December 21
Reading:
Our holy and wonderworking Father Peter, Metropolitan of
Moscow, was born in Volhynia, tonsured a monk at twelve years of age,
and later ordained a priest. He lived in solitude for a time in a desert
place north of Lvov and founded the Holy Transfiguration Monastery;
afterwards he was sent to Constantinople, where the holy Patriarch
Athanasius consecrated him Metropolitan of Kiev in 1308, and he returned
to Vladimir, where the Metropolitans of Kiev had their residence at
that time (see Saint Jonas on June 15). In 1325, he moved to Moscow,
where he founded the Dormition Cathedral, and after his repose on
December 21, 1326, was buried there. He was also an iconographer, and
two of his icons, the Dormition and the Petrovskaya, are found in the
Dormition Cathedral (see also Oct. 5 and Aug. 24).
Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone
Now the formerly fruitless land rejoiceth; for behold, Christ
hath revealed a light in thee that shineth forth clearly in the world,
and healeth our infirmities and sicknesses. Wherefore, dance and be
merry with boldness; he is a hierarch indeed of the Most High, Who was
his fellow-worker in these things.
Kontakion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
On this day, we hasten to thee with love, fashioning a song, O
God-bearing champion and marvellous wonderworker of our land. Since thou
hast boldness before the Lord, deliver us from diverse afflictions,
that we may cry to thee: Rejoice, O support of our city.
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