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August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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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:
  • Zoticus, Theoprepius, Acindynus, Severian, Zeno, and others, who suffered under Maximian (4th century)
  • Hieromartyr Athanasius, Bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, by beheading (c. 257)
  • Saint Anthusa of Seleucia (298), and Martyrs Charesimus and Neophytus (c. 253-259)
  • Martyrs Irenaeus, Or, and Oropsus.
  • Martyr Julian of Heliopolis in Syria (c. 362)
  • Saint Ariadne (515), daughter of Emperor Leo I.

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Antoninus of Rome, a converted executioner in Rome (186)
  • Saint Symphorian of Autun, martyred for refusing to sacrifice to a pagan goddess (2nd century)
  • Saint Hippolytus of Porto, Bishop of Porto in Italy, martyred by drowning under Alexander (236)
  • Hieromartyr Maurus, and Companions, a group of fifty martyrs in Rheims in France (260)
  • 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 (c. 300)
  • Virgin Martyr Eulalia of Barcelona (303) (see also: December 10)
  • Saint Timothy, a martyr in Rome under Diocletian (c. 306)
  • Saint Gunifort, a pilgrim, perhaps from England, who was martyred in Pavia in Italy.
  • Saint Sigfrid, Abbot of Wearmouth (c. 688)
  • Saint Ethelgitha, Abbess of a convent in Northumbria (c. 720)
  • Saint Andrew of Tuscany (c. 880)
  • Saint Arnulf of Eynesbury, saintly hermit, whose relics were venerated in Arnulphsbury or Eynesbury in Cambridgeshire, England (9th century)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Bogolep of St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery (16th century)
  • Venerable Isaac I (Antimonov, the "Elder"), Schema-Archimandrite of Optina Monastery (1894)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • Ephraim (Kuznetsov), Bishop of Selenginsk, and Priest John Vostorgov (1918)
  • Macarius (Gnevushev), Bishop of Orel, and Priests John Boyarshinov and Alexis Naumov (1918)
  • Theodore (Smirnov), Bishop of Penza, and with him Priests Basil Smirnov and Gabriel Archangelsky (1937)
  • John (Troyansky), Bishop of Veliki Luki (1937)
  • Alexis (Orlov), Archbishop of Omsk (1937)
  • Andrew (Ukhtomsky), Archbishop of Ufa and Menzelin (1937)
  • Hierotheus (Glazkov), Hieromonk, of Lyubim (Yaroslasvl) (1937)
  • John (Laba) and Hilarion (Tsurikov), Hieromonks, of Mirzoyan (Kazakhstan) (1937)
  • Alexander Ratkovsky, Michael Lyubertsev and Theodore Malyarovsky, Priests (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Gorazd (Pavlík), Bishop of Prague, Bohemia and Moravo-Cilezsk, slain by Nazis (1942)

    • Other commemorations

  • Synaxis of Panagia Proussiotissa (Mother of God of Proussa) in Evrytania, Greece (c. 829–842)
  • Georgian Icon (Iveron Icon, Iverskaya) of the Most Holy Theotokos, at the Monastery of St. Alexis of Moscow (1650)

    • References

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