August 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 20 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 22

All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 3 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 21, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 8.

Feasts

 * Afterfeast of the Dormition.

Saints

 * Holy Forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (ca. 2000 BC)
 * Apostle Thaddeus of Edessa, one of the Seventy Apostles (44)
 * Martyr Bassa of Edessa and her sons Theognius, Agapius, and Pistus (305-311)
 * Saint Sarmean, Catholicos of Kartli, Georgia (774)
 * Saint Theocleta the Wonderworker, of Asia Minor (840)
 * Hieromartyrs Romulus, Priest, and the Deacons Donatus and Silvanus, and Martyr Venustus (Romania)
 * Venerable Alexander of Iconium.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Euprepius of Verona, first Bishop of Verona in the north of Italy (1st century)
 * Saint Cyriaca (Dominica), a wealthy widow in Rome, she sheltered persecuted Orthodox Christians (249)
 * Saint Paternus, born in Alexandria, he came to Rome, was arrested in Fondi and was martyred for Orthodoxy there (c. 255)
 * Saint Privatus, Bishop of Mende in France (260)
 * Saint Anastasius, a military tribune converted to Orthodoxy on seeing the courage of the young St Agapitus, in Salone, Italy (274)
 * Saint Quadratus, a Bishop of Utica in North Africa who taught both clergy and laity to confess Christ (3rd century)
 * Martyrs Luxorius, Cisellus and Camerinus, martyrs in Sardinia beheaded under Diocletian (303)
 * Saint Sidonius Apollinaris, Bishop of Clermont in France (c. 423-480)
 * Saint Leontius the Elder, Bishop of Bordeaux in France and the predecessor of St Leontius the Younger (c. 541)
 * Saint Avitus I, Bishop of Clermont, Gaul (594)
 * Saint Eardwulf of Northumbria (Hardulph of Breedon) (c. 808)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Abramius the Lover-of-labor of the Kiev Caves
 * Saint Abramius of Smolensk, Archimandrite, Wonderworker of Smolensk (1220), and his disciple St. Ephraim (1238)   (see also: August 20)
 * Saint Isaiah of Mount Athos (14th century)
 * Saint Cornelius, founder and abbot of Paleostrov Monastery (Palei Island, Valaam, Karelia) (1420), and his disciple St. Abramius (15th century)
 * New Hieromartyr Symeon, Bishop of Samokovo, Bulgaria (1737)
 * Saint Martha (Milyukova), schemanun of Diveyevo (1829)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Alexander Yelokhovsky, Priest of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Paul Yagodinsky, Priest of Yaransk (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Theodore Kallistov, Archpriest (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Raphael, Abbot of Sisatovac Monastery, Serbia (1941)
 * New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Dalanov), Hieromonk of Optina Monastery (1942)

Other commemorations

 * Translation of the relics (1953) of Saint Nectarius (Kephalas), Metropolitan of Pentapolis (North Africa) (1920)   (see also: September 3)
 * Commemoration of Hieromonk John (Kotlyarevsky) at Poltava (1951)