Martyr
Martyrs Marius the Soldier and Asterius the Senator
In Russian: Мчч. Марина и Астерия (260)
In Church Slavonic: Ст҃ы́хъ мꙋ́чєникъ марі́на и҆ а҆сте́рїя (260)
Feast days
2026
Old calendar
- (7 August on the Old calendar), repose
New calendar
- , repose
2027
Old calendar
- (7 August on the Old calendar), repose
New calendar
- , repose
Also commemorated on 20 August 2026
- Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
- Martyr Dometios of Persia and his two Disciples († 363)
- Finding of Relics of Saint Mitrophan, Bishop of Voronezh (1832)
- Venerable Anthony of Optina († 1865)
- New Martyrs Priests Alexander, Peter, Michael, John, Dimitriy, and Alexey († 1937)
- Сщмч. Василия пресвитера (1938)
- Venerable Orus, hermit of Thibaida
- Venerable Pimen the much-suffering, of the Kiev Caves
- Venerable Mercurius of the Kiev Caves, bishop of Smolensk
- Venerable Pimen the Faster of the Kiev Caves, far caves (13th-14th C)
- Прмц. Потамии чудотворицы