August 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 7 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 9

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 21 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 8, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 26.

Feasts

 * Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.

Saints

 * Saint Myron the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Crete (350)
 * Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonides, of Constantinople, and many infants with them, by fire (4th century)
 * Martyr Gormizdas (Hormisdas) of Persia (418)
 * The Ten Venerable ascetics of Egypt.
 * The two martyrs of Tyre, dragged to death.
 * Martyr Styracius, by the sword.
 * Saint Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus (820)    (see also: January 8)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saints Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus and Companions, a group of twenty-four martyrs who suffered in Rome under Diocletian (304)
 * Saint Severus, a priest who came from India to enlighten the area around Vienne in France (c. 445)
 * Saint Leobald (Leodebod, Leodebaldus), founder of Fleury Abbey, later called Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, near Orleans in France (650)
 * Saint Mummolus (Mommolus, Mommolenus), second Abbot of Fleury in France (c. 678)
 * Saint Sigrada, mother of Sts Leodegarius and Warinus, nun at the convent in Soissons in France (c. 678)
 * Saint Ternatius (Terniscus), eleventh Bishop of Besançon in the east of France (c. 680)
 * Saint Ellidius (Illog), Patron-saint of Hirnant in Powys in Wales and of a church in the Scilly Isles (7th century)
 * Saint Gedeon, the thirteenth Bishop of Besançon in France (796)
 * Saint Ultan, priest at the monastery of St Peter in Crayke in Yorkshire (8th century)
 * Saint Rathard (Rathard von Andechs), a noble who became a priest and founded the monastery of Diessen (Dießen-Andechs) in Germany (815)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Theodosius the New, Igumen of Orov.
 * Venerable Gregory, Iconographer, of the Kiev Caves (12th century)
 * Venerable Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos) (1346)
 * Saint Zosimas the Sinaite, of Tumana Monastery, Serbia (14th century)
 * Saint Gregory, Wonderworker, of the Kiev Caves (14th century)
 * New Martyr Triantaphyllos of Zagora, Thessaly, at Constantinople (1680)
 * New Martyr Anastasius (Spaso) of Radovishte in Strumica, at Thessaloniki (1794)
 * Monkmartyr Euthymius, Abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist, at David Gareja monastery complex, Georgia (1804)
 * Saint Philaret of Ichalka, Ivanovo (1913)
 * Saint Kallinikos (Poulos) of Edessa, Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and Almopia (el) (1984)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Joseph (Baranov), Hieromonk of the Tolga Monastery (Yaroslavl) (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Nicholas Shumkov, Priest (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Nicodemus (Krotkov), Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich (1938)   (see also: January 23 )

Other commemorations

 * Consecration of the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul, in the year 891 AD (6399 AM), in reign of Leo VI the Wise, when there occurred a solar eclipse from the sixth to the ninth hours.
 * Consecration of the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos in Jerusalem.
 * "Tolga" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1314)
 * First (1566) and second (1992) translations of the relics of Sts. Zosimas (1478) and Sabbatius (1435), of Solovki.
 * Translation of the relics (1992) of St. Herman of Solovki (1479)
 * Uncovering of the relics (2002) of St. Barlaam of Chikoisk Monastery (Siberia) (1846)