Daily Calendar - September 5
The 248th day of the year, 117 days left until the New Year.
Church Calendar
The Feast of the Assumption.
Martyr Lupes (IV); Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon (202); Venerable Eutychus (540) and Florent (547); Hieromartyr Callinicus, Patriarch of Constantinople (705).
The Holy Martyr Lupes was a faithful follower of the Holy Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica. When the Lord died, the saint dipped his clothes in his blood and removed the signet ring from his finger. With this clothes, signet ring, and in the name of the Great Martyr Demetrius, Saint Lupes performed miracles in Thessalonica. He destroyed the idols of the pagans, which led to the persecution of idolaters. Saint Lupus was beheaded by order of Emperor Maximian.
The Holy Martyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, was born in the city of Smyrna in 130. His teacher was the high priest Polycarp of Smyrna, a disciple of the Apostle John the Theologian. He also baptized the young man, then ordained him a presbyter.
The high priest Irenaeus received the truth of church doctrine by hereditary episcopacy. During the reign of Emperor Severus, the high priest Irenaeus was beheaded with a sword in 202 for confessing the faith of Christ.
The venerable fathers Eutychus and Florent were monks and worked in the 5th century in Italy - in the district of Nursia. Through the preaching of Saint Eutychus, many believed in the true God. Saint Eutychus did not perform miracles during his lifetime, but after his death, his worn clothes healed people. During droughts, his clothes were taken to the fields, and God sent them rain.
The Patriarch of Constantinople, the High Priest Callinicus, ascended the throne of Constantinople after the death of Patriarch Paul. This was the era of the reign of Justinian III the Furious, who wanted to build a palace near the Church of the Holy Mother of God and decided to demolish the church. Soon Justinian was deposed from the throne and imprisoned. After 10 years, Justinian escaped from prison, gathered an army and approached Constantinople, began to massacre the people, the holy Patriarch Callinicus was captured and thrown alive into the walls of Rome. After 40 days, the wall collapsed, the patriarch was alive, but died two days later. The saint was buried in the Church of the Apostles in Rome.
Born:
1187 – Louis VIII, King of France.
1638 – Louis XIV, King of France.
1792 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, Italian composer.
1817 – Alexei Tolstoy, Russian writer.
1832 – Sergei Botkin, classic of Russian medicine.
1903 _ Nika Agiashvili, writer.
1938 – Elene Tevdoradze, human rights activist.
Died:
1833 – Philadelphus Kiknadze, one of the leaders of the 1832 conspiracy.
1997 – Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic nun, now canonized.
1993 – Julian Semyonov, Russian writer.
Events:
1189 – Richard the Lionheart, of the Plantagenet dynasty, is crowned king of England.
1862 – James Glaesher reaches a height of 11,275 m in a balloon.
1905 – The Treaty of Portsmouth is signed.
1929 – Aristide Briand proposes the creation of a European federal union.
1939 – The Ministry of Information is established in Great Britain.
1944 – The Soviet Union declares war on Bulgaria.
1972 – Palestinian terrorists kill 11 Jewish athletes at the Munich Olympics.
1975 – An attack is carried out on US President Gerald Ford.
1980 – The world’s longest (16 km) road tunnel opens in Switzerland.
1991 – Nelson Mandela is elected President of South Africa.
1999 – The European Union decides to support the opposition, democratic forces in Serbia and to facilitate early elections in Yugoslavia.