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15 August 2026, Saturday
Feasts, fasts and events
Vegetable oil and wine are allowed.
Dormition Fast
Многодневные посты
Lives and liturgical texts
Transfer of the relics of the first martyr and archdeacon Stephen
On the second night, the famous Jewish law teacher Gamaliel [Gamaliel <unk> the famous Jewish law teacher, who occupied a high place in the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem,
The portrayal of the holy and righteous St. Basil the Blessed, the miracle worker of Moscow
This blessed Vasily lived during the reign of the noble king and great prince John Vasilievich [Blessed Vasily was born in the first years of the reign of the Moscow great prince John Vasilievich III (1462-1505) in the then-Moscow village of Elahov, where the Elahov and Basmanny streets are now located.
The thunder, voice eight.
Throap, voice 8: Thy life, Vassily, pure, and pure, is pure; thy body, for Christ's sake, is weary with fasting and vigil, and frost, and warm sunshine, and sloth, and rain clouds, and thy face shines like the sun: and now come to thee the nations, kings and princes, and all the people, who glorify thy holy prosperity.
The fourth voice.
Kondack, vowel 4: By the Spirit of God, you have conquered worldly rebellion, and the life of trembling has become abhorrent to you, and you have taken off the garments of corruption, and you have put on the robe of passionlessness, you have escaped the snares of a flattering peacemaker, and you have been strange in your tongue, and you have chosen the heavenly riches rather than earthly riches, and you have wrapped yourself in the crowns of patience.
1 Blessed Vasily was born in the first years of the reign of the Moscow grand prince John III (1462-1505) in the then Moscow village of Elachov, where now are the streets of Elachov and Basman.
2 The body of Blessed Basil was buried near the Church of the Holy Trinity on the Rhine, where in 1554 John the Terrible ordered to build in memory of the conquest of Kazan the Pokrovskaya Cathedral, better known as the Church of St. Basil the Blessed. In 1586, the relics of the blessed Basil began to shed many healings and in the same year by order of King Feodor Ioannovich a temple was built in his name (now the Basilica of the Pokrovskaya Cathedral), a silver one was built, decorated with pearls and precious stones and set to celebrate his memory on August 2.
On the same day, the memory of blessed Vasily, who fought in the Spasiakamenny monastery on the Kuban island of the Vologda county.