Commemorated on July 6
Saint Sisoes, Schemamonk of the Kiev Caves (XIII), is commemorated in the general service of the Monastic Fathers of Kiev Caves whose relics rest in the Far Caves. He is mentioned together with St Gregory the Faster: "Sisoes the wondrous and Gregory, a name courageous, having by fasting both restrained their passions, humble the fierce lust of our flesh: for unto you is given the grace to help us in our passions" (5th Ode of the Canon).
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SAINT OR FEAST POSTED THIS DATE 2009(with 2008's link posted here also):
Antiochian Patriarchate mark 13 years since abduction of two Syrian bishops
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In the statement, the Patriarchs describe the case as “one of the strangest
cases, an affront to the very core of human dignity,” and say the abduction
“ha...
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