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- St Anthony of the Kyiv Caves (1073)
- He is honored as the founder of Orthodox monastic life in Rus'. He
was born in Chernihiv province and tonsured at the Monastery of
Esphigmenou on the Holy Mountain. His abbot sent him from Mt Athos to
Kyiv to establish the monastic life there in 1013, during the last years
of Prince Volodymyr's holy reign. He lived there as a hermit, slowly
drawing to himself others who wished to share the ascetical life. In
time, the brotherhood grew into the Kyiv Caves Lavra. St Anthony refused
to serve as abbot of the monastery; this task was taken up by St
Theodosius. St Anthony continued to live as a
cave-dwelling hermit and reposed in peace at the age of ninety.
- Holy 45 Martyrs of Nikopolis in Armenia (319)
- During a persecution of Christians in the reign of the Emperor
Licinius, Leontius and several of his companions came before the
Imperial governor in Nikopolis of Armenia, and declared themselves as
Christians. They were whipped and thrown into prison, where they were
given no food or drink; but a Christian noblewoman secretly brought them
water, and an angel of the Lord appeared to them in their cell to
comfort them. Such was the power of their faith that, at their trial,
two of their jailers proclaimed their conversion to Christianity. Many
others came forward in the same way, until the company of Christians
numbered forty-five in all. The judge ordered that they all have their
arms and legs hacked off and that they then be burned to death.
source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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