9 February 2025 (MIA)

Macedonian Orthodox Church Calendar

Translation of Relics of St. John Chrysostom

The Church celebrates the memory of this saint on November 13th and January 30th, but on this day is celebrated the translation of his honoured relics from the Armenian village of Comana, where he died in exile in 407, to Constantinople where earlier, as Patriarch, he had governed the Church. Before the translation, many of the sick, on touching the coffin, were healed. When the saint was carried into the Church of the Holy Apostles and placed on the patriarchal throne, the assembled throng heard these words from his mouth: `Peace be with you all!’ The translation of the relics of St John Chrysostom was carried out in the year 438.

Catholic Calendar

St. Apollonia, Virgin, Martyr, Patroness of dentists

She was a deaconess well advanced in years who was martyred at Alexandria during an outbreak of popular violence towards the end of the reign of the Emperor Philip. When the mob seized her, her teeth were knocked out and she was threatened with burning, but so anxious was she to achieve martyrdom that she flung herself into the flames before her persecutors were ready. She is shown in pictures with a golden tooth suspended on her necklace and holding a tooth in a pair of pincers, and she is invoked against toothache.