Thursday, 21 May 2026

8 May 2026 on the Old calendar

✠Ascension of our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ
New Martyrs who suffered from the Persians in the Fereydan valley (17th C) (Georg.) [movable feast on Ascension]
✚Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God (established in memory of the deliverance of Moscow from the Tatar invasion led by Crimean Khan Makhmet-Girei in 1521)
✚Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine the Great († 337) with his Mother Helen († 327)

Liturgical colour: gold

Saints of the day

Venerable Prince Yaroslav, (in baptism Constantine) († 1129), with his children Michael and Theodore, Wonderworkers of Murom (12th C)
Uncovering of the relics of Blessed Andrew of Simbirsk (1998)
Venerable Cassian the Greek of Uglich († 1504)
Synaxis of All Saints of Karelia
Revered lists of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God: the Pskov-Kiev Caves “Tenderness” (1524), Zaonikievskaya (1588), Krasnogorskaya or Montenegro (1603), Orange (1634)
Venerable Agapit of Markushev († 1584)
New Martyr Pachomius († 1730)

No fast

Any food is fine.

Fasting is personal; ask your priest.