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+ Days highlighted in green are major feast days. Their apolytikia and kontakia are ready now. Music for the other troparia (doxastica, idiomela, etc.) on these days might be ready by June of 2009.
+ Days highlighted in blue are minor feast days. Their apolytikia are ready now. Music for other troparia on these days might be ready in 2010.
+ Days not highlighted are minor days without doxastica. Their apolytikia are ready now.
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| 1 - St. Justin the Philosopher | ||
| 2 - St. Nicephorus the Confessor | ||
| 3 - St. Lucillian | ||
| 4 - Sts. Mary and Martha, Sisters of St. Lazarus | ||
| 4 - St. Metrophanes, Archbishop of Constantinople | ||
| 5 - St. Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyre | ||
| 6 - St. Hilarion the New | ||
| 7 - St. Theodotus of Ancyra | ||
| 8 - Translation of the Relics of St. Theodore the Commander | ||
| 8 - St. Melania the Elder | ||
| 9 - St. Cyril of Alexandria | ||
| 9 - St. Columba of Iona | ||
| 9 - St. Cyril of Belozersk | ||
| 10 - Sts. Alexander and Antonina | ||
| 10 - Holy Martyrs of China | ||
| 11 - Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas | ||
| 11 - Synaxis of the Icon "It is Truly Meet" | ||
| 12 - Sts. Onuphrius of Egypt and Peter of Athos | ||
| 13 - St. Aquilina | ||
| 14 - Prophet Elisseus | ||
| 14 - St. Methodius the Confessor | ||
| 15 - Prophet Amos | ||
| 15 - St. Jonas, Metropolitan of Kiev | ||
| 16 - St. Tikhon, Bishop of Amathus in Cyprus | ||
| 17 - Sts. Manuel, Sabel, and Ishmael | ||
| 17 - St. Botolph of Ikanhoe | ||
| 18 - St. Leontius | ||
| 19 - Apostle Jude | ||
| 19 - St. Paisius the Great of Egypt | ||
| 19 - St. John Maximovitch, Archbishop of San Francisco | ||
| 20 - St. Methodius of Patara | ||
| 21 - St. Julian of Tarsus | ||
| 22 - St. Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata | ||
| 22 - St. Alban, the First Martyr of Britain | ||
| 23 - St. Agrippina | ||
| 24 - Nativity of St. John the Forerunner | ||
| 25 - St. Febronia | ||
| 26 - The Appearance of the Icon of the Theotokos of Tikhvin | ||
| 26 - St. David of Thessalonica | ||
| 27 - St. Samson the Hospitable | ||
| 28 - Holy Unmercenaries Cyrus and John | ||
| 28 - Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Of the 3 Hands" | ||
| 28 - Sts. Sergius and Herman, Founders of Valaam Monastery | ||
| 29 - Apostles Peter and Paul | ||
| 30 - Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles | ||
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