Today's feasts
June 30: Synaxis of the Holy, Glorious and All-Praised Twelve Apostles: Peter, Andrew, James and John the sons of Zebedee, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew the Evangelist, James the son of Alphaeus, Jude the brother of James, Simon Zelotes, and Matthias; leavetaking of the feast of Saints Peter and Paul; Saint Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk; New-Martyr Michael of Athens; Saint Andrew, prince of Bogoliubsk; Martyr Meleton; Martyr Peter of Synope; Saint Peter, Prince of Ordinsk, Rostov (see also June 29); translation of the relics of Saint Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk (see March 30). Other events: Repose of Bp. Nestor (Zakkis) of the Aleutians
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