Russian Orthodox

Wednesday November 12, 2025 / October 30, 2025

23rd Week after Pentecost. Tone five.
Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)

Hieromartyr Zenobius and his sister Zenobia of Aegae, Cilicia (285).
New Hieromartyr Eugene (Zernov), metropolitan of Nizhni Novgorod (1935).
New Hieromartyr Leonid priest (1941).
New Hiero-confessor Varnava (Nastic) of Bosnia (1964).
New Hieromartyr Mathew priest (1942).
Finding of the relics of Agathangelus the Confessor, metropolitan of Yaroslavl (1998).
Apostles Tertius, Mark, Justus, and Artemas of the Seventy (1st c.).
Hieromartyr Marcian, bishop of Syracuse (2nd c).
Martyr Eutropia of Alexandria (220).
Martyr Anastasia of Thessalonica (3rd C).
St. Stephen Milutin (1320), his brother St. Dragutin (monk Theoctistus) (1316), and their mother St. Helen (1306), wife of Urosh I of Serbia (Serbia).
"Ozeryansk" (16th C) Icon of the Mother of God.
Martyrs Alexander, Cronion, Julian, Macarius, and 13 companions at Alexandria (250).
Martyr Dometius of Phrygia.
Apostle Cleopas (1st c.) (Greek).
St. Joseph I, Patriarch of Constantinople (1283) (Greek).
New Hieromartyr Nicanor (Kudriavtsev) bishop of Bogoroditsk.
Finding of the relics of Great-martyr Stephen-Urosh III of Dechani, Serbia (1331).
Martyr Jotham Zedgenidze, Paravani (1465) (Georgia).

The Scripture Readings

1 Thessalonians 2:1-8
Luke 11:42-46

Troparion

Hieromartyr Zenobius and his sister Zenobia, Troparion, Tone IV —
In their sufferings, O Lord,/ Thy martyrs received imperishable crowns from Thee our God;/ for, possessed of Thy might,/ they set at nought the tormentors and crushed the feeble audacity of the demons.// By their supplications save Thou our souls.

Kontakion, in Tone VIII, "As first fruits..." —
With divinely inspired hymns let us worth­ily honor Zenobius and the wise Zenobia/ as true witnesses and preachers of piety,/ for they lived and departed this life together,// and have re­ceived the crown of incorruption through martyrdom.

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