11-07-2024, 03:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-06-2024, 07:13 PM by RiverNotch.)
Hierarchs Peter of Krutitsa, Seraphim of Uglich,
Cyril of Kazan, Thaddeus of Tver;
Platon of Banja-Luka, Petar of Dabar-Bosnia,
Sava of Karlovach, Dositej of Zagreb;
and Gorazd of Prague;
Priests Alexander Hotovitsky, Isaac Bobrakov;
Bogdan Opachich; Grigol Peradze,
Dmitry Klepinin, and Vasily Martysz;
and Maria Lilyanova; Vukasin Mandrapa;
Ilya Fondaminsky, Alexander Schmorell,
Yuri Skobtsov, and Maria Skobtsova:
you Holy Martyrs under the yoke
of Stalin, Mussolini, Pavelich, Hitler,
you whose blood adorned our Church
as with purple and fine linen
under a Totalitarian age,
to whom did you pray, when you yourself faced
what we now face, what now makes us seek
you as the Saints who most understand
our present dread and future pain,
as the Thrice-Seven Helpers of Modernity?
Cyril of Kazan, Thaddeus of Tver;
Platon of Banja-Luka, Petar of Dabar-Bosnia,
Sava of Karlovach, Dositej of Zagreb;
and Gorazd of Prague;
Priests Alexander Hotovitsky, Isaac Bobrakov;
Bogdan Opachich; Grigol Peradze,
Dmitry Klepinin, and Vasily Martysz;
and Maria Lilyanova; Vukasin Mandrapa;
Ilya Fondaminsky, Alexander Schmorell,
Yuri Skobtsov, and Maria Skobtsova:
you Holy Martyrs under the yoke
of Stalin, Mussolini, Pavelich, Hitler,
you whose blood adorned our Church
as with purple and fine linen
under a Totalitarian age,
to whom did you pray, when you yourself faced
what we now face, what now makes us seek
you as the Saints who most understand
our present dread and future pain,
as the Thrice-Seven Helpers of Modernity?