No Fast
1Dajemo vam pak na znanje, braæo, blagodat Božiju koja je dana u crkvama Maæedonskima, 2Da u mnogome kušanju nevolja suvišak radosti njihove i puko siromaštvo njihovo izobilova u bogatstvu prostote njihove. 3Jer po moguæstvu njihovu ja sam svjedok) i preko moguæstva dobrovoljni bijahu, 4I s mnogijem moljenjem moliše nas da primimo blagodat i zajednicu službe k svetima. 5I ne kao što se nadasmo nego najprije sebe predaše Gospodu i nama, po volji Božijoj,
1Sazvavši pak dvanaestoricu dade im silu i vlast nad svijem ðavolima, i da iscjeljuju od bolesti. 2I posla ih da propovijedaju carstvo Božije, i da iscjeljuju bolesnike. 3I reèe im: ništa ne uzimajte na put, ni štapa ni torbe ni hljeba ni novaca, niti po dvije haljine da imate. 4U koju kuæu uðete ondje budite i odande polazite. 5I gdje vas ne prime izlazeæi iz grada onoga otresite i prah s nogu svojijeh, za svjedoèanstvo na njih. 6A kad iziðoše, iðahu po selima propovijedajuæi jevanðelje i iscjeljujuæi svuda.
Hieron was a farmer from Tyana in Cappadocia, known for his great bodily strength as well as purity of soul. Hearing of his prowess, imperial soldiers came to draft him into the army. Knowing that he would be required to make sacrifice to the idols, Hieron drove them off with only a wooden stave, then hid in the wilderness. Later, however, he went to the Governor voluntarily and openly confessed his faith in Christ. For this his right hand was cut off and he was imprisoned with thirty-two other believers. As they awaited their end, Hieron strengthened the others in the Faith. All were beheaded together outside Melitene in Armenia.
He was born in Northubria in England around 638. At the age of seven he was sent to the monastery at Ripon for education under St Wilfrid (April 24), the abbot. At the age of twenty he traveled to Ireland to live among the holy monks of that land; he spent twelve years there as the spiritual child of St Egbert (also April 24). In 690 St Egbert sent Willibrord as head of a company of twelve monks to take the Gospel to the pagan lands around Frisia. The holy missionary first went to Rome to receive the blessing of Pope Sergius, then with his fellow-monks preached the Gospel throughout Holland and Zealand. In 695 Pope Sergius consecrated Willibrord Archbishop of Utrecht, instructing him to organize the Church throughout that area. As Archbishop, Willibrord continued to labor tirelessly for the spread of the Gospel in those pagan lands; his missionary travels took him as far as Denmark. He reposed in peace in 739 at Echternach Monastery (located in present-day in Luxembourg), having served for forty-four years as a bishop and for most of his life as a monastic. His tomb soon became a place of pilgrimage.