October 5
Reading:
The feast of the Hierarchs of Moscow was established
during the reign of Tsar Theodore Ioannovich and Patriarch Job in the
year 1596. Their individual feasts are: Saint Peter (+1326), December
21, and August 24, translation of holy relics; Saint Alexis (+14th
cent.), February 12, and May 20, recovery of holy relics; Saint Jonah
(+1461), March 31 and June 15, with the recovery of his holy relics
celebrated on May 27. In 1875, at the proposal of Metropolitan Innocent
of Moscow, to this feast was joined the commemoration of Saint Philip
of Moscow (+1569), whose feast is kept on January 9, and the recovery of
his holy relics on July 3. In more recent times, the holy Patriarchs
Hermogenes (+1612) and Tikhon (+1925) have been added to the Synaxis.
Saint Hermogenes, who was starved to death by the Poles, is also
celebrated on February 17 and May 12, and Saint Tikhon, a confessor
under the atheist yoke, on March 25. the Menaion service itself makes
reference only to Saints Peter, Alexis, Jonah, and Philip.
Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone
Prelates of Russia, true keepers of the apostolic traditions,
unshakable pillars, teachers of Orthodoxy, O Peter, Alexis, Jonah,
Philip, Hermogenes, and Tikhon, pray to the Lord of all to grant peace
to the world and to our souls great mercy.
Kontakion in the Third Tone
Ye lived piously among bishops; ye led the peoples to the
knowledge of God, and ye pleased God well. Wherefore, ye were glorified
by Him with incorruption and miracles, as disciples of the grace of
God.
SOURCE:
SAINT OR FEAST POSTED THIS DATE 2012(with 2011's link here also and further, 2010, 2009, 2008 and even 2007!)
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