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FIXED COMMEMORATIONS

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 29 by Old Calendarists

Feasts

Afterfeast of the Dormition

Translation of the "Image not made by hands" of Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople

Saints

Martyr Diomedes Of Tarsus in Cilicia , Physician ( 298 )

Saint Joachim Of Osogov , Bulgaria n Monk ( 12th Century )

Saint Gerasimus the New Ascetic of Cephalonia , on Mount Athos

Martyr Nicodemus Of Meteora

Martyr Stamatios of Thessaly

Russia n New Martyrs Vladimir, Priest , and his brother Boris ( 1931 )

Saint Raphael Of Banat in Serbia

33 martyrs of Palestine

Martyr Alcibiades

Saint Nilus, brother of Emperor Theodore Laskaris

Saint Timothy Of Chalcedon , Archbishop and founderof the monastery of Pendeli

Great martyr Apostolos Of St. Laurence , killed in Constantinople

Other commemorations

Translation of the Relics of the martyrs Seraphim, Dorotheus, James, Demetrius, Basil, and Sarantis

Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Saint Theodore ("Feodorovskaya")

Repose of Blessed Matrona Popova , disciple of Saint Tikhon Of Zadonsk ( 1851 )