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  Saint Michael Center - Saints
Saint Joseph, the virginal spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who guarded and protected her in her Divine Maternity, is, as a member of the Holy Family, one of a trinity in Heaven which every Christian heart must turn to in veneration and prayer.
Saint James (James the Less), brother of Saint Simon and Saint Jude, and the fist Bishop of Jerusalem, was thrown from the top of the Temple of Jerusalem by the Jews, and then clubbed to death in the street.
Saint Bede was educated by a saint, Saint Benedict Biscop, and was ordained by a saint, Saint John of Beverley.
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 Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Saints - Saints by Day - January - 1st
Martyrs: Acacius the Centurion (+ 303); Heliocrates; Nicodemos; Pakhomii the Russian of Athos (+ 1780).
Saint Pakhomii refused and was beheaded in the city of Usaki on the day of the Ascension of the Lord, 7 May 1780.
Saint Xeno, "a pillar of sweet obedience", while completing his preaching in the mountains of Upper Kakhetia, founded a monastery at Ikalto, whereat also after great efforts he was buried in the cathedral church in honour of the Image of the Saviour Not?Wrought-by-Hand.
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of May 8
Saint Acacius was a Cappadocian centurion in the Roman army stationed in Thrace, who was tortured and beheaded at Byzantium under Diocletian.
Desideratus succeeded Saint Arcadius as bishop of Bourges (Benedictines).
Saint Victor was a soldier in the Praetorian Guard who is associated by Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan from 374 to 397, with the martyrs SS.
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 OCA - The Lives of the Saints
Saint Acacius of Sinai lived during the sixth century and was a novice at a certain monastery in Asia.
Saint Euphrosyne, in the world Eudokia, was the daughter of the Suzdal prince Demetrius Constantovich (+ 1383), and from 1367 was the wife of the Moscow...
Saint Evangelicus, a follower of the holy Apostle Andrew (November 30), is the first known bishop of the diocese of Tomis (Constantsa) in Dacia Pontica...
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 Orthodox Central - Saint Cyril
Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem, was born in Jerusalem in the year 315 and was raised in strict Christian piety.
The heretic Acacius, deposed by the Council of Sardica, was formerly the Metropolitan of Caesarea, and he collaborated with the emperor to have St Cyril removed.
Acacius stormed out of the Council, and before the emperor and the Arian patriarch Eudoxius, he denounced both the Council and St Cyril.
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 Saint Michael Center - Saints
Saint Apollonia is the patroness of Catholic dentists.
Saint Susanna was martyred in 295, and one year later, in 296, her father, Saint Gabinus, shed his blood for the Faith for which his daughter had died.
Saint Peter occupied his Chair at Rome for twenty-five years, from the year 42 to the year 67, when he was crucified for the Faith.
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 OCA - The Lives of the Saints
Saint Menander was a priest and a disciple of St Patrick of Prusa in Bithynia, and lived during the first century.
Saint Polyainus was a priest and a disciple of St Patrick of Prusa in Bithynia, and lived during the first century.
Saint Cornelius of Paleostrov and Olonets, born at Pskov, was the founder of monastic life on Pali island in Lake Onega at the end of the fourteenth...
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 Saint Cyril of Jerusalem Dr. of the Church
The council called Acacius to hear from him his argument, but he did not attend, so they judged by removing him from his office, and the return of Cyril to his Chair (Parish).
The saint returned to his chair in the year 362 A.D. and shepherded his people faithfully and honestly, but he resisted the Arians.
Saint Paul said: “May I never boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ!” (Gal 6:14) It was already surprising that the man born blind recovered his sight at Siloam; but what did that do for all the blind in the world?
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 Acacius was a cognomen cognomen of Rome Rome and the...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Acacius was a cognomen cognomen of Rome Rome and the...
Saint Acacius the Bishop Saint Acacius the Bishop
Saint Acacius of Byzantium Saint Acacius of Byzantium (d.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Index for A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Agnes of Montepulciano, Saint - Entered the convent at the age of 9, commissioned by the pope to found a monastery at the age of 13 (and 2 years later she was made its superior), also founded a Dominican convent, d.
Alexander, Saint (Patriarch of Alexandria) - Patriarch of Alexandria.
Anatolius, Saint - Patriarch of Constantinople, anti-Nestorian, anti-Eutychian.
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of March 31
Acacius appeared and began by insisting that his flock was entirely faithful to the emperor.
Saint Apollinaris, the first bishop of Ravenna, Guy went into town, stripped off his finery, and traded them for the rags of the poor.
Saint Machabeo was abbot of the monastery of SS.
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 Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : May 08, 2006 :
Among the holy Archangels, Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael are particularly distinguished in the Scriptures.
After three days, the Archangel Saint Michael appeared to the bishop and declared that the cavern where the bull had taken refuge was under his protection, and that God wanted it to be consecrated under his name and in honor of all the Holy Angels.
Saint Acacius was a priest at Sebaste, Armenia, during Diocletian's persecution.
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 Catholic Online - Saints & Angels - St. Cyril of Jerusalem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
When Acacius and his faction saw that Cyril and other exiled orthodox bishops were attending, they demanded that the persecuted bishops leave.
Acacius returned but left again for good when his creed was rejected -- and refused to come back even to give testimony against his enemy Cyril.
This was not the end of Cyril's troubles because Acacius carried his story to the emperor -- embellishing it with details that it was a gift of the emperor's that was sold to a dancer who died wearing the robe.
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 DAILY LITURGY March 18 (mar18lit.htm)
Born in Jerusalem in 315, Saint Cyril of Jerusalem was ordained by Pope Saint Maximus and was charged to teach the catechumens until he succeeded Maximus as bishop of Jerusalem in 349.
Saint Joseph is the saint most often invoked for the grace of a happy death and the assurance that Jesus is spiritually present at that time with every dying soul.
Yet, it is surprising to discover that this pivotal saint was not really recognized until the fourth century and then that veneration was in the Eastern Church because of the apocryphal History of Joseph.
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Of the three newly-shining luminaries of the Holy Mountain, the New Martyr Euthymius, who was from Demetsana of the Peloponnesus, won the crown of martyrdom when he was beheaded on Palm Sunday, March 22, 1814.
Saint Ignatius, who was from Stara Zagora in Bulgaria, was martyred by hanging on October 8, 1814.
Saint Acacius, who was from Neochorion of Thessalonica, was beheaded on May 1, 1815.
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 Acacius: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
...Acacius Acacius Acacius was a cognomen of Rome, and the name of various...saints: Saint-Acacius-the-Bishop Saint Acacius the Bishop Saint Acacius the Bishop...
Acacius adviced the Byzantine emperor Zeno to issue the Henotikon-edict...
....Separating from his metropolitan, Acacius ofCaesarea (q.v.), a partizan of Arius, Cyril took theside of the...were increasedby Acacius 's jealousy of the importance assignedto Cyril 's see by the Council of...
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 Opera Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
An eighth century Irish saint who is the author of the Feliré, or Festology of the Saints.
An Eastern saint whose veneration was transplanted from the Byzantine empire to Rome, whence it spread throughout western Christendom.
Instituted to honour all the saints, known and unknown, and, according to Urban IV, to supply any deficiencies in the faithful's celebration of saints' feasts during the year.
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 Dom Touttee
SAINT CYRIL, CONFESSOR, ARCHBISHOP OF JERUSALEM — 315-386 A.D. Cyril was born at or near the city of Jerusalem, about the year 315.
It began on the subject of metropolitical jurisdiction, which Acacius unjustly claimed over the Church of Jerusalem; and what widened the breach between them was their difference of sentiments with regard to the consubstantiality of the Son, which St. Cyril had always most zealously asserted.
This was sufficient to render him odious in the eyes of Acacius, who in a council of Arian bishops convened by him, declared St. Cyril deposed for not appearing, after two years' warning, to answer to the crimes alleged against him.
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 St. Irene Chrysovalantou | Hieromartyr Acacius of Prusa
Saint Acacius was a priest and a disciple of St Patrick of Prusa in Bithynia, and lived during the first century.
Therefore, he and the priests, Acacius, Menander and Polyainus were arrested, and brought to Julius, the prefect of the city for interrogation.
Julius had the saint thrown into the hot spring, and with firm faith the martyr prayed, "Lord, Jesus Christ, help Your servant," and he remained unharmed.
www.stirene.org /Archives/May/0519-StsAcacius.htm   (230 words)

  
 Prolog: April 17
Cyril of Alexandria, Acacius zealously fought for the purity of the Orthodox Faith.
After long and zealous service to God, Acacius died peacefully in the year 435 A.D. Agapitus was sent to the Emperor Justinian in Constantinople by Theodahad, the King of the Goths, to dissuade him from his campaign against the Goths.
For these saints, it was not a matter of living longer on earth but the matter of God's truth.
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 Welcome to CatholicMil.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
BIOGRAPHIES OF MILITARY SAINTS AND BLESSEDS FROM THE PUBLISHED "SAINTS OF TODAY AND YESTERDAY" PAGES OF "I must express my satisfaction, and congratulations, and admiration, my son Boniface, in that, amid all the cares of wars and arms, you are eagerly anxious to know concerning the things that are of God.
From hence it is clear that in you it is actually a part of your military valor to serve in truth the faith which is in Christ.
SAINT Augustine (to the soldier Boniface) [Dec 9]
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 Orthodox Calendar
Saint Constantine and Empress Helena; Venerable Martyr Pachomius;
Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria; Saint Cyril of White Lake;
Hieromartyr Timothy, Bishop of Brussa; Saint Bassian, the Bishop of Lodi;
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He was the disciple of Saint Euthymius, the father of the monks in Palestine.
An angel gave him a sword which Saint Basil noticed missing in the Church while he was praying; a little later, it was back in its place again; then came the news that Julian was slain with the saint's sword.
Saint Valerian married Cylicia, the Christian daughter of a high ranking Roman official, and because of her they both believed.
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 Crossmap Christian Directory :: A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The name, before the Roman conquest in 146 B.C., of a strip of land between the gulf of Corinth and Elis and Arcadia, embracing twelve cities leagued together.
The commemoration of these four Roman saints is made by the Church on 12 May, in common, and all four are named in the Proper of the Mass as martyrs.
Abbreviated title of a celebrated work on the Irish saints by the Franciscan, John Colgan.
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 Apostolate of Our Lady of Siluva
Saint Joseph has two feast days: one on March 19, to commemorate his death, and now, one on May 1, to commemorate his vocation as a carpenter and as the patron and protector of all workers.
Saint Philip was crucified for the Faith, Saint James (James the Less), brother of Saint Simon and Saint Jude, and the first Bishop of Jerusalem, was thrown from the top of the Temple of Jerusalem by the Jews, and then clubbed to death in the street.
Saint Bernardine of Siena was born in 1380.
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 Prologue: hagiographies of the saints
Following the death of Otreius, Acacius became a bishop.
Here, together with St. Cyril of Alexandria, Acacius zealously fought for the purity of the Orthodox Faith.
Acacius possessed much Grace from God and worked many miracles.
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The holy Jerusalem Patriarch Cyril (350-387) advised the emissary of the emperor Constantius about this miraculous occurrence of the appearance of the Sign of the Cross, and he urged him to return to the Orthodox faith.
And Sozomen, an historian of the Ancient Church, likewise testrcy, and Saint Acacius weakened along the way from his wounds, and also from his chains and hunger and thirst.
In 1839 the monastery was returned to the Orthodox and became the first locale of the restoratiifies, that through this appearance of the Holy Cross many of the Jews and pagan Greeks came to the true faith, repenting in Christ God, and accepted Holy Baptism.
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 St. Acacius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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He was famous both for the splendour of his doctrinal teaching and the miracles he wrought.
There was a younger Acacius, who was also Bishop of Melitene, and who was conspicuous in the Council of Ephesus, but it is not certain that he is ranked among the saints.
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 SAINT ACACIUS - April 17   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Acacius lived the ascetical life in the place where he was born, i.e., in Melitene, Armenia.
He participated at the Third Ecumenical Council [Ephesus 431 A.D.], which condemned the evil blasphemy of Nestorius against the Mother of God.
After long and zealous service to God, Acacius died peacefully in the year 435 A.D.
www.orthodox.net /prologue/april-17-saint-acacius.html   (109 words)

  
 St. Cyril of Jerusalem - Saint of the Day - American Catholic
Catholic saints are holy people and human people who lived extraordinary lives.
Each saint the Church honors responded to God's invitation to use his or her unique gifts.
Those who imagine that the lives of saints are simple and placid, untouched by the vulgar breath of controversy, are rudely shocked by history.
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 Church Bulletin - Holy Trinity Church, Wilmington, DE
Saint Tamara was the only child of King George III.
When he learned that the Emperor Diocletian was preparing a persecution of the Christians, Saint George presented himself publicly before the Emperor and denounced him.
(The translation of the Saint's holy relics to the church in Lydda is commemorated on November 3; Saint Alexandra the Queen, on April 21.)
www.bulletin.goarch.org /ChurchBulletins/20/050105/feasts.html   (1109 words)

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