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25th Sunday after Pentecost.
Tone 8.
Nativity Fast. |
 Fish, wine and oil allowed.
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Prophet Habakkuk (Abbacum) (7th c. b.c.).
Martyr Myrope of Chios (251). Sts. John, Andrew, Heraclemon, and Theophilus, hermits, of Egypt (4th c.). St. Jesse (Ise), bishop of Tsilkani in Georgia (6th c.). St. Athanasius “the Resurrected,” recluse of the Kiev Caves, whose relics are in the Near Caves (1176). St. Athanasius, recluse of the Kiev Caves, whose relics are in the Far Caves (1264). St. Stephen-Urosh V, king (1371), and his mother St. Helen, of Serbia.
New Hieromartyrs Danax (Kalashnikov), hieromonk, of Arkhangelskoye (Moscow), Cosmas (Magda), hieromonk, of Milyatino (Moscow), Nicholas Vinogradsky, archpriest, of Mikhailovskoye (Moscow), John Derzhavin, archpriest, of Kamenka (Moscow), Nicholas Zabolotsky, archpriest, of Nekrasovo (Moscow), Sergius Kudryavtsev, archpriest, of Khvalynsk (Saratov), and Vladimir Profersansov and Nicholas Safonov, archpriests, of Mozhaisk (1937).
St. Cyril of Philea (1110). St. Solomon, archbishop of Ephesus. St. Ioannicius of Devic (Serbia) (1430).
Repose of Elder Luke “the Guestmaster,” of Valaam Monastery (1965).
Articles
 Prophet HabakkukThe Holy Prophet Habakkuk, the eighth of the Twelve Minor Prophets, was descended from the Tribe of Simeon, and he prophesied around 650 B.C. |
 Martyr Myrope of ChiosThe Holy Martyr Myrope was born in the city of Ephesus at the beginning of the third century. |
 St. Jesse, Bishop of Tsilkani in GeorgiaSaint Jesse of Tsilkani arrived in Georgia in the 6th century with the other Syrian fathers and companions of Saint John of Zedazeni. |
