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3 September 2026, Thursday
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The life of the holy Apostle (of seventy) Thaddeus
Memory August 21 The well-known Apostle Thaddeus came from the city of Edessa [Edessa, present-day Urfa, <unk> a city in northern Mesopotamia, on the Euphrates River, from 137 B.C.E. the main city of the newly formed Ozroen or Edessa state; in 217 B.C.E. it was turned into an eastern colony by the Romans. <unk> In Edessa in the IV century St. Ephrem Simarin founded a theological school, which in the V century leaned towards Nestorianism,
The memory of the holy martyr Vassa and her children: Feognia, Agapia and Pista
The holy martyress Vassa lived during the reign of Emperor Maximian in the city of Edessa; having married a certain idolatrous priest named Valerius, she bore him three sons: Theognia, Agapia and Pista, and brought them up in Christian piety, since she was a Christian (she received the title of