Память святых мучеников Ипполита, Кенсорина, Савина, Хрисии девицы и прочих двадцати мучеников

The Hieromartyrs Hippolytus, Kensorinus, Savinus and Chrysia lived during the reign of Claudius 1064, when he was hegemon, with the rank of governor, Ulpius the Roman. Censorinus was the first councilor in the Senate, with the rank of master in 1065. Subjected to interrogation on the basis of a denunciation, he confessed Christ and for this was thrown into prison. There he performed many miracles by the power of Christ and even questioned the dead. The soldiers who happened at this time, seeing miracles, believed in Christ, and for this, up to twenty of them, their heads were cut off. The blessed maiden Chrysia was also interrogated as a Christian. The soldiers, having hanged her, beat her with ox sinews and burned her ribs with fire, and then threw her into prison. A few days later they took her out of prison again, crushed her jaws with a stone and beat her on the shoulders with a tin hammer, and then, tying a stone around her neck, they threw her into the depths of the sea. Thus the holy maiden ended her suffering for Christ. Blessed Savin was also beaten on the body with a heavy hammer and, hung on a tree, burned with candles. Enduring such torment and thanking God, he surrendered his spirit to Him. Having learned about all this, the great Hippolytus, a saint of the Roman Church, came to the hegemon and denounced his cruelty and inhumanity, calling him a bloodsucker. At the same time, he boldly confessed Christ God, the Creator of the world. For this he was beaten in the eyes by the servants of the hegemon; The wicked subjected him to other torments and, finally, tying his hands and feet, they threw him into the sea. Having endured these torments, Saint Hippolytus became the heir of the Kingdom of God 1066. Claudius II, Roman Emperor, reigned from 268–270. Master actually means: teacher. But the title of master at the Byzantine imperial court meant one of the highest court positions. The holy martyrs Hippolytus, Kensorinus, Savinus and Chrysia suffered in 269. Hieromartyr Hippolytus was the bishop of the Ostian pier, near Rome, in which he was drowned. His relics are now in Rome in the Church of the Holy Martyr. Lawrence and Pope Damasus. – Hippolytus was the most learned of Christian theologians and a prolific, versatile writer. Most of his works are devoted to polemics against ancient heretics - Noetians, Theodotians, Alogians, Montanists, Marcionites, etc. Among his works are now known: the Easter Canon, against the Jews, against Plato, against heresies, against Veron and Helicus, an essay on Christ and the Antichrist. Another group of Hippolytus’s works consists of his numerous interpretations of the Holy Scriptures, of which for the most part only fragments have survived. So he wrote interpretations on the books of Genesis, Exodus, on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, on the Gospels of Matthew, Luke and John, on the prophets Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Zechariah, on the Psalms and Apocalypse. His sermons are also remarkable, as examples of ancient church teaching; Of these, only the word on the Epiphany and about the prophet Daniel have been preserved in their entirety. You might be interested in: