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August 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)


Aug. 15 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 17

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 29 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 16, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 3.

King Abgar with the Image of Edessa
(St Catherine's monastery, Mount Sinai.)

Saint Diomedes, fresco at Hilandar Monastery, Mt. Athos.

Reliquary of Saint Simplician.

Portrayal of King Stephen I on the Hungarian coronation pall from 1031.

King Constantin Brâncoveanu of Wallachia, and his sons (Church mural in Hurezi Monastery).

Theotokos of Saint Theodore ("Feodorovskaya").

Theotokos of Port Arthur.

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Russian Sources


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