Friday, 13 August 2027

31 July 2027 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)
Martyrs Hyppolytus, Concordius, Irenæus, and Abundius of Rome († 258)
Venerable Seridus the Abbot
Venerable Empress Irene, in monasticism Xenia
Blessed Empress Eudoxia
Icons of the Mother of God: “Seven Arrows” and “Strastnaya”
New Martyr Seraphim, bishop of Dmitrov († 1918)

Strict fast

Plant food without oil.

Fasting is personal; ask your priest.