August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ (Second "Feast of the Savior" in August){{#tag:ref|Name days celebrated today include:
• Sotirios (Σωτήριος);
• Sotiria (Σωτηρία).|group=note}}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saints Justus and Pastor, two brothers, aged respectively thirteen and nine, scourged and beheaded at Alcalá in Spain under Diocletian (c. 304)
• Saint Hormisdas, Pope of Rome and Confessor, author of the Formula of Hormisdas (523)
• Saint Hardulf, a hermit at Breedon in Leicestershire in England where the church is dedicated to him (7th century)
• Saint Gezelin (Ghislain, Gisle, Joscelin), a hermit honoured in Slebusrode (Schlebuschrath) near Cologne in Germany.
• Saint Stephen of Cardeña and Companions, Abbot of the Castilian monastery of Cardeña near Burgos in Spain, where there were over two hundred monks, martyred by the Saracens (872)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Theoctistus, Bishop of Chernigov (1123) (see also: August 5)
• New Martyr Abbacum of Thessalonica (1628)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Maxim Sandovich of Lemkovyna, priest, protomartyr of the Lemko people, by the Austro-Hungarians (1914){{#tag:ref|He was executed on Sunday, August 6th, 1914. He is also commemorated on: :* His feast day on September 6 / August 24 (glorification); :* Also in the Third Week of Pentecost, on the "Synaxis of the Saints of Galicia" ( Собор Галицких святых).|group=note}} (see also July 24 - Old Calendar; and September 6/August 24)
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Prozorov, Priest (1930)
• New Hieromartyr Nikolai Zavarin, Priest (1937)
• New Hieromartyr Peter Tokarev, Priest, of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)
• New Hieromartyr Dimitry (Lyubimov), Archbishop of Gdov (1938)

Other commemorations

• Repose of Hieroschemamonk Nikon the Cave-dweller, of Valaam Monastery (1822)
• Repose of Priest Basil Shoustin, disciple of Optina Elders (1968)
• Repose of Elder Tryphon of Kapsala, Mount Athos (1978)

Icon gallery

File:Transfiguration Christ Louvre ML145.jpg|Icon of the Transfiguration of Christ, Byzantine artwork, c. 1200, File:Transfiguration by Feofan Grek from Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral in Pereslavl-Zalessky (15th c, Tretyakov gallery).jpeg|Icon of the Transfiguration of Christ, Theophanes the Greek, 15th century

Notes

References

Sources

• August 6 / August 19. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• August 19 / August 6. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• August 6. 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. 58.
• Menologion: The Sixth Day of the Month of August. Orthodoxy in China.
• August 6. 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. 234.
• 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. p. 382.

; Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 6 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 6 Αυγούστου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

; Russian Sources

• 19 августа (6 августа). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).

References

1. [http://orthochristian.com/calendar/{{#time:Y. -1year0806.html August 6 / August 19]. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
2. Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang. el ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/304/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ἡ Μεταμόρφωση τοῦ Σωτῆρος Χριστοῦ].'' 6 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
3. ''[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=102215 The Holy Transfiguration of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ (the Second “Feast of the Savior” in August)].'' OCA - Lives of the Saints.
4. [http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm August 6]. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
5. ''[[:iarchive:romanmartyrology00cathuoft. 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. 234.
6. [http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/index.php?today=19&month=8 August 19 / August 6]. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
7. link. (2014-10-30 .'' American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A. Retrieved 26 May, 2014.)
8. 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. 58.
9. ''[http://orthochristian.com/120400.html RUSSIAN SYNOD ADDS FOUR NAMES TO SYNAXIS OF NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS].'' Orthodox Christianity. Moscow, April 5, 2019.
10. {{in lang. ru ''[http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/5404829.html ЖУРНАЛЫ заседания Священного Синода от 4 апреля 2019 года].'' Русская Православная Церковь, Официальный сайт Московского Патриархата (Патриархия.ru). 4 апреля 2019 г. 15:00.