Wednesday, 26 August 2026
13 August 2026 on the Old calendar
- ✚Repose (1783) and Second Finding of the Relics (1991) of Saint Tikhon, bishop of Voronezh, Wonderworder of Zadonsk
Liturgical colour: dark (strict fast)
Saints of the day
- Apodosis of the Transfiguration of the Lord
- Translation of the relics of St. Maximos the Confessor (662)
- Finding of the relics of the Venerable Maxim of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ (c. 1547)
- Сщмчч. Иоанна, Иоасафа и Константина пресвитеров (1918)
- New Martyr Seraphim, bishop of Dmitrov († 1918)
- Мч. Василия (1942)
- Martyrs Hyppolytus, Concordius, Irenæus, and Abundius of Rome († 258)
- Icons of the Mother of God: “Seven Arrows” and “Strastnaya”
Fasting
Strict fastPlant food without oil.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.