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12th Week after Pentecost. Tone 2.
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Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомAfterfeast of the Dormition. Совершается служба со славословиемTranslation of the Image Not-Made-by-Hands of Our Lord Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople (944). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомMartyr Diomedes the Physician, of Tarsus in Cilicia (298). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знаком33 Martyrs of Palestine.

St. Chaeremon of Egypt (4th c.). New Martyrs King Constantine Brancoveanu of Wallachia and his four sons Constantine, Stephen, Radu, and Matthew, and his counsellor Ioannicius (1714).

Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos of St. Theodore (“Feodorovskaya”) of Kostroma (1239), and "Of Port Arthur" (1904).

St. Anthony the Stylite, of Martqopi, Georgia (6th c.). St. Joachim, monk, of Osogovo and Sarandapor (1105). St. Eustathius II, archbishop of Serbia (1309). St. Nilus of Erikoussa (ca. 1335). St. Romanus the Sinaite, of Djunisa, Serbia (14th c.). Monk-martyr Christopher of Guria (Georgia), at Damascus (15th c.). New Martyr Nicodemus of Meteora (1551). St. Gerasimus the New, ascetic of Cephalonia (Mt. Athos) (1579). St. Raphael of Banat, Serbia (ca. 1590). St. Timothy of Euripos, archbishop, founder of the Pendeli Monastery (1590). New Martyr Stamatius of Demetrias, near Volos, at Constantinople (1680). New Great-martyr Apostolus of the town of St. Lawrence, martyred at Constantinople (1686). Uncovering of the relics of Martyrs Seraphim, Dorotheus, James, Demetrius, Basil, and Sarantis, of Megaris (1798). St. Joseph of Varatec Monastery (Romania) (1828). St. Joseph the Hesychast, of New Skete, Mt. Athos (1959).

Repose of Matrona (Popova), in monasticism Maria, disciple of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk (1851).

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