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| 29th Sunday after PentecostSunday after the Nativity. Tone 4. |  No fast.
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Commemoration of the Holy Righteous Ones: Joseph the Betrothed, David the King, and James the Brother of the Lord. 
Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (ca. 34). St. Theodore Graptus (“the Branded”), of Palestine and Bithynia, confessor (840).
St. Theodore, patriarch of Constantinople (686). Uncovering of the relics of St. Therapont, abbot, of Belozersk and Mozhaisk (1514). St. Boniface, founder of the St. Panteleimon Monastery (Kiev) (1871). St. Barlaam, metropolitan of Tobolsk and all Siberia (1802).
New Hieromartyrs Tikhon (Nikanorov), archbishop of Voronezh, and with him 160 martyred priests (1919).
St. Maximus, bishop of Alexandria (282). St. Luke, monk, of Tryglia. Martyrs Maurice and his son Photinus, with 70 soldiers, of Apamea (286-305).
Repose of Nicholas Ilminsky, missionary to the Tatars (1891), Archimandrite Agathangelus of Svir and Valaam (1909), Helen Ivanovna Motovilova (1910), Abbot Athanasius of Grigoriou, Mt. Athos (1953), and Archimandrite Seraphim (Rozenberg) of Pskov Caves Monastery (1993).
Articles
 Protomartyr and Archdeacon StephenThe Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen was the eldest of the seven deacons, appointed by the Apostles themselves, and therefore he is called “archdeacon.” |
 Venerable Theodore Graptus, “the branded,” ConfessorSaint Theodore the Confessor, and his brother Theophanes (October 11) were born in Jerusalem of Christian parents. |
