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Icon of the Transfiguration of Christ, Byzantine artwork, c. 1200,
Icon of the Transfiguration of Christ, Theophanes the Greek, 15th century
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Maxim Sandovich
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Maxim Timofeyevich Sandovich is a New Martyr and Orthodox saint. He was canonised with the name of Maxim of Gorlice with the title of hieromartyr.. He is the protomartyr of the Lemko people.
August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
…New Martyr Abbacum of Thessalonica (1628) New Hieromartyr Maxim Sandovich of Lemkovyna, priest, protomartyr of the Lemko people, by the Austro-Hungarians (1914) (see also July 24 - Old Calendar; and September 6/August 24) New…
Bishop Anthony (Khrapovitsky) of Volhynia and Zhytomyr