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July 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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July 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 9

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 21 by Old Calendarists.

Saints

  • Great martyr Procopius of Caesarea in Palaestina (303)
  • Righteous Procopius of Ustiug in Vologda, Fool-for-Christ and wonderworker (1303)
  • Saint Theophilus the Myrrh-gusher of Pantocrator Monastery on Mount Athos (1548)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • St. Edgar the Peaceful, King of Mercia and Northumbria, and upon the death of his brother Eadwig (A.D. 959), King of all England.
  • St. Grimbald was a monk at St. Bertin Abbey in Saint-Omer in Flanders who was invited by King Alfred the Great to help restore scholarship in England.
  • St. Morwenna may have been a daughter of King St. Brychan of Brycheiniog, and is often confused with St. Modwenna (5th July), who lived two centuries later.
  • St. Ulrith of Chittlehampton.
  • St. Withburgh of East Anglia, an anchoress at East Dereham, Norfolk, England.

    • Other commemorations

  • Appearance of the "Kazan" and "Peschanskaya" Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos

    • References

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