23 Августа 1849 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Thursday, August 23, 1849 (August 11, 1849 by the Julian calendar)
12^th Week after Pentecost, Tone two

Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. Afterfeast of the Transfiguration. Holy Martyr and Archdeacon Euplus of Catania (304). Martyrs Basil and Theodore of the Kiev Caves (1098). St. Theodore (in monasticism Theodosius) of the Kiev Caves, prince of Ostrog (1483). Virgin-martyr Susanna and those with her: Martyrs Gaius, pope of Rome; presbyter Gabinus, his brother and father of Susanna; Maximus, Claudius and his wife, Praepedigna, and their sons Alexander and Cutias (295). St. Niphon, patriarch of Constantinople (Mt. Athos) (1515). St. Passarion of Palestine. St. Blaan, bishop of Bute (Dunblane), Scotland (590) (Celtic & British). Commemoration of the Miracle (1816) of St. Spyridon (348) on Kerkyra (Corfu) with the Hagarenes (Greek). New Martyrs Anastasius of Asomaton in Asia Minor and Demetrius of Lesbos (1816) (Greek). St. Taurinus, first bishop of Evreux, Gaul (2nd c.). St. John, recluse of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1867).