Tuesday, 1 August 2028
19 July 2028 on the Old calendar
Liturgical colour: dark (strict fast)
Saints of the day
- Procession of the Honorable Wood of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord
- Holy 7 Maccabean Martyrs: Habim, Antonios, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusebonus, Hadim and Marcellus, their mother Solomonia and their teacher Eleazar († 166 BC)
- Feast of the All-Merciful Saviour and the Holy Theotokos
- Martyrs Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cyndeus, Minsitheus, Cyriakus, Mineonus, Catunus, and Eucleus
- Holy Hierarch Timothy the Wonderworker, Bishop of Proconeses
- Blessed Basil of Kubna
- Beginning of the Dormition Fast
- New Martyr Priest Dimitry (1937)
- The Repose of the Venerable Princess Sofia, in the world Solomonia, wife of the Grand Prince Basil Ivanovich
Fasting
Strict fastPlant food without oil.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.