Orthodox Calendar 2000 |
August 2000 |
13th of August in
Old Style
26th of August
in New Style
Saturday
Apodosis of Transfiguration. Translation of the relics of Ven. Maximus the Confessor, (his service is sung on Aug. 12). Uncovering of the relics of Blessed Maxim of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ. Repose of St. Tikhon, bishop of Voronezh, Wonderworker of Zadonsk and All Russia. Martyr Hippolytus of Rome and those with him: Concordia, Irenaeus, and Abundius (258). Princess of Constantinople Irene, tonsured Xenia (1124). St. Eudocia the Empress, wife of Theodosius the Younger, in Palestine (460). St. Serid, abbot, of Gaza (6tn cen.). St. Radegunde of Poitiers, nun. Russian New Martyr Benjamin, metropolitan of Petrograd and those with him (1921). Russian New Martyr Sergius, archimandrite and those with him (1921). St. Dorotheus of Gaza. St. Coronatus. Dormition Fast.