| Hymn to the Mother of God: Of old, the Creator of all wrought many wonders through Thee, O Virgin, and saved us from the invasion of enemies. Thus be thou now a protection and aid for Thine Isles, O Lady and Queen, saving us from all the assaults of the enemy. Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection in the Tone of the Week. Ode VII Irmos: On the plain of Dura the tyrant once built a furnace to torment those who bore God; and therein the three youths hymned the One God, saying: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou! O holy Felix, light of the East, thou didst bring the Faith of Christ to the East Anglian land, baptising the faithful Audrey of Ely and all her holy family, giving heart to Fursey and his brethren, together with the holy Botolph of Iken, do thou intercede for us sinners. Strengthened by the grace of God, O holy Theodore, the gift of God to the Isles, from Tarsus thou didst come like a second Paul, bringing the unity of Christ to the nations. Together with thy holy companion, Abbot Adrian, do thou now instruct our souls in the light of piety through thy holy prayers. O holy Abbesses, Mothers Ethelburgh, Hilda, Ebbe, Mildred, Mildgyth, Milburgh, Werburgh, Ermenburgh, Enfleda, Elfleda, Cuthburgh and Edburgh, having acquired the gifts of abstinence and humility, wisdom, faith and perfect love, ye attained the Kingdom that knoweth no evening. O holy Birinus, Apostle of Wessex, together with our fathers Agilbert, Aldhelm, and Egwin, and Chad in the marches with his holy brother Cedd, Apostle of Essex, and holy Wilfrid who didst enlighten the darkness of the pagans of the south, and the holy bishops of Hexham, Eata, John of Beverley, Acca and Alcmund and all your holy company, together with Erkenwald, light of London, intercede for the salvation of the souls of your people. Thy tears in the wilderness brought forth fruit an hundredfold, O holy father Guthlac, and by the weapon of thy prayers thou didst vanquish the demons and receive from heaven the grace to heal the diseases of those who honour thee. Together with thy holy disciples, Pega, Bettelin and Cissa, do thou pray to God for the forgiveness of our sins. |
| Существует множество других свидетельств об англичанах в Византии. Известно, что английские солдаты понесли тяжелые потери, сражаясь за византийцев против норманнов при Дирраке (Дураццо) в 1081 году. Император Алексей пожаловал англичанам землю на берегу Никомидийского залива, чтобы они построили там укрепленный порт. Между 1101 и 1116 годами некий линкольнширец по имени Ульфрик возвратился в Англию из Константинополя, чтобы вербовать солдат в византийскую армию. Английские солдаты сражались также при обороне города от крестоносцев в 1204 году; современный французский писатель Робер Клер пишет, что у этих англичан были свои священники. Из бытовых свидетельств мы знаем, что в середине XIV века на рождественском пиру у императора потомки английских переселенцев пожелали приветствовать его на их собственном наречии. Что стало с этими англо-саксонскими поселениями после захвата Константинополя в 1453 году турками – неизвестно. По-видимому, те поселения, которые оказались под властью турок, объединились с греческими, а новоанглийская колония на северном побережье Черного моря слилась с русским народонаселением. Православные святые Британии и Ирландии, изображенные на иконе 66 Аван (Afan), Августин Кентербериийский (Augustine, †604), Адомнан (Adomnan), Адриан (Adrian, VI в.), Адриан Кентерберийский (Adrian of Canterbury, †709/710), Айдан (Aidan, †651), Албаний (Albanus, III в.), Альдгельм (Aldhelm, † ок. 700), Альфеге (Alphege, †1012), Асаф (Asaph, VII в.), Аустель (Austel), Беда Досточтимый (Beda Venerabilis, Беуно (Beuno, VI в.), Бирин (Birinus), Бранвал- Православные святые Британии и Ирландии ладер (Branwallader, VI в.), Брендан Мореплаватель (аб. Клонфертский; Brendan, 522-†575), Бригита Килдарская (Brigit, †525), Венедикт/ Бенедикт Нурсийский (Benedict of Nursia, 480-†ок. 550), Вонифатий/Бонифаций (Boniface of Crediton, 675-†754), Гильда 500-†ок. 570), Давид Уэльский (David, VI в.), Дениол (Deniol, †ок. 584), Дублитир (Dublitir), Дунстан (Dunstan, 909-†988), Иллтуд (†нач. VI в.), Кадок (Cadoc), Кедд (Cedd, VII в.), Келлан (Cellan of Peronne, VII в.), Кей (Kew), Киаран (Снагап of Clonmacnois, VI в.), Колман (Colman, VII в.), Колум мак Кримтайн (Colum mac Crimthain of Terryglass, VI в.), Колумбан (Columbanus, 543-†615), Колумкилле (Columcille, 521-†597), Комгалл (Comgall of Bangor, VII в.), Кутберт (Cutbert, 634-†687), Лаврентий (Laurence, †619), Маелруайн (Maelruain), Меллит (Mellitus, VII в.), Мохолд (Maughold, †498), Ниниан (Ninian, сер. V в.), Патрик/ Патрикий Ирландский (Patric/Patricius, 390-†461), Паулин (Paulinus, VII в.), Самсон (Samson), Трилло (Trillo, V в.), Фин(н)иан (Fin(n)ian of Clonard, 512-†ок. 545), Ферси (Fursey, VII в.), Феодор Тарсийский (Theodore of Tarse, †690), Эгберт (Egbert, VIII в.), Юст (Justus, VII в.). |
| A Celtic cross on Lindesfarne. From a huge number of missionaries who were trained at Lindisfarne or elsewhere in Northumbria or were sent from there to preach in the lands to the south we must mention the following: St. Diuma (+ c. 658, feast: December 7) who became the first missionary in Mercia and was Bishop of the Mercians and Middle Angles, establishing his see in Repton in Derbyshire. Diuma founded a monastery of St. Peter in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire and tirelessly preached Christ, reposing in Charlbury near Oxford, where he built a church and where his relics still may rest under the floor of St. Mary’s Church. St. Betty (+ c. 655, feast unknown) who preached in Mercia and founded a church or monastery in Wirksworth in Derbyshire where the decorated lid of his Saxon coffin is preserved inside the local parish church. St. Wilfrid (633-709, feast: October 12) founded many churches and monasteries in England and played an important role in the establishment of the Church in the country. In the north he served as Bishop of York and later of Hexham and founded the monastery in Ripon and a splendid church in Hexham; in Mercia he served as Bishop of Leicester, establishing monasteries at Oundle in Northamptonshire, Wing in Buckinghamshire (where an early English church still stands), Evesham in Worcestershire, Withington in Gloucestershire and Brixworth in Northamptonshire (where a finely preserved Saxon church built by him still exists together with a preaching cross); in the south Wilfrid preached in Sussex and the Isle of Wight, with his main center in Selsey, since then he has been venerated as the apostle of Sussex; he also actively preached abroad, especially in Frisia. The holy brothers Cedd (+ 664, feast: October 26), Chad (+ 672, feast: March 2) and Cynibil (feast: March 2) evangelized a great part of central England. St. Cedd established a monastery in Lastingham (Yorkshire, where his relics rest in the St. Mary’s Church) and later became Bishop of Essex, where he erected a monastery in Tilbury and many churches, the most famous of them being the chapel at Bradwell-on-Sea which still stands relatively intact. |
| St. Chad " s Head Chapel at Lichfield Cathedral (photo by Stephen McKay from Geograph.org.uk) During the Reformation, the Bishop of Lichfield of that time appealed to Henry VIII, asking him to spare St. Chad’s shrine in their Cathedral. This was done but only for a few years; the reliquary was eventually desecrated by radical Protestants and a large part of the saint’s relics destroyed. However, some four long bones of Chad were secretly hidden and kept by recusant Catholic priests and their relatives down the centuries. During that time the holy relics even visited France, were preserved in Staffordshire, and after the Catholic Emancipation they were enshrined in the new Roman Catholic Cathedral in Birmingham in the nineteenth century, where their due veneration continues to this day. The High Altar of Birmingham Catholic Cathedral containing the reliquary with St. Chad " s relics (photo by James Bradley) The liturgical and popular veneration of Chad was resumed, especially in the twentieth century, by Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Anglicans. Numerous Orthodox icons, Catholic and Anglican stained glass windows and statues are dedicated to this saint across the country, to say nothing of names of streets and ancient toponyms associated with him. There is a Russian Orthodox parish (the Diocese of Sourozh) in honor of Sts. Aidan and Chad in the city of Nottingham and a Greek Orthodox community (the Patriarchate of Constantinople) of the Ascension and St. Chad in the town of Rugby (Warwickshire). Such place-names as Chadkirk, Chadwick, Chadburn, Chaddesley, Chadsmoor, Chaddesden and many others were in most cases derived from our saint’s name. However, the place-name “Chadwell”, which is common in England, does not necessarily mean, “St. Chad’s well”—it may also mean “cold well” or be associated with some other person. An interesting example is Chadwell St. Mary in Essex, which until recently had a holy well, known as St. Chad’s, though it must have been a confusion as this saint never travelled to Essex; it was his brother, St. Cedd, who labored in this region. |
| Many Angles, including St. Chad of Mercia and his brother, St. Cedd, who brought Christianity to Essex, retained a great love for Irish ways and carried Ionan Christianity well beyond the boundaries of Northumbria. Wilfrid, who is often portrayed as an opponent of the Irish, is a more complex example of the same tradition. There is really almost nothing in the first 700 years that we can point out now that is specifically Irish or British, other than individuals. If you pick any passage from one of Bede’s sermons, for example, without knowing who had written it, you could be reading any of the Greek or Latin fathers. Another remarkable Northumbrian Angle was St. Benedict Biscop, who was a great traveler to the Mediterranean world, where he collected books, icons, and relics for his monasteries at Wearmouth and Jarrow, Bede’s own monastery. He persuaded both cantors and icon painters to come to Northumbria and teach his monks, and Biscop created one of the West’s great libraries at Jarrow, where Bede, among others, gained encyclopedic knowledge. St. Wilfrid not only went to Rome, but was also the first missionary to Frisia (northern Holland), and his disciple St. Willibrord came after him to establish Christianity there. A century later the well-known St. Boniface of Crediton was active in Germany. There would be a huge demand for manuscripts from Bede’s Jarrow monastery by the Germans, and Boniface himself wrote saying, “Please send these, I need them.” They used Bede’s History quite extensively, and there is speculation about what its importance would have been in the Christianization of the Germanic peoples. Some of these manuscripts still exist and seem to have been done in haste, with mistakes in spelling, etc. RTE: It’s quite common for Orthodox to speak of missionaries having consistently translated the gospels and service books into local languages, but, that wasn’t the tradition in the West, was it? There wasn’t a written British, Welsh, Breton, or Irish ecclesiastical language. |
| For us, the members of the same Church that Saints Erkenwald, Sebbi, Cedd and Mellitus, and King Edward the Martyr belonged to; the Orthodox Church that Saints Ethelburga, Tortgith, Hildelith, Wulfrida, Cuthburga, Cwenburga, and Osyth sanctified by a simple nun’s prayer; the Church that flourished in this land since one of those ‘olive-skinned immigrants’, Theodore of Tarsus, raised the Anglian monk Eorcenwald to the rank of bishop – for us, the real England is in the flattened, broken stones intersecting the green grass. It is in the prayers of the saints who once walked here and of the Most Holy Virgin Theotokos, who looks lovingly on England, her Dowry, and longs to hold it in her arms again. It is in our Orthodox people, who come here from every corner of the globe, united today in the prayer that England someday will return to what she once was and still is in the eyes of Almighty God: a province of the Orthodox Church. Through the prayers of thy Most Holy Mother and of all the Saints of Barking, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy upon us and save us. Amen. Barking Abbey, 12 May 2012 Saint Epiphanius of Constantia Saint Ethelhard of Canterbury © Reverend Father Alexander Tefft, Ph.D. All rights reserved. Комментарии ( 0): Написать комментарий: Правила о комментариях Все комментарии премодерируются. Не допускаются комментарии бессодержательные, оскорбительного тона, не имеющие своей целью плодотворное развитие дискуссии. Обьём комментария не должен превышать 2000 знаков. Републикация материалов в комментариях не допускается. Просим читателей обратить внимание на то, что редакция, будучи ограничена по составу, не имеет возможности сканировать и рассылать статьи, библиограммы которых размещены в росписи статей. Более того, большинство этих статей защищены авторским правом. На просьбу выслать ту или иную статью редакция отвечать не будет. Вместе с тем мы готовы рассмотреть вопрос о взаимном сотрудничестве, если таковые предложения поступят. Прим.: Адрес электронной почты опубликован не будет и будет виден лишь модераторам. |
| 96 Р. 414. Adamnan said to abbat Ceolfrid: «Sciat, frater mi, quia etsi Simonis tonsuram ex consuetudine patria habeam..., beatissimi – apostolorum principis – vestigia sequi desidero». Адамнан сказал аббату Келфриду: «Пусть знает же, брат мой, что даже если у меня есть тонсура Симона по родному обычаю, я желал бы следовать по стопам главы апостолов». «Qui ordinati sunt Scotorum vel Britorum episcopi quin pascha vel tonsura catholici non sunt adunati ecclesiae, iterum a catholico episcopo manus impositione confirmentur». «Те, кто из шотландцев или британцев, рукоположенных во епископы, будучи католиками, не присоединились к Церкви в вопросах пасхи и тонсуры, да будут вторично утверждены возложением рук католических епископов». 97 «Colman, welcher seine Lehre verschmäht sah, ging mit den Gebeinen Aedans («um 635 Aedan», 651 Finan, 661 Colman) nach Irland zurück; Cedd dagegen trat züm römischen Ritus über». S. 157. «Кольман, увидев, что его учение подвергается небрежению, возвратился в Ирландию с мощами Айдана (Айдан, ок. 635 г., Финан, ок. 651 г., Кольман, ок. 661 г.); Седд, напротив, присоединился к римскому обряду». 98 Tractatus Sancti Athanasi epi. alex. de ratione pasche. Prologus S. Cyrilli d. e. de ratione paschae. 99 «Прежде всего относительно празднования Пасхи Господней в один день и в одно время по всему миру нами отмечено, чтобы ты, по обычаю, направил всем письма» (лат.). 101 «Ethelbert was baptized on the feast of Whitsunday, June 2 AD 597, in all probability at St. Martin " s church». 102 Gregorius I Brunigildae reginae Francorum, laffe Reg. 1491, Sept. 597: «Qualiter autem se excellentia vestra erga fratrem et coepiscopum nostrum Augustinum exhibuerit – – diversorum fidelium relatione cognovimus; pro quo gratias referentes». Gregorii 1 рарае. Registrum epistolarum. Т. II. Libri VIII–XIV cum indicibus et praefatione./Ed. Lud. M. Hartmann. Berolini, 1899. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Epistolarum. T. II), Ер. VIII, 4 (Брунхильде, королеве франков), p. 7. «Как относилось Ваше Сиятельство к нашему брату и соепископу Августину, мы узнали из сообщения различных верных, за что мы благодарны» (лат.). |
| Holy Hierarch Chad of Lichfield, Apostle of Mercia, Wonderworker Commemorated: March 2/15 Dmitry Lapa An icon of St. Chad of Lichfield (by Aidan Hart) St. Chad (Ceadda) was born in the early seventh century and reposed on March 2 (according to the old calendar), 672 or 673. Pious English people, especially ordinary folk, have deeply loved and venerated this saint for more than 1300 years as one of their protectors. His veneration is similar to that of Sts. Aidan and Cuthbert of Lindisfarne and Swithin of Winchester; he lived absolutely in the same spirit with them. Thirty-three ancient parish churches and several holy wells across England are dedicated to him, in addition to numerous modern Anglican and Catholic dedications. The name “Chad”, which is perhaps of old Welsh origin and means “battle”, remains a boy’s baptismal name both in the UK and the USA to this day. Who was this saint? Most of the information on St. Chad’s life can be found in the work by the Venerable Bede of Jarrow, The History of the English Church and People , written in 731. St. Chad from time immemorial has been venerated as the apostle of Mercia, the largest of seven early English kingdoms, which was inhabited mostly by Angles. The Kingdom of Mercia (meaning “borderlands or marches”) existed from 527 till 879 and stretched from the North Sea shore in the east to the River Severn and the Welsh border in the west. During its domination it comprised (fully or partially) the territories of the present-day counties of Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire, the present West Midlands, north Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire and parts of today’s Greater Manchester and Merseyside. An icon of Sts. Aidan and Chad (by Aidan Hart) Chad was the youngest of four brothers, all of whom devoted their lives to the service of God. Their names were St. Cedd (who became a bishop and preached in Mercia and Essex; feast: October 26), St. Cynibil (a priest, feast: March 2), Caelin (a priest) and St. Chad who also became a bishop. They were born and brought up in the kingdom of Northumbria in the north of England. As a boy and adolescent Chad studied under St. Aidan, the apostle of Northumbria, in his most famous Lindisfarne (Holy Island) Monastery in the Irish tradition. Later, after Aidan’s death in 651, the young Chad together with other ascetics, among whom was St. Egbert, 1 moved to study in Ireland, most probably at the great Rathmelsigy Monastery. There they lived the monastic life, persevered in prayer and fasting and were absorbed in the contemplation of the Holy Scriptures. |
| составление и перевод А.А. Бурова Святитель Финан, епископ Ионы († 661, память 17 февраля) Святой Финан (Finan) был ирландцем, который стал монахом в монастыре святого Колумбы в Ионе и был известен его святой жизнью и дисциплиной. Когда умер Айдан и монахи Линдисфарна (Lindisfarne) послали в его старый монастырь за кем-нибудь, кто бы мог его заменить, выбор пал на Финана, как на достойного преемника. Его десять лет в качестве епископа Нортумбрии был более мирным правлением, чем во времена Айдана. Король Осви (Oswy) осознал свой грех в убийстве Освина (Oswin), короля Дейры (Deira), чьё королевство он захватил, и Финан поощрял его к основанию монастырей и церквей как символов его раскаяния. Наиболее известный из них был в Стринешелче, (Streaneshalch), на мысе, возвышавшемся над гаванью, теперь известной как Уитби (Whitby), который должна была стать великим христианским центром. Он крестил двух следующих королей Саксонской Гептархии, Зигберта (Sigbert), короля Восточных Саксонцев и Пеаду (Peada), короля Мерсии, и послал проповедников в их королевства, чтобы установить там святую веру. Он освободил святого Седа (Cedd) от его трудов в Мидлендсе и хиротонисал его во Епископа Восточных Саксонцев. Во епископа Мерсийского был хиротонисан Диума (Diuma), ирландский монах. В дополнение к окормлению обширной епархии Нортумбрии, которая простиралась в южную Шотландию, Финан поощрял строительные работы в монастыре в Линдисфарне. Он построил просторный собор кельтского образца, выполненный из дерева и покрытый грубой морской травой, называемой полевица (bent grass), которая в изобилии растёт на острове, закрепляя песок своими корнями. В этот собор он перенёс тело своего предшественника святого Айдана. Когда святой Финан умер в 661 году, его тело было положено рядом с телом первого епископа. Тропарь, глас 2 As Aidan " s successor thou didst rule the See of Lindisfarne fearlessly/ preaching the Orthodox Faith, O holy Hierarch Finan./ Boldly obeying the Gospel command, thou didst soften the stony heart of Merciás pagan Prince Peada/ and win his soul for Christ./ Pray for us, O Saint, that Christ alone will rule in our hearts,/ that He may save our souls. Читать далее Источник: Избранные жития святых, в Европейских и иных землях просиявших : А-Э/Сост. и перевод А.А. Бурова. – Москва : 2005–2015. Поделиться ссылкой на выделенное |
| Vladimir Moss 25. SAINT CEDD, BISHOP OF LONDON Our holy Father Cedd, together with his brothers St. Chad, Cynebil and Caelin, were Anglian boys educated at Linsdisfarne by Saints Aidan and Finan. In 653, St. Finan baptized Peada, king of the Middle Angles at the king " s village of Wallbottle at Hadrian " s Wall in Northumberland. The king returned «full of joy» with four Northumbrian priests, one of whom was Cedd. The others were Diuma, who later became the holy bishop of Mercia and the Middle Angles, Betti and Addi. The apostolic work of these four men was very successful. However, King Oswy of Northumbria, who became overlord of Mercia after King Peadás death, then decided to send St. Cedd to the kingdom of East Saxons, which had reverted to paganism after the death of King Sebert and the expulsion of St. Mellitus, bishop of London, earlier in the century. And so, with the blessing of St. Finan, Cedd and another priest set off to re-evanglize the land, whose king, Sigebert, had just been baptized. This mission, too, was very successful, and soon St. Finan consecrated Cedd to the episcopate. As bishop, St. Cedd built churches and ordained priests and deacons in many places. Thus at Bradwell-on-Sea he built a church out of the rubble of a Roman fort which is still standing today. And he built another monastery at Tilbury, where an early Saxon immersion font that may well have been used by the saint still survives. The saint often returned to Northumbria to preach, and on one such trip, in 658, he was given land for the foundation of a monastery at Lastingham in Yorkshire. This came about through the intercession of Cedd " s brother Caelin, and the monastery was built by another of Cedd " s brothers, Cynebil. St. Cedd consecrated the monastery after fasting and praying for forty days. St. Cedd played an important part in the Synod of Whitby in 664, which ended the schism between the Celtic and Roman Churches in England. Although trained in the Celtic Church, he wholeheartedly accepted the Roman-Byzantine Paschalion. He acted as an interpreter between the Celtic and Roman parties. |
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