August 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Aug. 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 9

2005

• New Calendarists only: Fasting day (Dormition) Fast
• 8th Monday after Pentecost
• 1st Corinthians 9:13-18
• Matthew 16:1-6

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 21 by Old Calendarists.

Saints

• Saint Emilian of Cyzicus, bishop and Confessor (815)
• Venerable Gregory of Sinai (1346)
• Saint Myron of Crete, bishop (350)
• Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonides of Constantinople, with many infants as well (4th century)
• Martyr Gormizdas of Persia (418)
• Saint Gregory of Kiev Caves, wonderworker (14th century)
• Martyr Triandaphyllus of Thessaly (1680)
• Martyr Athanasios of Macedonia
• New Martyr Anastasius (Spaso) of Strumica, at Thessalonica (1794)
• The twelve ascetics of Egypt
• The two martyrs of Tyre
• Martyr Styracius
• Monk-martyr Euthymius, abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist at David Gareja monastery complex, Georgia (1804)
• Saint Philaret of Ichalka, Ivanovo (1913)
• New Hieromartyr Nicodemus (Krotkov), archbishop of Kostroma and Galich (1938)

Other commemorations

• "Tolga" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
• Translation of the relics of Venerable Zosimas and Sabbatius of Solovki (1566)

References

• Orthodox Church of America, Feasts and Saints
• Pravoslavie Orthodox Calendar
• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints