Publication Data: House Springs, MO: Chrysostom Press, 2007
Format: hardcover
Number of Pages: x + 616
ISBN: 1‒889814‒02-4
Translated from the Slavonic edition published by the Christian Printshop of the Transfiguration Almshouse in Moscow in the year 1914 from the original compiled by Saint Demetrius of Rostov and published in Kiev
First English Edition Translated by Father Thomas Marretta
Volume VI of The Great Collection of The Lives of the Saints
“In these volumes of the present collection we offer to English-speaking Orthodox Christians the first set in any modern Western language of full-length accounts of the struggles and martyrdoms of the most eminent saints to cover the entire course of the year. Our devout forebears in the faith had as their daily reading not newspapers and novels but the Holy Gospels, the Psalter, the Book of Hours, and the Lives of the saints. Nourished constantly by these, their souls were filled with ineffable delight and spiritual yearning, and they lived not for this fallen world but in expectation of the eternal kingdom. It is our hope that these volumes will likewise ever be in the hands of the Christians of our time.”
—“To the Pious Reader”
Contents
To the Pious Reader
The Teachers, Historians, and Chroniclers from whose works this book was compiled
December 1
The Holy Prophet Nahum
The Holy Righteous Philaret the Almsgiver
December 2
The Holy Prophet Habakkuk
The Holy Martyr Myrope
Our Holy Father Athanasius of the Kiev Caves
December 3
The Holy Prophet Zephaniah
Our Holy Father John the Silent
Our Holy Father Sabbas of Storozha
December 4
The Holy Great-martyr Barbara
Our Holy Father John of Damascus
December 5
Our Holy Father Sabbas the Sanctified
Our Holy Father Karion and Zacharias
December 6
Saint Nicholas the Wonder-worker, Archbishop of Myra
December 7
Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
December 8
Our Holy Father Patapius of Thebes
December 9
The Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos
December 10
The Holy Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, and Eugraphus
December 11
Our Holy Father David the Stylite
Our Holy Father Nicon the Withered
December 12
Saint Spyridon, Bishop of Tremithus
December 13
The Holy Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes
The Holy Martyr Lucia the Virgin
December 14
The Holy Martyrs Thyrsus, Leuciuc, and Callinicus
The Holy Martyr Philemon and Those With Him
December 15
The Holy Hieromartyr Eleutherius and His Mother Anthia
Saint Stephen the Confessor, Archbishop of Surrentium
December 16
The Holy Prophet Haggai
The Blessed Empress Theophania, Consort of Leo the Wise
December 17
The Holy Prophet Daniel and the Three Youths Ananias, Azarias, and Misael
December 18
The Holy Martyr Sebastian and Those With Him
December 19
The Holy Martyr Boniface and Saint Aglaida
Saint Biniface the Merciful, Bishop of Florence
Saint Gregory, Archbishop of Homer
December 20
The Holy Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer
December 21
The Holy Martyr Juliana the Virgin and Those With Her
Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Kiev
December 22
The Holy Great-martyr Anastasia, the Deliverer from Bonds, and Those With Her
December 23
The Ten Holy Martyrs of Crete
Saint Niphon, Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus
December 24
The Holy Martyr Eugenia the Virgin
Our Holy Father Nicholas, the Former General
December 25
THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD, GOD, AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST
A Narrative of the Nativity of Christ
A Homily by Saint Demetrius of Rostov
A Narrative of the Adoration of the Magi
December 26
A Narrative of the Flight into Egypt
The Holy Righteous Joseph the Betrothed
December 27
The Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen
Saint Theodore the Branded, Brother of Saint Theophanes the Hymnographer
December 28
The Holy 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia
December 29
The Holy 14,000 Infants Slain in Bethlehem
Our Holy Father Markellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Sleepless Ones
Our Holy Father Mark and Theophilus of the Kiev Caves
December 30
The Holy Martyr Anysia the Virgin
December 31
Our Holy Mother Melania the Roman
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