Feasts
Nativity of
Saint John the Baptist;
Athanasius Parios of Paros;
Martyred brothers Orentius, Pharnacius, Eros, Firmus, Firminus, Cyriacus, and Longinus, in Georgia; Saint Anthony,
Abbot of Dymsk (Novgorod) (see also
January 17); Saint Michael, Great Prince of Tver; New-Martyr Panagiotis of Caesaria in Cappadocia;
Righteous Youths James and John of Meniugi; Saint Germoe,
Bishop of Germoe, Cornwall;
synaxis of Righteous
Zachariah and
Elizabeth, parents of Saint John the Forerunner; translation of the
relics of Saint
John the New of Suceava