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ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY Orthodox Calendar 2016
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Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомHieromartyr Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna (167).

St. Alexander, founder of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones, Constantinople (ca. 430). Sts. John, Antioch, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, Moses (another), and Damian, ascetics near Cyrrhus (5th c.). St. Polycarp, monk, of Bryansk (1620-1621). St. Nazarius, abbot of Valaam Monastery (1809).

New Hieromartyr Michael Edlinsky, archpriest, of Kiev (1938).

St. Gorgonia (372), sister of St. Gregory the Theologian. St. John Theristes (the Harvester) of Stylos in Calabria (11th c.). St. Damian of Esphigmenou, Mt. Athos (1280). St. Cosmas of Zographou, Mt. Athos (1281). St. Moses, monk of White Lake (1480). New Monk-martyr Damian of Philotheou and Kissavos, at Larissa (1568). New Hieromartyr Lazarus of the Peloponnese (ca. 1618). New Hieromartyrs Sergius (Bukashkin), hieromonk, of Novo-Alexandrovka (Moscow), and Antipas (Kyrillov), hieromonk, of Tatarintsevo (Moscow) (1938), and Philaret (Pryakhin), abbot, of Trubino (Tver) (1942). St. Seraphim (Zenobius), schema-metropolitan of Tetritskaro, Georgia, monk of Glinsk Monastery (1985).

Repose of Archimandrite Agapit (Belovidov) of Optina Monastery (1922).

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