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6 July 2026, Monday
Feasts, fasts and events
Fasting meal без рыбы, масла и вина.
Lives and liturgical texts
The memory of the holy martyr Agrippina
The memory of 23 June The blessed virgin Agripina was born and brought up in ancient Rome. From an early age she gave herself to God and was, according to the apostle, "the sweet odor of Christ in those who are being saved" (2 Corinthians 2:15). Like a fragrant apple or a fragrant flower, she brought sweetness and fragrance to the faithful hearts by her chaste and virtuous life, as well as driving away the smell of passions.
The condac, voiced four.
Kondack, Voice 4: The day of your bright feats is here, the most reverent of these divine Churches, all call to joyful shout to you: rejoice, lady and martyr, all-honored Agripina. ______________________________________________________ 1 Emperor Valerian ruled the Roman Empire from 253 to 259 A.D. 2 The death of the holy martyr Agripina followed in the middle of the 3rd century.
Celebration of the miracle icon of the Mother of God in Vladimir
In 1480, the wicked Ahmat, the Khan of the Great Horde, came with a large army to the Ugra River to start a war with the great prince John Vasilievich [Great Prince from 1462 to 1505].
The fourth voice, the throbbing.
Tropar, voice 4: Today the most glorious city of Moscow is being beautified, as the sun has taken the sunlight of the Lord, your marvelous icon, to which we now approach, and pray to you: O most glorious Lord of the Mother Goddess, pray to you, incarnate Christ our God, to deliver this city, and all the cities and lands of Christianity from all the lies of the enemy, and to save our souls, as mercy.
The condac, voice eight.
Kondack, voice 8: The chosen warrior is victorious, as she has been delivered from evil by the coming of Your honest image, Our Lady, we make a celebration of Your encounter bright, and usually call You: rejoice, bride unmarried. ______________________________________ 1 On this day (23 June) in Moscow a solemn crusade from the Cathedral of the Assumption to the Srecenic Monastery with the miraculous Vladimir icon is performed.
The first such crusade, on the occasion of the establishment, is on 26 August, in memory of the liberation of Russia from Tamerlane's invasion in 1395; terrified by the terrible phenomenon of the Virgin Mary, Tamerlane left Russia on the same day and hour when the kneeling Muscovites met the miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary brought from Vladimir to Moscow by order of Grand Duke Vasiliy Dmitrievich, in battle with an enemy who was more concerned with the power of God than with his weapons.
5 The Metropolitan wrote a council letter to the great prince in the camp at Ugra, urging him to take a courageous stand against the Christian-hating enemy. But with particular courage and frankness he warned the great prince hierarch Rostovsky Vassian not to make peace with Ahmat, as he was advised by "some charming men", but to go out boldly to meet the "godless language of the Agarians", jealous of his ancestor Dmitry, "in the face of the wise wolf Mamaia". 6 The great prince from 1498; the mind. in 1509 in captivity.