Friday, May 16/29, 2026. 7th Week after Pascha. Fast Day.
Fish, wine and oil allowed.

Apodosis of the Ascension. Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. Theodore the Sanctified, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (368). Совершается служба со славословиемUncovering of the relics of St. Ephraim, founder of Perekom Monastery (Novgorod) (1545).

Hieromartyr Alexander, bishop of Jerusalem (ca. 213-250). Blessed child Musa of Rome (5th c.). Martyrs Vitus (Guy), Modestus, and Crescentia, at Lucania (ca. 303). 44 Monk-martyrs of the monastery of St. Sabbas the Sanctified (614). St. George II, bishop of Mytilene (9th c.). Sts. Cassian (1537) and Lawrence (1548), abbots, of Komel Monastery (Vologda). St. Matthew the Wonderworker, hieromonk, of Yaransk (1927). New Martyr Vukasin of Klepats in Hercegovina (1943).

Hieromartyrs Abdiesus, bishop of Beth-Kashar, and Abdas, bishop of Kashkar, with them 16 priests, 9 deacons, 6 monks, and 7 virgins, in Persia (ca. 418). St. Bardas, founder of the monastery of the Forerunner in Petra, Constantinople (5th c.-6th c.). St. Brendan the Voyager, abbot of Clonfert (577). Martyr Peter of Blachernae (ca. 761). St. Thomas I, patriarch of Jerusalem (820). St. Nicholas I Mysticus, patriarch of Constantinople (930). New Hieromartyr Theodore, bishop of Vrsac at Banat, Serbia (1594). New Martyr Nicholas of Metsovo, at Trikala (1617). Martyrs Symeon, Isaac, and Bachthisoes, of Persia (339).

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