Demetrius of Thessaloniki
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Oct 27, 2026
Michelle MoujaesHOST
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Gary KyriacouGUEST
didn't realize how large the cathedral was until I was assigned to St. Demetrius in Camarillo, where that was a small parish.
Gary KyriacouGUEST
And that's where when a new person walked in, you knew that they were new, right? And so then that person was grafted into the parish and then given the opportunity to serve and to do things.
Gary KyriacouGUEST
I think what happens is when you have a large parish, especially, people get lost in the crowd and they figure somebody else is going to do it.
TimmerieHOST
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TimmerieHOST
Today's the feast day of Saint Demetrius.
TimmerieHOST
But he isn't the only one in this story whose attention I want to bring you to.
TimmerieHOST
His life inspired another young man, St. Nestor, whose feast day we also celebrate tomorrow.
TimmerieHOST
Sometimes we seem to be surprised as people of faith at how barbaric our human activity can be, but we shouldn't be.
TimmerieHOST
When we really recognize the historical truth of the gladiator games, the fact that people were literally sacrificing children to fake deities, demons that we would call them, and how people were a fan of the public mutilation of other people by gladiators, by wild beasts and animals, you realize how much Christianity has truly changed the world, how Christianity has set a precedence for what should and shouldn't be proper entertainment.
TimmerieHOST
So let's look at the story of these two great saints, Saint Demetrius and Saint Nestor.
TimmerieHOST
Their story is pretty epic.
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Saint Demetrius is a patron of soldiers, crusaders, peasants, agriculture, shepherds, along with many cities and nations in Eastern Europe.
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I invite you to ask for St. Demetrius' protection from physical and spiritual idols today.
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St. Demetrius, pray for us.
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Timothy FlandersHOST
Ordinary Time.
Timothy FlandersHOST
So today is the East Roman feast of St. Demetrius the Great Martyr, the myrrh gusher.
Timothy FlandersHOST
This is not as much a phenomenon in the West, but it is in the East where there is a fragrant myrrh that comes from the relics of the saints sometimes.
Timothy FlandersHOST
And St. Demetrius, one of the early martyrs, does that.
Timothy FlandersHOST
And this is his feast day among the East Romans.
Timothy FlandersHOST
tuesday october 27 is the vigil of saints simon and judah this is a holy day of opportunity because this is the traditional custom in the old roman rite to fast and do penance as a vigil before great feast days in particular all of the apostles Various other feast days as well have vigils.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
Keep Conrad and myself in your prayers and all the innocent people around the world suffering during this unfortunate conflict or even waves of conflicts during the Third World War and all those persecuted for the faith.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
Of course, the great feast day of the great martyr, St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki is also coming up.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
So again, a huge saint all over the world, the Middle East, Greece, of course, his homeland, which he's defended before, and of course, the Russian Federation.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
So we pray for St. Demetrius' guidance and for all of the Orthodox Christian saints to again intercede for the people in need.
JacobHOST
The first Latin emperor had been captured and killed after the 1205 battle for Adrianople, and since then Kalian had marched across Thrace, accepting Greek defections and burning and burying those who resisted.
JacobHOST
His warpath had brought his armies to the walls of Thessalonica, from where St. Demetrius' artifacts had first come and legitimated the Bulgarian revolt 20 years prior.
JacobHOST
Now though, in 1207, his protecting spirit around Thessalonica had seemingly settled the score, as Kalayan was murdered in mysterious circumstances during the siege.
JacobHOST
Following his death, the confederation of powerful landholders, which made up the Vlatko-Bulgarian movement, entered a phase of severe fragmentation, an oscillation which would become all too common in the next century.
TheophanGUEST
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TheophanGUEST
St. George and St. Demetrius up here.
TheophanGUEST
And I think we had St. Panteleimon, and we had...
TheophanGUEST
And that might have been it.
TheophanGUEST
He can actually probably correct me on the story since he actually lived it, and I just read the article.
TheophanGUEST
Yeah, so St. John the Baptist is, you know, he, he needed to have r- have, um, need to be repaired, and the iconographer's name was John, whose, uh, patron saint was St. John the Baptist.
TheophanGUEST
Um, and that led to Father Paul having a conversation as well with someone in the parish who began to donate, um, for, you know, St. George and St. Demetrius to be up on the wall.
TheophanGUEST
Uh, St. Demetrius first-