Orthodox Calendar for June 2016

June 2016
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Leavetaking of Mid-Pentecost Hieromartyr Patrick, Bishop of Prussa	2 Unc. Rel. St Aleksy, Metropolitan of Kiev Martyr Thalelaeus at Aegae in Cilicia and those with him (327)	3 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed SS Constantine and Helen, Equals-to-the-Apostles Holy New Martyr Pachomius (1730)	4 Martyr Basiliscus, Bishop of Comana Righteous Melchizedek, king of Salem. Commemoration of the Second Ecumenical Council (381).
5 6th Sunday of Pascha Blind Man St Michael the Confessor Unc. Rel. St Leonty, Bishop of Rostov St Michael the Confessor, bishop of Synnada (818) Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary, wife of Cleopas Holy Martyr Michael of St Sabbas' Monastery(9th c.) Holy Virgin Euphrosyne, Princess of Polotsk (1173)	6 Ven. Simeon the Stylite Ven. Nikita the Stylite St Vincent of Lerins (445)	7 3rd Finding of the Head of St John the Baptist Holy Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus (4th c.) Holy Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentian, Julius and those with them (302)	8 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Leavetaking of Pascha / Forefeast of Ascension Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus of the Seventy Greatmartyr George the New at Sofia Saint Augustine of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (ca. 605) Holy New Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (1794)	9 Ascension of the Lord Hieromartyr Therapon Trans. Rel. Ven. Nilus of Stolbensk Hieromartyr Therapon, bishop of Sardis (259) Holy Martyrs Theodora and Didymus (304) Holy New Confessor John the Russian (1730) Saint David of Garesjei (6th c.) Venerable Bede (Baeda) (735)	10 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed St Nicetas, Bishop of Chalcedon St Ignaty, Bishop of Rostov St Nicetas the Confessor, bishop of Chalcedon (9th c.)	11 Virgin Martyr Theodosia of Tyre Rep. Bl. John of Ustiug Commemoration of the First Ecumenical Council (325) The Fall of Constantinople (1453); "Blessed Constantine XII, last of the Byzantine emperors, martyred by the Turks (1453)"
12 7th Sunday of Pascha Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council Ven. Isaac, Founder of Dalmatian Monastery St Macrina, grandmother of St Basil the Great (4th c.)	13 Apostle Hermes of the Seventy	14 Martyr Justin the Philosopher Our Holy Father Agapitus of the Kiev Caves (1095)	15 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed St Nicephorus the Confessor Holy New Martyr Constantine (1819) Hieromartyr Erazmo of Ochrid (303)	16 Martyr Lucillian and His Companions Hieromartyr Lucian (2nd c.) Holy Martyr Dimitri, Tsarevich of Russia (1591)	17 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Leavetaking of Ascension St Metrophanes, First Patriarch of Constantinople Holy Myrrh-bearers Mary and Martha, sisters of St Lazarus (1st c.)	18 Memorial Saturday Hieromartyr Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyre Our Holy Father Theodore the Hermit and Wonderworker (583) Blessed Igor-George, tonsured Gabriel, great prince of Chernigov and Kiev (1147) Blessed Constantine, Metropolitan of Kiev (1159)
19 8th Sunday of Pascha: Feast of the Holy Trinity Holy Pentecost Ven. Bessarion the Wonderworker of Egypt St Hilarion the New, abbot of the Dalmatian Monastery (845) Our Holy Mothers the Martyrs Archelaïs, Thekla and Susanna (293)	20 Day of the Holy Spirit Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Ancyra Hieromartyr Marcellinus, pope of Rome (304) St Daniel of Skete in Egypt (5th c.)	21 Third Day of the Trinity Trans. Rel. Theodore Stratelates St Ephraim, Patriarch of Antioch (545) Our Holy Mother Melania the Elder (410) St Zosimas, monk, of Phoenicia (Syria) (6th c.)	22 St Cyril of Alexandria Ven. Kirill of Belozersk St Columba of Iona (597)	23 Hieromartyr Timothy, Bishop of Prussa St John Maximovitch, Metropolitan of Tobolsk Holy Martyrs Alexander and Antonina (313) Hieromartyr Metrophanes, first Chinese priest, and the Chinese New Martyrs of the Boxer Uprising (1900)	24 Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas Commemoration of the appearance of the Archangel Gabriel to a monk on Mt Athos, and the revelation of the hymn "It is Truly Meet" (Axion Estin (980)	25 Leavetaking of Pentecost Ven. Onuphrius the Great
26 1st Sunday after Pentecost All Saints Martyr Aquilina of Byblos Saint Triphyllius, bishop of Leucosia (Nicosia) in Cyprus (370) St Anna and her son John (5h c.)	27 Apostles Fast Beginning of Apostles' Fast Prophet Elisha St Methodios, Patriarch of Constantinople (847) St John Mavropos, Metropolitan of Euchaïta(1100)	28 Apostles Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Prophet Amos St Jonah, Metr. of Moscow Holy Prophet Amos (8th c. BC) Holy Martyr Vitus, with Modestus and Crescentia (303) Blessed Augustine, bishop of Hippo (430), and his mother Monica (387) Holy Martyr Lazar, Prince of Serbia (1389)	29 Apostles Fast St Tycho, Bishop of Amathus Holy Martyrs Tigrios and Eutropios (404)	30 Apostles Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Martyrs Manuel, Sabel, Ismael of Persia Our Holy Father Botolph, Abbot of the Monastery of Ikanhoe (680)