On the 10th of the month, we celebrate the Memory of the FORTY-FIVE Martyrs of NICOPOLIS in Armenia; the Holy Fathers in the Desert of NITRIA, put to death on the orders of Theophilus, Archbishop of Alexandria; the Venerable PARTHENIUS and EUMENIUS, restorers of the Monastery of KOUDOUMA on Crete; the Holy Hieromartyr JOSEPH of DAMASCUS; our Venerable Father, the God-bearing ANTONY, Founder of the Lavra of the KIEV CAVES and the Father of Russian Monasticism
