AT MATINS

Ode 1. Tone 2. Irmos. Come, you peoples*.*

**The Canon, whose acrostic is:

Come believers, let us all clap our hands and celebrate with songs inspired the Martyrs’ contests, as we glorify Christ, for he has been glorified.

**Let Christ, glory of the martyrs be acclaimed.

The Saviour’s trophy, the invincible panoply of the Cross, has been revealed to us as a divine weapon and a source of pride, through which the victors have been crowned.

The persecutors of true religion laid out sword, fire, pit, cross and death for the revered Martyrs, and drove them on towards the better life.

You gave birth to the heavenly bread of life incarnate, O All-pure, the empersonned Word of the Begetter; and so the ranks of Martyrs glorify you.