21 Августа 1996 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Wednesday, August 21, 1996 (August 8, 1996 by the Julian calendar)
12^th Week after Pentecost, Tone two

Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. Afterfeast of the Transfiguration. St. Emilian the Confessor, bishop of Cyzicus (820). New Hieromartyr Joseph (1918). New Hieromartyr Nicolos priest (1937). New Hieromartyr Nicodemus (Krotov) archbishop of Kostroma and Galich (1938). St. Gregory, iconographer of the Kiev Caves (12th c.). Translation of the relics (1566) of Sts. Zosimas (1478) and Sabbatius (1435) of Solovki. Second translation of the relics (1992) of Sts. Zosimas, Sabbatius, and Herman of Solovki. St. Myron, bishop of Crete (350). Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonides of Constantinople, and many infants with them. St. Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos) (1346). "Tolga" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1314). Martyr Gormizdas of Persia (418). New Martyr Triandaphyllus of Zagora in Thessaly (1680) (Greek). Twelve Ascetics of Egypt (Greek). Two Martyrs of Tyre (Greek). Martyr Styracius (Greek). New Martyr Anastasius (Spaso) of Radovishte in Strumica who suffered at Thessalonica (1794) (Greek). St. Gregory, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (14th c.). St. Zosimas the Sinaite of Tumana Monastery, Serbia (14th c.). Monk-martyr Euthymius, abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist at Garesja, Georgia (1804). St. Philaret of Ichalka, Ivanovo (1913).