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29 August 2026, Saturday
Feasts, fasts and events
No fast.
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Lives and liturgical texts
The transfer from Edessa to Constantinople of a non-human image of our Lord Jesus Christ
In the days of the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ on earth, when He was living among men, preaching about the Kingdom of God in the cities and towns of Judea and the surrounding countries, "healing every disease and every plague in the people", in Edessa, a city in Syria on the other side of the river Euphrates, there lived a prince named Agar. He suffered from an incurable disease, <unk> leprosy: on the outside he was covered with blue sores; on the inside he felt his bones broken and he was sick.
St. John of Damascus 's words on the worship of holy icons
Since some blame us for worshiping and venerating the image of our Savior and the image of the Mother of God, as well as the image (s) of other holy servants of Christ [Speaking of people who condemn Christians, St. John of Damascus means the iconoclasts.
The memory of the holy martyr Diomedes
St. Diomedes was a native of Tarsus, Cilicia, by profession a physician, and by faith a Christian, healing not only bodies but souls; for he exhorted the Hellenes to believe in God and enlightened them, preparing them for holy baptism.
On the same day, the memory of Reverend Hermon
His cave stood twelve furlongs from the water; according to the legend he was found sitting on his seat and holding his handcraft in his hands, for he died at work. This saint Herimon is also mentioned by St. Theodoros Studius in the Triodae of the fast, on Saturday the cheese in the canon of the morning, in the sixth song 2.