August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 5 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 7

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 19 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 6, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 24.

Feasts

 * The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ (Second "Feast of the Savior" in August)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saints Justus and Pastor, two brothers, aged respectively thirteen and nine, scourged and beheaded at Alcalá in Spain under Diocletian (c. 304)
 * Saint Hormisdas, Pope of Rome and Confessor, author of the Formula of Hormisdas (523)
 * Saint Hardulf, a hermit at Breedon in Leicestershire in England where the church is dedicated to him (7th century)
 * Saint Gezelin (Ghislain, Gisle, Joscelin), a hermit honoured in Slebusrode (Schlebuschrath) near Cologne in Germany.
 * Saint Stephen of Cardeña and Companions, Abbot of the Castilian monastery of Cardeña near Burgos in Spain, where there were over two hundred monks, martyred by the Saracens (872)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Theoctistus, Bishop of Chernigov (1123) (see also: August 5)
 * New Martyr Abbacum of Thessalonica (1628)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Maxim Sandovich of Lemkovyna, priest, protomartyr of the Lemko people, by the Austro-Hungarians (1914) (see also July 24 - Old Calendar; and September 6/August 24)


 * New Hieromartyr Nicholas Prozorov, Priest (1930)
 * New Hieromartyr Nikolai Zavarin, Priest (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Peter Tokarev, Priest, of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Dimitry (Lyubimov), Archbishop of Gdov (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Repose of Hieroschemamonk Nikon the Cave-dweller, of Valaam Monastery (1822)
 * Repose of Priest Basil Shoustin, disciple of Optina Elders (1968)
 * Repose of Elder Tryphon of Kapsala, Mount Athos (1978)