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August 29
Saturday
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September 11
12th Week after Pentecost. Tone 2.
Strict fast.
Wine and oil allowed.

Совершается служба великому праздникуThe Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John (ca. 28).

Sts. Candida (418) and Gelasia (422), of Constantinople. St. Sebbi, king of Essex and monk (ca. 694). St. Theodora, nun, of Thessalonica, who was from Aegina (892). New Martyr Anastasius (Spaso) of Strumica, at Thessalonica (1794). New Martyr Theodore Ivanov of Tobolsk (1937). Commemoration of all Orthodox soldiers killed on the field of battle. St. Arcadius of Arsinoe, Cyprus, bishop and wonderworker. Translation of the relics of St. Joseph Samakus the Sanctified, of Crete (1699).

Repose of Hieroschemamonk Poemen of Cernica (1831) and Righteous Pachomius the Silent, of Valdai Monastery (1886).

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