The suffering of the holy martyrs Mochius and Mark

These holy martyrs were captured and handed over to Bishop Maximian I, who persuaded them to sacrifice to idols and then threatened to kill them.

And when he had received a hundred and ten severe blows, the child said to the bishop, "Epaphras, you are teaching me evil".

Following St. Mochius, his wife and children went to the place of execution and wept, but he ordered them not to weep, and St. Mark's head was taken by his wife when he stood at the place of execution and was beheaded.

3 The time of death of the holy martyrs Mocius and Mark is unknown. On this day the memory of the reverend Anatolius of the Cave, in the XII century. On this day the memory of our holy father Antony, patriarch of Tsaregrad, who died in 458.

On this day, the memory of the good-hearted princes Vasily and Constantine Yaroslavsky, in the XIII century. On this day, the memory of the holy martyrs Diomides, Eulampius, Asclepiodotus and Golindhus, who suffered at Trajan in the II century.

On the same day, the memory of St. John and St. Longinus, the Yarang miracle workers, who drowned in the White Sea and were found near the sea around 1544-1545.

On the same day, the relics of St. Nicodemus of Kozheozer (Hozhyug), who died in 1640, were transferred from the Solovetsky Monastery to Moscow in 1652.