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3 June 2026, Wednesday
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Fast-free week: the fast on Wednesday and Friday is not observed.
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The life of the holy equally apostolic king Constantine and his holy mother Elena
While the pagan world, arming itself against Christianity with fire and sword, contemplated at the end of the 3rd and beginning of the 4th centuries to completely erase from the face of the earth the very name of Christians [By the decree of Emperor Diocletian - 23 February 303 - it was ordered to eradicate Christianity with all its institutions and temples.
The memory of the saintly prince Constantine and his children: Michael and Feodor, Murom's miracle workers
This saintly great prince Konstantin Sviatoslavich came from the family of the great prince Vladimir, who baptized the land of Russia with holy baptism. In 1192 [Constantin-Yaroslav Sviatoslavich was the youngest son of Sviatoslav Yaroslavovich, first prince of Chernihiv, and then grand prince of Kiev (1073-1077), grandson of Yaroslav the Great and great-grandson of Vladimir the Holy.
The fourth voice, the throbbing.
Tropary, voice 4: Constantine rejoices in the day 7 , the Holy Trinity stands before the throne, seeing his homeland, the spiritual mast shining 8 , followed by Michael and Theodore, his sons: and all three together pray for our souls.
The condac, voice eight.
Kondac, vowel 8: The exalted vizier, and the right-wing prince Constantine, with his son, his proud homeland cries out, having his chief and viceroy: as they have rid themselves of the beauty and filth of idols. That is why we shout to him: rejoice in the overlordship of Prince Constantine. On the same day the memory of the Greek saint Cassian of Uglych miracle-workers, who died on 2 October 1504. ________________________________________ 1 Constantine-Yaro Świętosław was the youngest son of Svyatosław Yarosław, first prince of Chernihiv, and then grandson of the Grand Duke of Constantinople (1073-1077), and was then the grandson of St.
St. Constantine lived in Murom from 1096 until his death in 1129. The Prologue indicates that the year 1192 (1092?), the year of the arrival of the holy prince in Murom, is considered erroneous. 2 Murom - the center of the northern Rostov-Suzdal region, now a minor county town of Vladimir's province - belonged in ancient times to the settlements of the Finnish tribes, such as Murom, Meira and Mordva, although the city was inhabited by foreigners, the Spartan monastery existed there until the present time.
4 The death of the holy prince Gleb followed in 1015. His memory is celebrated on 6 September. 5 Thus, he built a church in the name of the saints Boris and Gleb. 6 The restoration of the Evangelical church by Yuri Yaroslavovich dates back to 1351.