20 Августа 1953 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Thursday, August 20, 1953 (August 7, 1953 by the Julian calendar)
13^th Week after Pentecost, Tone three

Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. Afterfeast of the Transfiguration. Martyr Dometius of Persia (363) and two disciples. Translation of the relics (1832) of St. Metrophanes, first bishop of Voronezh (1703). New Hieromartyrs Alexander, Peter, Michael, John, Demetrius and Alexis priests, Elisey deacon and Hieromartyr Athanasius (1937). New Hieromartyr Basil priest (1938). St. Poemen (Pimen) the Much-ailing of the Kiev Caves (1110). St. Pimen, faster of the Kiev Caves (13th c.). St. Mercurius, bishop of Smolensk (Kiev Caves) (1239). Martyrs Marinus the Soldier and Asterius the Senator at Caesarea in Palestine (260). St. Hor (Horus) of the Thebaid (390). Virgin Potamia of Alexandria. St. Anthony of Optina (1865). St. Dometius of Philotheou, Mt. Athos (16th c.). St. Theodora of Sihla (18th c.) (Romania). Holy Ten Thousand Ascetics of Thebes (Greek). Hieromartyr Narcissus, patriarch of Jerusalem (213) (Greek). St. Hyperechius of The Paradise (Greek). St. Sozon of Nicomedia (Greek). St. Theodosius the New, healer of Peloponnesus (862) (Greek). St. Nicanor, wonderworker of Mt. Callistratus (1519) (Greek).