May 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 9

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 21 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 25.

Saints

 * Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, the "beloved disciple" of the Lord (c. 101)
 * The holy group of Soldier Martyrs
 * Saint Augustina the Martyr, in Byzantium
 * Saint Agathius (Acacius of Byzantium) (303)
 * Saint Emilia, mother of saints Macrina, Basil the Great, Naucratius, Peter of Sebaste, and Gregory of Nyssa (375)
 * Saint Arsenius the Great, of Scetis (448)
 * Saint Hierax (Ierakos) of Egypt (5th century)
 * Saint Milles the Melodist (hymnographer), monk

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Hieromartyr Dionysius of Vienne (193)
 * Martyr Victor of Milan (Victor the Moor, Victor Maurus) (c. 303)
 * Saint Helladius of Auxerre (387)
 * Saint Gybrian (Gobrian) of Ireland, Priest (509)
 * Saint Desideratus, successor of St Arcadius as Bishop of Bourges, in France (550)
 * Saint Iduberga, foundress of Nivelles (Nijvel), (Neth.) (652)
 * Saint Benedict II, Pope of Rome (685)
 * Hieromartyr Indract of Glastonbury, and his companions at Shapwick (c. 7th or 8th century) (see also: February 5)
 * Saints Wiro (Bishop of Utrecht) (710), Plechelm (730), and Hierodeacon Otger (Odger) (8th century), Missionary bishops in the Maas Valley at Limburg
 * Saint Macarius of Ghent, archbishop (1012)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Pimen the Faster, of the Far Caves in Kiev (c. 1141)
 * Venarable Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves (13th-14th centuries)
 * Saint Arsenius the Lover of Labor, of the Kiev Caves (14th century)
 * The Monks Zosima and Adrian of Volokolamsk, founders of the Sestrinsk monastery on the banks of the River Sestra (15th-16th centuries)

New martyrs and confessors

 * Martyr Nicephorus Zaitsev (1942)

Other commemorations

 * Apparition of the Archangel Michael on Mount Gargano near Manfredonia in southern Italy, to Bishop Laurence of Siponto, in memory of which the famous Monastery of the Archangel was founded (c. 490)
 * Commemoration of the miraculous healing of blinded Stephen by the Most Holy Theotokos of Kassiopi, Corfu (1530)
 * Translation of the relics (1785) of St. Arsenius of Novgorod, Fool-for-Christ (1570)
 * Schema-hieromonk Michael of Valaam, Confessor for the Orthodox Calendar (1934)