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16 August 2026, Sunday

Old Style date
3 August 2026
Year from the creation of the world
Year 7534, month 12, August
Great Indiction
15th cycle, year 86/532
Agricultural year
Cultivation allowed: 34/50, 6/7
Start of the indiction
14 September 2025
Old Style: 1 September 2025
Pascha of Christ
12 April 2026
Old Style: 30 March 2026

Feasts, fasts and events

Meal of the dayFasting meal

Fasting meal with oilWine is allowed at the mealVegetable oil and wine are allowed.

Dormition Fast
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Dormition Fast

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Lives and liturgical texts

3 August Old Style / 16 August New Style

Our venerable fathers Isaac, Dalmatus and Faust.

Photorealistic image, Our Reverend Fathers Isaac, Dalmat and Faust, Orthodox calendar, 2026-08-16, other

On August 3rd, the Reverend Dalmatus lived during the reign of Theodosius the Great, served in the army, and enjoyed the respect of the king. Then, having despised all worldly things, he left his wife and children; taking with him his only son, Faust, he went to the Reverend Isaac, who had a monastery near Constantinople.

Kondack, voice two.

Condac, volume 2: Understanding the light of the world, and the heresies corrupted the faith, with the songs of Isaac we praise, and with the Dalmates of Faust, as Christ's apprentices, praying for all of us. ____________________________________ 1 Theodosius the Great emperor 379-395 C. 2 In the second guard regiment, who were then called scholarshipmen. 3 Daughters. 4 About the godly life and great zeal for the faith of Isaac, which encouraged him to fearlessly condemn the wicked king Valentine, to whom he foretold his death, and about his blessed death which is sufficiently reported under the 30th day of May; the wishful passing of the month of Isaiah may have been more than 5 Pr. 388-43 C. 408 BC, but not by other patriarchs, the patriarchs died in 408 BC, and the patriarchs died in 408 BC, and the patriarchs died in 409 BC.

7 And then, after eating a meal, 43 days before the feast of the Ascension of Christ, he spent in ecstasy (admiration) and at this time was given divine visions and told where three of their brothers' monasteries were located at the feast in the church of the Maccabees, which gained him universal fame. St. Patriarch Proclus (434-446), still alive, preacher Dalmatus, praises him exceedingly in a letter to John of Antioch. 8 Heretics correctly argued that the Blessed Virgin should not be called the Virgin Mary, because she did not give birth to God, but only the instrument with which the Virgin, the Son of God, was united, was born first of the Father, the Son of God, the Son of God, and this man became the united person of God through the anointing of the Holy Spirit, or the divine Word, and thus the divine person, Jesus Christ, became the firstborn of God through the anointing of Christ.

9 Having learned that Orthodoxy at the Council of Ephesus was threatened by violence, St. Dalmatus, taking the lead of the Igunes, monks and faithful Christians to Orthodoxy, went to the king's palace and spoke boldly before the emperor for the truth; meanwhile he had not left the monastery for 48 years, although the king had asked him to do so, wishing that the great figure should participate in the general prayers for relief from the earthquake. 10 The time of his death is not known with certainty, it can only be said that he lived at St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople.

3 August Old Style / 16 August New Style

The life of Reverend Cosmas, the miserly hermit

Photo-realistic depiction, Life of the Reverend Cosmas, a recluse, the Orthodox calendar, 2026-08-16, saint_life

In the book Limonar (from the Greek limon <unk> луг, paжить) <unk> a very widespread hagiographical composition of John Mosch, a Greek monk (died 622). Traveling through the monasteries of Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Cyprus, Constantinople and Rome, Mosch collected a lot of stories about the life of Christian pilgrims, collected also many of their sayings and morals; all these information he laid out in his "Limonar".