Celebration today: Athanasios the Great was born in 295 A.D. by poor but virtuous parents, which deprived him of the opportunity for higher studies.
But the all-good God endowed him with rich spiritual qualities. He receives elementary education and then studies on his own to reach the highest levels of knowledge and wisdom.
From a very young age he showed his inclination towards the Church. 25 years old, he is ordained a deacon by the patriarch of Alexandria, Alexander, whom he follows in the First Ecumenical Council 325 A.D., in Nice of Bithynia. He emerges as a pioneer in the condemnation of the heretical teaching of Arius.
The 328 A.D. and in age 33 years is solemnly elected patriarch of Alexandria. From this position he faces a terrible war on the part of the heretical followers of Arius. But the saint, thanks to his great spirituality and fervent faith in God, manages to emerge victorious from all these trials even from the five exiles imposed on him, as the emperor Constantine II was a follower of Arianism. Rest in peace 373 A.D.
Saint Cyril lived during the reign of Theodosius the Younger and was born in Alexandria in 370 A.D. from wealthy parents of the Greek society of the city. Nephew of the archbishop of Alexandria, Theophilos Kyrillos, he received a great theological education, so that he subsequently became his uncle's successor, to the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria.
When the Third Ecumenical Council took place on 431 A.D. in Ephesus, Cyril was its president and contributed to the destruction of the wickedness of the impious Nestorius, for the person of the most holy Miss Our Lady.
With many intellectual achievements to his credit, Cyril peacefully surrendered his spirit to the Lord on the 27th of June 444 A.D., after he patriarched for 32 about years. St. Anastasios of Sinai rightly called him "the seal of the Fathers".
The Church wanted to fraternize the memory of the two Great Fathers and Archbishops of Alexandria, of Athanasios the Great, protagonist against Arianism, and Saint Cyril, protagonist against Nestorianism and set their commemoration on 18 January.
The Synagogue of Saints Athanasios and Cyril was held in the Great Church.
Let's mark an end, that Saint Cyril, is also celebrated on 9 June.
EORTOLOGY – THEY CELEBRATE TODAY : Athanasius, Thanasis, Nasos, Sakis, Thanos, You will die, Thanasakis, Soulis, Immortality, Nasia, Nancy, Death, Thanasula, Sula, NASA, Sully, Cyril, Kirillia, Cyril, Cyril, Theodoulos, Theodoulis, Theodoulis, Theodoulia, Theodoula, Theodouli
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Shining works, Orthodoxy, all extinguishing malice, Victorious, trophy-bearing events; piety all-enriching, greatly adorning the Church, worthily you found Christ God, grant the great mercy.