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St. torment. Agapius, Puplius, Timolaus, Romilus (Romulus), two Dionysius and two Alexanders They suffered during the reign of Diocletian, in Caesarea Palestine, in 303. Agapius was from Gaza, Timolaus from Pontus, two Dionysius from Tripoli of Phoenicia, Romulus was a subdeacon of the Diospolis (Lydda city, called Diospolis) church, Puplius and two Alexanders from Egypt, all barely out of adolescence. In Caesarea, on the occasion of a certain pagan holiday, a solemn spectacle took place: one Christian was burned after torture, then two others were thrown to beasts to be devoured. Looking at this, six courageous young men - Puplius, Timolaus, Romulus, two Alexanders and Dionysius, out of zeal for the faith, tied their hands as a sign of their readiness to suffer for Christ and stood before the ruler Urban, saying loudly: “We are Christians!” Urban, seeing their youth, first kindly persuaded them to spare themselves and worship idols, then ordered them to be thrown into prison. A few days later, Agapius was added to them, having previously confessed Christ and endured torment; now he was taken again with his servant Dionysius. From August to March, all these eight martyrs were kept in bonds, tortured many times, and finally beheaded on the fifteenth day of this month. † Rev. Nikandra Gorodnensky In the Gorodnensky churchyard, near Lake Gorodny, in the Valdai district, according to the 1581 census, the Leschunovskaya volost “was the Resurrection Monastery of the pottery end of Novgorod 169. At the beginning of the 17th century, on the shore of Lake Gorodnoye, the servant of God Nikander built the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, gathered monks and renewed the memory of the ancient Resurrection monastery of prayer for the surrounding residents. Rev. Nikandr served as an example of holy life for the monks he gathered, leading an ascetic life in labor, fasting and prayer. His relics lie hidden, and in the church of his former monastery there is a chapel “St. Nikander of Gorodno-Ozersky" 170. St. New Martyr Emanuel (Manuid) Manuel was born on the island of Crete in Sfaki. As a child, he was captured by the Turks and forcibly converted to Islamism, but, having managed to escape and hide on the island of Mykon, the young man told the priest about his involuntary retreat and, upon fulfilling the penance imposed on him, was reintroduced into the Church of Christ. Having come of age, Manuel married and, already having six children, had to leave his unworthy wife with them, not wanting, however, to sue her - in order to avoid public disgrace to the mother of his children. Despite such a peaceful outcome of the case, the brother of the abandoned guilty woman wanted and vowed to take revenge on her husband. The opportunity for revenge presented itself. One day, this unjust and evil man, being among the servants on a warship that monitored ships in the Archipelago and the Sea of ​​Marmara, recognized his enemy Manuel on one ship that was sailing with firewood from the island of Samos to the island of Mykon and approached the ship for inspection. He immediately pointed him out to his captain and reported that Manuel was a Turk, and now he was posing as a Christian. Having told his real story in response to the interrogation made to him and confirmed that he was a Christian, Manuel was detained on a ship sailing to Chios, and was subjected to all sorts of tortures from Turkish soldiers along the way. - Knowing what awaited him, he begged one Christian who was on the ship to bring him from the shore, during a stop, a priest to admonish him to St. Secrets. But the Turks instilled such fear at that time that no one dared to come to the ship, and only one priest responded through the messenger with a few words of encouragement and consolation. After listening to them, Manuel said: “And I also think - today or tomorrow you need to die; This is already the law of nature! It’s better to die for the faith today and thereby save your soul, than to destroy it tomorrow.” When the ship arrived in Chios, Manuel was presented to the captain pasha for trial. He, having learned that Manuel had returned to the Christian faith, immediately ordered his head to be cut off. – Glory to You, God! - the new martyr, called by the Lord, exclaimed only at this, in joyful anticipation of death. But then something strange happened: the executioner, approaching the condemned man, felt such fear and trembling that he threw down his sword and ran... The Turks were embarrassed... Manuel continued to pray... Then one “Pashii chaush” pulled out his scimitar and struck several blows to the sufferer’s neck; Before he could decapitate him, he threw him to the ground, grabbed his head and cut it off... - The next day, Christians gathered to honor St. the remains of the murdered man, but the ruler of the city, having learned about this, ordered heavy stones to be tied to the body of the martyr and thrown into the sea... This happened in 1772. (See “Christian Martyrs in the East” by Solovyov, pp. 226–229). St. torment. Nikandra bishop, doctor St. torment. Nikandra the Bishop, a doctor who visited and treated prisoners for the faith of Christ in prison and buried the dishonestly abandoned bodies of tortured Christians, for which, after suffering, he was beheaded during the persecution of Diocletian, in 302. East. Nevolina about Pyatina, p. 182. 183. Appendix, p. 197. 255. East. Jer. 5, 180. Swedish about the monastery p. 406. Dictionary of the Holy. 203.