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- Holy Hieromartyr Clement, Bishop of Rome (~100)
- He was instructed in the Faith of Christ by St Peter himself, and
may be the Clement mentioned by the Apostle Paul as a fellow-worker in
Philippians 4:3. He was consecrated Bishop of Rome about the year 91;
some traditions call him the first Bishop of Rome, others the third
after Sts Linus and Anacletus. (This is not necessarily inconsistent:
in the Apostolic age, the offices of Elder and Bishop were not strictly
distinguished, and the three bishops may have served at the same time or
by turns.) He is the author of the Epistle of Clement, which was so
highly esteemed in the early Church that it is often found in early
versions of the New Testament. The holy Bishop effected countless
conversions in Rome, even bringing the Prefect Sisinius and his wife
Theodora to the Faith after miraculously healing them of blindness. The
bishop's success so angered the Emperor Trajan that he had Clement
exiled to the Crimea, on the far eastern frontier of the Empire. There
the holy bishop continued to work wonders of evangelism, founding
seventy-five churches in one year and bringing countless pagans to faith
in Christ. Finally, to put a stop to the Saint's work, the Governor of
the region had him
cruelly tortured, then thrown into the Black Sea with an anchor around
his neck.
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More than 700 years later, in 860, St Cyril (commemorated May 11)
arrived in the Crimea, sent by St Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople.
He found the relics of St Clement faithfully preserved there and
brought part of them back to Constantinople.
- Holy Hieromartyr Peter of Alexandria (312)
- Saint Peter was Bishop of Alexandria for twelve years. It was he
who excommunicated Arius. When some of Arius' followers appealed to the
Bishop to restore Arius to the communion of the Church, they were
surprised by the bishop's vehement refusal, for the heretic had not yet
clearly and publicly made known his blasphemous teaching that the Son is
a creation of the Father. The holy bishop then revealed to these
followers a vision he had seen, in which Christ appeared to him as a
child wearing a garment torn in half from head to foot. When St Peter
asked the Lord who had rent His garment, he said that it was Arius, who
must not be received back into communion.
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The holy bishop was beheaded during the reign of Maximinus. He is called the "Seal of
the Martyrs" because he was the last Bishop of Alexandria to suffer martyrdom under the pagan
Emperors.
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