August 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Aug. 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 22
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 3 by Old Calendarists
Saints
- Apostle Thaddeus of Edessa, one of the Seventy Apostles (44)
- Martyr Bassa of Edessa and her sons Theogonius, Agapius and Pistus (4th century)
- Saint Abramius, archimandrite, Wonderworker of Smolensk, (1220 and his disciple St. Ephraim (1238)
- Saint Abramius the Lover-of-labor of the Kiev Caves
- Saint Theocleta the Wonderworker of Asia Minor (840)
- Saint Cornelius, abbot of Paleostrov, (Valaam) (1420) and his disciple St. Abramius (15th century)
- Saint Isaiah of Mt. Athos (14th century)
- New Martyr Symeon of Samokovo (1737)
- Saint Martha, schemanun of Diveyevo (1829)
- New Hieromartyr Raphael, abbot of Sisatovac Monastery, Serbia (1941)
Other commemorations
Translation of the relics (1953) of Saint Nectarius (Kephalas), metropolitan of Pentapolis (1920)
References