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Apostles' Fast · from May 31
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Saturday of the 4th Sunday of Pascha
Prophet JeremiahSaint Tamara (Tamar), Queen of Georgia (1212)Synaxis of the Three New Righteous Martyrs of the Holy Mountain, Euthymius, Ignatius, and Acacius (1814-1815)
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Samaritan Woman
Saint Matrona (the Blind) of Moscow (1952)Holy Martyrs Hesperus, his wife Zoë, and their sons Cyriac and Theodulus (2nd c.)Holy Tsar Boris-Michael of Bulgaria (907)Translation of the Relics (1072 and 1115) of the Holy Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb, princes of Russia (1015)St Athanasius the Great, Patr. of Alexandria
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Monday of the 5th Sunday of Pascha
Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (286)Ven. Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Caves
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Tuesday of the 5th Sunday of Pascha
Our Holy Father Nikephoros the Hesychast (14th c.)Virgin Martyr Pelagia of TarsusSt Monica, mother of Blessed Augustine (388)
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Leavetaking of Mid-Pentecost
Great Martyr Irene of Thessalonica
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Thursday of the 5th Sunday of Pascha
Righteous Job the LongsufferingSt Job, abbot and wonderworker of Pochaev (1651)Holy Martyr Barbarus the Soldier, with Bacchus, Callimachus and Dionysius (362)St. Sophia the Righteous (1974)
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Friday of the 5th Sunday of Pascha
Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 ADOur Holy Fathers of Georgia (6th c.)Martyr Acacius the Centurion at Byzantium (303)St Alexis Toth, Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy in AmericaSt Lydia of Philippi (1st c.)
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Saturday of the 5th Sunday of Pascha
Holy Apostle John the TheologianOur Righteous Father Arsenios the Great (449)St Emilia (375), mother of Sts Macrina, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, Peter of Sebaste, and Theosevia
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Blind Man
Trans. Rel. St Nicholas the WonderworkerProphet IsaiahHoly Martyr Christopher (3rd c.)
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Monday of the 6th Sunday of Pascha
Apostle Simon the ZealotHoly Martyrs Alphaeus, Philadelphus and Cyprinus of Sicily (251)St Isidora the Fool of Tabenna (Egypt) (4th c.)Blessed Thaïs (Taïsia) of Egypt (4th c.)
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Tuesday of the 6th Sunday of Pascha
SS Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the SlavsHoly Hieromartyr Mocius (288? 295?)
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Leavetaking of Pascha / Forefeast of Ascension
Our Fathers among the Saints Epiphanios, bishop of Cyprus (403) and Germanos, Archbishop of Constantinople (740)
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Ascension of the Lord
Virgin Martyr GlyceriaHoly Martyr Alexander of Rome (298)
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Friday of the 6th Sunday of Pascha
Martyr Isidore of Chios (251)Our Holy Father Serapion the Sindonite (5th c.)Ven. Isidore, Fool-for-Christ of Rostov
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Saturday of the 6th Sunday of Pascha
Ven. Pachomius the GreatOur Father among the Saints Achillius, Bishop of Larissa (330)
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Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council
Ven. Theodore the Sanctified; Trans. Rel. Ephraim, Abbot of PerekopSt Nicholas Mystikos, Patriarch of Constantinople (930)Blessed Musa the Maiden (5th c.)St Brendan the Voyager, abbot of Clonfert (ca. 577)
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Monday of the 7th Sunday of Pascha
Apostle Andronicus of the SeventyHoly Martyr Solochon (298)
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Tuesday of the 7th Sunday of Pascha
Martyr Theodotus of AncyraHoly Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Christina, Andrew, Paul, Benedimus, Paulinus, and Heraclius (250)
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Wednesday of the 7th Sunday of Pascha
Hieromartyr Patrick, Bishop of Prussa
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Thursday of the 7th Sunday of Pascha
Martyr Thalelaeus at Aegae in Cilicia and those with him (327)Unc. Rel. St Aleksy, Metropolitan of Kiev
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Leavetaking of Ascension
SS Constantine and Helen, Equals-to-the-ApostlesHoly New Martyr Pachomius (1730)
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Memorial Saturday
Martyr Basiliscus, Bishop of ComanaRighteous Melchizedek, king of Salem.Commemoration of the Second Ecumenical Council (381).
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Holy Pentecost
St Michael the Confessor; Unc. Rel. St Leonty, Bishop of RostovHoly Myrrh-bearer Mary, wife of CleopasHoly Martyr Michael of St Sabbas' Monastery(9th c.)Holy Virgin Euphrosyne, Princess of Polotsk (1173)
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Day of the Holy Spirit
Ven. Simeon the StyliteVen. Nikita the StyliteSt Vincent of Lerins (445)
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Third Day of the Trinity
3rd Finding of the Head of St John the BaptistHoly Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus (4th c.)Holy Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentian, Julius and those with them (302)
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Wednesday of the 1st week after Pentecost
Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus of the SeventySaint Augustine of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (ca. 605)Holy New Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (1794)
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Thursday of the 1st week after Pentecost
Hieromartyr Therapon; Trans. Rel. Ven. Nilus of StolbenskHoly Martyrs Theodora and Didymus (304)Holy New Confessor John the Russian (1730)Saint David of Garesjei (6th c.)Venerable Bede (Baeda) (735)
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Friday of the 1st week after Pentecost
St Nicetas, Bishop of Chalcedon; St Ignaty, Bishop of Rostov
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Leavetaking of Pentecost
Virgin Martyr Theodosia of TyreCommemoration of the First Ecumenical Council (325)The Fall of Constantinople (1453); "Blessed Constantine XII, last of the Byzantine emperors, martyred by the Turks (1453)"
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All Saints
Ven. Isaac, Founder of Dalmatian MonasterySt Macrina, grandmother of St Basil the Great (4th c.)
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Monday of the 2nd week after Pentecost
Apostle Hermes of the Seventy