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12 August 2026, Wednesday
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Fasting meal без рыбы, масла и вина.
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Lives and liturgical texts
The holy apostles Silas, Silas, Criscentus and others with them
The memory of the 30th of July The holy Apostle Silas, whom the elders of the Apostles chose to minister to the work of preaching the Word of God, labored in the evangelization of the teachings of Christ, first with the holy supreme Apostle Paul, and then alone, without him.
The fourth voice.
The vine of Christ, the vine of wisdom in virtue, the wine of salvation flowing to us: every pleasant cheer we fill, celebrating your honorable memory, in need pray for the remission of our sins, apostles of the Lord.
2 Blessed Theodoret, in his commentary on the epistles of St. Paul (2 Cor 1:19 and Ephesians 1:1), holds that the Apostle Silvanus mentioned here is one person with the Apostle Silas. This is also indicated by the fact that Silas is not mentioned at all in the epistles, whereas he was one of the most zealous collaborators of the holy Apostles, while Silvanus is mentioned by the Apostles in such cases as are proper to Silas. Western interpreters (Wizeler, Meyer and others) and Silvanus, who is mentioned by the Apostle Peter in the first epistle (5:12) consider him to be Silas.
The Passion of St. Valentine
In Ombria, Italy, in a town called Interramna, there was a bishop, St. Valentine, who had received from God the gift of healing. He cured people of all diseases and ailments by prayer and the invocation of the most holy name of Jesus Christ, turning unbelievers from idolatry to God (at that time pagan paganism still prevailed in the world and wicked kings who ruled the west and the east persecuted Christians).
The Passion of the Holy Martyr Polychronicus
The wicked Roman emperor Decius, after torturing many Christians, went with his whole army to Persia; defeating the Persian army and taking the country captive, he took over the provinces of Babylon, Vactrina, Ircainia, Assyria; finding many Christians in these lands, the king began to persecute and torture them in every way.
The memory of St. John the Warrior
This St. John served in the army [In the prologue of the Ambrosian Library and in Nicodemus it is said that St. John was a soldier in a regiment composed of soldiers of the Scythian tribe of the Taifales.