August 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

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

  Saints

• Saint Myron the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Crete
• Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonides, of Constantinople, and many infants with them, by fire
• Martyr Gormizdas of Persia
• 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

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saints Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus and Companions, a group of twenty-four martyrs who suffered in Rome under Diocletian
• Saint Severus, a priest who came from far away to enlighten the area around Vienne in France
• Saint Leobald, founder of Fleury Abbey, later called Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, near Orleans in France
• Saint Mummolus, second Abbot of Fleury in France
• Saint Sigrada, mother of Sts Leodegarius and Warinus, nun at the convent in Soissons in France
• Saint Ternatius, eleventh Bishop of Besançon in the east of France
• Saint Ellidius, Patron-saint of Hirnant in Powys in Wales and of a church in the Scilly Isles
• Saint Gedeon, the thirteenth Bishop of Besançon in France
• Saint Ultan, priest at the monastery of St Peter in Crayke in Yorkshire
• Saint Rathard, a noble who became a priest and founded the monastery of Diessen in Germany

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Theodosius the New, Igumen of Orov.
• Venerable Gregory, Iconographer, of the Kiev Caves
• Venerable Gregory of Sinai
• Saint Zosimas the Sinaite, of Tumana Monastery, Serbia
• Saint Gregory, Wonderworker, of the Kiev Caves
• New Martyr Triantaphyllos of Zagora, Thessaly, at Constantinople
• New Martyr Anastasius of Radovishte in Strumica, at Thessaloniki
• Monkmartyr Euthymius, Abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist, at David Gareja monastery complex, Georgia
• Saint Philaret of Ichalka, Ivanovo
• Saint Kallinikos of Edessa, Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and Almopia

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Joseph, Hieromonk of the Tolga Monastery
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Shumkov, Priest
• New Hieromartyr Nicodemus, Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich

  Other commemorations

• Consecration of the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul, in the year 891 AD, 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
• First and second translations of the relics of Sts. Zosimas and Sabbatius, of Solovki.
• Translation of the relics of St. Herman of Solovki
• Uncovering of the relics of St. Barlaam of Chikoisk Monastery

  Icon gallery