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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June 14, 2011 Third Day of the Holy Trinity.Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free Martyr Justin the Philosopher, and those with him at Rome: Martyrs Justin, Chariton and his wife Charita, Euelpistus, Hierax, Peon, Valerian and Justus (166). Venerable Dionysius, abbot of Glushitsa (Vologda) (1437). New Hieromartyr Basil priest, Virgin-martyr Vera

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June 13, 2011 Day Of the Holy Spirit. Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free “Tupichevsk” and “Cyprus” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Day Of the Holy Spirit). Apostle Hermes of the Seventy (1st c.). Martyr Hermias at Comana (160). New Hieromartyr Archpriest Philosoph Ornatsky with his

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June 12, 2011 Pentecost – Trinity Sunday. “Lesna” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1696) (movable holiday on the Trinity Sunday). Holy Fathers and Mothers of Atchara (18th c.) (movable holiday on the Trinity Sunday) (Georgia). Venerable Isaac, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (383). New Hieromartyr Basil priest

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June 11, 2011 Commemoration of the Dead.Tone six. Virgin-martyr Theodosia of Tyre (308). Repose of Blessed John of Ustiug, fool-for-Christ (1494). Uncovering of the relics (2000) of Venerable Job, Schemamonk of Anzersk (1720). New Hieromartyr John deacon and martyr Andrew (1938). St. Luke, hierarch-surgeon of Simferopol (1961). Commemoration of the

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Chaplain for King County Police and Fire Tone six. Fast. Fish Allowed Venerable Nicetas, bishop of Chalcedon (9th c.). St. Ignatius, bishop and wonderworker of Rostov (1288). Venerable Helen of Diveyevo (1832). New Hieromartyr Macarius, Dyonisius, Hieromartyr Nicholas deacon, Martyrs Ignatius and Peter (1931). New Hieromartyr Heraclius confessor (1936). Virgin-Martyr

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