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Wednesday August 21, 2024 / August 8, 2024

9^th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven.
Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)

St. Emilian the Confessor, bishop of Cyzicus (820).

St. Philaret of Ichalka, Ivanovo (1913).

New Hieromartyr Joseph (1918).

New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1937).

New Hieromartyr Nicodemus (Krotov) archbishop of Kostroma and Galich (1938).

Venerable Gregory, iconographer of the Kiev Caves (12th c.).

Translation of the relics (1566) of Venerables Zosimas (1478) and Sabbatius (1435) of Solovki.

Second translation of the relics (1992) of Venerables Zosimas, Sabbatius, and Herman of Solovki.

St. Myron, bishop of Crete (350).

Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonides of Constantinople, and many infants with them.

Venerable Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos) (1346).

"Tolga" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1314).

Martyr Gormizdas of Persia (418).

New Martyr Triandaphyllus of Zagora in Thessaly (1680) (Greek).

Twelve Ascetics of Egypt (Greek).

Two Martyrs of Tyre (Greek).

Martyr Styracius (Greek).

New Martyr Anastasius (Spaso) of Radovishte in Strumica who suffered at Thessalonica (1794) (Greek).

St. Gregory, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (14th c.).

St. Zosimas the Sinaite of Tumana Monastery, Serbia (14th c.).

Monk-martyr Euthymius, abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist at Garesja, Georgia (1804).

The Scripture Readings