Friday, August 15/28, 2026. 13th Week after Pentecost. Fish, wine and oil allowed.
The Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.
Repose of St. Macarius the Roman, monastic founder (Novgorod) (1550). St. Stephen, elder, of Vyatka (1890).
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos “Diasozousa” and “Chajnicke.”
New Hieromartyr Christos, hieromonk, of Ioannina (ca. 1770). New Hieromartyr Paul Szwajko, priest, and New Martyr Joanna, presbytera, of Graboviec (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland) (1943).
Repose of Elder Anthony of Murom (Arsenius in schema) (1851), friend of St. Seraphim of Sarov; Archimandrite Hieron, founder of New Athos (1912), Abbess Rufina of Harbin and Shanghai (1937), and Metropolitan Augustinos (Kantiotis) of Florina (2010).