August 15 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 17
King Abgar with the Image of Edessa (St Catherine's monastery, Mount Sinai.)
Saint Diomedes, fresco at Hilandar Monastery, Mt. Athos.
Reliquary of Saint Simplician.
Portrayal of King Stephen I on the Hungarian coronation pall from 1031.
Joseph the Hesychast
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Joseph the Hesychast was a Greek Orthodox monk and elder who led a small group of monks at Mount Athos. He was canonized as a saint by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 2020. His feast
August 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
…New Hieromartyr Alexander Sokolov, Priest, Virgin Martyr Anna Yezhov, and Martyr Jacob Gortinsky (1937) Venerable Elder Joseph the Hesychast, of New Skete, Mt. Athos (1959) Translation of the relics (1798) of Martyrs Seraphim, Dorotheus, Jacob (James), Demetrius, Basil, and Sarantis, of…
Portrait of Saint Joseph the Hesychast
Joseph the Hesychast as a young monk
The hut or cell of Joseph the Hesychast near Little St. Anne's Skete
Icon of Saint Joseph in an Orthodox parish in the United States