On the 15th of the month, we celebrate the DORMITION, or the TRANSLATION to HEAVEN, of our All-Glorious Sovereign Lady, the MOTHER of GOD and EVER-VIRGIN MARY; Memory of the great mercy that God showed, through the intercession of our Sovereign Lady, the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, in repulsing the impious Saracens who were besieging Constantinople; our Venerable Father MACARIUS the ROMAN, the Wonderworker of NOVGOROD
