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Paul of Thessalonica, Archbishop of Constantinople (Constantinople), was one of the victims of the upheaval by which the pernicious Arian heresy long rocked the Orthodox Church.
Paul ascended the patriarchal throne several times and was removed from it several times, depending on the influence that prevailed in the bloody struggle between the Arians and the Orthodox. He always showed himself to be an unshakable confessor and a pillar of orthodoxy.
Emperor Constantius sent him into exile in the Asia Minor region of Cappadocia, in the city of Cuco. There, Paul was strangled with his own omoforion.
This happened in 350. In 381, his relics were transferred to Constantinople, and from there to Venice, where they are found to this day.
Santa Claudia Proculus is the wife of Pontius Pilate. According to the Gospel, she immediately believed in Christ and rebuked her husband for putting the innocent to death. In the Greek, Coptic, and Ethiopian Orthodox churches, his memory is honored on October 27 on the Julian calendar.
Saint Luke came from the Sicilian city of Tauromenia. From a very young age he diligently attended the churches of God and not only listened to but also executed the Divine Scriptures. And when his parents decided to find him a wife, one night he left their house and went to an uninhabited desert.
After spending 14 days fasting, St. Luke was honored with a divine and angelic visitation. Finally he went to a monastery, where he became a monk and gave himself up to a harsh life of fasting: he tasted a little bread and water every three or four days and hardly slept. He lived like this for a year and a half.
Then, together with another monk, he withdrew to Mount Etna, where he fought, feeding only on the grass that grew on this mountain. He rested a little, slept a little.
He wore only one garment at all times and walked barefoot. He made a rule not to leave his cell until he had read the entire Psalms. According to the revelation he received, he went to a place where he gathered 12 monks and with great diligence arranged their lives. Because of this, the monk went to Byzantium, where he became familiar with the structure of monastic dormitories.
From there he went to Corinth, where, after living in a monastery for no more than seven months, he died peacefully in the Lord.
On November 6 the feast of the miraculous icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated: “Joy of all those who cry” (“Joy of all those who cry”).
The meaning of the icon is strengthened in faith in the Holy Mother of God as a wonderful intercessor, who is everywhere where the groans of suffering people are heard. Wipe away the tears of crying and in suffering gives minutes of heavenly comfort and joy.
Everyone with the names Pavel, Pavlina, Pavleta, Klavdia and Luka has a birthday.
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