31 Августа 1956 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Friday, August 31, 1956 (August 18, 1956 by the Julian calendar)
10^th Week after Pentecost, Tone eight

Afterfeast of the Dormition. Martyrs Florus and Laurus of Illyria (2nd c.). New Hieromartyr Gregory priest and Martyr Eugene and Michael (1937). Martyrs Hermes, Serapion, and Polyaenus of Rome (2nd c.). Martyrs Hilarion, Dionysius, and Hermippus, Hieromartyr Emilian, and others (about 1,000) of Italy (4th c.). Sts. John (674) and George (683), patriarchs of Constantinople. Venerable Macarius the Monk of Pelekete (830). Repose of St. John, abbot of Rila (946) (Bulgaria). St. Barnabus and his nephew St. Sophronius, monks of Mt. Mela near Trebizond (412) (Greek). St. Christopher, abbot of Mt. Mela Monastery (1694) (Greek). St. Sophronius of St. Anne's Skete on Mt. Athos (Greek). St. Arsenius the New of Paros (1877) (Greek). Martyr Juliana near Strobilus (Greek). Martyr Leo, drowned near Myra in Lycia (Greek). New Martyrs Archimandrite Augustine of Orans Monastery, Proto-priest Nicholas of Nizhni-Novgorod, and 15 people with them (1918). St. Christodoulos the Philosopher, called the Ossetian, of Georgia (12th c.) (Georgia).