August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 23
All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For August 22, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 9.Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Dormition.
Saints
- Martyrs Agathonicus of Nicomedia and his companions:
- Hieromartyr Athanasius, Bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, by beheading
- Saint Anthusa of Seleucia, and Martyrs Charesimus and Neophytus
- Martyrs Irenaeus, Or, and Oropsus.
- Martyr Julian of Heliopolis in Syria
- Saint Ariadne, daughter of Emperor Leo I.
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Antoninus of Rome, a converted executioner in Rome
- Saint Symphorian of Autun, martyred for refusing to sacrifice to a pagan goddess
- Saint Hippolytus of Porto, Bishop of Porto in Italy, martyred by drowning under Alexander
- Hieromartyr Maurus, and Companions, a group of fifty martyrs in Rheims in France
- Saints Fabrician and Philibert, martyrs in Toledo in Spain.
- Saints Martial, Saturninus, Epictetus, Maprilis, Felix and Companions, martyrs with St. Aurea of Ostia, honoured in Ostia, Italy
- Virgin Martyr Eulalia of Barcelona
- Saint Timothy, a martyr in Rome under Diocletian
- Saint Gunifort, a pilgrim, perhaps from England, who was martyred in Pavia in Italy.
- Saint Sigfrid, Abbot of Wearmouth
- Saint Ethelgitha, Abbess of a convent in Northumbria
- Saint Andrew of Tuscany
- Saint Arnulf of Eynesbury, saintly hermit, whose relics were venerated in Arnulphsbury or Eynesbury in Cambridgeshire, England
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Bogolep of St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery
- Venerable Isaac I, Schema-Archimandrite of Optina Monastery
- Ephraim, Bishop of Selenginsk, and Priest John Vostorgov
- Macarius, Bishop of Orel, and Priests John Boyarshinov and Alexis Naumov
- Theodore, Bishop of Penza, and with him Priests Basil Smirnov and Gabriel Archangelsky
- John, Bishop of Veliki Luki
- Alexis, Archbishop of Omsk
- Andrew, Archbishop of Ufa and Menzelin
- Hierotheus, Hieromonk, of Lyubim
- John and Hilarion, Hieromonks, of Mirzoyan
- Alexander Ratkovsky, Michael Lyubertsev and Theodore Malyarovsky, Priests
- New Hieromartyr Gorazd, Bishop of Prague, Bohemia and Moravo-Cilezsk, slain by Nazis
Other commemorations
- Synaxis of Panagia Proussiotissa in Evrytania, Greece
- Georgian Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, at the Monastery of St. Alexis of Moscow
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