| 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 I 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
September 1
The Beginning of the Indiction, or the New Year
The Synaxis of the Theotokos at Miasis
Saint Symeon the Stylite
September 2
The Holy Martyr Mamas
Saint John the Faster, Archbishop of Constantinople
September 3
The Holy Hieromartyr Anthimus, Bishop of Nicomedia
The Holy Virgin Martyr Basilissa of Nicomedia
September 4
The Holy Hieromartyr Babylas
The Holy Prophet Moses, the Godseer
September 5
The Holy Prophet Zacharias, Father of the Forerunner
The Holy Martyrs Urban, Theodore, and Medimnus
September 6
The Miracle at Chonae of the Holy Archangel Michael
The Holy Martyrs Romulus and Eudoxius
Our Holy Father David of Egypt
September 7
The Holy Martyr Sozon
The Holy Apostles Evodus and Onesiphorus
The Holy Martyr Eupsychius
Our Holy Father John, Archbishop of Novgorod
September 8
THE NATIVITY OF THE MOST PURE THEOTOKOS
September 9
The Holy Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna
The Holy Martyr Severian
September 10
The Holy Virgin Martyrs Menodora, Metrodora, and Nymphodora
Saint Pulcheria the Empress
September 11
Our Holy Mother Theodora of Alexandria
Saint Euphrosynus the Cook
September 12
The Holy Hieromartyr Autonomus
September 13
The Dedication of the Temple of the Resurrection in Jerusalem
The Holy Hieromartyr Cornelius the Centurion
The Holy Martyr Theodotus of Alexandria
September 14
THE ELEVATION OF THE PRECIOUS AND LIFE-GIVING CROSS
September 15
The Holy Martyr Nicetas the Goth
September 16
The Holy Great Martyr Euphemia
September 17
The Holy Martyrs Faith, Hope, and Love, and their Mother, Sophia
September 18
Our Holy Father Eumenes, Bishop of Gortyna
The Holy Martyr Ariadne
September 19
The Holy Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon
Saint Zosimas the Desert-dweller
September 20
The Holy Great Martyr Eustathius Placidas
The Holy Martyrs Michael, Prince of Chernigov, and His Boyar, Theodore
September 21
The Holy Apostle Quadratus of the Seventy
The Holy Hieromartyrs Hypatius and Andrew
The Holy Martyrs Eusebius and Priscus
September 22
The Holy Hieromartyr Phocas, Bishop of Sinope
The Holy Martyr Phocas, the Gardener of Sinope
The Holy Prophet Jonah
Saint Peter the Publican
September 23
The Conception of Saint John the Forerunner
September 24
The Holy Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thecla
September 25
Our Holy Mother Euphrosyne the Nun of Alexandria
Saint Sergius of Radonezh
September 26
The Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
September 27
The Holy Martyr Callistratus
September 28
Our Holy Father Chariton the Confessor
September 29
Our Holy Father Cyriacus the Hermit
September 30
The Holy Hieromartyr Gregory, Bishop of Armenia
Our Holy Father Gregory, Wonder-worker of Vologda
Translator’s Note
Index of Saints and Feasts of September
Item Number: BKCP389C
Publication data: House Springs, MO: Chrysostom Press, 2000
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: viii + 499
Dimensions (l × w × h): 23.6 cm × 15.9 cm × 3.7 cm
Additional information: black-and-white illustrations
ISBN: 0‒9635183‒6‒4
$39.95 (USD)
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