26 Августа 1971 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Thursday, August 26, 1971 (August 13, 1971 by the Julian calendar)
12^th Week after Pentecost, Tone two

Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. [.:] Apodosis of the Transfiguration. St. Maximus the Confessor (662). Uncovering of the relics of St. Maximus of Moscow, fool-for-Christ (1547). + St. Tikhon (Tychon), bishop of Voronezh, wonderworker of Zadonsk and All Russia (1783). New Hieromartyrs John, Ioasph and Constantine priests (1918). New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Zvezdinsky), bishop of Dmitrov, Nicolos, Jacob priests and Alexis deacon (1937). New Hieromartyr Basil (1942). New Hieromartyr Basil (Preobrazhensky) bishop of Kineshma. Martyr Hippolytus of Rome and 18 martyrs with him, including Martyrs Concordia, Irenaeus, and Abundius (258). "Minsk" (1500), "Seven Arrows" (1830) and "Of the Passion" (1641) Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos. St. Serid (Seridos), abbot, of Gaza (6th c.). New-Martyrs Benjamin, Metropolitan of Petrograd; Archimandrite Sergius, and those with them (1921). Empress Irene, tonsured Xenia (12th c.). St. Eudocia the Empress (460), wife of Theodosius the Younger. St. Radegunde of Poitiers, nun (587) (Gaul). St. Abba Dorotheos of Gaza (Greek). St. Wigbert, abbot of Hersfeld, English missionary to Germany (738).