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Saint Chad, Wonderworker of Mercia
Saint Chad was a missionary and miracle worker who spread the Orthodox Christian faith throughout the British Isles in the 7th century. The youngest of four brothers who all became monks, Chad was raised in Northumbria and studied under Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne and then for several years in Ireland. Returning home, Chad was ordained a priest and succeeded his brother, Saint Cedd, as abbot of the monastery at Lastingham. With great reluctance, he accepted the position of bishop, first of York and then of all Mercia. As hierarch, Chad traveled on foot from town to town, spreading the Gospel to the mostly pagan population and bringing a multitude to Christ, including King Wulfere. He lived in a tiny cell on the grounds of the cathedral and monastery he built and was often seen glowing with uncreated light. His humble prayers cured many of illness and demonic possession. Before his death in 672, Saint Chad was visited by angels whose singing was heard in the surrounding area.
| 2 |  Holy Hieromartyr Polycarp
Born to pagan parents in the first century, Polycarp was orphaned and raised by the pious widow Kallista. After her death, Polycarp gave away all his possessions and led a life of chastity and caring for the sick. He learned the Faith from those who had known Christ, particularly the Apostle and Evangelist John, of whom he became a disciple and accompanied on his apostolic journeys. Polycarp was ordained a deacon and then brought into the priesthood by Saint Bucolus, and succeeded him as Bishop of Smyrna. He guided the flock with great zeal and love. When Marcus Aurelius began a persecution of Christians, soldiers searched out and found Polycarp, "the father of all the Christians". The saint invited them in to eat and requested time to pray. Boldly confessing Christ, he was condemned to be burned alive. Polycarp glowed like gold in the fire, but the flames would not consume him. The pagans pierced the holy martyr's side and so much blood poured out that the fire was extinguished. | 721 |
| 3 | Holy Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit
Saint Theodore was a Roman soldier in the city of Amasea during the persecution by Maximian. Refusing to deny Christ or offer sacrifice to idols, he was arrested, charged with burning down a pagan temple, tortured and thrown in prison. Deep in prayer, he was visited by our Lord Jesus Christ, who comforted and strengthened him. Then a multitude of angels appeared and the entire prison was illumined. Given a final chance to save his life, he remained steadfast and was sentenced to death by fire. Theodore fearlessly leapt onto the bonfire and with joyful praise gave up his pure soul to God. 55 years later, Julian the Apostate attempted to defile Christians during Lent by sprinkling blood from sacrifices on food in the market. Saint Theodore appeared to Archbishop Eudoxius and warned of the plot, instructing Christians to avoid the tainted food and instead eat boiled wheat with honey. We celebrate Theodore the Recruit and the miracle of koliva during the first week of Lent. | 738 |
| 4 | Holy Great Martyr Theodore the Commander
Saint Theodore was a Roman soldier who lived in 4th century. Talented, handsome, and kind, God granted him perfect knowledge of Christian truth. After bravely killing a giant serpent that had terrorized the people, he was appointed commander in Heraclea, where he taught the Gospel to the pagans under him and brought nearly the entire city to Christ. When emperor Licinius began persecuting Christians, the saint invited the ruler to his home for a sacrifice to all the gathered gold and silver idols of Heraclea, but instead, Theodore smashed the idols and gave the pieces to the poor. Arrested, he was beaten, mutilated, burned, blinded and finally, crucified. In the morning, the imperial guards found him alive and unharmed; they fled, seeking baptism. Saint Theodore became "like a day of splendor" for the pagans dwelling in darkness. He opened prison doors with a word and healed the sick and then voluntarily gave himself up for martyrdom and was beheaded in the year 319. | 843 |
| 5 | Saint Isaac the Syrian
Saint Isaac the Syrian was a great hesychast and teacher who lived for God in the seventh century. Struck with divine eros from a young age, he abandoned the world and took up the light yoke of Christ with the brethren of the Saint Matthew monastery. Refusing the abbacy, he withdrew into the desert and extreme quietude and arrived at the heights of theoria, becoming an angel in the flesh. Because of his many miracles and the sanctity of his life, Isaac was elected as bishop of Nineveh against his will. He agreed but, disheartened by the loss of the beautiful silence and vexed by the common disdain for the commandments of the Gospel, he abandoned the position after only five months and returned with joy to his beloved wilderness. There he completed his life, writing many works on the spiritual life and asceticism, of which about 100 homilies and prayers survive to this day. Having achieved human perfection, Saint Isaac departed peacefully to his longed-for Christ at a ripe old age. | 891 |
| 6 | Saint Xenia, Fool for Christ
Saint Xenia was the wife of an army officer who lived in Saint Petersburg in the 1700s. When she was 26, her husband died unexpectedly. Grieving that he had died without confession or Holy Communion, Xenia renounced the world and became a Fool for Christ. She wore her husband’s clothing, insisted on being called by his name, and said that it was she who had died, not him. When she gave away her house and possessions to the poor, her relatives complained to the authorities but it was determined that she was in her right mind and could do as she saw fit. She wandered the streets and spent her nights in prayer. When a church was built in the cemetery where her husband was buried, she secretly carried bricks to the site during the night. Known as pleasing to God, her presence and prayers were considered a great blessing, and nearly everyone loved her. It was said Xenia does not belong to this world, she belongs to God and countless miracles have been attributed to her intercessions. | 776 |
| 7 | Saint Makarios the Great
Saint Makarios was a founding father of monasticism who lived in the fourth century. Obeying his parents, young Makarios reluctantly married but was soon widowed. After his parents died, he withdrew into the wilderness of the Egyptian desert where he spent sixty years in ascetic labors and spiritual warfare. Makarios encountered a cherubim who conveyed God's blessings and provided guidance at key times in his life. Falsely accused of rape and beaten by villagers, he was then proved innocent. Makarios bore this and every other trial with absolute humility. Makarios became a disciple of Saint Anthony the Great and received the elder’s staff and a double portion of his spiritual power. Through prayer, fasting and vigil, Makarios thoroughly cleansed his mind and heart and was given abundant gifts of wonderworking. He healed multitudes and even raised the dead. Makarios told his disciples: Do not judge anyone and you will be saved. He was buried in the cave that he lived in for 30 years. | 719 |
| 8 | Saint Nina, Enlightener of Georgia
Saint Nina was born in the third century, kin to Saint George the Great Martyr. Raised by an elderly woman after her parents became monastics, Nina heard of how the Savior's robe had arrived in a land of pagans. The Mother of God appeared to Nina, told her to go to that land and bring the people to Christ, and gave Nina a cross made from grapevine for protection. Nina received a blessing from her uncle, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and journeyed to the land now known as Georgia, narrowly escaping martyrdom at the hands of Diocletian on the way. Arriving in the pagan land, the virgin brought idols crashing down through her prayers, taught the Christian Faith everywhere, healed and baptized the queen Nana and eventually King Mirian, their son Bakar, and all the royal court. Nina found the place where the robe of Christ was hidden and on that spot the first Christian church in Georgia was built. After a life of amazing apostolic devotion, Saint Nina peacefully reposed in 335. | 654 |
| 9 | Saint Sava, Enlightener of Serbia
Saint Sava was was born in 1169, son of the Serbian ruler Stefan Nemanja and grandson of the emperor Romanus. As a youth he yearned for the spiritual life and at 17 he fled to Mount Athos and became a monk. His father followed after him and also became a monk and together they built the Hilandar monastery. Saint Sava sought and obtained independence for the Serbian Church and became its first archbishop. In creating the Serbian Church, Sava helped form the Serbian state and Serbian culture along with it, giving a Christian soul to the people and building many monasteries, churches, and schools throughout the land. He negotiated peace between the Serbs and their neighbors, working for the good of all, and brought the Hungarian monarch to the Orthodox Faith. After many years of devoted labor for God and his beloved homeland, Saint Sava reposed in 1236. His miracle-working relics attracted countless pilgrims to his tomb until they were burnt by muslims in the 17th century. | 717 |
| 10 | The Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John
Saint John, called the greatest of the prophets by our Lord, concluded the history of the Old Testament and opened the epoch of the New Testament. John was a kinsman of the Lord, the son of the Priest Zachariah and Righteous Elizabeth, and his birth was heralded by the Archangel Gabriel. Born six months before Christ Jesus, Saint John was filled with the Holy Spirit and spent his life in the wilderness preparing for his great service through fasting and prayer. At the age of 30, he appeared on the banks of the Jordan, preaching repentance and giving witness concerning the arrival of the Only-Begotten Son of God, incarnate in the flesh. Saint John was deemed worthy to baptize Christ in the waters of the Jordan and witnessed the manifestation of the Most Holy Trinity on the day of the Baptism of the Savior. Soon afterwards, Saint John was imprisoned and then died a martyr's death, beheaded on orders of King Herod at the request of his daughter Salome. | 794 |
| 11 | Saint Basil the Great
Saint Basil, a great father of the Church and revealer of heavenly mysteries, was born in Cappadocia in 330 to an illustrious and wealthy Christian family. The grandson of martyrs, Basil was educated in Constantinople and Athens, mastering philosophy, law, naturalism, astronomy, mathematics and medicine. After his secular studies, he journeyed to Egypt, Syria and Palestine and met great Christian ascetics who inspired him to live as they did. Basil gave away all his wealth and retreated into solitude and deep study of Holy Scripture. Brothers gathered to him, seeking wisdom, so he provided them a monastic rule and founded several monasteries. He composed a Divine Liturgy, works on the Holy Spirit, Creation, and the Psalms, many prayers, and three books defending the Faith against heresy. As Bishop of Caesarea, Saint Basil the Great guided the Church like a bright star for ten years, strengthening the faithful, comforting the poor, and expounding the Word of God until his repose in 379. | 780 |
| 12 | Holy Hieromartyr Ignatius the Godbearer
According to tradition, Saint Ignatius was the little child that Christ held in his arms when He said Whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 18:4). Ignatius was a disciple of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John and became the second Bishop of Antioch. He governed the Church as a good shepherd and was the first to introduce antiphonal chanting with two alternating choirs, a method revealed to him by angels. When the Christ-hating Emperor Trajan passed through Antioch, he offered to make Ignatius a senator if only he would sacrifice to idols. Rejecting the blasphemy, Ignatius was shackled and sent to Rome to be thrown to wild beasts. Rejoicing in his suffering for the Lord, the saint prayed that nothing would interfere with his martyrdom. In the arena, the lions tore him to pieces leaving only his heart, upon which the pagans found inscribed in gold the name: Jesus Christ. Saint Ignatius joined God in the year 107. | 571 |
| 13 | Holy Martyr Sebastian
Saint Sebastian was the captain of Diocletian’s imperial guard. Favored by the emperor and beloved by his solders, he kept his Christian Faith secret in order to help the brethren under persecution. He saved Christians from torture and death and when unable to do so, he urged them to die for Christ. Two imprisoned brothers, Marcus and Marcellinus, on the verge of losing faith, were strengthened and encouraged to martyrdom by Sebastian. As he spoke, his face was illumined. Angels clothed him in a radiant garment and a voice said You shall be with Me always. Sebastian healed the jailer’s wife and several others and brought them, along with all the prisoners, to baptism. He then healed the governor Chromatus, who was also baptized. Condemned by Diocletian, Sebastian was tied to a tree, shot through with arrows, and left for dead. But soon he reappeared, alive and well, denouncing the Emperor for his impiety. Clubbed to death, Saint Sebastian suffered gloriously for Christ in the year 287. | 565 |
| 14 | Holy Hieromartyr Hilarion
Saint Hilarion Troitsky was born in 1886 to a priest’s family in the Tula Province of Russia. He was an inspired theologian who burned with great love for Christ and His Church, for which he gave all of his life. In 1913, he was tonsured a monk, ordained a hieromonk, received his master’s degree, and became a professor. Cheerful and sincere, Hilarion was an excellent orator, singer, and polemicist. When the Bolshevik persecution began, Hilarion was arrested. He spent three months in jail and upon release was made Bishop of Verey. He was then exiled for one year and made Archbishop upon his return. Continuing to defend the Church, he was sentenced to three years at the former Solovki monastery, then turned into a prison camp. He endured his trials with great faith and joy, seeing an opportunity to develop virtue. Rejecting an offer by the secret police to betray the Church, his sentence was doubled. Finally exiled to Central Asia, Saint Hilarion succumbed to typhus at age 43 in 1929. | 663 |
| 15 | Saint Herman of Alaska
Saint Herman, born in 1751 near Moscow to a peasant family, became a great ascetic and servant of God, joining the first Orthodox Christian mission to North America. In his youth, he learned from a wise elder in his cell and was miraculously healed of a deadly illness, leaving doctors in awe. After military service, he was tonsured at Valaam monastery and 11 years later was chosen to join a mission to the Russian colony in Alaska. After nine months of dangerous seafaring, Herman and nine other monks arrived at Kodiak and brought thousands of natives to Christ and built a school, a church and a monastery. Defending the natives from vicious exploitation, the monks came under persecution. Herman relocated to the wilderness of Spruce Island where he spent 40 years raising Aleut orphans. He ate very little, wore a heavy iron cross and chains under his clothes, and used a wooden board and two bricks as his blanket and pillow. Cherished by all who knew him, Saint Herman joined Christ in 1836. | 804 |
| 16 | Saint Spyridon, Wonderworker of Cyprus
Saint Spyridon was born on Cyprus to a farming family at the end of the third century. A simple shepherd, he married in his youth and had children, but when his wife died he devoted himself completely to God. Because of his exceptional piety, he was chosen as bishop of the city of Tremithus. As bishop he continued his humble way of living, raising livestock and cultivating the land. He kept very little of the fruits of his labor and gave most to the poor. Through God's power he worked great miracles: bringing rain in time of drought, stopping the flow of a river, raising people from the dead, healing Emperor Constantius of grave illness, seeing and hearing angels of God, seeing the future, smashing idols by his very presence, and bringing many souls to Christ. At the Council of Nicaea in 325, Spyridon valiantly corrected many heretics through his clear expositions of the Faith and by his mighty miracles. Saint Spyridon peacefully reposed in the Lord in the year 348. | 384 |
| 17 | Saint Nicholas, Wonderworker of Myra
Saint Nicholas was born in third century Lycia. From infancy he worked miracles, healing his mother of illness and refusing milk on fast days until after evening prayers. Trained by his uncle, the Bishop of Patara, he was tonsured a monk and ordained a priest. He gave all his inheritance to the poor and was known for his kindheartedness. Nicholas attempted a life of solitude but God instructed him to work among the people and he was chosen as archbishop of Myra. Often helping the faithful in secret and considered a saint in his own lifetime, he was imprisoned during the persecution until Saint Constantine returned him to his flock. In his zeal to defend the Faith, Saint Nicholas struck the heretic Arius with his hand and was removed from his duties until a vision of the Lord Jesus Christ convinced the hierarchs that he had pleased God. Nicholas saved multiple men from unjust death sentences and upon the saint's repose in 343, his relics flowed a miraculous healing myrrh. | 1 082 |
| 18 | Saint Sava the Sanctified
Saint Sava was born in fifth century Cappadocia to pious Christian parents. At the age of eight, he entered a monastery where he learned to read and mastered the Holy Scriptures. At 17 he became a monk. He attained perfection through fasting and prayer and was given the gift of wonderworking. Sava traveled to Jerusalem and came under the guidance of Saint Euthymius the Great, who called called Sava a young elder and often took him into the wilderness with him. Sava lived a cenobitic life in obedience until 30 and then lived in a cave in isolation for five years. After his elder reposed, disciples began to gather around Sava and a pillar of fire led the saint to a spacious cave in the form of a church and he began his first monastery. In his long and fruitful life, Saint Sava founded seven monasteries, battled heretics and demons, worked many miracles, guided emperors and patriarchs, composed the first monastic rule of services, the Jerusalem Typikon, and entered into rest at age 94. | 561 |
| 19 | Saint John of Damascus
Born to a Christian family in Syria circa 680, John and his brother Cosmas were tutored by a former slave monk and John, like his father, became chief minister to the Caliph. Because of his writings in defense of the veneration of icons, John was maligned by the heretical Emperor and the Caliph cut off his right hand. John fell down in prayer before an icon of the Mother of God and his hand was miraculously rejoined. The Caliph asked forgiveness but John gave up his position, gave all his riches to the poor, and traveled to Jerusalem with his brother where they joined the monastery of Saint Sava the Sanctified. As a monk, he was a model of humility and obedience. He composed and compiled great works of hymnography, wrote many profoundly inspired theological works, and denounced the iconoclast heresy at the Council of Constantinople in 754, for which he was imprisoned and tortured. Numbered among the great Fathers of the Church, Saint John peacefully joined the Lord at the age of 104. | 580 |
| 20 | Holy Apostle Andrew
Andrew, the first-called Apostle of Christ, was a fisherman by trade and the closest disciple of Saint John the Forerunner. When John pointed to the Lord and said, Behold the Lamb of God!, Andrew left everything and followed Christ. After Pentecost, Andrew was called to deliver the Gospel to the Eastern lands. He brought the Church to the village that would become Constantinople. In Kiev, he planted a Cross on a high place and foretold of a bright Christian future for the Russian people. Andrew brought multitudes to Christ, ordained bishops and priests, performed countless miracles, and suffered many torments from pagans. In Patras, the apostle brought nearly the entire city to Christ, but the governor condemned him to torture and then crucified him. Tied to a cross to prolong his suffering, Andrew joyously taught the crowd gathered at his martyrdom for two days. Finally, he prayed to God and a blazing light illumined him and the cross, and the Holy Apostle Andrew joined the Lord. | 578 |
