Leave-taking of the Feast-day of The Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross of the Lord
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Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Holy Great-martyr and Healer Panteleimon (305); Venerable Anthusa, abbess and her 90 sisters (8th century); Equal-to-the-Apostles Saint Clement of Ochrid (916), and Saints Angelar (10th century), Gorazd (896), Nahum (910), and Sabbas (10th century) of Bulgaria; Saint Herman of Alaska (1837).
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Venerable Sisoes the Great of Egypt (429); Venerable Sisoes of the Kyiv Caves Abbey (13th century); Uncovering of the relics of Holy Princess Juliana Vilshanska (1540); Martyrs Marinus and Martha, their children Audifax and Abbacum (Habakkuk), and those with them at Rome: Cyrinus, Valentine the Presbyter, and Asterius (269); Martyrs Isaurus the Deacon, Innocent, Felix, Hermias, Basil, Peregrinus, Rufus, and Rufinus of Apollonia in Macedonia (283-284); St. Cointus (Quintus) of Phrygia, confessor and wonderworker (283); Virgin-martyr Lucy, Martyr Rixius, and those with them at Rome (301): Martyrs Anthony, Lucian, Isidore, Dion, Diodorus, Cutonius, Arnosus, Capicus, Satyrus, and others.
Third Sunday after Pentecost
Second Sunday after Pentecost Veneration of All Saints of Ukraine; New martyrs and confessors who, in Ukraine and other lands in the 20th century, suffered for Christ and the Orthodox faith.
First Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday of All Saints
Commemoration of Prophet Amos (8th century B.C.); Saint Michael, first metropolitan of Kyiv and all Kyiv Rus’ (992); Martyrs Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia at Lucania (303); Martyr Dulas of Cilicia (305-313); Venerable Dulas the Passion-bearer of Egypt; Saint Jerome (Hieronymus) of Stridonium (420); Blessed Augustine, bishop of Hippo (430); Transfer of the relics of St. Theodore Sikeot, Bishop of Anastasiopolis (c. 9th century); Blessed Prince Lazarus of Serbia (1389); St. Ephrem II, Patriarch of Serbia (14th cent.); Icons of the Mother of God of Ternopil’, and Softening of Evil Hearts (Seven-arrowed) and Immovable Wall (transitional celebrations on All Saints’ Sunday).
Pentecost: Trinity Sunday, The Descent of the Holy Spirit onto the Disciples
Seventh Sunday of Paskha, Sunday after the Ascension of the Lord, Sunday of the Holy Fathers of The First Ecumenical Council (325)
Commemoration of The Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council (325); Martyrs Justin the Philosopher, and those with him: Martyr Justin, Chariton and his wife Charita, Euelpistus, Hierax, Peon, and Valerian (166); Venerable Agapit, unmercenary physician, of the Near Caves in the Kyiv Caves Abbey (circa 1095).
Christ is Risen! Indeed He Is Risen! Sixth Sunday of Paskha, Sunday of the Blind Man
Commemoration of the Third Finding of the Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet and Forerunner, St. John the Baptist (circa 850); Priest-Martyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus (4th century); Saint Innocent, Bishop of Kherson (1857); Celebration of the restoration of St. Michael’s Gold-domed cathedral (2000) in Kyiv.