Reading= 2Cor 4:11-18 Gospel = Lk 6:20-23

Sanctoral Cycle

St George Maronite Catholic Church

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Synaxarion for Memorials without a Proper Office

The governor of Sebaste in Armenia wished to force forty soldiers to renounce Christ. First he imprisoned them and then he threw them into a frozen pool. They prayed with one heart: "We forty have entered an arena, O Lord, grant that we may be able to receive the crown." One of them escaped and renounced Christ, but their guard, a pagan, took his place. In the morning the guards broke their legs and burned their bodies. They received the crown of martyrdom approximately the year 322.

 

May their prayers be with us. Amen.