Iconographer: Ginala Mar.Commemorates on: December 17Daniel, being still a lad, interpreted that mysterious image seen by Nabuchodonosor in a dream, an image that was composed of different metals, but was shattered and ground to dust by a certain stone which had been hewn out of a mountain without the hand of man. This vision clearly portrayed through the mountain the height of the Virgins holiness and the power of the Holy Spirit which overshadowed her. Through the image of the Stone, Christ was portrayed, Who was seedlessly born of her, and Who by His coming as the Godman would shatter
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Iconographer: Vranos Nik.Commemorates on: July 20Elias was from Thisbe or Thesbe, a town of Galaad (Gilead), beyond the Jordan. He was of priestly lineage, a man of a solitary and ascetical character, clothed in a mantle of sheep skin, and girded about his loins with a leathern belt. He received the name Zealot. Therefore, set aflame with such zeal, he sternly reproved the impiety and lawlessness of Ahab and his wife Jezebel. He shut up heaven by means of prayer, and it did not rain for three years and six months. Ravens brought him food for his need when, at
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Iconographer: Ginala Mar.Commemorates on: May 9The Prophet Esaias, the son of Amos, was descended from a royal tribe. He prophesied in the days of Ozias (who is also called Azarias), Joatham, Ahaz, and Hezekias, Kings of Judah. About 681 B.C, in the reign of Manasses, the son and successor of the most pious Hezekias, when this Prophet was censuring Manasses impiety and lawlessness, he was sawn asunder with a wooden saw, and thus received a martyrs end.
Of all the Prophets, he is called the most eloquent because of the beauty and loftiness of his words. His book of
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Iconographer: Ginala Mar.Commemorates on: September 4The Prophet Moses was born in Egypt in the seventeenth century before Christ. While yet a babe of three months, he was placed in a basket made of papyrus and covered with pitch, and cast into the streams of the Nile for fear of Pharaohs decree to the midwives of the Hebrews, that all the male children of the Hebrews be put to death. He was taken up from the river by Pharaohs daughter, became her adopted son, and was reared and dwelt in the Kings palace for forty years. Afterward, when he was some
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Iconographer: Ginala Mar.Commemorates on: February 8The Prophet Zacharias was the son of Barachias, and a contemporary of the Prophet Aggeus. In the days of the Babylonian captivity, he prophesied, as it says, in the book of Ezra, ” to the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem” he aided Zorobabel in the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. In the book of Ezra he is called “Zacharias the son of Addo (or Iddo)” but in his own prophetic book he is called more fully “Zacharias, the son of Barachias, the son of Addo the Prophet”. When the captivity returned from
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