Sexto Kaléndas Ianuárii Luna prima Anno Domini 2019
December 27th 2019, the 1st day of the Moon, were born into the better life:
At Ephesus, the holy
Apostle and Evangelist John. After the writing of his Gospel after his
return from exile, and after the Revelation which God gave unto him, he
lived on until the time of the Emperor Trajan, and founded and governed
the churches of all Asia. He died of old age in the sixty-eighth year
after the death of Christ (about the year 101), and was buried hard by
the city of Ephesus.
At Alexandria, holy Maximus, Pope of that See, who was eminently worthy to be called a confessor (in the year 282).
At Constantinople the
holy brethren Theodore (Grapt) and Theophanes. They were bred up from
their childhood in the monastery of St. Saba, and afterwards stoutly
contended for the honouring of holy images against the Emperor Leo the
Armenian, for the which he caused them to be beaten and sent into exile,
and after his death they still stoutly withstood the Emperor
Theophilus, who was held captive by the same ungodliness, for the which
he also caused them to be again beaten and driven into exile. Theodore
died in prison, but Theophanes, after that peace was given back to the
Church, was made Bishop of Nice, and fell asleep in peace in the Lord
(ninth century).
Likewise, at
Constantinople, the holy virgin Niceras, who was eminent for her
holiness, in the time of the Emperor Arcadius (about the year 440).
V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.
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