August 23 Leavetaking of the Dormition. Martyr Lupus, slave of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica (4th c.). Hieromartyr Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons (202). St. Eutychius (ca. 540) and Florentius (547), of Nursia. St. Callinicus, Patriarch of Constantinople (705). SAINT IRENAEUS The Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, was born in the year 130 in the city of Smyrna (Asia Minor). He received there the finest education, studying poetics, philosophy, rhetoric, and the