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29 July 2026, Wednesday
Feasts, fasts and events
Fasting meal без рыбы, масла и вина.
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Lives and liturgical texts
The suffering of the holy martyr Athenogen and his ten disciples.
In the days of the wicked Roman emperor Diocletian [ruled the eastern half of the Roman empire from 284 to 305] there was a cruel persecution of Christians, all who lived godly were in trouble, everywhere was unrest, many betrayed each other to death, father of the son, brother of the brother, relative of the relative, <unk> out of fear of the king.
The Passion of St. Julia the Martyr
When the Persians captured the famous African city of Carthage and took many of its inhabitants captive, at that time, along with other captives from that city, the little girl we will talk about, Blessed Julia, the daughter of a famous man named Ansalson, was taken to Palestine, Syria, and sold into slavery to a merchant, a wicked pagan.
The suffering of the holy martyr Antiochus
Antiochus, the holy martyr of Christ, was a native of the city of Sevastia [the city of Sevastia, now Sivas, was located in the Roman province of Pontus at the foot of one of the western branches of the anti-Taurus mountain range on the right bank of the Galician river, now the Kirgil of Irmacus, near its headwaters].
The Passion of St. Paul the Martyr and with him the holy martyrs Alevtina and Hionia
These holy martyrs were of Egyptian descent. They were taken to Caesarea and, before the governor, they confessed that Jesus was the true God. For this they burned their left feet, then cut out their right eyes with knives, and finally they were burned to death with other men and women who also believed in Christ.