August 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Aug. 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 18

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 30 by Old calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Martyr Myron of Cyzicus, presbyter (254)
• Blessed Theodoretus, Enlightener of the Laps in Solovki
• Martyrs Straton, Philip, Eutychian, and Cyprian of Nicomedia
• Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Coronatus at Caesarea in Bithynia
• Martyrs Paul and his sister Juliana of Syria
• Martyr Patroclus of Troyes
• Saint Elias of Calabria
• Saint Alypus the Iconographer of the Kiev Caves Monastery
• Saint Philip of Yankov in Vologda, monk
• Martyr Demetrius of Samarina in Epirus
• Saint Jeroen, priest-martyr in the Netherlands

[edit] Other commemorations

• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Armatia"
• Repose of Schemamonk Onuphrius of Valaam (1912)