RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL OF ST.JOHN THE BAPTIST

August

• St. Dius

  19 July/1 August

  The Saint was born in the city of Syrian Antioch at the end of the fourth century in a pious Christian family. From his young years, he...

• Neo-martyr Philosoph Ornatsky, and those with him

  May 31/June 13

  He was born into the family of a priest in the province of Novgorod. One of his brothers was married to a cousin of...
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  Righteous Princes and Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb of Russia

  24 July / 6 August

  Mural fm the South Wall of out ChurchThe Holy Righteous Princes and Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb (in holy baptism, Romanus and David) were the...
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  The Blessed Deaconess and Confessor St. Olympias (Olympiada), of Constantinople

  25 July / 7 August

  St. Olympias was born into a prominent family of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Her father was a senator, her mother, the...
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  Holy Great Martyr and Healer St. Panteleimon

  27 July / 9 August

  The Great Martyr and Healer St. Panteleimon was born in the city of Nicomedia into the family of Eustorgios, an illustrious pagan, and was given...

• St. Bogolep, child schemamonk

  29 July/11 August

  The venerable one was the son of the Muscovite courtiers Yakov Lukitch Umakov, and his wife Catherine. He was born in Moscow in 1660. At his...

• Blessed Basil of Moscow, fool-for-Christ

  2/15 August

  Basil the Blessed was born in 1469 in Yelokhov, a village near Moscow. His parents, who were serfs, gave him over to be instructed in the craft of a...

• St. Anthony the Roman, abbot of Novgorod

  3/16 August

  The saint was born in Rome in 1067 of wealthy parents, who adhered to the Orthodox confession of faith, and was brought up by them in piety. Having been...
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  Holy Seven Youths (the "Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus: Maximilian, Jamblicus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustodian (Constantine) and Antoninus

  4/17 August

  These saints lived in the third century. Saint Maximilian was the son of the Ephesian city governor; the remaining six youths were the sons of other...

• St. Poemen (Pimen) the Much-ailing of the Kiev Caves

  7/20 August

  The Venerable St. Pimen the Much-ailing (1100), achieved the Heavenly Kingdom by way of great illness. This Russian spiritual struggler was born and...
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  Holy Martyrs Archdeacon Laurence, Pope Sixtus, the Deacons Felicissimus and Agapitus, and the Warriour Romanos of Rome

  August 10/23

  The holy martyrs Archdeacon Laurence, Pope Sixtus, the Deacons Felicissimus and Agapitus, and the soldier Romanos, were Romans who suffered in the year...
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  St. Tykhon (Tychon), bishop of Voronezh, wonderworker of Zadonsk

  13/26 August

  Hierarch Tychon (in the world, Timothy) was born in 1724 into the family of a most poor cleric of the village of Korotska (Valdai district) and soon...