Saint Mark the New Martyr, June 5

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ

 Μᾶρκον ἔχεις καύχημα Χίος μέγα, ἠδέ τε σεπτόν·

Λαμπρὰν τεύξαντα, αἵματι Μαρτυρίου,

Οὔνεκα Κύριον αἴνει ὄλβια, ὅς τά σοι δῶκε.

Saint Mark was born in Smyrna. His father was from Thessaloniki and his name was Hatzi Konstantis, and his mother was from Smyrna and her name was Maria. He himself married in the year 1788 AD. But he got involved in Ephesus with another Christian woman and one day you were arrested on your own. The saint and his mistress denied their faith before the judge.

Markos, quickly feeling remorse for his adultery, went with tears and confessed to a spiritual one, who made it easier for them to leave for Smyrna. From there, after boarding a ship bound for Trieste, in 1792 AD, they disembarked in Venice, where they were anointed with Holy Myrrh, received communion and were married. Later, Mark, after wandering in various places, decided to witness for the Christian faith and returned to Chios and from there to Ephesus.

In this city he met his spiritual one and confessed his desire, but his spiritual one prevented him, due to the reconstruction of the new Church and the recent martyrdom of Saint George the New Martyr, the Turks were very angry and would demolish this Church. Whenever the witness was forced to return to Chios.

There, after praying and receiving communion of the holy mysteries, he went to the criterion, where he courageously preached his Christian faith. Despite the flattery of the judge, the witness remained unconvinced. Then they put him in prison, where he suffered cruel and merciless torture. When they led him to the judge a second time, Mark again confessed Christ. The enraged Turks threw him down the stairs and imprisoned him again, where this time they tortured him even more horribly. But Mark, instead of grumbling, sang with delight.

The Christians of Chios, when they learned of the patience of the martyr, began to fast and pray to God, to strengthen him in his martyrdom. Markus, after having once again received communion of the holy mysteries in prison, confessed Christ for the third time before the judge. Finally they took him to the place of execution and beheaded him on June 5, 1801 AD, a Wednesday at 02:00 in the morning in Chios. Then all the Christians of Chios sang thanksgiving hymns to God for the brilliant witness of the New Martyr Markos.

Functional texts

Absolute

Ἦhos c´. Of divine faith.

Passan Euphranus, in the city of Chion, Martys glorified Marke theophron, you need to rebuke piety brilliantly, and blaspheme the profane error, in your words and poor theosophist. O whom thou hast met, whom thou hast heard, remember us who rejoice in thee.

Kontakion

Ἦhos pl. d´. The superman.

To those present at your body, glorious Mark, and faithfully worshiping your divine relics, for the sake of the embassy of your Spirit to them, they camped in this and persisted, and they poured out the reeds of healings, and for you rose up and went to the Lord.

Heteron Kontakion

Ἦhos c´. The Virgin today.

Rejoicing in ᾄsmasin, exultant Chios, and brilliantly now, your amazing races, hastened to the tênanai; O foreign wonder! You have come to your Lord as a priest, your blood as you desire, Mark of Christ's Martyrs Athleta.

Megalynarion

I have an appeal to God, of those who come to you, the requests sympathetically, those for salvation, give your embassies, Mark Neomartyros the adoption.

Heteron Magalynarius

For the sake of the healings of God, eliphes Pammakar, you heal sufferings, so that those in faith, who call on you, heal the passions of soul and body.

The House

Let us make Christ's glorious and invincible Athlete, the beauty of the Martyrs, and the holy addition, Markon, to the blasphemers of the blasphemy; he who blew me like a rosy tarp, Smyrna, who was in the city, was blessed, the proud one Chios, as in heaven the tears of his martyrdoms and deeds, I was repaid with joy; for which he rejoiced, glorified his memory, and his wondrous struggles, he who sanctified me cried out to him, in the shedding of his graceful blood, do not my never fail, Martyron Kleos, Marke Christo Athleta.

Seat

Ἦhos c´. Of divine faith.

You brought joy, wood, sorrow, and the evil Mark of the crowns, and the pains and sorrows, thoughtful, what in the furnace of the children did not enter, great wonder and hymn of praise, rejoicing, glorified to the God of those who call, you are perfect in the chosen carterot.