Commemoration of the Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas (1st century); Hieromartyr Nicephorus, exarch of the patriarch of Constantinople in Ukraine (16th century).
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Feast day of The Protection of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary
Commemoration of Apostle Ananias of the Seventy (1st century); Venerable Roman the Melodist (“Sweet-singer”) (circa 556); Martyr Domninus of Thessalonica (4th cent.); Martyr Michael, abbot in Armenia and 36 Fathers with him (ca. 790); Miracle of the Pillar with the Robe of the Lord under it at Mtskheta (Georgia), (ca. 330). Lublin, Kasperiv, Herbovetsk, Barsk and Laskava Stanislavska icons of the Mother-of-God.
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Prophet Jonah (8th century B.C.); Hieromartyr Phocas, bishop of Sinope (117); Venerable Jonah (9th century) the presbyter, father of Saint Theophanes the hymnographer and Saint Theodore Graptus; Martyr Phocis the gardener (circa 320); Righteous Peter, the former tax-collector (6th century).
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday After the Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross of the Lord, Afterfeast of the Exaltation
Commemoration of Great-martyr Nicetas the Goth (372); Uncovering of the relics of Saint Acacius the Confessor, bishop of Melitene (257); Martyrs Theodotus, Asclepiodotus, and Maximus of Adrianopolis (305-311); Martyr Porphyrius the Mime of Caesaria (361); Uncovering of the relics of the Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (415); Saint Philotheus the Presbyter of Asia Minor (10th century); Saint Joseph, bishop of Alaverdsk (570, Georgia); Saint Simeon, archbishop. of Thessaloniki (1429); Novonykyta Icon of the Mother of God (372).
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday Before the Exaltation of The Holy Cross.
THE NATIVITY OF OUR MOST HOLY LADY THE THEOTOKOS AND EVER-VIRGIN MARY. Veneration of Icons of Sophia-the Wisdom of God (of Kyiv). Of Pochajiv (1559). Of Kholm, of Lisnyns’k and of Kamjanka-Strumylova (17th century) icons of the Mother of God.
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Ecclesiastical New Year (Indiction)
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).
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).