St. Alexander Nevsky
St. Alexander Nevsky (1220-1263) was the holy Prince of Novgorod and later Grand Prince of Vladimir, one of the great defenders of Orthodox Russia.
He earned the name Nevsky by defeating a Swedish invasion force at the River Neva in 1240, having told his men beforehand that God is not in power but in truth, and in 1242 he crushed the Teutonic Knights at the famous Battle on the Ice at Lake Chud. He refused the overtures of papal legates to abandon Orthodoxy, and through patient diplomacy with the Golden Horde he shielded his devastated people from further ruin. Before his repose on November 14, 1263, he received the monastic schema with the name Alexis; his relics were translated to St. Petersburg on August 30, 1724.
God is not in power, but in truth.
These we know very well, but we do not accept your teaching.
Judge me, O God, and judge my strife with a boastful nation, and grant help to me, O God, as of old to Moses against Amalek, and to my great-grandfather Yaroslav the Wise against the accursed Svyatopolk.
Troparion · Tone 4
Recognize thy brethren, O right-believing Prince Alexander, thou Russian Joseph who reignest not in Egypt, but in heaven; and accept their entreaties, increasing the harvests of thy people through the fertility of thy land, and protecting the cities of thy dominion by thy supplications. And together with our Orthodox hierarchs do battle against all heresies.
Kontakion · Tone 4
As thy kinsmen Boris and Gleb appeared to thee, bringing thee help from heaven when thou didst battle against Velgar the Swede and his warriors, so now, O blessed Alexander, come to the aid of thy kinfolk, and contend thou against those who wage war against us.
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