August 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Aug. 6 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 8

Contents 1 2005 2 Fixed commemorations 2.1 Saints 2.2 Other commemorations

[edit] 2005

• New calendarists only: Fasting day (Dormition Fast)
• 7th Sunday after Pentecost
• Romans 15:1-7
• Matthew 9:27-35

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 20 by Old Calendarists.

[edit] Saints

• Saint Dometius of Persia and his two disciples (363)
• Saints Marinus the Soldier and Asterius the Senator at Caesarea in Palestine (260)
• Saint Poemen the much-ailing of the Kiev Caves (1110)
• Saint Hor of the Thebaid (390)
• Saint Pimen of Kiev Caves the faster (12th century)
• Saint Potamia
• Saint Dometius of Philotheou Monastery on Mount Athos
• Saint Mercurius of Smolensk, bishop from the Kiev Caves (1239)
• Saint Anthony of Optina
• Hieromartyr Narcissus of Jerusalem, bishop
• Saint Hyperechius of the "Paradise"
• Saint Sozon of Nicomedia
• Saint Theodosius of Peloponnesus, the new healer
• Saint Nicanor of Mt. Calistratus, wonderworker

[edit] Other commemorations

• Finding of the relics of Saint Metrophanes of Voronezh, the first bishop there (1832)
• Repose of Elder Adrian of South Dorotheus Monastery (1853)
• Repose of Schemamonk John the Blind of Valaam (1894)
• Repose of Elder Callinicus the Hesychast of Mount Athos (1930)
• Repose of Archimandrite Vladimir of Jordanville (1988)