Our Venerable Father David of Thessalonica.
David was born in Thessalonica. At
first, he lived a life of asceticism in the proximity of Thessalonica
in a hut built beneath an almond tree. Later, he continued his
asceticism in Thessaly. So much did he purify himself by fasting,
prayer and all-night vigils that he was made worthy to receive great
grace from God. Once he took live coals in his hand, placed incense
on the coals and censed the emperor without any injury to his hand.
Seeing this, the emperor bowed down to the ground before him. He
amazed many people by his numerous miracles. He died peacefully and
took up habitation in eternal blessedness in the year 540 A.D.The Passing of the Blessed Martyr the Priest Nicholas Konrad
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The Blessed Martyr the Cantor Vladimir Pryjma (1941).
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The Passing of the Blessed Martyr the Priest Andrew Ishchak (1941).
Andrew Ishchak was born on September
20, 1887 in Mykolayiv, in the Lviv District. He gained his
Theological education at the universities in Lviv and Innsbruck. In
1914, he received his Ph.D. in Theology from the University of
Innsbruck and was ordained. Beginning in 1928, he taught at the Lviv
Theological Academy. He was able to combine his professorial duties
with his pastoral work in the village of Sykhiv, near Lviv. It was
there that he met his death on 26 June 1941, thus becoming a martyr
for the faith at the hands of soldiers of the retreating Soviet Army.
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