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All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 3 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 21, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 8.

Feasts

  • Afterfeast of the Dormition.

    • Saints

  • Holy Forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (ca. 2000 BC)
  • Apostle Thaddeus of Edessa, one of the Seventy Apostles (44)
  • Martyr Bassa of Edessa and her sons Theognius, Agapius, and Pistus (305-311)
  • Saint Sarmean, Catholicos of Kartli, Georgia (774)
  • Saint Theocleta the Wonderworker, of Asia Minor (840)
  • Hieromartyrs Romulus, Priest, and the Deacons Donatus and Silvanus, and Martyr Venustus (Romania)
  • Venerable Alexander of Iconium.

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Euprepius of Verona, first Bishop of Verona in the north of Italy (1st century)
  • Saint Cyriaca (Dominica), a wealthy widow in Rome, she sheltered persecuted Orthodox Christians (249)
  • Saint Paternus, born in Alexandria, he came to Rome, was arrested in Fondi and was martyred for Orthodoxy there (c. 255)
  • Saint Privatus, Bishop of Mende in France (260)
  • Saint Anastasius, a military tribune converted to Orthodoxy on seeing the courage of the young St Agapitus, in Salone, Italy (274)
  • Saint Quadratus, a Bishop of Utica in North Africa who taught both clergy and laity to confess Christ (3rd century)
  • Martyrs Luxorius, Cisellus and Camerinus, martyrs in Sardinia beheaded under Diocletian (303)
  • Saint Sidonius Apollinaris, Bishop of Clermont in France (c. 423-480)
  • Saint Leontius the Elder, Bishop of Bordeaux in France and the predecessor of St Leontius the Younger (c. 541)
  • Saint Avitus I, Bishop of Clermont, Gaul (594)
  • Saint Eardwulf of Northumbria (Hardulph of Breedon) (c. 808)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Abramius the Lover-of-labor of the Kiev Caves
  • Saint Abramius of Smolensk, Archimandrite, Wonderworker of Smolensk (1220), and his disciple St. Ephraim (1238) (see also: August 20 - Greek)
  • Saint Isaiah of Mt. Athos (14th century)
  • Saint Cornelius, founder and abbot of Paleostrov Monastery (Palei Island, Valaam, Karelia) (1420), and his disciple St. Abramius (15th century)
  • New Hieromartyr Symeon, Bishop of Samokovo, Bulgaria (1737)
  • Saint Martha (Milyukova), schemanun of Diveyevo (1829)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Alexander Yelokhovsky, Priest of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1918)
  • New Hieromartyr Paul Yagodinsky, Priest of Yaransk (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Raphael, Abbot of Sisatovac Monastery, Serbia (1941)
  • New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Dalanov), Hieromonk of Optina Monastery (1942)

    • Other commemorations

  • Translation of the relics (1953) of Saint Nectarius (Kephalas), Metropolitan of Pentapolis (North Africa) (1920) (see also: September 3 - Greek)
  • Commemoration of Hieromonk John (Kotlyarevsky) at Poltava (1951)

    • References

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