Like the pious root / most honorable branch you were, blessed Alexandra, / for Christ revealed you as some kind of Divine treasure of the Russian land, / the new wonderworker is glorious and Accepted by God./ And today we have come together in your memory through faith and love,/ in psalms and songs we joyfully glorify the Lord,/ who has given you the grace of healing./ Pray to Him to save this city,/ and the Russian state should be more pleasing to God, // and be saved as sons of Russia.
Know your brethren, Russian Joseph,/ not in Egypt, but reigning in Heaven,/ faithful to Prince Alexander,/ and accept their prayers,/ multiplying the lives of people with the fruitfulness of the earth yours,/ protecting the cities of your dominion with prayer,// Orthodox Christians fighting against the opposition.
We magnify you,/ blessed Prince Alexandra,/ and honor your holy dormition,/ and now pray for us// Christ our God.
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As you are blessed and righteous, / for the love of Christ God you accepted death from your own, / shedding your blood, / like before your relatives and passion-bearers Boris and Gleb, / with their blood and your blood, holy one, cries out to God,/ like Abel and Zechariah the righteous,/ faithful passion-bearer, Grand Duke Andrei,/ with him, pray to Christ God for our country, the hedgehog To be more pleasing to God // and to be saved as a son of Russia.
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Having loved the blessedness of the Gospel, / God-wise Prince Andrey, / you honored the purity of your heart with virginity, / and, despising the vanity of this world, / you rushed to see God, / like you glorify miracles/ in healing the variously afflicted./ For this reason we pray to you:/ we ask Christ the Lord/ for deliverance from all sorrows// and the receipt of the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Today we praise you, reverend mother,/ Grand Duchess nun Anno:/ for the vine is fruitful in the midst of thorns,/ you flourished in the city of Kashin with your virtues,/ and you surprised everyone with your wonderful life,/ besides, you pleased Christ God,/ and now, rejoicing and having fun,/ you are with the faces of the reverend women,/ enjoying Heavenly beauty and joy./ We pray to you:/ pray for us the Lover of Mankind, Christ our God // to grant us peace and great mercy.
We please you, / reverend mother, Grand Duchess Anno, / and honor your holy memory, / mentor of nuns, / and interlocutor with the Angel.
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Having risen from the west like a sky-bright star,/ you were deemed worthy to accept the Orthodox faith,/ bringing forth blessed fruit to the Russian land,/ the holy and faithful Princess Anno,/ Christ You have loved with all your heart, / Your justifications and laws are preserved; / Moreover, today we celebrate your all-holy memory, / / The remission of sins through your prayers is acceptable.
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Having sprinkled the purple with the martyr’s blood,/ you stand before the decorations, sufferers of glory, to the Immortal King,/ and, having received crowns of glory from Him,/ pray to our country grant victory to our enemies // and great mercy to our souls.
Today the depths of the church are expanding, / receiving the riches of God’s grace, / Russian cathedrals are rejoicing, / seeing the glorious miracles, / even as you do to those who come to you by faith, / saints miracle workers Boris and Gleb, // pray to Christ God to save our souls.
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Your fatherland boasts of the redness of your blood, / The Church of God rejoices, / having received your body, / people, the songful face of which is made up, / a spiritual treasure they cry out:/ Rejoice, Vasily, Rejoice, Constantine, // Glory to Yaroslavl and joy to all Russia.
We magnify you, / passion-bearers of Christ, blessed princes Vasily and Konstantin, / and we honor your honest suffering, / because you pray for us / / Christ our God.
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You appeared from early childhood, to the God-wise Prince Vladimir, / the Divine vessel was chosen by God, / brought up in piety, kept the immaculate faith / and, the church is wonderful to the Wisdom of God / in the Great Having established this Novegrad, / You offered Your body in It, / and now, in Heaven, I stand before the Throne of the Holy Trinity, / / praying to send down to us great and rich mercy.
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As you were at the root of piety, / having lived well in piety, blessed Vladimir, / so with your wife, the highly praised Agrippina, / in peace to God please, and be honored with a life similar to yours./ With him, pray to the Lord/ to preserve your fatherland without harm,// that we may unceasingly honor you.
We bless you,/ holy wonderworkers Vladimir and Agrippino,/ and we honor your holy memory,/ because you pray for us// Christ our God.
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You appeared from early childhood, to the God-wise Prince Gabriel, / a divine vessel, chosen by God, / brought up in piety, observing the immaculate faith / and many holy churches having arranged, / you suffered exile from your own people, / like your chaste ancestors, from your brother’s murder. / The Holy Trinity stands with them, / praying to the state of Russia preserved existence// and we all be saved.
Today has come the all-honorable new holiday, / the discovery of the honorable relics / of the blessed Prince Gabriel, / which greatly rejoiced all the pious multitudes, / including all the faithful, / who came together in Holy Church of the Life-Giving Trinity, let us cry out:/ to the blessed Prince Gabriel,/ having boldness towards Christ God,// pray to be saved by those who celebrate your memory with love.
We please you,/ blessed Prince Gabriel,/ and honor the discovery of your honorable relics,/ and now pray for us// Christ our God.
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Today Angels and people rejoice together in common joy, / Heaven and earth rejoice brightly in your memory, holy one. / And we, sinners, diligently cry out to you: / pray to the Lord for us,/ deliver us from misfortune/ visible and invisible enemies, // who honor your blessed memory.
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Sitting at the height of the great reign, / you appeared, shining with piety and faith to your fatherland, like the sun; / for the Holy Trinity, you were kindled with jealousy / and suffered greatly for the faith, you shed your blood./ Thus your head, which was cut off for Christ, testifies to reality about you,/ clinging to your body after death,/ from now on, your relics remain incorruptible,/ from which you flow healing of our souls and bodies./ But since you have boldness in Christ, passion-bearing George,/ constantly pray for your power and your relatives// to preserve harmless through your prayers.
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Martyr of the Lord, / we glorify your faith for the sake of, / Prince Gleb, / you are a quick helper to those who work, / and you are hope for the weak, / for you heal the ailments of those who come to you with by faith./ Likewise, by faith we pray:/ deliver us from troubles, // who honor your memory with love.
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Today the most glorious city of Vladimir is shining brightly,/ having in itself a very rich treasure -/ the miraculous, honest relics of the noble Prince Gleb,/ in which, adorning and boasting,/ the entire universe calls for joy/ and cries out loudly:/ O Master Christ,/ who has granted such grace to Thy saint,// through His prayers have mercy on us.
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In fasting from your youth, you labored well, O God-Wise One, / having courageously armed your mind against your enemies, / with the weapon of the godfather you conquered these, / carried with firm wisdom, put your soul into it./ Moreover We praise you, our prince Glebe, / for through fasting you are fertilizer, / to Kiev - glory // and to the entire Russian land - affirmation.
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You appeared in our country, / like a bright star, / blessed Prince Daniel, / with the rays of your light, illuminating your city and your abode, / a champion of the Orthodox people You are/ the liberator of the captives and the protector of the poor./ Pray to Christ God/ to grant peace to the Russian state// and save our souls.
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Great will you find in troubles, the champion of the Russian land,/ conquering languages./ Just as you laid down your pride on the Don Mamaeva,/ for this feat you received the blessing of St. Sergius,/ So, Prince Dimitri,/ I pray to Christ God,// to grant us great mercy.
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Thou hast stained the royal diadem with thy blood,/ God-wise martyr,/ thou hast taken the scepter of the cross in hand,/ thou hast appeared victorious,/ and an immaculate sacrifice to the Lady You brought it to yourself, / for you have slain a gentle lamb from the slave, / and now, rejoicing before the Holy Trinity. / Praying for the power of your relatives, pleasing to God to be // and to be saved as a son of Russia.
Today the reigning city of Moscow boasts,/ having within itself your righteous relics,/ blessed Tsarevich Demetrius,/ as fragrant flowers bloom,/ we dwell in the holy church,/ enlightenment is given to our souls and bodies./ Thus we joyfully praise you,/ and we faithfully honor the honest presentation of your relics, and we pray to you:/ pray to Christ God// to grant us greatness mercy.
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Having hated the father’s wickedness,/ the blessed prince Domante,/ and escaped the nights of passion, even though he was diligent about idols,/ his thoughts came to the Sun of glory - Christ,/ he was illuminated by the grace of Divine Baptism, / and now stands in the light of the Most Holy Trinity, / pray to Christ God to preserve and save the Orthodox people / and your city from the godless Hagarians, / and the Latin invasion, and internecine warfare // and save our souls.
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Today has come the all-honorable memory of the passion-bearer, the blessed Prince Igor, / convening people to the most honorable Church of the Savior, / where many pious people, joyfully gathered, / prayerfully celebrate your holy memory,/ and with faith they cry out to you:/ praying, holy, to the land of Russia, to the city of Chernigov and to all Orthodox Christians// to be saved in peace and prosperity.
We magnify you, passion-bearing holy and faithful Grand Duke Igor, and we honor your holy memory, for you pray for us to Christ our God.
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In your life you endured many sorrows, O blessed one, / and for the sake of patience you received a crown from God, / and after your death you appeared as a wonderworker, / for that sake We honor your memory with songs, / like our Father Ignatius, / praying, standing before the Holy Trinity, / the power of your kin to be pleasing to God, / and be saved as sons of Russia.
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Constantine is joyfully rejoicing today,/ standing before the Throne of the Holy Trinity,/ seeing his fatherland, shining with spiritual brilliance;/ he was followed by Michael and Theodore, son him, // and all three pray together for our souls.
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Having desired the beauty of the glory of God, you pleased him in earthly life and, having cultivated the talent entrusted to you for good, you aggravated it, for the sake of it and struggled until bloodshed. For the reward of your illnesses, like a martyr, you received from Christ God: pray to Him to be saved by those who sing to you, Lazarus.
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Having raised your mind to God, / and you desired life from the Angels, / you left the corruptible glory of the earth, O blessed one, / and you laid down your life for your people, / you took You are the crown against your labors, God-wise Michael, // pray to Christ God for those who honor your holy memory with love.
We magnify you,/ blessed Prince Michael,/ and honor your holy memory,/ who poured out your blood for Christ,/ and now pray for us// Christ our God.
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From early childhood you appeared, to the God-wise Prince Mstislav,/ a divine vessel, chosen by God,/ brought up in piety,/ you kept the faith immaculate./ Also standing before the Holy Trinity,/ I pray for the country of Russia to be preserved // and for all of us to be saved.
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From his youth he loved Christ with all his heart, O Lord, / you left earthly glory as passing away, / and the kingdom of the earth was counted as nothing / to the face of the monk with joy. thou art,/ and through many labors the city of Bryansk, like the brightest sun, shone thou:/ thus becoming the adornment of the Trinity, // pray, Prince Oleg, for Christ God to save your souls ours.
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As you were at the root of piety, / having lived well in piety, blessed Peter, / so also with your wise wife Fevronia, / pleasing God in the world, and You have been honored with similar lives./ Pray to the Lord with him,/ to preserve your fatherland without harm,// that we may unceasingly honor you.
We bless you,/ holy wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia,/ and we honor your holy memory,/ for you pray for us/ Christ, our God.
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With strangely terrible torment/ and the valor of patience/ you surprised everyone, Prince Roman:/ your honest members were cut according to their composition/ and your entire body was fragmented/ you endured for the faith Christ./ In the same way you ascended to the Throne of the King Christ God/ and you appeared as a new representative of the Church of Ryazan./ Praying to the Lord,/ may He grant peace and prosperity to the city ours,/ and ask Him for mercy and salvation// for those who honor your sacred memory, the much-suffering one.
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From infancy you appeared, / the faithful Prince Roman, / chosen by God / a pillar of piety that cannot be overcome, / you kept the faith immaculate, / through prayers and alms and fasting to God thou hast pleased;/ and even after death the lordship of thy life has appeared,/ for thou healest the ailments of the infirm,/ who by faith flow to thy holy tomb./ For this reason we cry unto thee:/ Rejoice, saint of God Roman, // praise and affirmation of the city of Uglech.
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Find the builder of cities and churches/ the land of Kiev,/ the Grand Duke Rostislav,/ you eliminated troubles, preserving unity,/ and the Lord will give you wisdom sent down, / for this reason we pray to Christ God // that our souls may be saved.
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In the saints, wondrous, / the shining light of Iberia, / faithful to Queen Tamaro, / erected churches on the high mountains, / so that in them prayers are sent to the Lord, / through your prayers bestowed fortress with the howl of the Christ-loving people of the country of Iveron, / who overthrew the Hagarian hordes with their right hand, / pray to Christ God // to save our souls.
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In this life I have been established in faith, / I have remained adamant in the commandments of the Lord, / I have pleased Him, as a pious autocrat / I have become like Him about those entrusted to you by Christ. people,/ laid down your soul with great effort,/ going into an all-evil and godless land/ and there, before the wicked tormentor of Christ, boldly confessing,/ accepted the martyr’s crown,/ also, to the wise Theodore Yaroslavich,/ Pray to the Deliverer to deliver your fatherland and people from troubles,// Let us all continually honor you.
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From the pious root you became a pious branch / and, having died in your youth, you fulfilled your duty with your virtues, / blessed Prince Theodore, / for this reason We pray to the Ruler of times,/ that through your prayers He may grant us longevity of years, // and bestow upon our country greatness and rich mercy.
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As the healer is beyond compare and the indicator is favorable/ you left worldly rebellion,/ and, taking your cross to the frame,/ you lived with divine life, and through abstinence of the flesh you were adorned/ to you The chosen vessel has appeared to those who flow, O all-blessed Theodora, / chanting your memory in psalms and hymns, O venerable one, // praying for our souls.
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From your youth, you clinged to the love of Christ, holy ones, / diligently preserved the law and justifications of Him, / from the same place and enriched with miraculous gifts, / you exude healing, / Theodore, David and Constantine,/ for those who honor you by faith,/ pray to Christ God,// to save our souls.
From early childhood the saints appeared, / God-wise Theodora and blessed David with the glorious Constantine, / Divine vessels, chosen by God. / Now you exude to us much healing from the honest your relics,/ drowning all heresies,/ and saving your city forever,/ and keeping all the faithful unharmed/ from visible and invisible enemies./ Moreover, by faith we pray to you, saints:/ pray to Christ God // in the world we will be preserved and save our souls.
Like the stars that shone brightly from youth, / illuminated the natural hearts of the faithful with the presentation of your honorable relics, / in the flesh, like Angels appeared on earth, / by nourishing the plantings quickly,/ like trees by the waters of temperance,/ water the streams of your tears, and wash away the filth./ For this reason the friend of God's Spirit appeared,/ to Theodora, and David, and Constantine, // pray to Christ God to save our souls.
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From his youth/ he gave his all to himself as a divine desire to the Lord,/ in prayers and fasting the image was of virtue,/ but wealth, and glory, and bodily goodness, as if they were not a thing,/ they despised Christ. You loved only one with all your heart,/ and you confessed that True God before the wicked king,/ and you horrified with the valor of your patience/ and you surprised everyone./ With your body, as rod, we circumcise, / into each part, the cutting place / grateful were the prayers you spoke to the Lord. / Thus in your suffering you received a crown, / you ascended to the Throne of glory / and with The angels stand, O all-validated Theodora, / pray to Christ God // to save our souls.
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As you are blessed and righteous, / for the love of Christ God you accepted death from your own, Yaropolche, / passion-bearing saint, faithful prince of Volyn, / and you shed your blood, / as first of all, your relatives and passion-bearers, God-blessed Boris and Gleb, / whose feat was piously jealous, / you earnestly cried out to the Lord: / grant me death, like your brothers mine,/ and I will wash away my sins with my blood/ and I will be delivered from this futile and rebellious world./ Moreover, today we have come together in your memory,/ with faith and love we glorify Lord,/ who strengthened you in the struggle of vain death,/ like a gentle lamb,/ you were slain by a servant,/ and you yourself offered an immaculate sacrifice to the Lord,/ Pray to him, ever-blessed one, / to save your Fatherland // and to save your sons of Russia.