Today is my Name Day. 
The great and holy myrrh-bearer Mary of Bethany is one of the women disciples of Jesus. She and her sister Martha are celebrated as saints on their shared feast day of June 4. They are also commemerated on the Third Sunday of Pascha or Sunday of Myrrh-bearing Women. Martha and Mary were believers in Christ even before Jesus Christ raised their brother St. Lazarus (October 17) from the dead. After the Ascension of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the murder of the holy Archdeacon Stephen a persecution against the Church of Jerusalem broke out, and Righteous Lazarus was cast out of Jerusalem. The holy sisters then assisted their brother in the proclaiming of the Gospel in various lands. They reposed in Cyprus, where their brother became the first Bishop of Kition after his resurrection from the dead. We do not know how they died.
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O God-loving sisters of the righteous Lazarus,
Glorious Martha and Mary:
With a pure heart ye loved Christ during your life,
Received the rank of Myrrh-Bearers,
And fearlessly confessed Him to be the Son of God.
Wherefore, ye now reign gloriously
In the mansions of the heavenly Father,
With the Angels and all the Saints.
Entreat Him whom ye love,
That we sinners may become strong in faith and love of Christ, And obtain the Kingdom of Heaven.
O Mary and Martha, divinely chosen servants of the new grace,
Lovers of God and sisters of the righteous Lazarus:
By word and deed ye followed Christ in faith and love,
And dwell now with the choirs of holy women
Who enjoy the beauty and bliss of paradise.
As ye have boldness before God,
Earnestly entreat Him to guard us from harm, tribulation and sinful
falls,
That, taught by you to please Christ our God,
We may never cease to cry out to you with compunction:
Rejoice, O Mary and Martha, who show us the way of faith and love.
The great and holy myrrh-bearer Mary of Bethany is one of the women disciples of Jesus. She and her sister Martha are celebrated as saints on their shared feast day of June 4. They are also commemerated on the Third Sunday of Pascha or Sunday of Myrrh-bearing Women. Martha and Mary were believers in Christ even before Jesus Christ raised their brother St. Lazarus (October 17) from the dead. After the Ascension of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the murder of the holy Archdeacon Stephen a persecution against the Church of Jerusalem broke out, and Righteous Lazarus was cast out of Jerusalem. The holy sisters then assisted their brother in the proclaiming of the Gospel in various lands. They reposed in Cyprus, where their brother became the first Bishop of Kition after his resurrection from the dead. We do not know how they died.
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O God-loving sisters of the righteous Lazarus,
Glorious Martha and Mary:
With a pure heart ye loved Christ during your life,
Received the rank of Myrrh-Bearers,
And fearlessly confessed Him to be the Son of God.
Wherefore, ye now reign gloriously
In the mansions of the heavenly Father,
With the Angels and all the Saints.
Entreat Him whom ye love,
That we sinners may become strong in faith and love of Christ, And obtain the Kingdom of Heaven.
O Mary and Martha, divinely chosen servants of the new grace,
Lovers of God and sisters of the righteous Lazarus:
By word and deed ye followed Christ in faith and love,
And dwell now with the choirs of holy women
Who enjoy the beauty and bliss of paradise.
As ye have boldness before God,
Earnestly entreat Him to guard us from harm, tribulation and sinful
falls,
That, taught by you to please Christ our God,
We may never cease to cry out to you with compunction:
Rejoice, O Mary and Martha, who show us the way of faith and love.
