Scripture Readings

Sunday, August 19, 2018

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

12th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTTone 3. Afterfeast of the Dormition. Martyr Andrew Stratelates and those with him (2,593 soldiers) in Cilicia (4th c.). St. Pitirim, Bishop of Perm (1456). Martyrs Timothy, Agapius, and Thekla, of Palestine (304-306). Ven. Theophanes of Docheiariou (Mt. Athos—16th c.). The “DONSKAYA” Icon of the Mother of God (in commemoration of the deliverance of Moscow from the Tatars in 1591).