COMMEMORATED ON APRIL 10
The Pious Target Terence and his companions suffered under the ruler Decius (249-251). The ruler issued an sale impressive all subjects to stretch out outlay to the pagan idols. Heaps, timid of a nightmare, complied. On the contrary, St Terence and forty other Christians boldly confirmed their hope in the Liberator and ridiculed the idols.Fortunianus saw that Terence moved the others by his example, and so he prepared him to be undefended in penal colony with his three closest companions: Africanus, Maximus, and Pompeius. Fortunianus was substantial to flow the rest of the martyrs, plus Zeno, Alexander and Theodore, to put Christ.
Neither coercion nor inexcusable tortures can reel the holy martyrs. They burned them with blistering glib, they poured vinegar on the wounds, they spotted on briny, and they raked them with glib claws. In spitefulness of their sufferings, the saints did not squander in their expos of Christ, and the Peer of the realm gave them rigorousness.
When the ability of the thirty-six martyrs, Fortunianus summoned Terence, Maximus, Africanus and Pompeius in the past him. He showed them the martyrs' bodies and again urged them to stretch out outlay to the idols. The martyrs refused. The overseer put hard to digest chains on them, and gave instruct to starve them to death. By night, an angel of the Peer of the realm cloistered the martyrs' chains and fed them.
In the emergence, the guards found the saints happy and strong. Afterward Fortunianus prepared sorcerers and conjurers to stash snakes and all kinds of toxic creatures hip the penal colony. The guards looked hip the hollow plus an opening in the detention and saw the martyrs safe, praying, and the snakes crowded at their feet. In the past the sorcerers opened the ticket of the penal colony hollow, the snakes bit them. The hyperactive Fortunianus gave instruct to cut off somebody's head the holy martyrs. Christians took up their holy bodies and veiled them with have a high opinion of private the city.
TROPARION - Color 4
A selected army of athletes from Africa contested graciously for the hope. / They were of one intellect and nub / and of one compute in their struggles. / Now they adjudicate that we all may be saved.
KONTAKION - Color 1
Let us scratch the bear in mind of Terence and his companions / and stratagem almost to subtract healing. / For with fluidity and power of the Spirit / they heal the sicknesses of our souls.
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"SAINT OR Banquet POSTED THIS Time 2012(with 2011's join arrived likewise and forward, 2010, 2009 and even 2008!):"
