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The Second Day of the Month of August

Menologion

• Translation of the relics of the Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen, (428)
• The finding of the relics of the Righteous Nicodemus, Gamaliel and Abibas (428)
• Blessed Basil of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ (1552)
• Blessed Basil of Kubensk (15th cen.)
• Hieromartyr Stephen, pope of Rome (227)
• St. Marco of Belavinsk (Vologda)
• St. Friardus of Vidumitta (Gaul)
• Martyr Phocas
• Translation of the relics of Martyrs Maximus, Dada and Quinctilian at Dorostolum in Bulgaria
• Martyr Theodore
• Priest of France Alexis Medvedkov, (1934)
• Dormition Fast

Troparion of Relics of St. Stephen Tone 4

Thou art crowned with a royal diadem/ for contests endured in Christ's name, O first and holy Martyr;/ thou didst put to shame thy persecutors/ and see the Savior at the right hand of the Father./ Ever pray to Him for our souls.

Another Troparion of Relics of St. Stephen Tone 4

Thy relics have risen from the bowels of the earth/ like a treasury of the immortal life of all creation./ The Church, rejoicing in the grace that she receives from them,/ duteously honours thee, O Protomartyr Stephen./ Preserve us from error and heresy by thine intercession.

Kontakion of Relics of St. Stephen Tone 8

Thou wast the first to be sown on earth by the heavenly Husbandman;/ thou wast the first to shed thy blood for Christ, O blessed and famous Stephen./ Thou wast the first to be adorned by Him in heaven with the crown of victory,/ O spearhead of athletes, the martyrs' first-crowned champion.

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• Russian Icons
• Prologue From Ochrid
• OCA - Lives of all saints commemorated on this day
• OCA - Troparia and Kontakia
• Mesyatseslov of Saints Lives (Russian)

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