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... of the lawless tyrants. But, discerning by heavenly inspiration the burning of their spirits, for that reason you set ablaze the temple of idols and despised their cults. Now, for us who celebrate the day of your martyrdom in victorious battle, intercede before the Lord for our souls.

RUBRIC: [For the] Forty Martyrs [lit. 'Forty Children/Youths']

Advancing from glory to your glory, O CHRIST, your Catholic Church is greatly illumined; for those crowned by you, having hastened to heaven, are martyred in Sebasteia unto the shame and stoning of the face of the slanderer [the Devil]. They who also encouraged one another, that no one, dissolving through the baths of this transient [life], should fall short; but virtuously making stealth, having stripped oneself, might revolve into the wheels of the divine treasures, crying out unto CHRIST. Now, through their intercession, receive also the adoption of this our assembly into the hope of those who love you: Lord, glory to you!

[THE SONG] OF THE THREE YOUTHS

[You] Who rest upon the Cherubim and are praised by the fiery hosts, descended to