Feast Day: March 19th
The Life of Saint Chrysanthos and Saint Daria and those Martyred with them: Saint Chrysanthos managed to convert his wife to Christ, and the young couple mutually agreed to lead celibate lives. After the death of the father, they began to live in separate houses. Saint Chrysanthos converted several young men to Christ, and many pious women gathered around Saint Daria…
Saint Claudius the Tribune, his wife Saint Hilaria and their sons Saint Jason and Saint Maurus: When he saw the Saints remained unharmed from their torments and not a wound appeared on their body, despite the fact that Chrysanthos was mercilessly beaten with thorny rods till the point his tormentors became exhausted and he afterwards rejoiced as if it was another being beaten; when he saw this wonder, being of sound mind he recognized that this was done by the power of God. For this reason he fell down at the feet of the Saint and straightway was Baptized, together with his wife Hilaria, and his two sons Maurus and Jason, with all his servants and friends and soldiers under him and their friends…
and Saint Diodorus the Presbyter and Saint Marianus the Deacon:
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Prayers to Saint Chrysanthos and Saint Daria
Troparion – Tone 1: Let us honour the like-minded pair of Martyrs, Chrysanthos the offspring of purity, and the most modest Daria. For united in Holiness in the Faith, they were shown to be initiates of the Word of God. They contested lawfully for Him; and they save those who sing: “Glory to Him Who strengthened you. Glory to Him Who Crowned you. Glory to Him Who, through you, works healings for all.”
Kontakion – Tone 1: O Chrysanthos, in the sweet fragrance of Holiness thou didst draw Daria to saving knowledge. Together in contest you routed the serpent, the author of all evil, and were worthily taken up to the Heavenly realms.
Hymn of Praise by Saint Nikolai Velimirovich: Saint Chrysanthos counsels Daria, O virgin, forsake the lie and do not venerate the idols as gods; neither seek, you, truth from the world. The truth is in the One God, the One Triune God Who created the Heavenly Armies of Angels and Heavenly Powers; Who created the whole universe, And of the universe, man, the crown. The only One, Immortal and living, He, out of the Earth, creates wrappings and the clothing of Spiritual wealth. Our Soul is Spiritual wealth wrapped up in the dust of the body. The Soul should be tenderly nurtured as a bride to make ready for Christ. Forsake, O virgin, the bodily, it leads to suffering and sorrow. God does not look into the vessel of the flesh but at the flower which grows in it. O virgin, clothed in death today, tomorrow consumed by death: Adorn your Soul with the flower of Virtues, sow the flower with Faith in the Lord, enclose it with hope and love, water it with the Life-creating Spirit, weed it of the weeds of sins, let grow the flower of Virtues, let grow the flower of piety, let grow the flower of charity, let grow the flower of repentance, let grow the flower of patience, let grow the flower of abstinence, let grow the flower of obedience. As a Hymn of Paradise, your Soul is, let it smell like a garden in May. And may God to dwell therein, for which He created it. Daria listened to Chrysanthos, Her Soul to Christ she wedded, her body to torture she submitted with Chrysanthos, her Spiritual brother. And God transplanted them to Paradise, with them, adorned the garden of Paradise.
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Verses for…
Saint Claudius the Tribune: Claudius abandoned the sea of error, within the sea you cast aside error.
Saint Hilaria: Hilaria was beheaded by the sword, now she sees the most bright face of God.
Saint Jason and Saint Maurus: Together the brothers were beheaded, brothers Maurus and Jason were of one mind.
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