August 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• The Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.{{#tag:ref|Name days celebrated today include:
• Maria / Mary (Μαρία);
• Mario / Marios / Marius (Μάριος);
• Panagiotis (Παναγιώτης);
• Panagiota (Παναγιώτα);
• Despina (Δέσποινα).|group=note}}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyr Tarcisius, at Rome, seized by a heathen mob and preferred to die rather than expose the sacred mysteries to profanation (c. 253–260) (see also: August 14 - Greek)
• Saint Alypius of Thagaste, Bishop of Tagaste in North Africa (c. 430)
• Saint Altfrid, Bishop of Hildesheim, was devoted to the Mother of God (874)
• Saint Arduinus, a priest in Rimini in Italy who lived as a hermit and ended his days in the monastery of San Gudenzio (1009)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Macarius the Roman, Abbot (1550)
• Saint Chariton of Novgorod (16th century), disciple of St. Macarius the Roman.
• New Hieromartyr Christos, Hieromonk, of Ioannina (c. 1770)
• Saint Stephen, Elder, of Vyatka (1890)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Andrew Voliansky, Priest (1919)
• New Hieromartyr Paul Szwajko, Priest, and New Martyr Joanna, Presvytera, of Graboviec (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland) (1943)

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the Miracle of the Theotokos at the Siege of Constantinople (717–18).{{#tag:ref|See also:
• September 3 - Saint Trivelius Theoktist (Khan Tervel of Bulgaria), who played an important role in defeating the Arabs during the Siege of Constantinople in 717–718.|group=note}}
• Repose of Elder Anthony of Murom (Arsenius in schema) (1851), friend of St. Seraphim of Sarov.
• Repose of Archimandrite Hieron, founder of New Athos (1912)
• Repose of Blessed George Lazar of Văratec, Romania (1916)
• Repose of Abbess Ruffina of Harbin and Shanghai (1937)
• Repose of Venerable Elder Joseph the Hesychast, of New Skete, Mt. Athos (1959){{#tag:ref|On October 20, 2019, at the Protaton Church in Karyes on Mt. Athos, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew announced that the glorification of four great 20th-century Athonite elders would soon proceed, including:
• Daniel of Katounakia (†1929)
• Ieronymos of Simonopetra (†1957)
• Joseph the Hesychast (†1959), and
• Ephraim of Katounakia (†1998). Commenting on the forthcoming glorification of Elder Joseph the Hesychast, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America said: :"We are especially blessed in America because the founder of monasticism here, Elder Ephraim, made sure that he would bring us the sacred skull of Elder Joseph, who is also his spiritual father." He was officially glorified by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on March 9, 2020, to be commemorated each year on August 16/29, the day after the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos.|group=note}} (see: August 16)
• Repose of Metropolitan Augustinos (Kantiotis) of Florina (2010)

Icons

• Icons of the Theotokos' Dormition: :* 'Kiev Caves' (1073); :* 'Ovinov' (1425); :* 'Pskov-Caves' (1472); :* 'Semigorodnaya' (15th century); :* 'Seven Cities'; :* 'Pyukhtitsa' (16th century); :* 'Bakhchisarai'.

• Her Icons: :* 'Atskurskaya' (1st century); :* 'Tsilkani' in Georgia (4th century); :* 'Vladimir-Rostov' (12th century); :* 'Mozdok' (13th century); :* 'Gaenatskaya' (13th century); :* 'Chukhlom' (14th century); :* 'Surdyeg' (1530); :* 'Tupichev' (17th century); :* 'Blachernae' (Georgia).

• Her Icons: :* 'Diasozousa'; :* 'Chajnicke'.

• Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God (Novgorod).

Icon gallery

File:HSX Koimetesis.jpg|Mosaic of the Koimesis, (Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora). File:Dormition El Greco.jpg|Icon of the Dormition of the Theotokos (El Greco, 16th century). File:Dormition of the Theotokos Semigorodnyaya.jpg|Dormition of the Theotokos Semigorodnyaya. File:2007-08-14--Procession of the Epitaphios--Dormition of the Virgin Mary.jpg|Outdoor procession of the Epitaphios of the Theotokos, Toronto (2007). File:Orthodox Priests in Procession - Great Vespers of the Dormition.jpg|Procession of the Epitaphios of the Theotokos, Ottawa (2018).

Notes

References

Sources

• August 15 / August 28. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• August 28 / August 15. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• August 15. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 60.
• Menologion: The Fifteenth Day of the Month of August. Orthodoxy in China.
• August 15. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 244.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 394–395.

; Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 15 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 15 Αυγούστου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

; Russian Sources

• 28 августа (15 августа). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).

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19. ''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/15-03.htm The Kievo-Pechersk Icon of the Uspenie (Dormition) of the MostHoly Mother of God].'' Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
20. ''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/15-OvinovskIcon.htm Icon of the Mother of God Ovinovsk (1425)].'' Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
21. ''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/15-Pskov-PecherskIcon.htm Icon of the Mother of God "Pskov-Pechersk" (1472)].'' Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
22. ''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/15-SemigorodnayaIcon.htm Icon of the Mother of God "Semigorodnaya" (15th c.)].'' Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
23. ''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/15-AtskurskIcon.htm Icon of the Mother of God "Atskursk" (1st. c.)].'' Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
24. ''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/15-TsilkanskIcon.htm Icon of the Mother of God "Tsilkansk" (4th c.)].'' Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
25. ''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/15-Vladimirsko-RostovskyIcon.htm Icon of the Mother of God "Vladimirsko-Rostovsky" (12th c.)].'' Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
26. ''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/15-04.htm The Mozdok Icon of the Mother of God].'' Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
27. ''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/15-02.htm The Icon of the Mother of God of Galich-Chukhlomsk "Tenderness" (Umilenie)].'' Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
28. ''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/15-VlakhernskIcon.htm Icon of the Mother of God "Vlakhernsk"].'' Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
29. ''[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=205403 Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God].'' OCA - Lives of the Saints.