August 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

• Righteous Hezekiah, King of Judah
• Righteous Anna the Prophetess, daughter of Phanuel
• Holy 33 Martyrs of Heraclea, by fire.
• Martyrs Irene and Sophia, by the sword.
• Martyrs Diomedes and Laurence, shot with arrows after being tied to a tree.
• Hieromartyr Damon.
• Venerable Moses the Black, of Scetis
• Martyr Queen Shushanik of Georgia

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Hermes and Companions, martyrs in Rome under the judge Aurelian
• Saint Pelagius of Constance, a child-martyr put to death in Pannonia during the persecution of Roman Emperor Numerian
• Saint Julian of Auvergne
• Saints Fortunatus, Gaius and Anthes, martyrs near Salerno in Italy under Diocletian
• Blessed Augustine of Hippo, Bishop of Hippo
• Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Saintes
• Saint Vivianus, Bishop of Saintes and Confessor
• Saint Facundinus, Bishop of Taino in Umbria
• Saint Adelindis, founder of Buchau Abbey
• Saint Gorman, a monk at Reichenau in Germany who became Bishop of Schleswig in Denmark

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Amphilochius of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Vladimir, Volhynia
• Saint Theodore of the Kiev Caves, Prince of Ostrog in Volhynia
• Saint Sabbas, founder and Abbot of Krypetsk Monastery

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyrs of Zilantov Monastery in Kazan :
• New Hieromartyr Chrysostomos of Smyrna, Metropolitan of Smyrna
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Georgievsky, Priest
• New Hieromartyr Basil Sokolsky, Priest

  Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of Saint Rumwold of Buckingham, infant saint
• Uncovering of the relics of St. Job of Pochaev, Abbot and Wonderworker of Pochaev
• Synaxis of the Saints of the Kiev Caves Lavra, whose relics repose in the Far Caves of St. Theodosius.
• Repose of Elder Philaret of Novo-Spassky Monastery

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