On August 14, on the first day of the Dormition Lent, the Origin (wear) of the Honorable Trees of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord is celebrated.
This holiday was established in Constantinople due to illnesses, which often occurred there in August. The beginning of this holiday dates back to the 9th century, and from the 12th-13th centuries it was established in all local Churches... In Constantinople there was a custom, according to which every year a part of the Life-giving Tree of the Lord's Cross, kept in the house church of the Byzantine emperors, was worn out in the church of St. Sophia, where the blessing of water was performed. Then, starting from August 1, for two weeks this shrine was worn around the city, while litias were served "for the consecration of places and averting diseases." On August 28, the Life-giving Tree of the Cross was transferred back to the royal chambers.
The Russian name of the holiday "origin" is an incorrect translation of the Greek word, which means a solemn ceremony, a procession of the cross. Therefore, the word "wear and tear" has been added to the name of the holiday.
In the Russian Church, this festival was combined with the remembrance of the Baptism of Rus on August 14, 988. In the "Legend of the effective ranks of the holy catholic and apostolic great church of the Assumption", compiled in 1627 by order of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Filaret, the following explanation of the holiday on August 14 is given: human, in all hail and weight ".
The news about the day of the Baptism of Rus was preserved in the chronographs of the 16th century: "The great prince Vladimir of Kiev and all of Russia on August 14 was baptized." On this holiday, the carrying out of the Cross and worship of it is supposed to be in the temples. According to the rite accepted today in the Russian Church, the small consecration of water on August 14 is performed before or after the liturgy.
Together with the blessing of water, the blessing of honey takes place (therefore, this holiday is called among the people "The First Honey Savior", "Savior on the Water", "Wet Savior").
From that day on, the eating of his new collection is blessed.
The feast of the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos, celebrated on the same day, was established on the occasion of signs from the icons of the Savior, Holy Mother of God and the Honorable Cross during the battles of the holy noble prince Andrei Bogolyubsky (1157-1174) with the Volga Bulgarians. In 1164, Andrei Bogolyubsky undertook a campaign against the Volga Bulgarians, who were pushing the oppressed inhabitants of the Rostov and Suzdal lands. Hoping for the help of the Heavenly Queen, the prince took Her with him miraculous icon, which was brought by him from Kiev and subsequently received the name Vladimirskaya. Two priests in vestments carried the holy icon and the Honorable Cross of Christ before the army. Before the battle, the pious prince, having joined the holy Mysteries, turned with a fervent prayer to the Mother of God: "Everyone who trusts in Thee, Lady, will not perish, and I, a sinner, have a wall and a covering in You." Following the prince, before the icon, commanders and soldiers fell to their knees and, kissing the image, went against the enemy.
The Bulgarians were defeated and put to flight. According to legend, on the same day, the Greek emperor Manuel won a victory over the Saracens. Immutable proof of the miraculousness of both these victories was the huge fiery rays coming out from the icons of the Savior who were in the army, Mother of God and the Holy Cross. These rays covered the shelves of the faithful rulers of Greece and Russia and were visible to all who fought. In memory of these miraculous victories, with the mutual consent of Prince Andrew and Emperor Manuel and with the blessing of representatives of the highest ecclesiastical authorities, a holiday was established for the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos.
Sermon on the Destruction of the Honorable Trees of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord
“The cross is the keeper of the whole universe, the cross is the beauty of the Church, the cross is true statement, the cross is the glory of angels and the plague of demons. "
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit!
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today the Church glorifies the power of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord, and at the same time remembers the honest sufferings that our Lord Jesus Christ endured on the Cross. The closest reason for the now celebrated event was the miraculous signs revealed from the Tree of the Life-giving Cross to the inhabitants of Constantinople.
In ancient times, a severe pestilence broke out in the capital of the Greek state, Constantinople, which carried away many human lives... After, at the request of the inhabitants of the city, the Tree of the Cross of the Lord was carried through the streets of the capital for fifteen days with prayers and sprinkling of buildings and houses with holy water, the destructive disease stopped, and all Christians brought the deepest thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Subsequently, this miracle was also joined by another significant event, namely: the Orthodox Greek emperor Manuel, with the presentation of the icons of the Savior and the Mother of God before the troops, defeated the Saracens, and the Orthodox Russian prince Andrei Bogolyubsky, at the same time, with the presentation of the icons of the Savior and the Mother of God, won a victory over the Volga Bulgarians. The evidence that these victories were won by supernatural power was the heavenly radiance emanating from the icons and illuminating the people who were there. In memory of this remarkable event, the Orthodox Greek and Russian Churches have established to add to the feast of the bearing of the Cross and the celebration of the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos - in remembrance of the heavenly blessings bestowed on both Orthodox countries.
But, glorifying now the power of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord, the Church at the same time remembers the sufferings of Christ, suffered by Him on the Cross. The Gospel, laid down for today, sets out the story of the last hours and minutes of the earthly life of the Son of God. He, sinless, Most Holy of Holies, accepting the appearance of a slave, humiliated, offended by the crowd of fierce enemies rustling around Him, marches to the court of Pilate, a pagan, a sinner. The scribes, elders and all the people with incomprehensible hatred demand from the ruler death for the Immortal, a shameful death: Crucify, crucify Him (John 19: 6)! They shout.
Pilate, a pagan who did not know the revealed teachings, driven by a sense of justice, hesitates, wants to save Him, saying to the Jews: Capture Him and crucify, for I do not find guilt in Him (John 19: 6). But their threat to accuse him before Caesar forces Pilate to deliver the Lord into the hands of His enemies. And after many new humiliations and insults, the innocent Sufferer, justified at the Pilate judgment, ascends to Golgotha, here he is nailed to the Cross and gives up his spirit, hanging in the midst of two robbers on a tree. What a humiliation, what a terrible death the Lord suffered at this time! And the question is: why such a terrible sacrifice was required?
The same ulcer was for our sins and was tormented for our iniquities, with His ulcer we are healed (Isaiah 53: 5), the holy prophet Isaiah answers. The entire human race was in sin. By the time the Savior came, people had forgotten God; forgotten His Divine Law and the Prophets even those Jews who were entrusted with keeping the Divinely revealed teachings. All sinned, all transgressed the commandments of God, and therefore all angered God and deserved eternal damnation and death. God is all-good and all-merciful, but He is also infinitely righteous. Divine truth was outraged by human untruth, human sins. It was necessary to satisfy this holy Truth. Of the people infected with sin, no one could take on the feat of redemption for the human race, because the sins were extremely great, and according to the gravity of sins, the sacrifice should have been the greatest. And this is the highest and holiest sacrifice made by the Son of God. So God love the world, as He gave His only begotten Son to eat, but everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have an eternal life (John 3:16). Death on the cross Savior we are redeemed from sin, curse and death. The blood of the Innocent was shed on the Cross so that the guilty could escape the wrath of God they deserve: with His ulcer we are healed. So, Christ die our sin for the sake of (1 Cor. 15: 3). What kindness and what ineffable mercy of God towards us sinners!
Nailed to the Cross and shedding His most pure Blood became an eternal Advocate for us before God the Father. His ulcerated hands embrace the entire human race with love and lead everyone to the Father. That which separated the Creator from creation, God from people, the Heavenly Father from the rebellious sons of men, was destroyed by the Calvary Sacrifice. The sting of death has been dulled, the gates of hell have been crushed, the power of the devil has been destroyed, freedom has been granted to faithful people and the gates of heaven have been opened, so that the Cross, the instrument of shameful death, has now become for all believers a precious and highest shrine, an invincible weapon in the struggle against the enemies of our salvation.
Erected on Golgotha, it shines brightly over the entire universe, warming with its rays our immortal souls, chilled from sins and sorrows. Come all to this Cross, look at it and find true peace. Just as Moses of old raised up a brazen serpent in the wilderness and everyone who looked at him received healing from the snake's bite and life, so the Cross of Christ, erected on Calvary, gives healing and rest to all our souls hurt by sins: Like Moses lifted up the serpent into desert, so it befits the Son of Man to ascend, but everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have an eternal life (John 3, 14-15). Such is the ineffable mercy of God to us, sinners, that at the mere thought of everything that Divine love has done for us, the unspoiled human heart should involuntarily be filled with the greatest gratitude to the Creator.
While honoring the Holy Cross now, let us, however, remember that our admiration for the Lord's Cross should not consist only in external actions and words, but should also be performed in the depths of our soul, our spirit. First of all, we need to realize that the Crucified on the Cross is the God-man, the Creator of the entire universe, and therefore the feeling of fear and awe should seize our souls when we kiss the Holy Cross.
Crucified on our Cross for the sake of our sins, the Lord wanted us, cleansed from sins by His Blood, to live for righteousness and to be holy in our entire life, and for this we would be worthy of eternal bliss in the Kingdom of His Father. And therefore, if we sin, we will be subjected to terrible punishment not only for our sins, but also for the Blood of the Son of God, which we trample on, and for the grace that we were sanctified in the Sacrament of Baptism and which we neglected. By our sins, do we not crucify the Lord a second time? Let us, in every possible way, guard ourselves from sins and vices and remain faithful to the Lord, remembering that firm faith attracts God's favor and mercy to us.
A Model of Steadfast Confession of Faith Church of God represents for us today the blessed memory of the holy martyrs of the Maccabees, who lived a century and a half before the birth of Christ. It was a difficult time for the Jewish people when the wicked Syrian king Antiochus Epiphanes, robbing Jerusalem and beating many thousands of Jews, raised an evil persecution against their faith, wishing to eradicate it to the end. To this end, he commanded the Jews under threat death penalty stop burnt offerings and sacrifices and libations in the sanctuary, abolish Saturdays and holidays, build pagan altars and offer pagan sacrifices there, abolish circumcision and generally change all previous religious beliefs, laws, customs and paternal customs.
At this time, for the consolation of the Jewish people, the Lord raised up many firm confessors of faith in the true God, who, not wishing to renounce the fatherly laws, choosing rather to die, even desecrated, and courageously endured martyrdom... Among them were the ninety-year-old elder Eleazar, the seven brothers of the Maccabees and their mother Solomonia.
Elder Eleazar was seduced by the torturers with the opportunity to make a sacrifice at least in pretense and thus save his life, but he, whitened with gray hair and filled with piety, answered: "It is not worthy of my age to be hypocritical to preserve the small life of my days ..." - and then he was mercilessly tormented.
Likewise, the holy brothers Maccabees, confessing their faith and hope for a future resurrection, courageously accepted one after another martyrdom, strengthened by the hope that the Lord would revive them in the future life. After all of them, their blessed mother Solomonia also gave up her spirit into the hands of God.
Dear brothers and sisters, with full consciousness of all the goodness and mercy of God, let us fall today to the Honorable Cross, this banner of our salvation, with true filial love we kiss the holy feet of the Savior, crying out to Him: We bow to Your Cross, O Lord, and glorify Your holy resurrection ! Amen.
Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)
1/14 August, on the first day of the Dormition Lent, the Church celebrates the Origin (wear) of the Honorable Trees of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord. According to the Charter, it refers to small holidays "with praise", but has one day of the forefeast.
Word "origin", or more precisely translated from Greek, then "Pre-origin", i.e. "Carrying ahead", implies the procession (procession of the cross) taking place on this day with a part of the original Tree of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord. Every year on the first day of August, a part of the Life-giving Cross, which was kept in the home church of the Greek emperors, was brought to the temple of Hagia Sophia and the water was consecrated to heal diseases. People kissed the Cross, on which Christ was crucified, drank the water consecrated by him and received long-awaited health.
Already in the Rite of the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus (912-959) there are detailed rules demolition of the Honorable Tree from the reliquary, performed before August 1. The Greek Book of Hours of 1897 explains this tradition as follows: "Due to illnesses, which very often occurred in August, the custom has long been established in Constantinople to carry the Honorable Tree of the Cross to the roads and streets to consecrate places and avert illnesses." That's what it is "Pre-origin" Of the Honest Cross. Therefore, the word was added to the name of the holiday "Wear and tear".
The holiday was established in the capital Byzantine Empire Constantinople in the 9th century, and in XII-XIII centuries he established himself in all Orthodox churches... In Russia, this holiday appeared with the spread of the Jerusalem charter at the end of the XIV century.
August 1 in the Russian Orthodox Church also takes place Feast of the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos in memory of signs from the honest icons of the Savior, the Most Holy Theotokos and the Holy Cross during the battles of the Greek king Manuel (1143-1180) with the Saracens and the holy noble prince Andrei Bogolyubsky (1157-1174) with the Volga Bulgarians in 1164.
In 1164 Andrey Bogolyubsky (son of Grand Duke Yuri Vladimirovich and grandson of the glorious Vladimir Monomakh) undertook a campaign against the Volga Bulgarians, pushing the oppressed inhabitants of the Rostov and Suzdal lands (Bulgarians, or Bulgars, were called the pagans who lived on the lower reaches of the Volga)... The prince took with him on a campaign against the Volga Bulgarians the miraculous icon, which he brought from Kiev and later received the name Vladimirskaya, and the Honest Cross of Christ. Before the battle, the pious prince, having partaken of the Holy Mysteries, turned with fervent prayer to the Mother of God, asking for the protection and patronage of the Lady: "Everyone who trusts in You, O Lord, will not perish, and I, a sinner, have a wall and a covering in You." Following the prince, before the icon, commanders and soldiers fell to their knees and, kissing the image, went against the enemy. Taking the field Russian army turned the Bulgarians to flight and, pursuing them, captured five cities, including the city of Bryakhimov on the Kama River. When they returned to their camp after the battle, they saw that from the icon of the Mother of God with the Infant Christ, light, like fiery rays emanate, illuminating the entire army. The wondrous sight even more aroused in the Grand Duke the spirit of courage and hope, and he again, turning his regiments in pursuit of the Bulgarians, pursued the enemy and burned most of their cities, putting tribute on the surviving ones.
According to legend, on the same day, thanks to the help from above, the Greek emperor Manuel won a victory over the Saracens (Muslims). Immutable proof of the miraculousness of both these victories was the huge fiery rays coming out from the icons of the Savior, the Mother of God and the Holy Cross that were in the army. These rays covered the shelves of the faithful rulers of Greece and Russia and were visible to all who fought. In memory of these miraculous victories, with the mutual consent of Prince Andrew and Emperor Manuel and with the blessing of representatives of the highest church authorities, it was established feast of the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos.
On this holiday, the carrying out of the Cross and worship of it is supposed to be in the temples. In the Russian Church, simultaneously with the celebration of the All-Merciful Savior, remembrance of the Baptism of Rus that took place on August 1, 988, in remembrance of what it is established to perform on this day small consecration of water.According to the order now accepted in the Russian Church, the small consecration of water on August 14, according to the new style, is performed before or after the liturgy. According to tradition, along with the blessing of water, the blessing of honey is performed. Therefore, the people called the holiday « Honey Savior».
Finally, the third holiday of the day - memory of the holy Old Testament martyrs of Maccabees who by the power of faith overcame the temptation of apostasy and, having endured a short-term torment, were vouchsafed salvation and eternal blessed life in the Kingdom of God.
The seven holy martyrs of the Maccabees: Abim, Antoninus, Guri, Eleazar, Eusebon, Adim and Markelles, as well as their mother Solomonia and teacher Eleazar, suffered in 166 BC. NS. from the Syrian king Antiochus Epiphanes. Antiochus Epiphanes, pursuing a policy of Hellenization of the population, introduced Greek pagan customs in Jerusalem and throughout Judea. He desecrated the Jerusalem temple, placing in it a statue of Olympian Zeus, to whom he forced the Jews to worship.
The 90-year-old elder - the teacher of the law Eleazar, who was judged for adherence to the Mosaic Law, went to torment with firmness and died in Jerusalem. The same courage was shown by the disciples of Saint Eleazar: the seven brothers of the Maccabees and their mother Solomonia. They, fearlessly recognizing themselves as followers of the True God, refused to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods.
The eldest of the boys, who was the first to answer the king on behalf of all seven brothers, was subjected to terrible tortures in front of the rest of the brothers and their mother; the other five brothers, one by one, endured the same torment. The seventh brother, the youngest, remained. Antiochus proposed to Saint Solomonia to persuade him to renounce, so that at least the last son would remain for her, but the courageous mother strengthened him in the confession of the True God. The boy endured the torment as hard as his older brothers.
After the death of all the children, Saint Solomonia, standing over their bodies, raised her hands with a prayer of gratitude to God and died.
The feat of the holy seven brothers Maccabees inspired the priest Mattathia and his sons, who raised a rebellion against Antiochus Epiphanes, which lasted from 166 to 160 BC. and, having won the victory, they cleansed the Jerusalem temple of idols.
Save, Lord, Thy people and bless Thy heritage, giving victories to resisting and preserving Thy Annaya with Your Cross your residence. (Troparion, voice 1)
Ascended to the Cross by the will, grant your generosity to your new habitation, Christ God, make us glad with your power, giving us victories to adversaries, an aid to those who have your weapon of peace an invincible victory (Kontakion, voice 4)
Thy Cross, O Lord, sanctify, in it there are healings for the weak in sin, for its sake we fall down Ti, have mercy on us (Sedalen voice 6)
The Feast of the Origin (or Passing) of the venerable trees of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord was established in Constantinople. In the Greek book of hours, the tradition of carrying out a part of the Lord's Cross is explained as follows: “Due to illnesses that very often happened in August, it has long been established in Constantinople to carry the Honorable Tree of the Cross to roads and streets to consecrate places and avert illnesses. On the eve, July 31st, having worn it out from the royal treasury, they put it on St. meal Great church(To Sofia). From now on, until the Dormition of the Theotokos, litias were performed throughout the city and the cross was offered to the people for worship. This is the pre-descent (προοδοσ) of the Holy Cross. " 
The very word "origin" (and in the exact translation "pre-descent") means "carrying in front", "procession with the cross" or "procession of the cross". To heal from diseases, people kissed the Cross, drank the water consecrated by it.
There is one more reason for the establishment of the holiday. In 1164, the Greek king Manuel opposed the Saracens, on the same day the Russian prince Andrei Bogolyubsky spoke out against the Bulgarians. On the campaign, the prince took the holy Cross of the Lord and the icon of the Mother of God, which were carried by the priests in front of the voyk, performing prayers and sprinkling blessed water warriors.
The Lord granted victory to the Greek tsar and the Russian prince. Both, armed with a shield of faith, and not only with spears and swords, in addition to victory, received another sign of God's blessing: from the icon of the Mother of God with the Christ Child, light poured out in the form of a radiant radiance that fell on all his army. A similar phenomenon from the icon of the Mother of God was observed by Tsar Manuel with his army. The prince and the king learned about the wonderful grace of the Lord, simultaneously poured out on both. After consulting with the bishops, it was decided to establish a feast for the Lord and His Most Pure Mother on August 1.
The holiday is dedicated to the Cross, the Feat of the Cross of the Savior. Hence the name - Spas. He is called the First Savior, as he is the first among the close in time holidays dedicated to the Savior. It is followed by the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord and the feast of the Image of the Savior Not Made by Hands.
According to custom, in churches, in addition to the consecration of water, honey is consecrated. Believers bring honey as a sign that the first harvest is to God. Consecrating the honey of the first honey harvest, people received a blessing for the entire harvest. According to tradition, some of the honey remained in the church, and some were given to the poor. There is even an expression: "On the First Savior and the beggar will try honey!" Hence the name of the First Savior - "honey".
Celebration The origin of the Honest and Life-giving Cross of the Lord occurs 14 august(August 1, Old Style). On the same day we celebrate the All-Merciful Savior.
The origin of the Honest and Life-giving Cross of the Lord. history of the holiday
According to legend, in Constantinople from ancient times (no later than the 8th century) there was a custom to take out the honest Tree of the Cross on the roads and streets to consecrate places and to drive away diseases. From August 1 (Old Style) and until the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, performing litias throughout the city, they offered the Cross to the people for worship. In the Russian Orthodox Church, this holiday was combined with the remembrance of the Baptism of Rus on August 1, 988. The news about this has been preserved in the chronograph of the 16th century: “ Baptized Grand Duke Vladimir of Kiev and All Russia August 1". In the charter of the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, drawn up in 1627 at the direction of Patriarch Filaret, the following explanation of this holiday is given:
And on the Origin on the day of the Honorable Cross, there is a course of consecration for the sake of water and enlightenment for the sake of mankind, in all cities and towns.
The celebration of the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos was established on the occasion of signs from the icons of the Savior, the Most Pure Virgin Mary and the Holy Cross during the battle of the holy noble Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky (1157-1174) with the Volga Bulgarians (1164), in which the enemies were defeated. At the same time, the Greek emperor Manuel defeated the Saracens in battle, and his troops also had signs from the holy icons. This is the first of the three feasts of the All-Merciful Savior, celebrated in August (the second is, and the third is the Transfer of the Image of Our Lord Jesus Christ not made by hands from Edessa to Constantinople).
The holiday was established in Constantinople in the 9th century, initially as a local one. In the XII-XIV centuries, it was established in all Orthodox churches. It appeared in Russia with the spread of the Jerusalem charter at the end of the XIV century.
The origin of the Cross of the Lord. Troparion and kontakion to the holiday
Troparion, voice 8
Despising the lofty, accepting the poor, look upon the Savior, and visit us with embittered sins, Master All-Merciful, with the prayers of the Mother of God, grant our souls great mercy.
Kontakion, voice 4
All filthiness of the All-Merciful and Savior, I am a doer, and the moat will sink into despair. But I groan from my heart, and cry out to You the Word, hurry up the generous ones, and reach out for our help, like the Merciful.
The origin of the Holy Cross. Icons
The composition consists of two parts: at the top is the worship of the Savior in the form of Deesis, and below it is a miraculous source with the sick receiving healing. The icon from the Intercession Monastery above the source depicts angels, and behind them is a cross, crowned with a wreath. This reminded of the main theme of the holiday - the worship of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord. As for Deesis, his image on Russian icons corresponded, apparently, to the traditional Russian dedication of the holiday of August 14, not only to the Cross, but also to the Savior and the Mother of God. The icon from the Intercession Monastery is one of the earliest surviving icons on this subject. According to a later legend, she was invested in a monastery. Basil III in 1515. Painting techniques do not contradict this date and, moreover, allow us to confidently assume that the icon was executed by the followers of Dionysius. It is possible that Dionysius was directly associated with the iconography of the "Origin of the Trees": it is known that in the 1480s he painted the Church of the Savior in Chigasy, located opposite the Kremlin, beyond the Yauza, and died in a fire in 1547. The dedication of the church in Chigasy to the All-Merciful Savior directly indicates the feast of August 14, and the temple icon performed by Dionysius could serve as a model for later works.
The origin of the honest trees of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord. 1510-1520s (about 1515?). Vladimir-Suzdal History, Art and Architecture Museum Reserve, Vladimir 
The origin of the honest trees of the Cross of the Lord. Double-sided extension icon. Turnover - Baptism of the Lord. Russian North. XVII century Central Museum ancient Russian culture and art to them. Andrey Rublev, Moscow 
The origin of the Honest trees of the Cross of the Lord. First quarter of the 16th century Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl
On the Solvychegodskaya (?) Icon in the center of the composition there is a cruciform well - a source to which people with an icon and a Cross approach from both sides. At the head of the procession are the saints. An angel hovering over the spring lowers the Cross into the font. The intricate architectural curtains in the background above indicate that the action takes place outside the city walls. The patrons and intercessors of the inhabitants of the city, who pray to Christ for mercy to them and the bestowal of blessings, are the Theotokos and John the Baptist, as evidenced by the image of the three-figure Deesis raised above the “city landscape”. A wide stream of water flows from the source down the mountain, to which people fall to heal from various ailments. The scene of the healing of the sick occupies a significant part of the icon's composition.
Folk traditions of the holiday of the Origin of the Holy Cross
The people called the holiday of the Origin of the Holy Cross of the Lord the "honey" Savior, and in some places even the "wet" one. These names originated from the fact that to the first Savior, i.e. honey, the bees cut the hives with honey for the second time and, having chosen the best linden honeycomb, carried them to the church "for the commemoration of the parents." On the same day, they brewed "copper" kvass and treated everyone who came to visit. The first Savior was called "Wet" because, according to the establishment of the church, on that day there was a procession of the cross to the rivers and springs for the consecration of water. And since the peasants not only bathed themselves after the procession, but used to bathe in the rivers and all the cattle, which seemed to be healthy after that, it is not surprising that the holiday itself was called "wet". The First Savior was especially revered in the southern zone of Great Russia, where bread and fruits were ripening earlier and where the role and significance of the Second Savior was attributed to this holiday, since the consecration of bread and vegetables in the south was very often carried out before the Transfiguration of the Lord, precisely on August 14.
August 14 is the day of remembrance of the seven Old Testament martyrs Maccabees, who died in 166 BC. NS. Folk etymology rethought the name of the holiday in connection with the poppy, which ripens by this time. On this day, Makan people were baked, and macaques were baked - lean pies, rolls, buns, gingerbread cookies with poppy seeds and honey. The meal often began with pancakes with poppy seeds. Poppy milk was prepared for pancakes - a poppy-honey mass in which pancakes were dipped. Poppy milk was prepared in a special dish, which in Russia was called makalnik, in Ukraine - makitra, in Belarus - makater. Poppy is mentioned in many proverbs, sayings, choral songs and riddles: "Machok with honey - you will lick your mustache", "Cheren poppy, but boyars eat", "I am glad Jacob that pie with poppy seeds", "Remember poppy, do not be angry and so" , "There is a town on a stamen, there are seven hundred governors in it." On Maccabee day, the youth danced round dances with the song "Oh, on the Poppy Mountain", with playful round dance flirtations, the girls showered the guy with poppy seeds, pinched him, tickled him, singing: "Poppies, poppies, poppies, golden heads!"
Spasov day in the north. I. M. Pryanishnikov, 1887 In some Serbian villages, water and young basil were blessed on Medovy Spas. From that day on, they stopped swimming in reservoirs. It was believed that those who work on this day can get an incurable disease. In Macedonia, the weather during the Maccabees (6 or 12 days of Maccabees) served to predict the weather for the next 6 months or for the entire next year(The weather for August 1 predicted the weather for January next year, etc.). Bulgarians from 1 to 12 August observed the sun, wind and precipitation and thus wondered about the weather for the next 12 months, that is, on next year which used to start on September 1. In northwestern Bulgaria, the sons-in-law went to visit their wife's parents, where they were greeted with bread from the new harvest and wine, in connection with which the day was called “Zetovden”.
: The origin of the Honorable Trees of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord; the feast of the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos (Honey Savior); to the seven martyrs of Macavee. At the all-night vigil, the Cross is brought out for worship, at the liturgy, water and honey are blessed. The troparion is sung to the Cross: Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy heritage, giving victories to the resisting, and thy preserving thy dwelling with the Cross.
The origin (wear) of the Honorable Trees of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord
Vespers and Matins with Doxology
The beginning of the Assumption Lent. Seven martyrs Maccabees: Abim, Antonin, Guria, Eleazar, Eusebone, Alim and Markelles, their mother Solomon and their teacher Eleazar (166 BC). Feast of the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos (1164).
Note: Before the beginning of the evening service, the priest will wear out the honest Cross from the vault, place it on the altar on a dish covered with a veil, and decorate the Cross with a wreath of fresh flowers.
VERSES for the Lord I have cried:
Lord, cry out to you, hear me. / Hear me, Lord.
Lord, cry out to you, hear me: / hear the voice of my prayer, / always cry out to you. / Hear me, Lord.
May my prayer be corrected, / like a censer before You, / lifting my hand / is the evening sacrifice. / Hear me, Lord.
[Honest and life-giving Cross of the Lord]:
If the lawlessness is nazrishi, Lord, Lord, who will stand; / as you have cleansing.
During the day, the multitude of the Divine rejoices the faithful: / the Heavenly Cross appears at the ends, / shines on the solid with unapproachable light, / illuminates the air, / and decorates the face of the earth. / sings the church of Christ with the Divine songs, / serves to honor, / from above you observe / the Cross is Divine and most wonderful. / we strengthen him with strength, / let us call the Lord: / calm the world, and enlighten our souls.
In Thy name for Thy patience, O Lord, my soul suffer in Thy word, / my soul trusts in the Lord.
May the creature rejoice and play: / day bo lusta the Cross at the ends with Nebese, / earthly enlightening, / and co-consummated showing waste. / for the day the men rejoice with the angels' faces, / for the scolding environment / The cross is destroyed, / in one all the jave are combined. / the foreshadowing theme more than the sun, / all creation enlightens grace, / and clarifies and saves / truly the one who reads.
From the guard of the morning to the night, from the guard of the morning, may Israel hope in the Lord.
More sunny dawns, / although the world is like an honest scepter, / the king of Christ, / and I will finish showing, / the Divine cross is present clearly at the ends. / you will build a kind of man out of hell, / you have captured hell, / you have brought down the enemy, / you will destroy the demons' pride to the end. / now he manifests the resurrection of salvation, / and saves those who call, / calm the world, and enlighten our souls.
For the Lord has mercy, and He has much deliverance, and He will deliver Israel from all his iniquities.
[Seven Martyrs Maccabees]:
The law of the Upper, the seven pillars is exalted, / torment does not shake: / for the cattle / the persecutor of anger / courageously endured, / the body before the sever, / the blessed youth of the Hebrew brethren, / my brethren.
Praise the Lord, all tongues, praise Him, all people.
More visible / the mind is truly exalted, / the goodness of the flesh is cut off, / of piety and the goodness of the Trinity, / with the mother of God, / great hopes vzhilyaemi, / I already have / I have already gotten it.
As if His mercy was established on us, and the truth of the Lord abides forever.
For spiritual virtue / firmly for oneself armed, / and fierce as prevailed, / against the fighter, very diligent / piety, / and the law of fatherly guardianship, / sacred / most youthful
Saints Maccabees and tormenting glagolah: we, O antiosh, there is one king God, from him that was, and we turn to him: the world waits for in us, seemingly the most exalted, her most grave, and hardest and hardest: Lord, have mercy on them with prayers, and save us.
Whose drevle Moses foreshadowed him, Amalek deposed Wins: David pesnopevets, foot your, crying, klanyatisya povelevashe, honest Thy Cross, O Christ our God, this day sinners bow, oral unworthy thee izvolivshago prigvozditisya on it, we sing we pray: Lord, a robber kingdom give us your honor.
Quiet light of holy glory, / Immortal, Heavenly Father, / Holy Blessed, Jesus Christ. / Having come to the west of the sun, / having seen the evening light, / we sing the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, God. / You are worthy at all times / there are no voices of the reverend, / Son of God, give your belly, / the same the world glorifies Thee.
Prokemen, voice 1: Your mercy, O Lord, / will marry me all the days of my life.
Poetry: The Lord grazes me, and will deprive me of nothing, in the place of the zlak, there you instilled in me.
Grant, Lord, in this evening we shall be saved without sin. Blessed art thou, O Lord, our Father God, and praised and glorified your name forever. Amen.
Bless, Lord, Thy mercy on us, as trust in Thee. Blessed art thou, Lord, teach me with Thy justification. Blessed art thou, Master, give me reason with Thy justification. Blessed art thou, Holy One, enlighten me with Thy justification.
Lord, Thy mercy forever, despise not Thy hand works. Praise befits you, singing befits you, glory begs for you, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.
Verses on verses:
Cross is Thy Lord,/ life and intercession by Thy people eat, / and hopeful, / I will sing to You, I will eat our God, // have mercy on us.
To Thee have I lifted up my eyes to the One who dwells in Heaven. Behold, you will find slaves in the hand of your masters, as you will find slaves in the hand of your mistress: so ours to our Lord God, / dondezhe will give us.
Thy Cross, Lord, / Paradise opened up to the human race, / and from decay I was expelled, / I sing to You, praising the plane of God, // have mercy on us.
Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us, as for much of the humiliation we have done: most of all, our soul will be replenished with the abuse of the gospels: / and the humiliation of the proud.
Suffering you for the sake of Christ, / enduring a lot of torment, / and perfect perception of the crowns in Heaven: // yes they pray for our souls.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
[Martyrs]:
The souls of the righteous in the hand of the Lord, as Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, before the law of the forefathers, and the Maccabees of the great-dear, now praised from us: because of the greatness of Abraham and Isaac and Jaacob. Godly brought up, and rightly suffered, the wickedness of the reproach of the proud antiochos: and nothing is preferred over the temporary life of everlasting life, all God has laid down: I feel good, I feel good. O root of godliness, out of it you are vegetation, Maccabees! About the mother of the saint, the birth is the number of the seven months! But Molem you, Maccabees, with your mother Solomon, and the wise priest Eleazar, when you come to Christ God, he labored for his sake, you worked the fruits of you, and you were afraid of him, I am glad ...
And now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
[Cross]:
The voice of your prophet, Moses, O God, be fulfilled, vow: behold your living, hanging before you stripped. Day the Cross is lifted up, and the world is freed from the forest: during the day Christ's Resurrection is renewed, and the ends of the earth rejoice, in Kimvalech David the song brings you goodness and happiness: rejoicing and salvation is resurrection in the midst of the earth salvation Almighty Lord, glory to you.
Now let go of Thy servant, Master, according to Thy word, in peace; as if my eyes saw Thy salvation, Thou hast prepared before the face of all people, light for the revelation of tongues, and the glory of Thy people Israel.
GLORY, AND NOW:
Save, Lord, your people, and bless your property, granting victories to the resisting, and yours keeping your dwelling with the Cross.
END OF EVENING. THE BEGINNING OF THE MORNING
(the light turns off, the six psalms are read: Psalms 3, 37, 62, 87, 102, 142)
During the singing, the priest charges a dish with the Cross on the head, preceding the candle bearer with a candle and a deacon with a censer, transfers the Cross to the throne and places it in the Gospel place, and the Gospel (usually in advance, before the transfer) delivers it to the high place of the throne, where it is placed. after reading at the Liturgy.
A lighted candle on the candlestick is delivered before the throne.
God is the Lord, and appear to us, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord
Troparion of the Cross of the Lord, Tone 1
(twice):
Diseases of the saints, and what I have suffered about you, I beg you, Lord, and heal all our diseases, humanity, we pray.
GLORY:
Troparion of the Maccabean Martyrs, Tone 1:
Diseases of the saints, and what I have suffered about you, I beg you, Lord, and heal all our diseases, humanity, we pray.
AND NOW:
Troparion of the Cross of the Lord
(see above)
After kathisma, CANON is read
(in the songs of the canon, read from the beginning of the anointing of parishioners with oil, the meaning and beauty of the events celebrated today by the Church are revealed)
On canon 9: Song of the Most Holy Theotokos:
My soul magnifies the Lord / and my spirit rejoices in the Boz, My Savior.
The most honest Cherubim / and the most glorious without comparison Seraphim, /
without the corruption of God the Word who gave birth, / the existing Mother of God, We magnify Thee.
As a lookout for humility, His servants, / behold, from now on they will please Me all the birth.
For make Me greatness Mighty, and holy is His name, and His mercy for generations and generations that fear Him
Create power with your arm, / waste their hearts with pride.
Depose the mighty from the throne, / and lift up the humble one, fill the hungry with blessings, / and release the rich one.
Perceive His child's Israel, / remember mercy, / as a verb to our father, / Abraham and his seed even to the age.
After the canon: VERSES on praises:
Let every breath praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord from heaven, / praise Him in the highest. / A song to God befits you.
Praise Him, all His angels, / praise Him, all His powers. / A song to God befits you.
Execute judgment in them is written: / This glory will be to all His monastic ones.
[Holy Cross]:
Heavenly procession / The honest cross is prepared for all, / to that worshiping with an unbelievable faith: / and the face of immaterial powers, / who is nailed to it, / combines the love of singing that.
Praise God in His holy saints; / Praise Him in the confirmation of His power.
Trusting in faith to the honest Cross, / upon it, we will sing to the Lord: by beating / speaking together and cleansing the soul, / and by the radiance of this thought we will understand, / praising him.
Praise Him for His power; / Praise Him according to the abundance of His majesty.
The grief of the tree delighting Moses, / save Israel, / the image of the Cross, writing: / we are this in all faith, / secretly and divinely imagining in our hearts, / we are always saved by holding it.
Praise him with a trumpet; / praise him in psalms and gosleh.
[Muchenikov]:
Long-suffering mother, having summoned her children to the feat, vowel: follow Abraham sedine, and partake of the sacrifice of Isaac. to the same accepts, instructing, teaching prepossessing, another on the friend of the languor of torment is seen: with prayers, O God, have mercy on us.
Praise Him with the timpan and face, / Praise Him with the strings and organ.
The seven pillars of election, from the single stone of the word, were cut off, unshakable showing the law of the pillars. the same blessing, salvation, our souls will be preserved in the world.
Praise Him in the cymbals of the good-hearted, praise Him in the cymbals of exclamation. / Let every breath praise the Lord.
Like the law, custody, and the sons of Solomon, who are afraid of the judges, to the crying of the antioch: we, antioshe, endure for the fatherly law. He will not excommunicate us, neither fire, nor sword, nor beast, nor wounds: but together we will die with the old woman, and the teacher of the father, who lives and rejoices in everlasting ages.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
[Martyrs]:
Come to the Maccabees, come, let us see the courage of faith: the tormentor is the king, keeping all the tongues, keep from the old man and the children of seven, and one wife. with the same prayers, O God, have mercy on us.
And now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
[Holy Cross]:
Allowance, Lord, to subtle David to conquer a foreigner, help our faithful army, and with the weapon of the Cross put down our enemies. Show me, graciously, on us your ancients of mercy: and let them understand truly, as you are God, and in those who hope to overcome, praying as usual to your veneration, Mother of God, gifts
Note: Before the singing of the great doxology (usually during the singing of the canon or the praising stichera), the primate wears all the priestly garments.
Great praise:
Glory to Thee, who showed us the light!
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill in men. We praise Thee, bless Thee, bow down, praise Thee, thank Thee great for Thy glory.
Lord, Heavenly King, God, Father Almighty, Lord, the Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and Holy Soul. Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Plant the sins of the world, accept our prayer. Sit on the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For Thou art the One Holy; You are the One Lord, Jesus Christ, to the glory of God the Father, amen.
All day I will bless You and praise Your name forever, and forever and ever. Grant, Lord, to us to be saved without sin on this day!
Blessed are you, O Lord God our father, and your name is praised and glorified forever, amen.
Bless, Lord, Thy mercy on us, as trust in Thee.
Blessed art thou, Lord, teach me with Thy justification. (three times)
God! Thou art a refuge for us in generation and generation. Az rekh: Lord! have mercy on me, heal my soul, as for those who sinned You.
God! I have come to You: teach me to do Your will, as you are my God, as you have the source of the belly, in your light we will see the light. Add Thy mercy to Thy guides!
(three times)
Glory, and now: Holy Immortal, have mercy on us.
Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us!
Note: During the singing of the doxology, the primate (dressed in all sacred garments) performs with the deacon three times censing around the throne. At the end of the great doxology, during the singing of the Trisagion, bowing earthly three times, the primate takes the Cross on the head (when singing the final one: "Holy God ...") and proceeds (through a high place) through the northern doors (it is preceded by a candle-bearer with a candle and a deacon with a censer ) to the royal gates. At the end of the Trisagion, the primate pronounces in the royal doors: "Wisdom, forgive" 1. The singers sing three times the troparion of the Cross, voice 1: "Save, O Lord, Thy people ...". The priest, preceded by the candle-bearer and the deacon, goes to the middle of the church, where he places the Cross on a lectern prepared in advance and performs censing around it three times. The clergy sings three times: "To Thy Cross ..." (each time completing the singing bow to the ground), the same chant is repeated three times by the singers.
The worship of the Cross is performed, kissing it while singing the stichera:
Voice 2: Come, faith, let us adore the life-giving tree, in Christ the king is glorious, he has extended his hand, lifted us up to the first bliss, even before the enemy (p. 23), exorcising God. Come, faith, we will worship the tree, and we, being able to help the invisible enemies, will crush the heads. Come, all the fatherland of tongues, the Cross of the Lord to the songs of almost: rejoice, Cross, the fallen adam perfect deliverance, for thee most faithful king our praise is praised, I love thy now kissing Christians with fear, we glorify God who has been nailed on you, gloriously: Lord, who has been nailed for this, have mercy on us, for I am blessed and lover of mankind.
Voice 5: See you all creatures on the Cross, hanging on the Cross, the creator and creator of all, changing by fear, and sobbing: the sun darkened the sun, and the earth trembled, the stone dissipated. The deaths were raised from the tombs, and the angels' powers were terrified, glorious. about a miracle! the judge judges, and suffers though for the salvation of the world and renewal.
Voice 8: During the day, the Lord of creation, and the Lord of glory, is nailed on the Cross, and pierced through the ribs! bile and otsta tastes, the sweetness of the church: Wentz from thorns subject: pokryvayay sky clouds, clothing clothe desecration: and buffeted Brenna's hand, the hand of creating man: for pleschema bien happens odevayay sky clouds: zaplevaniya and wounds accept, vilification and zausheniya and all endures me for the sake of the condemned, my deliverer and God, may he save the world from delight, for he is gracious.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, both now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
While inviolable to creatures, it touches me, and suffers from passions, free me from passions: give light to the blind, from the wicked mouths it spits on, and splashes captive. this pure virgin and mother on the cross seeing, painful thing: alas, my chalo, what have you done this? a red, kind person, more than all other people, breathless and mindless, appearing without appearance, is lower than kindness. Alas me, my light, I can’t sleep to see you, I am hurt in the morning, and my heart’s fierce weapon passes by: I sing of your passions, I bow down to your goodness, you have patience.
Note: According to the Charter, at matins after the bearing of the Cross, before worshiping it, the blessing of the water is performed, or before the clock and the Liturgy. In practice, it happens that the blessing of water takes place after the Liturgy.
MAIN TEXTS OF THE SERVICE AND SONGS FOR PUBLIC SONGS
The origin (wear) of the honest trees of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord.
LITURGY
The beginning of the Assumption Lent. Seven martyrs Maccabees: Abim, Antonin, Guria, Eleazar, Eusebone, Alim and Markelles, their mother Solomon and their teacher Eleazar (166 BC). Feast of the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos.
Bless my soul, Lord, Blessed art thou, Lord.
Bless, my soul, the Lord, and all my inner, His holy name.
Bless the Lord, my soul, and do not forget all His rewards.
Cleansing all your iniquities, healing all your ailments.
Thy belly that delivers from decay, crowning thee with mercy and generosity.
Fulfilling your desire for good: your youth will be renewed like an eagle.
The Lord is generous and merciful, long-suffering and merciful.
Bless, my soul, the Lord, and all my inner life, His holy name.
Blessed art thou, Lord.
2nd antiphon:
Praise, my soul, the Lord.
I will praise the Lord in my belly, I sing to my God, as long as I am.
Do not rely on the princes, on the sons of man, in them there is no salvation.
His spirit will go out and return to his land: on that day all his thoughts will perish.
Blessed is the same God Jacob his helper, his trust in the Lord his God,
created heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them;
keeping the truth in the age, doing judgment to the offended, giving food to the hungry.
The Lord will decide the fettered; The Lord makes the blind men wise;
The Lord raises the overthrown; The Lord loves the righteous;
The Lord protects the strangers, he will receive the sire and the widow, and he will destroy the path of sinners.
The Lord will reign forever. Thy God, Zion, to generation and generation.
Only begotten son And to the Word of God, He is immortal, and who delighted in our salvation for the sake of incarnation from the Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, immutably incarnate, God crucified in Christ, right through death, One of the Holy Trinity, glorified by the Father and the Holy Spirit, save us.
Blessed:
In Thy Kingdom, remember us, Lord, when you come in Thy Kingdom.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for those are the Kingdom of Heaven.
The blessedness of crying, for they will be comforted.
The blessedness of crotzia, for they will inherit the earth.
The blesses of hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
Blessedness of mercy, as there will be mercy.
Blessed are those who are pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God.
Be blessed to drive out the truth for the sake of those who are the Kingdom of Heaven.
Be blessed, of course, when they revile you, and wear them out, and rekut every evil verb against you, lying to Me for the sake of
Rejoice and be merry, for your wages are much in heaven.
During the Little Entrance with the Gospel:
Come let's bow down and let us fall to Christ.
Save us, Son of God, wondrous in the saints, singing Ti: Alleluia.
Troparion of the Cross of the Lord, voice 1:
Save, Lord, Thy people / and bless Thy property, / giving victories to the resistance / and Thy keeping with Thy Cross the residence.
Troparion of the Maccabean Martyrs, Tone 1:
By the diseases of the saints, by the image of you who will suffer, / beseechfully awake, Lord, / and heal all our diseases, // Humanity, we pray.
GLORY:
Kontakion of the Maccabean Martyrs, Tone 4:
The wisdom of God is the pillars of the seven-numbered / and the Divine Light of the lamp of the seventh light, / Maccabees of all-wisdom, / before the martyrs and the martyrs, / with them pray to God above all / save those who honor you.
AND NOW:
Kontakion of the Cross of the Lord, voice 4:
Ascended to the Cross by will, / the same name of your new residence / grant your bounty, Christ God, / make us glad with your power, / giving us victories to our enemies, / assistance to those who have your weapon of peace / invincible victory.
Prokemen, voice 6: WITH Shepherd, O Lord, Thy people / and bless Thy inheritance.
Poem: To You, Lord, I will call, my God, but do not keep silent from me.
Prokemen, voice 4: To the saints, who are the essence of His land, the Lord amaze all His wills in them
The Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians (Chapter 1:18 - 24)
[Of the cross of the Lord]
Brothers, the word about the cross is foolishness for those who are perishing, but for us, who are being saved, it is the power of God. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will reject the understanding of the prudent. Where is the sage? Where is the scribe? Where is the co-questioner of this age? Hasn't God turned the wisdom of this world into madness? For when the world by its wisdom did not know God in the wisdom of God, then it was pleasing to God to save the believers by the foolishness of preaching. For both the Jews demand miracles, and the Greeks seek wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, for the Jews a temptation, and for the Greeks folly, for the very called ones, Jews and Greeks, Christ, God's power and God's wisdom.
[Martyrs Maccabees]:
The Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Hebrews (chapter 11:33 - 12: 2)
The brethren, all the saints conquered kingdoms by faith, did righteousness, received promises, blocked the lips of lions, extinguished the power of fire, avoided the edge of the sword, strengthened themselves from weakness, were strong in war, drove away strangers' regiments; wives received their dead resurrected; others were tortured, not accepting liberation in order to receive a better resurrection; others experienced abuse and beatings, as well as bonds and prison, were stoned, sawed off, tortured, died by the sword, wandered in mantles and goat skins, enduring shortcomings, sorrows, bitterness; those, whom the whole world was not worthy of, wandered through the deserts and mountains, through the caves and gorges of the earth. And all these, who are testified in faith, did not receive the promise, because God provided something better for us, so that they would not reach perfection without us. Therefore, we also, having such a cloud of witnesses around us, will cast off every burden and sin that beset us, and with patience we will walk the course that is set before us, looking at the author and perfecter of our faith, Jesus.
THE GOSPEL of John (chapter 19)
[Of the cross of the Lord]
At that time, all the chief priests and elders had a conference about Jesus to put him to death; and they took Him to Pontius Pilate, and shouted: Take, take, crucify Him! Pilate says to them: take him you, and crucify him; for I find no fault in Him. The Jews answered him: We have a law, and according to our law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God. Pilate, hearing this word, was more afraid. And again he entered the praetorium and said to Jesus: Where are you from? But Jesus did not give him an answer. Pilate saith to him: Are you not answering me? do you not know that I have the power to crucify You and the power to let You go? Jesus answered: you would not have had any power over me if it had not been given to you from above. Pilate, hearing this word, took Jesus out and sat down at the judgment seat, in a place called Lyphostroton, or in Hebrew Gavvaf. Then it was Friday before Easter, and the sixth hour. And Pilate said to the Jews, Behold your King! But they cried out: Take, take, crucify Him! Pilate says to them: Will I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar. Then at last he delivered Him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus and led him away. And, carrying His cross, He went out to the place called Skull, in Hebrew Golgotha; there they crucified Him, and with Him two others, on one side and on the other, and in the midst of Jesus. Pilate also wrote the inscription and put it on the cross. It was written: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. This inscription was read by many of the Jews, because the place where Jesus was crucified was not far from the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Roman. At the cross of Jesus stood His Mother and His Mother's sister, Mary of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. Jesus, seeing the Mother and the disciple standing here, whom he loved, says to His Mother: Woman! Here is your son. Then he says to the disciple: here is thy Mother! And from that time on, this disciple took her to him. After that, Jesus, knowing that everything had already been completed, bowing his head, gave up the spirit. But since it was Friday then, the Jews, so as not to leave the bodies on the cross on Saturday, - for that Saturday was a great day, - asked Pilate to break their legs and take them off. So the soldiers came, and they broke the legs of the first, and of the other, who was crucified with Him. But when they came to Jesus, as they saw Him already dead, they did not break His legs, but one of the soldiers pierced His ribs with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out. And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true.
[Martyrs Maccabees]:
GOSPEL of Luke (chapter 10:32 - 11: 1)
The Lord said to His disciples: everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess before My Father in Heaven; but whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father in Heaven. Do not think that I have come to bring peace to earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword, for I came to set a man apart from his father, and a daughter with her mother, and a daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law. And a man's enemies are his household. And when Jesus finished instructing his twelve disciples, he passed over from there to teach and preach in their cities.