Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
August 16
Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,
Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics
- Afterfeast of the Dormition.
- Translation of the Image Not-made-by-hands of our Lord Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople
- Martyr Diomedes the Physician of Tarsus in Cilicia.
- St. Cherimon (Chaeremon) of Egypt.
- St. Joachim, monk of Osogov.
- St. Gerasimos the New Ascetic of Cephalonia (Mt. Athos. .
- New-Martyr Nicodemus of Meteora.
- New-Martyr Stamatios of Thessaly.
- New-Martyrs Priest Vladimir and his brother Boris (1931).
- St. Raphael of Banat (Serbia).
- Greek Calendar
- 33 Martyrs of Palestine.
- Martyr Alcibiades.
- St. Nilus, brother of Emperor Theodore Laskaris, who rebuilt the Monastery of the Mother of God at Eiperus.
- Seraphim, Dorotheus, James, Demetrius, Basil and Sarantis of Megaris.
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of St. Theodore ("Feodorovskaya").
- Repose of Blessed Matrona Popova, disciple of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk (1851).
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