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Saints

Sunday June 21, 2026 / June 8, 2026

  1. Celebration in Vologda to the venerable fathers of Vologda (movable holiday on the 3rd Sunday of Pentecost). primary
  2. Synaxis of Novgorod Hierarchs (movable holiday on the 3rd Sunday of Pentecost). primary
  3. Synaxis of Saints of Belorussia (movable holiday on the 3rd Sunday of Pentecost): St. Menas, Bishop of Polotsk (1116), St Dionysius bishop Polotsk (1182), Cyril Bishop of Turiv (1183), Lavrenti Bishop of Turiv (1184), Symeon bishop Polotsk (1289); Blessed Great Prince Rostislav (baptize as Michael), of Kiev (1167); Venerable Martyrs Athanasius, Higumen of Brest (1648), Makarius Kabevsky Higumen of Pinsk (1678); Venerable Martin Turovsky (1150), Elise Lavrishevsk (1250); venerable Ephrosinia of Polotsk (1173), Martyr child Gabriel Belostotsky (1690); righteous Juliana princess of Olshansk (1550), and Sophia princess of Slutsk (1612). primary
  4. Synaxis of Saints of Pskov (movable holiday on the 3rd Sunday of Pentecost). primary
  5. Synaxis of Saints of St. Petersburg (movable holiday on the 3rd Sunday of Pentecost). primary
  6. Synaxis of Saints of the Lands of Udmurtia (movable holiday on the 3rd Sunday of Pentecost). primary
  7. Synaxis of Saints of Volgograd (movable holiday on the 3rd Sunday of Pentecost). primary
  8. Translation of the relics of Great-martyr Theodore Stratelates (319).
  9. St. Theodore, bishop of Rostov and Suzdal (1023).
  10. Finding of the relics (1501) of Sts. Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), princes of Yaroslavl.
  11. Venerable Ephraim, patriarch of Antioch (546).
  12. Venerable Zosimas, monk, of Phoenicia (Syria) (6th c.).
  13. "Yaroslavl" (13th c.) and "Uriupinsk" (1827) Icons of the Mother of God.
  14. New Martyrs of the Turkish Yoke (movable holiday on the 3rd Sunday of Pentecost).
  15. New Martyr Theophanes at Constantinople (1559) (Greek).
  16. Venerable Atre (Athre) of Nitria (Egypt).
  17. Venerable Naucratius, abbot of the Studion (848).
  18. Venerable Theophilus of Luga and Omutch (1412), disciple of St. Arsenius of Konevits (Valaam).
  19. Martyrs Nicander and Marcian at Dorostulum in Moesia (303) (Romania).
  20. St. Medardus, bishop of Noyon (560) (Neth.).
  21. Translation of the relics of Hieromartyr Alphege, abbot of Canterbury.
  22. Martyr Callopia (Greek).
  23. Venerable Melania the Elder, of Palladius' Lausiac History (Greek).
  24. Martyr Nicander (Greek).
  25. Martyr Mark (Greek).
  26. New Hieromartyrs Barlaam (1942) and his brother Herman (1937) (Riaschentsov) (1937).
  27. St. Paul the Confessor, of Kaiuma in Constantinople (766).
  28. Holy Hieromartyr Tevdore of Kvelta (1609) (Georgia).
  29. Synaxis of the Church of the Cross at Mtskheta, Georgia (Georgia).
  30. Venerable Naucratius, brother of St. Basil the Great (4th c.).