| First English Edition Translated by Father Thomas Marretta from the Slavonic original compiled by SAINT DEMETRIUS OF ROSTOV
Volume VI 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
February 1
The Holy Martyr Tryphon
February 2
THE MEETING OF THE LORD
Homily by Saint Demetrius of Rostov
February 3
The Righteous Symeon the God-receiver
February 4
Our Holy Father Isidore of Pelusium
Saint Nicholas the Confessor, Abbot of the Studium
A Certain God-fearing Recluse
February 5
The Holy Virgin-martyr Agatha
The Holy Martyr Theodula
February 6
Saint Bucolus, Bishop of Smyrna
The Holy Martyrs Fausta, Evilasius, and Maximus
The Holy Virgin-martyr Dorothea
February 7
Saint Parthenius, Bishop of Lampsacus
Our Holy Father Luke of Hellas
The 1003 Martyrs of Nicomedia
February 8
The Holy Great-martyr Theodore Stratelates
February 9
The Holy Martyr Nicephorus
February 10
The Holy Hieromartyr Charalampus, Bishop of Magnesia
Saint Prochorus, Wonder-worker of the Kiev Caves
February 11
The Holy Hieromartyr Blaise, Bishop of Sebastea
February 12
Saint Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch
Saint Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev and Wonder-worker of All Russia
Our Holy Mother Mary, called Marinus
February 13
Our Holy Father Martinian
February 14
Our Holy Father Auxentius
Saint Isaacius, Recluse of the Kiev Caves
February 15
The Holy Apostle Onesimus of the Seventy
February 16
The Holy Twelve Martyrs: Priest Pamphilus and Others With Him
February 17
The Holy Great-martyr Theodore Tyron
February 18
Saint Leo, Pope of Rome
Saint Flavian the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople
February 19
The Holy Apostles Archippus and Philemon and Martyr Apphia
Our Holy Father Dositheus, Disciple of Dorotheus
February 20
Saint Leo, Bishop of Catania in Sicily
The Holy Hieromartyr Shadost, Bishop of Persia
February 21
Our Holy Father Timothy, Desert-dweller of Symbola
Saint Eustathius, Archbishop of Antioch
February 22
The Discovery of the Relics of the Holy Martyrs near the Gate of Eugenius in Constantinople
The Holy Martyr Maurice and 70 Soldiers with Him
February 23
The Holy Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna
February 24
The Findings of the Honored Head of Saint John the Forerunner
Our Holy Father Erasmus of the Kiev Caves
February 25
Saint Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople
February 26
Saint Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza
February 27
Our Holy Father Procopius the Confessor of Decapolis
Our Holy Father Thalelaeus of Syria
Our Holy Father Titus, Presbyter of the Kiev Caves
February 28
Saint Basil, Co-struggler of Saint Procopios of Decapolis
Saint Proterius, Hieromartyr, Patriarch of Alexandria
February 29
Our Holy Father John Cassian the Roman
Our Holy Father John, Called Barsanuphius
Translator’s Note
Index of Saints and Feasts of February
Item Number: BKCP630
Publication data: House Springs, MO: Chrysostom Press, 2003
Format: softcover
Number of pages: viii + 321
Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.9 cm × 15.3 cm × 2.1 cm
Additional information: black-and-white illustrations
ISBN: 1‒889814‒07‒5
$27.95 (USD)
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