26 May 2039, Thursday (13.05 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 Pavsikakios, Bishop of Synnada ок. 526 — 606 (традиц.; возможна более поздняя дата)
- Hierarch Servatius Of Tongeren ум. 384
- Righteous Vasily (Basil) Aleksandrovich Sokolov 1868–1922
- Martyr Glyceria of Heraclea (of Trajanopolis) II век (при имп. Антонине Пии)
- Venerable Euthymius the Hagiorite (of Iviron), Venerable ок. 955 — †1028