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Today's feasts August 21 2026: Afterfeast of the Dormition; Apostle Thaddeus of the Seventy; Martyr Bassa of Edessa and her sons Theogonius, Agapius, and Pistus; Saint Abramius, Archimandrite, Wonder-worker of Smolensk, and his disciple Saint Ephraim; Saint Abramius the Lover-of-labor of the Kiev Caves; Saint Theocleta the Wonder-worker of Asia Minor; Saint Cornelius, Abbot of Paleostrov and Olonets, and his disciple Saint Abramius; Saint Isaiah of Mount Athos; Saint Sarmean, the Katholikos of Qartli, Georgia; New-Martyr Simeon of Samokov; Hieromartyr Raphael of Serbia; Saint Avitos, Bishop of Clermont; Saint Sidonios Apollinaris, Bishop of Clermont; opening of the relics of Saint Nektarios of Aegina ( August 8 2026: Julian Calendar ) Afterfeast of the Transfiguration; Saint Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus; Saint Myron, Wonder-worker and Bishop of Crete; Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonides of Constantinople, and many infants martyred with them; Saint Gregory of Sinai (and Mount Athos); Saint Gregory, iconographer of the Kiev Caves; Saint Gregory, Wonder-worker of the Kiev Caves; New-Martyrs Triandaphyllus (Triantaphillos) of Zagoras (or of Thessaly) and Anastasios of Thessaloniki (or of Thessaly); Twelve Ascetics of Egypt; Two Martyrs of Tyre; Martyr Styracius; Saint Equtiem the Elder of the St. John the Baptist Monastery; Saint Theodore, Abbot of Orovon; Martyr Kyriakos of Rome; Saint Lide, Hermit of St. Helen's, Scilly Isles; Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Tolga; translation of the relics of Saints Zosimas and Sabbatius of Solovki Featured article The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, and it is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora." Recently featured: Raphael Morgan, Holy Week, Georges Florovsky, Theodoros II (Choreftakis) of Alexandria, Paschal Homily, Pachomius the Great. View all featured articles.

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