servant to the blessed one. John asking him to pray for her. John was lying on the manure, but as soon as he saw the servant, he said: “Hello, good Prince Theodore and with your princess.” Upon his return, the servant found the princess already healthy. His death followed on May 29, 1494 and he was buried in the cathedral church. In the original they wrote: “John the Holy Fool, the Wonderworker of Ustyug, is young in his likeness, his beard has just begun to grow, in Nausia; hair is simple; the robe on him was torn rags, very white, and curled around him; the shoulder is bare, as well as the ribs and legs, above the knees” 451. Blessed Service John was written during the time of King John 452. In 1610 they wrote that when they heard about the victory of the tsar’s army over Sapieha, near Dmitrov, they “gave glory to God glorified in the Trinity - and to the Ustyug wonderworkers Procopius and John” 453 . In 1613, the Ustyuzhans, through the prayers of the Ustyug miracle workers, not only defended their city from the Poles, but also defeated them 454. “Martha, Martha, you worry and fuss about many things; but only one thing is needed” (Luke 10:41,42). Shouldn’t every Christian soul repeat to itself these words of the Savior, which the blessed one remembered so well? John, as can be seen from his whole life? St. Muchch. Cyril the youth, Carella, Primolus, Finod, Venustus, Gissinus, Alexander, Tredentius and Iocundus Particularly remarkable of them was the youth Cyril, who amazed with his firmness all those who, not knowing the Christian faith, could not comprehend what strength it gives to its confessors... The son of a pagan, Cyril, suffered cruel treatment from his father for joining the Christians and was finally kicked out of his home. This did not separate him from Christ. The youth was not embarrassed by the ridicule of his pagan comrades; to the convictions of the judge, who at first kindly addressed him and promised him to return him to his father’s house if he ceased to be stubborn in his error, Cyril objected: “my father kicked me out, but God will accept me and give me an eternal home”... “When the judge began to threaten the 16-year-old confessor, showed him the fire prepared for him, Kirill answered: “I’m not afraid of death, it will give me a better life” ... Then Kirill was sentenced to be burned at the stake. Seeing that some of those gathered around him began to cry, the youth calmly said to them: “Why are you crying? You should rejoice for me, and not cry... but, however, you don’t know what hope I have and where I’m going”... And then, without the slightest embarrassment, he ascended to the fire and accepted martyrdom... All of them suffered in Caesarea Cappadocia during the persecution of Valerian (253–259). Memory of St. Great Ecumenical Council of the First, formerly held in Nicaea The Council of 318 Fathers took place in Nicaea in 325 against Arius, who rejected the eternity of the Son of God and His consubstantiality with God the Father. At this council, the Symbol of Faith was drawn up, obligatory for all believers. RKP. life of bl. John of Ustyug, according to Undolsky’s list No. 320, 600; it is also in Tolstoy 2, No. 375. Abbreviation in the prologue May 29. The writer of the life says that he heard about the blessed. John from his uncle and father: one of them, being a priest at the cathedral church, not only personally saw the life of Blessed. John, but also buried him. Life of St. righteous John, Christ for the sake of the fool, the Ustyug wonderworker,” it is written “in fol. 7662 (1554)". This is a new edition of the life. In Buslaev Russ. words and arts 2, 428. In the menea for May, Μ. 1646. She’s in the RCP. Tsarskogo No. 563. The service was written in Ustyug with prayers for Ustyug and the Tsar. In the calendar of the charter of the 16th century. (Tolstoy I, No. 100) “May 29, death of St. John the Fool, the Wonderworker of Ustyug.” The last miracle in life, on Tolstoy's list.