Full of graces the captive was born∙
Captive of the darkness they protect him.
Mykonos Monasteries / Saturday night, 25 May 2024, The memory of Saint Theophoros of our Father John of the Russian of the new confessor was brilliantly honored, In the Holy Monastery of Panagia Tourliani, Ano Meras Mykonos.
The Festive Vespers was performed by Archimandrite P.. Makarios Tsimeris, Head of the Holy Temple of St. Foti the Great, Thessaloniki, framed by the monastery of the monastery. Alexios Papadopoulos and Hierarch Filareto, with the co -existing presence of Mykonian believers and holidaymakers.
The Divine Speech was preached to the faithful by the Pan -Hellenic P.. Blissful, referring to the life -giving life of Saint John………
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In his disagreement the Professor of the Holy Monastery, Pi. Alexios Papadopoulos thanked the Pan -Hellenic and ….
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Apolitikion
“I called you to the heavenly monastery, adhered to and dying your tune. In Asia Minor as an ammunition, The one and the ocean of Christ John. That was the one, our souls are saved“.
Deputy Mayor Petros Stavrakopoulos attended, The Secretary General of the Municipality of Lina Kapoula, Civil Protection Counselor, Manolis Kousathanas, The President of the DK. Mykonia Panagiotis Xenarios and the Ano Meras Community Advisor, Anna Papoutsa
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Saint John the Russian
Saint John was born in a village of the so -called little Russia, about 1690 A.D., by parents of devout and virtuous. When he arrived at legal age he was militant, While Petros Grand Brigade in Russia. Took part in the war that that bold tsar made against the Turks at 1711 A.D., and arrested prisoner by the Tatars. The Tatars sold him to an Ottoman officer Hipparchus, descended from Prokopion of Asia Minor, which is near Caesarea of Cappadocia. Agas took him with him to his village. Many of his captive compatriots denied Christ's faith and became Muslims, either because they were bent by threats, either because they were enticed by promises and offers of material goods.
John, Nevertheless, He was from a young age with the Lord's Education and Education and he loved God and the faith of his fathers. Were from those young people, where the knowledge of God is wise them, As the wise Solomon preached, saying: 'The righteous is cognitive and in his youth. Because honored old age is not the multicolium, nor is it measured by the number of years. The most young people are respectable as if they are bearing and their pure life makes them as elderly polymaths. ".
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