26th Sunday after Pentecost.
The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos. Righteous Anna (Hannah), mother of the Prophet Samuel (1100 b.c.). St. Sophronius I, bishop of Cyprus (6th c.). St. Stephen “the New Light,” of Constantinople (912). Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Unexpected Joy .” Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection at Jerusalem (335). Martyr Narses of Persia. St. Valeria of Aquitaine (2nd c.). Virgin-martyr Leocadia, at Toledo, Spain (303). Martyr Sositheus of Persia (553). Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius of Tismana and Sophroniev Monasteries (1802) and Elder Anthimus the Bulgarian, of Mt. Athos (1867).