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August 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Aug. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 24

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 5 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 23, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 10.

Feasts

  • Apodosis of the Dormition.
  • Saints

  • Hieromartyr Pothinus, Bishop of Lyons (ca. 177)
  • Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons (202)
  • Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary (304) (see also: March 26)
  • Martyrs Severus, Memnon the Centurion, and 38 others, of Thrace (ca. 305) (see also: August 20)
  • Martyr Lupus of Novae (306), slave of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki.
  • Saints Eutychius (540) and Florentius (547) of Nursia.
  • Saint Callinicus, Patriarch of Constantinople (705)
  • Saint Anthony, Bishop of Sardis (10th century)
  • Saint Nicholas the Sicilian, ascetic of Mt. Neotaka in Euboea.
  • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Martyrs Quiriacus, Maximus Archelaus and Companions (c. 235)
  • Martyrs Minervius, Eleazar and Companions, in Lyons in France - eight children are included in their number (3rd century)
  • Saint Tydfil, venerated in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, where she was slain by the heathen (c. 480)
  • Saint Victor of Vita (Victor Vitensis), born in Carthage in North Africa, he was either Bishop there or in Utica (c. 535)
  • Saint Éogan of Ardstraw (c. 618)
  • Saints Flavian (Flavinian, Flavius) of Autun, the twenty-first Bishop of Autun in France (7th century)
  • Saints Altigianus and Hilarinus, two monks killed by the Saracens at Saint-Seine in France (731)
  • Martyrs Æbbe the Younger, Abbess of Coldingham Priory, Northumbria, and her companions (870)
  • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Haralambos of Panagia Kalyviani convent (in the Heraklio Prefecture), the newly-revealed (1788)
  • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyrs Ephraim (Kuznetsov), Bishop of Selenginsk, and John Vostorgov, Archpriest, of Moscow, and Martyr Nicholas Varzhansky (1918)
  • New Hieromartyrs Paul Gaidai and John Karabanov, Priests (1937)
  • Other commemorations

  • Synaxis of Panagia Proussiotissa (Mother of God of Proussa) in Evrytania, Greece (c. 829–842)
  • Mykhaylivska Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
  • Repose of Abbot Ioannicius (Moroi) of Sihastria, Romania (1944)
  • References

    August 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia