I was recently commissioned to translate some profound and inspiring works by our Righteous Father Alexei Mechev, which I put together in a booklet. Unfortunately, after printing 500 copies, circumstances changed and the one who commissioned the work has been hospitalized and called off the purchase. Since I am at an unforeseen personal loss with this, I wanted to make these never before translated texts available to my followers for only $11.95 a copy, which includes shipping and handling in the United States (orders outside the US, please use a pay button towards the bottom of this page and include $5 for a total of $16.95). I would like to sell all of these as quick as possible, and it would be great reading material for the lenten season. As an added incentive, for the first 50 people who order, I will also offer a never before published text by Fr. John Romanides titled "The Canon and the Inspiration of the Holy Scripture" free of charge.

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June 4, 2018

Holy Venerable Martyr John, Abbot of Monagria Monastery (+ 761)

St. John of Managria (Feast Day - June 4)

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Although placed in a sack, and hidden in a deep place,
John received a place in heaven.

Our Venerable Father John was Abbot of Monagria Monastery located at Mount Olympus in Bithynia near Cyzicus. We read about him in the life of Saint Stephen the Younger, where it says that in the first year of the persecution of Emperor Constantine V Copronymos, he was martyred for his veneration of the holy icons. This took place in the year 761, when he refused to trample on an icon of Christ and the Theotokos, and for this he was placed in a weighted sack and thrown into the sea to drown.


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