August 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Aug. 15 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 17

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

aints

*Martyr Diomedes of Tarsus in Cilicia, physician (298)
*Saint Joachim of Osogov, Bulgarian monk (12th century)
*Saint Gerasimus the New Ascetic of Cephalonia, on Mount Athos
*Martyr Nicodemus of Meteora
*Martyr Stamatios of Thessaly
*Russian New Martyrs Vladimir, priest, and his brother sexy grannie
*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)