August 3 (old calendar) / August 16 (new)

August 3 (old calendar) / August 16 (new) Dormition Fast Saints Isaac, Dalmatios, and Faustus Saint Isaac (May 30) was a soldier before he became a monk. After he was tonsured, he attained such a degree of spiritual perfection that he was accounted worthy of beholding divine visions. When Saint Isaac heard about how the Emperor Valens had fallen into the Arian heresy and was persecuting the Orthodox Christians, he