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ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Πρόβατον ώσπερ σφαγιασθείς παμμάκαρ, Mάνδρα προσήχθης ω Mανουήλ τη άνω. Saint Manuel was a neomartyr originally from Sfakia, Crete. Refusing to change his faith, he was beheaded by the Turks in the year 1792. He was born in the village of Kallikratis in Sfakia and as a small child he was taken by the Turks, who forcibly made him a Muslim. Once he realized what had happened, now a young man, he managed to escape. He went to Mykonos, where he married and had 6 children and lived a Christian life with the fear of God. But his wife betrayed him and he took his children and without accusing her he settled in another house. However, his wife's brother betrayed him to the Turks out of hatred, who arrested him, brought him to the Pasha of Chios, and there he defiantly confessed his Christian faith. The Turks tortured him cruelly, but Manuel told them: "I prefer to die for my faith and save my soul, than to betray it and be in hell forever". It was March 15 of the year 17...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Έπου Aριστόβουλε Παύλω ενθάδε, Ως αν χορεύσης άμα Παύλω εν πόλω. Aristobulus of Britannia is a Christian saint named by Hippolytus of Rome (170–235) and Dorotheus of Gaza (505–565) as one of the Seventy Disciples mentioned in Luke 10:1–24 and as the first bishop in Roman Britain. Full title in various languages English: Saint Aristibule the Old, Apostle, Martyr, and First Bishop of Britain Greek: Ἅγιος Ἀριστόβουλος, ἐπίσκοπος Βρετανίας, ἀδελφός τοῦ ᾿Αποστόλου Βαρνάβα, translit. Hagios Aristoboulos episkopos Brettanias, adelphos tou apostolou Barnaba, transcr. (Byzantine/Modern) Aghios Apostolos Aristovoulos, episkopos Vrettanias, adelfos tou apostolou Varnava ("The Holy Apostle Aristobulus, Bishop of Britain, brother of the Apostle Barnabas") Latin: Sanctus Aristobulus Senex, Apostolus, Martyr, Episcopus Primus Britanniae Welsh: Arwystli Hen Episcob Cyntaf Prydain ("Aristibule the Old, First Bishop of Britain") General info Saint Aristobulos belonged to the...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ  Eις τον Aγάπιον. Ἔσπευδεν Ἀγάπιος εἰς μαρτυρίαν. Θεοῦ γὰρ αὐτὸν ὑπέθαλπεν ἀγάπη. Eις τον Πλήσιον, Pωμύλον και Tιμόλαον. Μετὰ τριῶν Πλήσιος ἐκτμηθεὶς ξίφει, Θεοῦ σὺν αὐτοῖς ἵσταται νῦν πλησίον. Eις τους δύω Aλεξάνδρους και Διονυσίους. Ὡς Ἀλεξάνδροις κλῆσις ἐκτομή, στέφος, Καὶ Διονυσίοις τε κοινὰ ἦν τάδε. Πέμπτῃ καὶ δεκάτῃ τμήθη Ἀγάπιος, ἑταῖροι. Agapius of Palestine (Greek: Άγιος Ἀγάπιος, from the Greek αγάπη, love) was a Christian martyr from Gaza, beheaded along with seven others by order of Urban, governor of Palestine, in the year 303 or 304 under the Great Persecution of Diocletian. Eusebius records that Timolaus of Pontus, Dionysius from Tripolis in Phœnicia, Romulus, said to have been sub-deacon of the parish of Diospolis, Plæsius of Egypt, and two men named Alexander, one from Gaza and the other from Gazahad. These six young men bound themselves and surrendered to Urban in the hopes of becoming martyrs. They openly professed their Christianity and said that their f...