The Courtyard Fountain November 23 / 10 27th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Apostles Erastus, Olympas, Herodion, Sosipater, Quartus, and Tertius of the Seventy (1st c.). New Hieromartyr Niphont and Martyr Alexander (1931). New Hieromartyrs Prokopius (Titov) archbishop of Odessa, Dionisius, John and Peter priests (1937). New Hieromartyrs Augustine (Belyaev),

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3:45 a.m. A Light Snowfall, the First for the Winter Saints of the Day 27th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius of Ephesus (284). Venerable Matrona, abbess, of Constantinople (492). Venerable Theoctiste of the isle of Lesbos (881). New Hieromartyrs Parthenius bishop of Ananiev, Constantine, Demetrius, Nestor,

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Looking toward the Church, at Night The Trapeza and Bookstore at Night November 21 / 8 Saints of the Day: 26th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone one. Synaxis of the and the other Bodiless Powers: the Archangels Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Salaphiel, Jegudiel, Barachiel, and Jeremiel. New Martyr Michael the Blessed of

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26th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Holy 33 Martyrs of Melitene: Hieron, Hesychius, Nicander, Athanasius, Manias, Barachius, Callinicus, Theogenes, Nicon, Longinus, Theodore, Valerius, Xanthius, Theodulus, Callimachus, Eugene, Theodochus, Ostrychius, Epiphanius, Maximian, Ducitius, Claudian, Theophilus, Gigantius, Dorotheus, Theodotus, Castrychius, Anicletus, Theomelius, Eutychius, Hilarion, Diodotus, and Amonitus (290). Venerable Lazarus the Wonderworker

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The Fireplace in the Library 26th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Library The Library’s Russian Plate Collection St. Paul the Confessor, archbishop of Constantinople (350). Venerable Barlaam, abbot of Khoutyn (Novgorod) (1192). New Hieromartyrs Nicitas bishop of Orekhovo-Zuev, Anatoly, Arsenius, Nicholas,

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The Library’s Bright Corner Saints of the Day 26th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Martyrs Galacteon and his wife Episteme at Emesa (253). Repose of St. Jonah, archbishop of Novgorod (1470). St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus (Election 1917). New Hieromartyr Gabriel priest (1937). Apostles Patrobus, Hermas, Linus,

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His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia Saints of the Day 26th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Venerable Ioannicius the Great of Bithynia (846). Hieromartyrs Nicander, bishop of Myra, and Hermas, presbyter (1st c.). Martyr Nicolas confessor and priest

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The Courtyard, on a Rainy Afternoon Saints of the Day Martyrs Acepsimus the bishop, Joseph the presbyter, and Aeithalas the deacon, of Persia Dedication of theChurch of the Great-Martyr George in Lydda. (services combined) Martyrs Atticus, Agapius, Eudoxius, Carterius, Istucarius(Styrax), Pactobius (Tobias) and Nictopolion, at Sebaste. St. Acepsimas, hermit of

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The Courtyard, on a Rainy Afternoon Saints of the Day Martyrs Acepsimus the bishop, Joseph the presbyter, and Aeithalas the deacon, of Persia Dedication of theChurch of the Great-Martyr George in Lydda. (services combined) Martyrs Atticus, Agapius, Eudoxius, Carterius, Istucarius(Styrax), Pactobius (Tobias) and Nictopolion, at Sebaste. St. Acepsimas, hermit of

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