Scripture Readings

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

11th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTTone 2. Afterfeast of the Transfiguration. St. Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Kyzikos (813-820). Ven. Gregory the Iconographer, of the Kiev Caves (Near Caves—12th c.). Translation of the Relics of Ven. Zosimas and Sabbatius of Solovétsky Monastery (1566). St. Myron, Bishop of Crete (ca. 350). Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonidas of Constantinople, and many infants martyred with them. Ven. Gregory of Sinai (and Mt. Athos—14th c.). The “TOLGA” Icon of the Mother of God (1314).