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August 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)


August 30 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 1

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on September 13 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 31st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 18.

Miracle of Cincture (Greece, 17th century).

Icon depiction the Theotokos giving her cincture to Thomas the Apostle.

Hieromartyr Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage.

Saint Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Enlightener of Northumbria.

Gennadios II Scholarios - Fresco from the monastery "St. John the Baptist" near Serres, Greece.

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