Leavetaking of Transfiguration
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Fast day — no meat; dairy and eggs are allowed.
Commemorated today
- St Tikhon of Zadonsk (1783)d. 1783
- St Maximos the Confessor (662)Confessor — suffered for the faith but was not killed · d. 662
- Holy Martyr Hippolytus of Rome and 18 Martyrs with him (258)Martyr · d. 258
- Our Holy Mother the Empress Irene (Xenia in Monasticism) (12th century)12th century
- Our Righteous Fathers Sergius, Stephanus, Castor and PalamonusRighteous
- Dorotheus, Abba of Gaza
Appointed readings
- Composite 2 – Proverbs 10, 3, 8
- Proverbs 10:31–11:12
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- John 10:9–16
- Hebrews 7:26–8:2
- Matthew 5:14–19
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on August 13 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on August 26 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.