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.

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