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1 August 2026, Saturday
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Lives and liturgical texts
The life of our Mother Makrina
Her parents were Vasily and Emilia; she was their first child and was the elder sister of Vasily the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and other brothers and sisters. The honest parents had a total of ten children: four sons and six daughters.
The life of the reverend father of our Dio
His motherland was Antioch of Syria; he was born of Christian parents, was brought up in piety, from his youth he began to perform a fasting feat, instructed by God-inspired husbands to a virtuous pagan life, he fought a lot with the invisible enemy <unk> the devil and with a closer enemy, his own flesh, which leads the soul into temptation.