“Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice.

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HYMN OF PRAISE

The Seventy Holy Martyrs

Why is the midnight sea so bright?

What manner of terrible flame springs from the water?

It is the tongue of malice, which speaks with fire,

And burns a ship at sea.

The heretical emperor mocks Orthodoxy,

And burns seventy friends with fire.

It is the feast of Valens, a bestial emperor-

A heretic is often more cruel than an unbeliever.

Seventy deaths! For what crime?

For having stood before the emperor's face with an appeal,

Imploring that he spare the innocent-

For this, he burned them with fire.

The dry boat burned like straw in a stack,

The flame ascended to heaven like an accusation:

The men all knelt in the flames

And raised up a prayer to God and the saints:

``Accept our sacrifice, O All-seeing God!

Help us to sail to the Heavenly Kingdom!''

In the raging flames, the bodies gave off a fragrance,

Like pure incense before the holy altar.

These are the pure sacrifices of Holy Orthodoxy

Strengthened by torture, and glorifying God.

The sea cools the seventy bodies,

And seventy souls take delight in Paradise!

In the Church, their glory is proclaimed,

But the disgraced Valens faces God's punishment.