August 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

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

  Saints

• Holy Apostle Matthias
• Martyr Anthony of Alexandria
• Venerable Psoes of Egypt
• The Holy Ten Martyrs of Halki, who defended the wonderworking icon of the Savior, made of copper:

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saints Secundian, Marcellian and Verian, martyrs who suffered near Civitavecchia in Italy under Decius
• Saint Numidicus and Companions, a group of martyrs burnt at the stake at Carthage in North Africa under Decius
• Saint Romanus Ostiarius, an early martyr in Rome
• Saints Firmus and Rusticus, two relatives, probably citizens of Bergamo in the north of Italy, honoured in Verona under Maximian
• Saint Amor, venerated in Franche-Comté in France together with St Viator.
• Saint Domitian of Châlons, third Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in France, Confessor
• Saint Rusticus, a martyr at Sirmium in Pannonia
• Saint Autor, the thirteenth Bishop of Metz in France
• Saint Bandaridus, Bishop of Soissons in France from 540 to 566 and founder of a monastery at Crépin
• Saint Phelim, a disciple of St Columba
• Saint Serenus, Bishop of Marseilles in France
• Saint Nathy, disciple of St Finian of Clonard

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Macarius, founder of Oredezh Monastery
• Saint Philaret, Archbishop of Chernigov
• Saint Alexis Medvedkov, Archpriest, of Ugine, France

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Martyr Abbess Margaret of Menzelino
• Holy New Martyr Ignatius, at St Onuphrios Monastery in Jabłeczna

  Other commemorations

• Icon of the Savior "Not-Made-by-Hands" of Camuliana in Cappadocia, an acheiropoieton
• The Restoration of the Temple of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste, in Constantinople.
• Repose of Irene of Athens, Byzantine empress regnant and a strong iconodule
• Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki.
• Canonization of Venerable Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of America.

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