The Great Collection of The Lives of the Saints, Volume V: January Paper Back

Publication Data: House Springs, MO: Chrysostom Press, 2002
Format: hardcover
Number of Pages: x + 533
Dimensions (l × w × h): 23.6 cm × 15.9 cm × 4.0 cm
ISBN: 1‒889814‒04‒0

   
Translated from the Slavonic edition published by the Christian Printshop of the Transfiguration Almshouse in Moscow in the year 1914 from the original compiled by Saint Demetrius of Rostov and published in Kiev
First English Edition Translated by Father Thomas Marretta

Volume V of The Great Collection of The Lives of the Saints

“In these volumes of the present collection we offer to English-speaking Orthodox Christians the first set in any modern Western language of full-length accounts of the struggles and martyrdoms of the most eminent saints to cover the entire course of the year. Our devout forebears in the faith had as their daily reading not newspapers and novels but the Holy Gospels, the Psalter, the Book of Hours, and the Lives of the saints. Nourished constantly by these, their souls were filled with ineffable delight and spiritual yearning, and they lived not for this fallen world but in expectation of the eternal kingdom. It is our hope that these volumes will likewise ever be in the hands of the Christians of our time.”
—“To the Pious Reader”

CONTENTS

To the Pious Reader
The Teachers, Historians, and Chroniclers from whose works this book was compiled
January 1
   Homily on the Circumcision of the Lord
   Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia
January 2
   Saint Sylvester, Pope of Rome
January 3
   The Holy Prophet Malachi
   The Holy Martyr Gordius
January 4
   Synaxis of the Holy Seventy Apostles
January 5
   The Holy Martyrs Theopemptus and Theonas
   Our Holy Mother Syncletica the Nun
   Our Holy Mother Apollinaria
January 6
   THE THEOPHANY OF OUR LORD, GOD, AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST
   Synaxarion for Theophany
   Homily by Saint John Chrysostom
   Homily by Saint Demetrius of Rostov
January 7
   Synaxis of Saint the Forerunner
   Narrative Concerning the Hand of the Forerunner
January 8
   Our Holy Father George the Chozebite
   Our Holy Mother Domnica the Nun
   The Holy Martyrs Julian and Basilissa
   Saint Gregory, Wonder-worker of the Kiev Caves
January 9
   The Holy Martyr Polyeuctus
   Our Holy Father Eustratius
January 10
   Saint Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa
   Saint Dometian, Bishop of Melitene
   Saint Marcian the Presbyter
January 11
   Our Holy Father Theodosius the Coenobiarch
January 12
   The Holy Virgin-martyr Tatiana
   The Holy Martyr Peter the Absalomite
January 13
   The Holy Martyrs Hermylus and Stratonicus
   Saint James, Bishop of Nisibis
January 14
   Massacre of the Holy Fathers at Sinai and Raithou
   Second Massacre of the Fathers at Sinai and Raithu
January 15
   Our Holy Father Paul of Thebes
   Our Holy Father John the Hut-dweller
January 16
   The Honored Chains of the Holy Apostle Peter
   Martyrs Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Meleusippus
January 17
   Saint Anthony the Great
January 18
   Saint Athanasius the Great, Archbishop of Alexandria
January 19
   Our Holy Father Macarius of Egypt
   Our Holy Father Macarius of Alexandria
   The Holy Martyr Euphrasia
January 20
   Our Holy Father Euthymius the Great
January 21
   Saint Maximus the Confessor
   The Holy Martyr Neophytus
   The Holy Martyrs Valerian, Candidus, Aquila, and Eugene
   The Holy Virgin-martyr Agnes
January 22
   The Holy Apostle Timothy, One of the Seventy
   The Holy Martyr Anastasius the Persian
January 23
   The Holy Martyrs Clement, Bishop of Ancyra, and Agathangelus
   Saint Paulinus the Merciful, Bishop of Nola
January 24
   Our Holy Mother Xenia the Nun
January 25
   Saint Gregory the Theologian, Patriarch of Constantinople
January 26
   Saints Xenophon and Mary, and Their Sons John and Arcadius
January 27
   Translation of the Relics of Saint John Chrysostom
January 28
   Our Holy Father Ephraim the Syrian
   Our Holy Father Ephraim the Eunuch, Bishop of Pereyslavl
   Our Holy Father Ephraim, Wonder-worker of Novotorzhok
January 29
   Translation of the Relics of Saint Ignatius the God-bearer
   Our Holy Father Lawrence, Recluse of the Kiev Caves
January 30
   The Holy Hieromartyr Hippolytus of Rome
   Synaxis of the Holy Three Hierarchs, Basil the Greot, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom
January 31
   The Holy Unmercenary Healers Cyrus and John, and the Holy Martyrs Athanasia and Her Three Daughters
   Our Holy Father Nicetas, Recluse of the Kiev Caves
Translator’s Note
Index of Saints and Feasts of January