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1 June 2026, Monday
Feasts, fasts and events
Fast-free week: the fast on Wednesday and Friday is not observed.
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Lives and liturgical texts
The Passion of St. Patrick the Martyr and with him three presbyters: Acacia, Menander and Polyene.
On the 19th of May, the bishopric of St. Patrick was in the city of Prussia, in the province of Bithynia. One day he began openly to denounce the errors of the heathen and to preach the faith of Christ; his preaching converted many heathens to Christ; for this he was taken by the heathen, together with the three presbyters, Acacius, Menander, and Polynius, and brought to the question of the Bithenian igumen Julius, the most zealous of them all.
The Passion of the Holy Martyr Calup the Egyptian
He was a native of Thebes, Egypt, and for his belief in Christ was taken and delivered to the Egemon, who ordered him to be bound about his neck.
The portrayal of the faithful prince John of Ugli, in the monks of Ignatius, the Woloda miracle worker
Saint John was the son of a faithful and Christ-loving prince, Andrei Vasilievich Uglichsky, and a faithful princess, Elena, and was baptized in the city of Great Lakes.
The memory of our reverend father John Bishop of Gotha
Our holy father John lived in the land of the Goths [under the name of the Goth country is understood here the area then under the control of the Goths on the southern shore of the Crimean peninsula, known as Tavroskifia.