Synaxis Synaxis of All Saints Who Have Shone Forth in the Russian Land

The Synaxis of All Saints Who Have Shone Forth in the Russian Land is one of the principal feasts of the Russian Orthodox Church, commemorating all glorified and unglorified saints of Rus' — hierarchs, wonderworkers, right-believing princes, monastics, martyrs.

Instituted in the mid-16th century under Metropolitan Macarius following the canonization councils of 1547 and 1549, it fell into near-disuse during the Synodal period and was restored by the 1917–1918 Local Council (decree of August 26, 1918) at the initiative of historian Boris Turaev. It is kept on the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost — the Sunday following All Saints Sunday — making it a movable feast tied to the date of Pascha. Since 2000, the commemoration of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church has been joined to this day.