August 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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

2005

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

Fixed commemorations

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

Saints

• Saint Dometius of Persia and his two disciples (363)
• Saints Marinus the Soldier and Asterius the Senator at Caesarea in Palaestina (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 (16th century)
• Saint Mercurius of Smolensk, bishop from the Kiev Caves (1239)
• Saint Anthony of Optina Monastery (1865)
• Hieromartyr Narcissus of Jerusalem, bishop c. 216
• Saint Hyperechius of the "Paradise"
• Saint Sozon of Nicomedia
• Saint Theodosius of Peloponnesus, the new healer
• Saint Nicanor of Mt. Calistratus, wonderworker

Other commemorations

• Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Jesus
• 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)

References

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints
• Ortodox Church of America, Feasts and Saints