August 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 29 by Old calendarists

Afterfeast of the Dormition
Translation of the "Image not made by hands" of Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople (944)

Martyr Diomedes of Tarsus in Cilicia, physician (298)
Saint Cherimon (Chaeremon) of Egypt (4th century)
Saint Anthony the Stylite, of Martqopi, Georgia (6th century)
Saint Joachim of Osogov, Bulgarian monk (12th century)
Saint Eustathius II, archbishop of Serbia (1309)
Saint Romanus the Sinaite, of Djunisa, Serbia (14th century)
Monk-martyr Christopher of Guria, Georgia, at Damascus (15th century)
Saint Gerasimus the New Ascetic of Cephalonia, on Mount Athos (1579)
Martyr Nicodemus of Meteora (1551)
Saint Raphael of Banat in Serbia (ca. 1590)
33 martyrs of Palestine
Martyr Alcibiades
Saint Nilus, brother of Emperor Theodore Laskaris
Saint Timothy of Chalcedon, archbishop and founderof the monastery of Pendeli (1590)
New Martyr Stamatius of Demetrias, near Volos, at Constantinople (1680)
Great martyr Apostolos of St. Laurence, killed in Constantinople (1686)
New Martyrs King Constantin Brâncoveanu of Wallachia and his four sons Constantine, Stephen, Radu, and Matthew, and his counsellor Ioannicius (1714)
Russian New Martyrs Vladimir, priest, and his brother Boris (1931)

Translation of the relics (1798) of the martyrs Seraphim, Dorotheus, James, Demetrius, Basil, and Sarantis, of Megaris
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Saint Theodore ("Feodorovskaya")
Repose of Blessed Matrona Popova, disciple of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk (1851)