Irmos: Emulating the Prophet Jonah, I cry aloud: Free Thou my life from corruption, O Good One! O Savior of the world, save me who cry out: Glory to Thee!
Sessional hymn, in Tone VIII: spec. Mel.: “Of the Wisdom…”—
Bestowing upon us a torrent of sweetness, Christ is baptized in the streams of the Jordan, Who hath illumined the repose of the venerable one today.
Theotokion: O Virgin, thou givest suck to the Nurturer of all, before Whom the Forerunner, when he beheld Him, leapt up, crying: The deliverance and salvation of all hath appeared!
The shrine of thy relics, O sacred Marcian, hath been shown to be a noetic phial pouring forth the ointment of miracles upon those who have recourse to thee.
With thy supplications, redolent of myrrh, thou didst repel the advance of the raging fire, and didst preserve unharmed the temple which thou hadst constructed, O divinely blessed one.
Studying the sacred Scriptures from childhood, O God-bearing Marcian, thou didst shine forth piety in godliness; for thou didst preach the Son and Word as consubstantial and equally enthroned with the Father and the divine Spirit. Wherefore, thou didst denounce the ungodliness of Arius and Macedonius, and didst elucidate the Faith, that it might be glorified in Orthodoxy. Entreat Christ God, that He grant remission of sins to those who honor thy memory with love.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.