August 16

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Aug. 15 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 17

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 29 by Old calendarists

Feasts

• Afterfeast of the Dormition
• Translation of the "Image not made by hands" of Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople (944)

Saints

• Martyr Diomedes of Tarsus in Cilicia, physician (298)
• Saint Cherimon (Chaeremon) of Egypt (4th century)
• Saint Anthony the Stylite, of Martqopi, Georgia (6th century)
• Saint Joachim of Osogov, Bulgarian monk (12th century)
• Saint Eustathius II, archbishop of Serbia (1309)
• Saint Romanus the Sinaite, of Djunisa, Serbia (14th century)
• Monk-martyr Christopher of Guria, Georgia, at Damascus (15th century)
• Saint Gerasimus the New Ascetic of Cephalonia, on Mount Athos (1579)
• Martyr Nicodemus of Meteora (1551)
• Saint Raphael of Banat in Serbia (ca. 1590)
• 33 martyrs of Palestine
• Martyr Alcibiades
• Saint Nilus, brother of Emperor Theodore Laskaris
• Saint Timothy of Chalcedon, archbishop and founderof the monastery of Pendeli (1590)
• New Martyr Stamatius of Demetrias, near Volos, at Constantinople (1680)
• Great martyr Apostolos of St. Laurence, killed in Constantinople (1686)
• New Martyrs King Constantin Brâncoveanu of Wallachia and his four sons Constantine, Stephen, Radu, and Matthew, and his counsellor Ioannicius (1714)
• Russian New Martyrs Vladimir, priest, and his brother Boris (1931)

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics (1798) of the martyrs Seraphim, Dorotheus, James, Demetrius, Basil, and Sarantis, of Megaris
• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Saint Theodore ("Feodorovskaya")
• Repose of Blessed Matrona Popova, disciple of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk (1851)

References

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints
• Pravoslavie Orthodox Calendar