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9 July 2026, Thursday
Feasts, fasts and events
Vegetable oil is allowed.
Lives and liturgical texts
The phenomenon of a miraculous icon of the Most Holy Mother of God, called the Tichwin
Memory of 26 June In the summer of 6891, since the creation of the world, and since the incarnation of God the Word in 1382, during the reign of the great prince Dmitry Ioannovich [Dimitry III Ioannovich reigned in Moscow with the title of great prince from 1363 to 1389], under the holy metropolite of all Russia Pimen [Pimen ruled the Russian metropolis from 1382 to 1389 with a break (between 1385 and 1388) ] and under the Novgorod archbishop Alexia, a prelate appeared in Russia.
About the miraculous icon of the Holy Mother of God, called "Odigitria"
After the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles, the Apostle and Evangelist Luke, who was a skilled icon painter, painted the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a tablet and brought it to the Most Pure Virgin.
About the miraculous icon of the Most Holy Mother of God of Lydda, or Rome
The holy supreme apostle Peter and the holy apostle John the theologian, before they departed, as the other apostles, to the different ends of the earth with the preaching of the Gospel, first preached Christ in the nearest to Jerusalem surrounding cities.
The memory of our revered father David of Salonica
The blessed David was born in the land of the east, and like a luminous star, he shone all over the world: exercising abstinence from his youth, he appeared to people as if he were an angel in the flesh.
Kondack, voice one.
Kondac, verse 1: A garden of fruitful blossoms, of virtue, of fruitful fruit, appeared on the garden tree as a blessing bird: paradise is the pasture, the tree of life of the Lord in your heart, receiving as he cultivated the wise, feeding us grace: the tree prays for us to David with all blessings.
The city is now called Thessaloniki, the first trading city in Europe after Constantinople, with a very large population. 2 St. David died around 540 AD, during the reigns of Justinian and Theodora.