9 June 2016, Thursday (27.05 according to the old style)
Ascension of the Lord
A feast that looks like a farewell, and which the Gospel calls a joy. The disciples returned to Jerusalem with great gladness — after their Teacher had left them for good. For forty days after the Resurrection Christ appeared to the apostles: speaking with them, …
More about Ascension of the Lord →Saints commemorated
- Hierarch Jonah, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia кон. XIV века — †31 марта 1461
- Hierarch, Metropolitan Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev, Moscow, and All Russia ок. 1336 — †16 сентября 1406
- Hierarch Philaret of Moscow 1782 — 1867
- Hierarch Photius, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia ? — 1431
- Hierarch Saint Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow, Kiev and All Rus' ок. 1330–1406
- Hierarch Saint Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia ум. 1461
- Virgin Martyr Theodora of Alexandria † 303/304
- Venerable Nilus of Stolobny (Seliger) кон. XV в. — 1554/1555
- Righteous Therapon (Ferapont) of Belozersk 1337–1426