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).

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.

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).

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).

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).

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).

Commemoration of Prophet Ezekiel (6th century B.C.); Venerable Symeon of Emesa, fool-for-Christ, and his fellow faster John (circa 590); Venerable Onuphrius the Silent of the Kyiv Caves Abbey and Venerable Onesimus, recluse of the Kyiv Caves Abbey, in the near Caves (XII-XIII century).

Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the first six Ecumenical Councils (movable holiday on Sunday closest to July 16); Apostle Aquila of the Seventy (1st century); Martyr Justus at Rome (1st century); Saint Ellius of Egypt (4th cent.); Saint Onesimus, monk and wonderworker of Magnesia (4th cent.); Venerable Stefan Makhryshchs’kyi (1406).

New martyrs and confessors who, in Ukraine and other lands in the 20th century, suffered for Christ and the Orthodox faith.

Commemorating the Synaxis [Meeting] of the Holy and All-praised Twelve Apostles: Peter, Andrew, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Judas the brother of James, Simon the Zealot, and Matthias. Volhyn’ (20th century), Balikina (1711) and Gorbaniv (1786) icons of the Mother of God. Icon of the Mother of God of Ternopil’, Softening of Evil Hearts (Seven-arrowed) and Immovable Wall (transitional celebrations on All Saints’ Sunday)