August 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Aug. 15 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 17
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[edit] Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 29 by Old calendarists
[edit] Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Dormition
- Translation of the "Image not made by hands" of Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople
[edit] Saints
- Martyr Diomedes of Tarsus in Cilicia, physician (298)
- Saint Joachim of Osogov, Bulgarian monk (12th century)
- Saint Gerasimus the New Ascetic of Cephalonia, on Mount Athos
- Martyr Nicodemus of Meteora
- Martyr Stamatios of Thessaly
- Russian New Martyrs Vladimir, priest, and his brother Boris (1931)
- Saint Raphael of Banat in Serbia
- 33 martyrs of Palestine
- Martyr Alcibiades
- Saint Nilus, brother of Emperor Theodore Laskaris
- Saint Timothy of Chalcedon, archbishop and founderof the monastery of Pendeli
- Great martyr Apostolos of St. Laurence, killed in Constantinople
[edit] Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics of the martyrs Seraphim, Dorotheus, James, Demetrius, Basil, and Sarantis
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Saint Theodore ("Feodorovskaya")
- Repose of Blessed Matrona Popova, disciple of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk (1851)
