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).