St. Phanourios the Newly-Revealed
St. Phanourios is a great-martyr believed to have suffered during the Roman persecutions of the 3rd or 4th century, though no written account of his life survives.
He became known around the year 1500, when a perfectly preserved icon of him, looking as if freshly painted, was uncovered in the ruins of an ancient church on the island of Rhodes; its border showed twelve scenes of his tortures, ending with his death in a furnace. His name means "the Revealer," and the faithful ask his intercession for the finding of lost things, often offering the traditional phanouropita cake in thanksgiving.
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Troparion
A heavenly song of praise is chanted radiantly upon the earth; the company of angels now joyfully celebrates an earthly festival, and from on high with hymns they praise your contests, and from below the Church proclaims the heavenly glory which you have found by your labors and struggles, O glorious Phanourios.
Kontakion
You saved the priests from an ungodly captivity, and broke their bonds by divine power, O godly-minded one; you bravely put to shame the audacity of the tyrants and made glad the orders of the angels, O Great Martyr. Therefore we honor you, O divine warrior, glorious Phanourios.
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