JANUARY 20
READING: This Saint, who was from Melitene in Armenia, was the son of heartfelt parents named Paul and Dionysia. He was innate about 377. Seeing that his mother had been fruitless, he was named Euthymios-which form "good joyfulness" or "joy"-for this is what his parents sentient at his initiation. He contrived under Eutroius, the Bishop of Melitene, by whom he was bound and entrusted with the attention of the monasteries of Melitene. Subsequently, at what time he had come to Palestine about the meeting 406, he became the front of a throng of monks. Through him, a mammoth zip of Arabs was turned to devoutness, taking into account he healed the sick son of their front Aspebetos. Aspebetos was baptized with all his people; he took the Christian name of Peter, and was unconventional holy Bishop for his zip, seeing that called "Bishop of the Tents." Saint Euthymios as well as fought wary the Nestorians, Eutychians, and Manichaeans. Like Eudocia, the widow of Saint Theodosius the Younger, had ended her high-rise in Palestine, and had fallen concerning the heresy of the Monophysites which was championed in Palestine by a definite Theodosius, she sent envoys to Saint Symeon the Stylite in Syria (see Sept. 1), asking him his conjecture of Eutyches and the Congregation of Chalcedon which had condemned him; Saint Symeon, civil the purity and Orthodoxy of Saint Euthymios adjoining whom she dwelt, sent her to him to be delivered from her fallacy (the holy Empress Eudocia is commemorated Aug. 13). He became the divine astrologer of the Cathedral, or if at all possible, "the tube of divine squeak," as a definite historian writes. He was the instructor and bigger of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified. Having lived for ninety-six existence, he reposed in 473, on January 20.APOLYTIKION IN THE FOURTH Bring into line Be over the moon, O fruitless one, that hast not firm birth; be of good joyfulness, thou that hast not travailed; for a man of wishes hath multiplied thy children of the Central part, having planted them in devoutness and reared them in continence to the progress of the qualities. By his prayers, O Christ our God, make our life placid.
KONTAKION IN THE PLAGAL OF THE FOURTH Bring into line Inauguration found door and joy in thine regal nativity and the good joyfulness of thy indescribable miracles on thy divine memorial. Now assign ther abundantly on our souls and disaster clean the stains of our every sin, Euthymios greatest aristocratic, that we may chant: Alleluia!
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"SAINT OR Public holiday POSTED THIS Date 2010(with 2009's set apart concerning as well as and further, 2008's, even 2007!)"