Commemoration of Ven. Simeon Stylites (459) and his mother, Venerable Martha (428); Meeting of the Vinnytsia Saints; Martyr Aeithalas, deacon, of Persia (380); Holy 40 Women Martyrs and Martyr Ammon the deacon, their teacher at Heraclea in Thrace (4th century); Martyrs Callista and her brothers Evodus and Hermogenes, at Nicomedia (309); Righteous Joshua the son of Nun (1400 B.C.); The Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God icon in the Miasin monastery (in memory of the discovery of Her icon) (864); Chernihiv-Gethsemane icon of the Mother of God (1869).
Monthly Archives: August 2024
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of the translation of relics of the Apostle Bartholomew from Anastasiopolis to Lipari (6th century); Holy Apostle Titus of the Seventy, bishop of Crete (1st cent.); Sts. Barses and Eulogius, bishops of Edessa, and St. Protogenes, bishop of Carrhae, confessors (4th cent.); St. Menas, patriarch of Constantinople (536-552).
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Martyrs Florus and Laurus (3rd century); Martyrs Hermes, Serapion, and Polyaenus of Rome (2nd cent.); Hieromartyr Emilian, Bishop of Trebia, and Martyrs Hilarion, Dionysius, Hermippus and others (about 1,000) in Italy (circa 300); Saints John (674) and George (683), patriarchs of Constantinople; Saint Macarius, abbot of the Peleclete (circa 840); Icon of the Mother of God called All-Empress (17th century); Icon of the Mother of God called the Addition of Reason (transitional celebration on the first Sunday after August 15).
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Holy Martyr and Archdeacon Euplus (304); Virgin-martyr Susanna and those with her: Gaius, Pope of Rome, Gabinus the priest, his brother and father of Susanna; Maximus, Claudius and his wife, Praepedigna, and their sons Alexander and Cutias (295); Venerable Martyrs Theodore and Basil, whose relics are in the Near Caves of the Kyiv-Caves Abbey (1098); Venerable Theodore, Prince of Ostrih, in the Distant Caves of the Kyiv-Caves Abbey (circa 1483).