June 24, 2011 2nd Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Venerable Barlaam of Khutyn (1192) (movable holiday on the 1st Friday of Apostles’ Fast). “Tabynsk” and “Kursk-Root” Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the 9th

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June 23, 2011 2nd Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast. Fish Allowed Hieromartyr Timothy, bishop of Prusa (362). Finding of the relics (1609) of St. Basil, bishop of Ryazan (1295). Synaxis of All Saints of Riazan. St. John Maximovitch, Metropolitan of Tobolsk (1715). Synaxis of All

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June 22, 2011 2nd Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) St. Cyril, archbishop of Alexandria (444). Venerable Cyril, abbot of White Lake (Byelozersk) (1427). St. Alexius Mechev, priest of Moscow (1923). Venerable Alexander, abbot of Kushta (Vologda) (1439).

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June 21, 2011 2nd Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast. Fish Allowed Translation of the relics of Great-martyr Theodore Stratelates (319). St. Theodore, bishop of Rostov and Suzdal (1023). Finding of the relics (1501) of Sts. Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), princes of Yaroslavl. Venerable Ephraim,

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June 20, 2011 2nd Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Beginning of Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra (303). New Hieromartyr Archbishop Andronicus of Perm, Alexander, Alexis, Alexander, Valentine, Benjamin, Viktor, Alexander, Paul, Vladimir, Ignatius, Michael, Nicholas, Paul, Alexander, Nicholas priests, Gregory deacon and Martyrs Athanasius and Alexsander

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June 19, 2011 1st Sunday after Pentecost. All Saints. Tone eight.Eve of Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast. Icons of the Mother of God “the Consoler of angry hearts” and “the Unbreakable Wall” (movable holiday on the Sunday of All Saints). Venerable Bessarion the Wonderworker of Egypt (466). Venerable Hilarion the

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June 18, 2011 Adoposis of Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free Hieromartyr Dorotheos, bishop of Tyre (361). New Hieromartyr Michael priest (1931). New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1943). Translation of the relics of the Blessed Igor-George, tonsured Gabriel, great prince of Chernigov and Kiev (1150) to Chernigov. Blessed Constantine, metropolitan of

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June 17, 2011 Afterfeast of Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free St. Metrophanes, first patriarch of Constantinople (325). New Hieromartyr Peter priest (1918). New Martyrs: Archbishop Andronicus of Perm (1918) and Archbishop Basil of Chernigov (1918). Venerable Methodius, abbot of Peshnosha (1392), disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh. Martyrs Frontasius,

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June 16, 2011 Afterfeast of Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Surety of Sinners” in Korets (1622) (movable holiday on Thursday of the 1-st week of the Pentecost). Martyr Lucillian and those with him at Byzantium: four youths — Claudius, Hypatius, Paul, and Dionysius;

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June 15, 2011 Afterfeast of Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free St. Nicephorus the Confessor, patriarch of Constantinople (829). Great-martyr John the New of Suceava, at Belgorod (Cetatea Alba) (1332). Finding of the relics (1815) of St. Juliana, princess of Vyasma (1406). “Kiev-Bratsk” Icon of the Mother of God (1654). New

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