August 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Aug. 17 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 19
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 31 by Old calendarists
Saints
- Martyrs Florus and Laurus of Illyria (2nd century)
- Repose of Venerable John of Rila, abbot (946)
- Martyrs Hermes, Serapion, Polyaenus of Rome (2nd century)
- Hieromartyr Emilian and lay martyrs Hilarion, Dionysius, Hermippus, and about 1000 others in Italy (ca 300)
- Saints John and George, Patriarchs of Constantinople (674, 683)
- Saints Barnabas and his nephew Sophronius, monks of Mount Mela near Trebizond (412)
- Saint Christopher of Mt. Mela, abbot (668)
- Saint Christodulus the Philosopher, called “the Ossetian,” of Georgia (12th century)
- Saint Macarius, abbot of the Pelekete Monastery (840)
- Saint Sophronius of St. Anne's skete on Mount Athos (18th century)
- New Monk-martyr Demetrius the Vlach, of Samarina (Pindos), at Ioannina (1808)
- Saint Arsenius the New of Paros (1877)
- New Hieromartyrs Archimandrite Augustine of Orans Monastery and Archpriest Nicholas of Nizhni-Novgorod, and 15 people with them (1918)
- Martyr Juliana near Strobilus
- Martyr Leo, drowned near Myra in Lycia
- 4 holy ascetics, details unknown
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