Scripture Readings
Sunday, August 17, 1997
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
9th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — Tone 8. Afterfeast of the Dormition. Martyr Myron, Presbyter, of Cyzicus (254). Ven. Alypius, Iconographer of the Kiev Near Caves (Near Caves—1114). Martyrs Paul and Juliana of Syria (ca. 273). Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Coronatus, with others, at Cæsarea in Bithynia (3rd c.). Martyr Patroclus of Troyes (3rd c.). Martyrs Straton, Philip, Eutychian, and Cyprian, of Nicomedia (ca. 303). Bl. Theodoretus, Enlightener of the Lapps (Solovétsky Monastery—1571).