Orthocal

Tuesday June 23, 2026 / June 10, 2026

4th Week after Pentecost. Tone two.

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

Calculated: Food with Oil (f4)

Fasting Season

  • Apostles' (Peter & Paul) Fast

Saints

  1. Hieromartyr Timothy, bishop of Prusa (362). primary
  2. Finding of the relics (1609) of St. Basil, bishop of Ryazan (1295). primary
  3. Synaxis of All Saints of Riazan. primary
  4. St. John Maximovitch, Metropolitan of Tobolsk (1715). primary
  5. Synaxis of All Saints of Siberia: St. Innocent, bishop of Irkutsk (1731); St. Macarius (Glukharev) of Altai (1847); St. Macarius (Nevsky), metropolitan of Moscow, apostle to Altai (1926); and others. primary
  6. Venerable Silvanus of the Far Caves in Kiev (14th c.).
  7. Martyr Alexander and Virgin-martyr Antonina at Constantinople (313).
  8. Venerable Theophanes, monk, of Antioch (363), and St. Pansemne, the former harlot of Antioch.
  9. St. Bassian, bishop of Lodi in Lombardy (409).
  10. Hieromartyr Metrophanes, the first Chinese priest, and the Chinese New Martyrs of the Boxer Uprising, at Peking and other places in 1900.
  11. New Hieromartyr Nicholas, Basil priests and Martyr Paul (1918).
  12. New Hieromartyr Timothy priest (1940).
  13. St. Tamara the Confessor (1936) (Georgia).
  14. St. Paul, metropolitan of Tobolsk (1770).
  15. Martyr Neaniscus the Wise of Alexandria (Greek).
  16. St. Canides, monk, of Cappadocia (460) (Greek).
  17. St. Apollo, bishop (Greek).
  18. St. Alexius of Bithynia, bishop (Greek).
  19. St. Asterius, bishop of Petra (4th c.).

Scripture

  • John 10:1-9 - Matins Gospel
  • Romans 10:11-11:2
  • Matthew 11:16-20
  • Hebrews 13:17-21 - St. Basil
  • John 10:9-16 - St. Basil