July 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 9

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 21 by Old Calendar.

For July 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 25.

Saints

 * Hieromartyr Epictetus, Priest, and Monk-martyr Astion, at Halmyris in Scythia Minor (Romania) (290)
 * Great-martyr Procopius of Caesarea in Palestine, and with him (303):
 * Martyrs Theodosia (his mother), tribunes Antiochus and Nicostratus, martyrs Abdias and Sabbas, and twelve women of senatorial rank, all by the sword.


 * Martyr Mirdat, King of Kartli, Georgia (410)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saints Aquila and Priscilla, a Christian missionary married couple described in the New Testament (Acts 18:3, Rom. 16:3-4) (1st century)  (see also: February 13, July 14)
 * Saint Auspicius of Trier, the fourth Bishop of Trier in Germany and successor of St Maternus (c. 130)
 * Saint Apollonius, Bishop of Benevento in Italy (c. 326)
 * Saints Sostratus, Spirus, Eraclius, Eperentius and Cecilia, martyrs of Syrmium in Pannonia (4th century)
 * Saint Morwenna, patroness of Morwenstow, England (5th or 6th century) (see also July 5 )
 * Saint Urith of Chittlehampton (Hieritha), a nun martyred by pagan English invaders at Chittlehampton in Devon (6th century?)
 * Saints Kilian (Chilianus), Colman and Totnan, monks from Ireland, Enlighteners of Franconia and East Thuringia, where they were martyred (c. 689)
 * Saint Landrada of Austrasia, foundress and first Abbess of Munsterbilsen in Belgium (c. 690)
 * Saint Withburgh of East Anglia (Withburga), an anchoress at East Dereham, Norfolk, England (c. 743)
 * Saint Arnold of Arnoldsweiler, a charitable Greek musician at the court of Charlemagne (c. 800)
 * Blessed Edgar the Peaceful, King of Mercia and Northumbria, and upon the death of his brother Eadwig (A.D. 959), King of all England (975)
 * Saint Grimbald, monk at St. Bertin Abbey in Saint-Omer in Flanders, invited by King Alfred the Great to help restore scholarship in England, Abbot of Winchester(901)
 * Virgin-martyr Sunniva (Sunnifa) and companions, on Selje Island, Norway (10th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Procopius of Ustyug, Fool-for-Christ, Wonderworker of Ustiug, Vologda (1303)
 * Venerable Theophilus the Myrrh-gusher of Pantocrator Monastery on Mount Athos (1548)
 * Righteous Procopius, Fool-for-Christ, of Ustya, Vologda (c. 1600)
 * New Hieromartyr Anastasius of Saint Blaise in Hegumenitsa, Priest, of Constantinople (1743)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyrs Alexander Popov, Theodore Raspopov, and Nikolai Bryantsev, Priests (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Procopius (Titov), Archbishop of Kherson (1937)  (see also: November 10 )

Icons

 * Miracle of the Annunciation Icon of the Mother of God at Ustiug (1290)
 * Appearance of the Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1579)
 * Reverence list of a "Kazan" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, at:
 * Kazan (1579)
 * "Yaroslavl" (1588)
 * Moscow (1612)
 * "Viazniky" (1624)
 * Nizhnelomovskaya (1643)
 * Vitebsk (1655)
 * "Tobolsk" (1661)
 * "Kaplunovka" (1689)
 * "Tambov" (1695)
 * Shlisselburg (1702)
 * "Penza" (1717) (see also: August 4)
 * Petersburg (1721)
 * "Peschanka" / "Peschanskaya" (1754)
 * "Chimeev" (1770)
 * "Vysochinovsky" (18th century)
 * "Vyshensky" (1812)


 * "Jacobshtad" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (17th century)
 * Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Weeping "Umileniye" ("Of Tender Feeling") of Novgorod.
 * Icon of the Mother of God "Our Lady of Sitka", Alaska (1850)

Other commemorations

 * Translation of the relics (1779) of St. Demetrius of Basarabov, Bulgaria, to Bucharest (1685)
 * Slaying of Anastasia Strogilos on the Mount of Olives (1995)
 * Synaxis of All Military Saints of the Orthodox Church (2019)