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- Hieromartyr Symeon the Kinsman of the Lord (107)
- He was the nephew of Joseph the Betrothed, and one of the Seventy.
When the Apostle James, first Bishop of Jerusalem, was martyred, St
Symeon was named to replace him. As second Bishop of Jerusalem he
governed the Church there to a very great age. In the time of the
Emperor Trajan a persecution broke out in Palestine against both
Christians and Jews; Symeon was condemned on both counts, and was
privileged to die, like his Lord, by crucifixion. He was 120 years old.
- Our Holy Father Stephen, Abbot of the Kyiv Caves and Bishop of Volodymyr Volynsk (1094)
- He was a disciple of St Theodosius of the Kyiv Caves (commemorated
May 3), and became abbot of the Monastery of the Caves. After many years
of faithful service he fell victim the intrigues of a monk against him,
lost his abbacy and was even driven from the monastery. In God's time
the holy monk was vindicated and made Bishop of Vladimir. There he
guided the Church for many years, reposing peacefully in old age in
1094.
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