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12th Week after Pentecost. Tone 2.
Успенский пост.
Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).

Afterfeast of the Transfiguration. Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомMartyrs Anicetus and Photius (Photinus) and others, of Nicomedia (305-306).

Hieromartyr Alexander, bishop of Comana (3rd c.). Martyrs Pamphilus and Capito (3rd c.).

New Hieromartyrs Barlaam (Konoplev), archimandrite, Anthony (Arapov), abbot, Sergius (Vershinin), Elijah (Popov), Vyacheslav (Kosozhilin), Ioasaph (Sabintsev), and John (Novoselov), hieromonks, and Micah (Podkorytov), Bessarion (Okulov), Euthymius (Korotkov), and Matthew (Bannikov), hierodeacons; New Monk-martyrs Euthymius, Barnabas, Demetrius, Sabbas, Hermogenes, Arcadius, and Marcellus; and martyred novices John, James, Peter, James, Alexander, Theodore, Peter, Sergius, and Alexis— all of the Belogorsk St. Nicholas Monastery (Perm) (1918-1919).

St. Muredach (Murtagh), first bishop of Killala and founder of Innismurray (6th c.). New Hieromartyrs Gerontius and Serapion, hieromonks, and Otar, deacon; New Monk-martyrs Germanus, Bessarion, and Michael, and New Martyr Symeon, of Gareji, slain by the Dagestanis (1851). St. Seigine, abbot, of Iona (652).

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