August 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 4 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 6

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 18 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 5, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 23.

Feasts

 * Forefeast of the Transfiguration of Jesus.

Saints

 * Hieromartyrs Antherus (236) and Fabian (Fabianus) (250),   Popes of Rome.
 * Martyr Pontius, at Cimella in Gaul (257)
 * Martyr Eusignius of Antioch (362)
 * Righteous Nonna (374), wife of Gregory of Nazianzus the Elder and mother of St. Gregory the Theologian.
 * Martyrs Cantidius and Cantidianus, brothers, of Egypt, by stoning (4th century)
 * Martyr Sibelius (Sobel) of Egypt, shot by bow and arrow (4th century)
 * Saint Therissos (Thyrsos), Bishop of Karpasia, Cyprus.
 * Saint Euthymius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (917)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Memmius (Menge, Meinge), Founder and first Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in France, and Apostle of the region (c. 300)
 * Twenty-three (23) Martyrs of Rome, on the Salarian Way in Rome, under Diocletian (303)
 * Saint Emygdius (Emidius), a saint whose relics were venerated in Ascoli in Italy (c. 303)
 * Martyr Afra, in Augsburg in Germany, under Diocletian (c. 304)
 * Saint Paris, Bishop of Teano near Naples in Italy (346)
 * Saint Cassian of Autun, Bishop of Autun in France, 314-350, he succeeded St Reticius and was famous for his miracles (c. 350)
 * Saint Venantius, the most famous of the ancient Bishops of Viviers in France (544)
 * Martyr Oswald of Northumbria, King of Northumbria (642)
 * Saint Abel of Reims, Archbishop of Rheims in France (c. 751)
 * Saint Theodoric, Bishop of Cambrai-Arras in the north of France c 830-863 (863)
 * Saint Gormcal, Abbot of Ardoileán in Galway in Ireland (1016)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Theoctistus, Bishop of Chernigov (1123)
 * Venerable Monk-martyr Job the Gorge-dweller (Job of Ushchelsk), on the Mezen River (Solovki) (1628)
 * New Martyr Christos of Preveza, at Kos (1668)
 * Venerable Eugenius of Aetolia (1682)
 * Saint John Jacob the Chozebite, of Neamț (1960)  (see also: July 28 - Greek)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Stephen Chitrov, Priest (1918)
 * New Martyrs Eudocia Shikova, and Novices Daria Timolina, Daria Siushinskaya, and Maria, of Diveyevo Convent (1919)
 * New Hieromartyr Simon (Shleyev), Bishop of Ufa (1921)
 * New Hieromartyr John Smirnov, Deacon (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Uncovering of the relics (1967) of St. Arsenius the New of Paros (1877)