Irmos: Madly did the Chaldæan tyrant heat the furnace sevenfold for the pious ones; but, beholding them saved by a higher Power, he cried out to the Creator and Deliverer: Ye children, bless; ye priests, hymn; ye people, exalt Him supremely for all ages!
The divinely wise Terence and Africanus, Maximus and Pompey, Alexander and Zephon, the glorious Theodore, together with the thirty-three others who contended with them, confessing Christ, the Savior of all, before the tyrants’ tribunal, suffered valiantly.
Theotokion: O most immaculate one, enliven my deadened soul, raise it up, which hath fallen, and heal it by the spear which pierced the divine side of the Savior who was incarnate of thy womb. Him do the children bless, the priests hymn and the people exalt supremely for all ages.
Let us go now together through the city of Odessa, O ye Greeks, that we may rejoice exceedingly on the all-pure feast of the chief shepherd, rendering thanks unto God.
Irmos: Him of Whom the angels and all the hosts of heaven stand in awe as their Creator and Lord, hymn, ye priests; glorify, ye children; bless, ye people, and exalt Him supremely for all ages!
Tortured for Christ, beaten with thongs of hide, pitilessly lacerated, pricked with tridents, cast to the wild beasts, their sides scorched with burning stakes, the athletes cried aloud: Ye priests, bless! Ye people, exalt Him supremely forever!
Theotokion: Raise me up from the abyss of evils and wage war on the enemies who fight against me, devouring my soul with unseemly pleasures, O pure one; and surrender it not to them, but, taking pity, save it.
Having lived an angelic life upon the earth, the godly Gregory hath now made his abode in the heavens and, crowned with an ever-verdant wreath, doth truly delight in glory
Bearing the word of life, the right victorious martyrs saved those dying in deception and slew the enemy, depicting the radiant suffering and death of Christ; and they received a blessed end through multifarious tortures, hymning Him for all ages.
Thy body, to which the godly autocrat gave fitting burial in the city of Odessa, is preserved by thine intercessions, O wise Gregory, for thou art the champion of Greece.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.