September 7, 2014 Sunday Before the Exaltation of the Cross, Tone 4 Forefeast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Holy Martyr Sozon the Shepherd
Published on: August 25, 2014

09-07 SozonSozon was born in Lyconia. He was a shepherd and kept all of God’s laws, instructing his peers and friends in his pious Faith. In a vision he was shown that he would suffer martyrdom for Christ. This was in the time of Maximian, magistrate of Cilicia, who perpetrated a terrible persecution of Christians in…

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