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- St Andrew, archbishop of Crete (720?)
- He was born in Damascus to Christian parents. He was mute until the
age of seven, when he was given the power of speech upon receiving Holy
Communion. Tonsured a monk at the monastery of St Sabbas in the Holy
Land, he served the Patriarch of Jerusalem, then became deacon in the
Great Church in Constantinople, and finally was made Archbishop of
Crete. He was present at the Sixth Ecumenical Council. Accounts of the
date of his repose vary from 712 to 740.
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He is best known as the composer of the Great Canon, sung during the first and fifth weeks of the Great Fast.
- St Martha, mother of St Symeon of the Wonderful Mountain (551)
- She was a model of the Christian married life: she rose at midnight
for prayer, she gave to the needy without reserve, and she bore and
raised the holy Symeon of the Wonderful Mountain (May 24). Having
foreseen the hour of her death, she reposed peacefully in 551, and was
buried near the pillar of her son Simeon. After her death, she appeared
many times to teach and to heal the sick. The Prologue
tells the following story. After her funeral, the abbot of St Simeon's
monastic community kept a lamp burning at her grave, intending that it
be kept burning perpetually. But after awhile, the monks grew forgetful
and allowed the lamp to go out. The abbot became ill, and St Martha
appeared to him and said 'Why are you not lighting the lamp on my grave?
Know that the light of your candles is not needful to me, because God
has made me worthy of His eternal, heavenly light, but it is needful for
you. When you burn a light on my grave, you urge me to pray to the Lord
for you.'
- source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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