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Wednesday June 17, 2026 / June 4, 2026

3rd Week after Pentecost. Tone one.

Apostles' (Peter & Paul) Fast. Food with Oil

Calculated: Food with Oil (f4)

Fasting Season

  • Apostles' (Peter & Paul) Fast

Saints

  1. St. Metrophanes, first patriarch of Constantinople (325). primary
  2. St. Petroc of Cornwall (594) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  3. Venerable Methodius, abbot of Peshnosha (1392), disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
  4. Martyrs Frontasius, Severinus, Severian, and Silanus of Gaul (1st c.).
  5. Martyr Concordius of Spoleto (175).
  6. Hieromartyr Astius, bishop of Dyrrachium in Macedonia (110).
  7. Venerable Zosimas of Cilicia, bishop of New Babylon (Egypt) (6th c.).
  8. Hieromartyr Ioannicus, metropolitan of Montenegro and Littoral (1945).
  9. New Hieromartyr Peter priest (1918).
  10. New Martyrs: Archbishop Andronicus of Perm (1918) and Archbishop Basil of Chernigov (1918).
  11. New Hieromartyr George priest (1941).
  12. Joanikije Lipovac, Metropolitan of Montenegro (1945) (Serbia)
  13. Uncovering of the relics of Hieromartyr Peter, archbishop of Voronezh (1999).
  14. Sts. Mary and Martha, sisters of St. Lazarus (1st c.).
  15. Venerables Eleazar and Nazarius, wonderworkers of Olonets (15th c.).
  16. Venerable Sophia of Thrace (10th-11th c.).
  17. Venerable John, abbot of Monagria near Cyzicus (761).
  18. Venerable Alonius of Scete in Egypt (5th c.).
  19. St. Titus, bishop of Byzantium (3rd c.).
  20. Hieromartyr Apotacius and Martyrs Camarus, Zoticus, Gaddanus, Ninnitus, Julius, Attalus, Eutyches, Amasus, Carinus, Saturninus and 30 others, beheaded at Noviodunum in Scythia Minor (320).
  21. St. Optatus, bishop of Milevum in Numidia (376).

Scripture

  • Romans 8:2-13
  • Matthew 10:16-22