Friday, 4 September 2026
22 August 2026 on the Old calendar
- ✚Finding of the relics of Saint Joasaph, Bishop of Belgorod (1911)
Liturgical colour: dark (strict fast)
Saints of the day
- Hieromartyr Babylas, Bishop of Antioch and those with him: the youths Urban, Prilidianus, and Eppolonius, and their mother Christodula († 251)
- Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses († 1531 BC)
- Martyr Babylas of Nicomedia and 84 youths with him
- Martyrs Theodore, Mianus, Julian, and Chion
- Martyr Hermione the Daughter of St Philip the Deacon († c. 117)
- Venerable Petronius, desciple of Venerable Pachomius
- Hieromartyr Peter, Metropolitan of Dabro and Bosnia
- Second finding of the relics of Saint Metrophan, Bishop of Vorenzh (1989)
Fasting
Strict fastPlant food without oil.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.