Feast Day: July 29th
The Life of Saint Bogolep: Seeing the Monk, Boris became yet more inflamed with love for God. Seeing in him one sent from God, he began to entreat his parents that he be allowed immediately to be clothed in the Angelic Habit. The desire of their beloved son was strange, but feeling beforehand that their dear child was not fitted for life in this present world, and knowing from the Lives of the Saints examples of children receiving the Angelic Habit, they decided to give their seven-year-old son this great joy…
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Prayers
Apolytikon – Tone 3: Rejoice, O Bogolep, Divinely wise child, thou didst appear on a white horse, showing youth an example of purity, and all who revere thee, God’s Schema-Monk, thou dost protect from foreign invaders and unbelievers. Pray for us now that we may prosper in true faith and piety and obtain from the Lord great mercy.
