Orthodox Calendar for август 2026

август 2026
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						1 Dormition Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Procession of the Lifegiving Cross; 7 Maccabean Martyrs Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord (1164) Holy Seven Maccabees, their mother Solomonia, and their teacher Eleazar (168 BC) St Nicholas, enlightener of Japan (1912)
2 Dormition Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed 9th Sunday after Pentecost Translation of the relics of the Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (428) Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome (257), and those with him Blessed Basil of Moscow, fool-for-Christ (1552)	3 Dormition Fast Sts Isaac, Dalmatus and Faustus, ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery, Constantinople (5th c.) Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome Our Holy Father Antony the Roman (1148) Holy Martyr Razhden the Persian, Protomartyr of Georgia (457)	4 Dormition Fast Holy Seven Youths (the "Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus (250 & 5th c.)	5 Dormition Fast Martyr Eusignius of Antioch (362) Holy Hieromartyr Fabian, Pope of Rome (250) Righteous Nonna (374), Mother of St Gregory the Theologian	6 Dormition Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Transfiguration of Our Lord The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ	7 Dormition Fast Martyr Dometius of Persia (363) and two disciples Holy Martyrs Marinus the Soldier and Asterius the Senator (260) Our Holy Father Or (Horus) of the Thebaid (390) Our Holy Father Pimen the Much-Ailing (1110)	8 Dormition Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed St Emilian the Confessor, bishop of Cyzicus (820) St Myron the Wonderworker, Bishop of Crete (350) St Gregory of Sinai (Mt Athos) (1346)
9 Dormition Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 10th Sunday after Pentecost Ven. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America Apostle Matthias (1st c.) Holy Martyr Anthony (2nd c.)	10 Dormition Fast Holy Martyrs Archdeacon Laurence, Pope Sixtus, and others with them (258)	11 Dormition Fast Holy Martyr and Archdeacon Euplus of Catania (304) The Holy Martyr Susanna the Virgin, and those with her (295-296) Saint Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople (1508) Repose of Fr Georges Florovsky (1979) (July 29 OC)	12 Dormition Fast Martyrs Anicetas and Photius of Nicomedia (305) Hieromaryr Alexander, Bishop of Comana (3rd c.)	13 Dormition Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed St Tikhon of Zadonsk St Maximos the Confessor (662) St Tikhon of Zadonsk (1783) Holy Martyr Hippolytus of Rome and 18 Martyrs with him (258) Our Holy Mother the Empress Irene (Xenia in Monasticism) (12th c.)	14 Dormition Fast Translation of the Relics of St Theodosius of the Kiev Caves Holy Prophet Micah (8th c. BC) Hieromartyr Marcellus, Bishop of Apamea (389)	15 Dormition of the Most-Holy Theotokos The Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.
16 11th Sunday after Pentecost Image of Christ Not Made by Hands Translation of the Image Not-Made-By-Hands of our Lord Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople (944) Martyr Diomedes the Physician of Tarsus in Cilicia (298)	17 Martyr Myron of Cyzicus (250) Holy Martyr Patroclus (late 3rd c.)	18 Martyrs Florus and Laurus of Illyria (2nd c.) Our Holy Father John, Abbot of Rila (946)	19 Fast Martyr Andrew Strateletes and 2,593 soldiers with him in Cilicia (ca. 289)	20 Holy Prophet Samuel (11th c. BC) Hieromartyr Philip, Bishop of Heraklion, and those with him (2nd c.)	21 Fast Apostle Thaddeus of the Seventy (44) Holy Martyrs Bassa and her sons Theognis, Agapios, and Pistis (4th c.) Holy Forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob	22 Martyr Agathonicus of Nicomedia and his companions (4th c.) Holy Martyr Eulalia of Barcelona (303)
23 12nd Sunday after Pentecost Leavetaking of Dormition Hieromartyr Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons (202) Martyr Lupus (306), slave of St Demetrios of Thessalonica Hieromartyr Pothinos, Bishop of Lyons (177)	24 Hieromartyr Eutyches (1st c.) New Hieromartyr Kosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779) Translation of the relics of St Peter, metropolitan of Kiev (1479)	25 Holy Apostle Titus of the Seventy Return of the relics of the Apostle Bartholomew from Anastasiopolis to Lipari (6th c.)	26 Fast Martyrs Adrian and Natalia and 23 companions of Nicomedia (4th c.) Our Holy Father Tithoës of the Thebaid (4th c.)	27 Our Holy Father Poemen (Pimen) the Great (450) Great-martyr Phanurius the Newly Appeared of Rhodes	28 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Ven. Job of Pochaev St Moses of Ethiopia (400) Uncovering of the Relics of St Job of Pochaev (1651) Righteous Anna the Prophetess (1st c.) Righteous Hezekiah, King of Judah (691 BC) New Hieromartyr Chrysostom, metropolitan of Smyrna (1922) Repose of Elder Joseph the Hesychast of Mt Athos (1959) (August 15 OC)	29 Fast—Strict Fast (Wine and Oil) Beheading of St John the Baptist The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John Our Holy Mother Theodora of Salonica (879)
30 13th Sunday after Pentecost Synaxis of Serbian Hierarchs Sts Alexander (340), John (595), and Paul the New (784), patriarchs of Constantinople	31 The Placing of the Sash of the Most Holy Theotokos (395-408? 886- 912?) Hieromartyr Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (258) St Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople (471) Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne (651)