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August 24 2026:

Hieromartyr Eutychius, disciple of St. John the Theologian; Saint Arsenius, Abbot of Komel (Vologda); Saint George Limniotes the Confessor of Mount Olympus; Martyr Tation (Tatio) at Claudiopolis; Virgin-Martyr Cyra (or Syra) of Persia; New Hieromartyr Cosmas of Aetolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (see also August 4); Saint Dionysius of Zakynthos, Wonder-worker and Archbishop of Aegina; Saint Martyrius, Archbishop of Novgorod; Venerable Gerasimos of Kephallenia; Saint Bregwine, Archbishop of Canterbury; Saint Ouen, Bishop of Rouen; icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Petrovskaya" ("Of Saint Peter of Moscow"); translation of the relics of Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Kiev (or of Moscow); commemoration of the appearance of the Theotokos to St. Sergius of Radonezh, Elder Aristoklis of Mount Athos

( August 11 2026: Julian Calendar )

Afterfeast of the Transfiguration; Archdeacon Euplus of Catania the Greatmartyr; Virgin-Martyr Susanna and those martyred with her: her uncle Gaius, Pope of Rome, his brother (her father) Presbyter Gavinius, Maximus (brother to the emperor Diocletian), Claudius (cousin to the emperor Diocletian), and his wife Praepedigna, with their sons Alexander and Cutias; Martyrs Basil and Theodore of the Kiev Caves; Saint Theodosius (Prince Theodore of Ostrog) of the Kiev Caves; Saint Passarion of Palestine; Saint Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople (Mount Athos); Martyrs Neophytus, Zeno, Gaius, Mark, Macarius, and Gaianus; Saint Mary Syncletica; New-Martyrs Anastasios and Demetrios; Saint Blane, Bishop of Bute; Saint Taurinos, first Bishop of Evreux; Martyr Tiburtios of Rome. Other events: commemoration of the Miracle of Saint Spyridon on Kerkyra (Corfu) with the Hagarenes

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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."

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