3rd Week after Pentecost.
Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas (1st c.). St. Barnabas , ascetic of Vetluga (1445). Translation of the relics of St. Ephraim , founder of the Sts. Boris and Gleb Monastery (Novotorzhok) (1572). St. Arcadius, monk, of Vyasma (ca. 1592). Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “It Is Truly Meet ” (Axion Estin) (10th c.). St. Barnabas of Basa near Limasol on Cyprus. Commemoration of the appearance of the Archangel Gabriel to a monk on Mt. Athos, and the revelation of the hymn “It Is Truly Meet” (Axion Estin) (982). Hieromartyr Anthimus, first bishop of Saraisk (ca. 14th c.). Repose of the recluse Melania of Eletz and Zadonsk (1836) and Ivan Vasilievich Kireyevsky, philosopher and Patristic translator (1856).