the saints, Spyridon, wonderworker of Trimythes; of our father in the saints, archbishop Nicolas, wonderworker of Myrlicia; of our fathers in the saints, Peter, Alexis, Jonas, and Philip, wonderworkers of all Russia; of the holy and glorious great martyr, George, the triumphant; of the holy and glorious great martyr, Demetrius, the myrrh-emitter: of the holy and excellently victorious martyrs; of the holy and righteous god-progenitors, Joakim and Anna; of the holy glorious and unmercenary wonderworkers, Cosmas and Damian, Cyrus and John, Pantelimon and Hermolaus, Sampson and Diomed, Mocius and Anicetus, Thalaleus and Tryphon; and of the holy, _name_, whose memory we keep, and of all thy Saints. And preserve, O Lord, thy Servant, our Most Pious, Autocratic, Great Lord, THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVITCH, of all Russia. _Thrice._ And His Consort, the Most Pious Lady, THE EMPRESS MARIA THEODOROVNA. And His Heir, the Right-believing Lord, the Cesarevitch and Grand Duke, NICOLAUS ALEXANDROVITCH, and all the reigning House. Save, O Lord, and have mercy upon the Most Holy Governing Synod, give unto them spiritual and bodily health, and be gracious in all things to this thy ministration of the christian polity. Remember, O Lord, every episcopate of the right-believers, that rightly divide the word of thy truth, and every priestly and monastic order, and their salvation. Remember, O Lord, them that hate and them that love us, our ministering brethren here present, and them that for a blessed cause are absent and have desired us, unworthy ones, to pray for them. Remember, O Lord, our brethren that are in bonds and afflictions, and have mercy upon them according to thy great mercy, delivering them from every need. For thou art the fountain of healing, O Christ our God, and to thee we ascribe glory, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thy most holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages. _Choir._ Amen. _Priest._ Peace to all. _Choir._ And to thy spirit. _Deacon._ Bow your heads to the Lord. _Choir._ To thee, O Lord. _And the priest secretly the prayer._ Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hearken unto us, thou who didst vouchsafe to be baptized in Jordan, and didst hallow the waters; and do thou bless us all, who through the bending of our necks indicate the representation of service; and count us worthy to be filled with thy sanctification through the partaking of this water; and may it be unto us, O Lord, for the healing of soul and body. _Exclamation._ For thou art our sanctification, and to thee we ascribe glory, and thanksgiving, and worship, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thine all-holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages. _Choir._ Amen. _Then, taking the honourable cross, he blesseth the water thrice, dipping it and raising it perpendicularly in the form of a cross, and singing the present troparion in tone i thrice._