August 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Aug. 6 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 8
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[edit] 2005
- New calendarists only: Fasting day (Dormition Fast)
- 7th Sunday after Pentecost
- Romans 15:1-7
- Matthew 9:27-35
[edit] Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 20 by Old Calendarists.
[edit] Saints
- Saint Dometius of Persia and his two disciples (363)
- Saints Marinus the Soldier and Asterius the Senator at Caesarea in Palaestina (260)
- Saint Poemen the much-ailing of the Kiev Caves (1110)
- Saint Hor of the Thebaid (390)
- Saint Pimen of Kiev Caves the faster (12th century)
- Saint Potamia
- Saint Dometius of Philotheou Monastery on Mount Athos (16th century)
- Saint Mercurius of Smolensk, bishop from the Kiev Caves (1239)
- Saint Anthony of Optina Monastery (1865)
- Hieromartyr Narcissus of Jerusalem, bishop c. 216
- Saint Hyperechius of the "Paradise"
- Saint Sozon of Nicomedia
- Saint Theodosius of Peloponnesus, the new healer
- Saint Nicanor of Mt. Calistratus, wonderworker
[edit] Other commemorations
- Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Jesus
- Finding of the relics of Saint Metrophanes of Voronezh, the first bishop there (1832)
- Repose of Elder Adrian of South Dorotheus Monastery (1853)
- Repose of Schemamonk John the Blind of Valaam (1894)
- Repose of Elder Callinicus the Hesychast of Mount Athos (1930)
- Repose of Archimandrite Vladimir of Jordanville (1988)
