August 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Aug. 12 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 14

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 26 by Old calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Martyr Hippolytus of Rome and those with him: Concordia, Irenaeus, and Abundius (258)
• Princess of Constantinople Irene, tonsured Xenia (1124)
• Saint Eudocia the Empress, wife of Theodosius the Younger, in Palestine (460)
• Saint Serid of Gaza, abbot (6th century)
• Saint Radegunde of Poitiers, nun
• Russian new martyr Benjamin of Petrograd, metropolitan, and those with him (1921)
• Russian new martyr Archimandrite Sergius and those with him (1921)
• Saint Dorotheus of Gaza
• Saint Coronatus

[edit] Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of Venerable Maximus the Confessor
• Uncovering of the relics of Blessed Maxim of Moscow, fool-for-Christ
• Repose of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, Wonderworker