from rongolini.com and byzcath.org:
Daily Readings (25th Week After Pentecost)
2 Thessalonians 1:10-2:2
Luke 12:42-48
the Synaxarion:
November 9
Memory of the holy Martyrs Onesiphoros and Porphyrios (?)
Our venerable Mother Matrona (+under Emperor Leo, 457-474)
Saints Onesiphoros and Porphyrios suffered martyrdom under Emperors Diocletian and Maximian in 290 (?).
Saint Matrona lived under Emperor Leo the Great (457-474) and his wife Berina. A native of Perge in Pamphylia, Matrona was married to a certain Dometios and only had one daughter by him. She went to Constantinople with her husband, at the age of fifteen. There she formed a friendship with a virgin named Eugenia, whose kind of life she greatly admired. From then on she never left the churches. Her love of God always increasing, she confided her daughter with a woman of her acquaintance, named Susanna, and followed the Master's counsel: "He who wishes to come after Me, let him renounce himself, take up his cross and follow Me." She dressed in men's clothes and entered the monastery of Saint Basia, mixing with the monks. But Saint Basian, having known by a revelation that she was a woman and that her husband was looking for her, sent her to Jerusalem, then to Beirut. When she returned to Constantinople, Saint Basian charitably received her, counseled her to withdraw to a monastery apart, which was called from then on the Monastery of Saint Matrona. She lived almost one hundred years and died in peace.
Fifth Class Feast.
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