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23 August 2026, Sunday
Feasts, fasts and events
Vegetable oil and wine are allowed.
Dormition Fast
Многодневные посты
Lives and liturgical texts
The suffering of the holy martyrs, Archdeacon Lawrence, Pope Sixtus and others with them
Memory August 10 Famous Roman Pope Sixtus [The name Sixtus, according to others, derives from xystos <unk> smooth, polished, or xystone <unk> spear; others derive from Latin sisto <unk> firmly standing, firmly placed.] was seized along with his clergy and imprisoned by the Roman ruler Valerian at a time when the king Decius [Emperor Decius 249-251 C.E.] was solemnly returning to Rome [Rome]