Date page
25 August 2026, Tuesday
Feasts, fasts and events
Fasting meal без рыбы, масла и вина.
Dormition Fast
Многодневные посты
Lives and liturgical texts
The holy martyrs Photius and Anictus.
In Nicomedia, a city in the province of Viennese [Little Asia], the wicked king Diocletian (284-305) began open persecution of Christians; by his order, instruments of torture were placed in the city: swords, scythes, horns, iron nails, pans, wheels, kettles, and other inhuman inventions of this kind; animals were also prepared; Diocletian wanted to frighten those who called on Christ's name.
The memory of the saintly martyr Alexander, bishop of Komansky
In the town of Comane [located in the Ponte Paleomoniac near the river Iris], near Neocesaria, whose bishop at the time described was St. Gregory the Wonderworker [Memory of him 17 November], lived in voluntary poverty a man named Alexander; his godly life was hidden from human eyes and known only to God.