August 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.

Saints

• Venerable Candida the Byzantine
• Hieromartyr Narcissus, Bishop of Jerusalem (c. 213)
• Martyrs Marinus the Soldier (see also: March 17) and Asterius the Senator,{{#tag:ref|In most sources he is referred to as a "martyr and senator (palatine), killed by the sword". In the Synaxarion of Saint Nicodemus he is referred to as a "Venerable Martyr and Wonderworker." Name days celebrated today include: :* Asterios (Ἀστέριος); :* Astero (Ἀστέρω),|group=note}} at Caesarea in Palestine (260)
• Martyr Dometius of Persia and his two disciples (363)
• Venerable Or (Horus) of the Thebaid (390)
• Virginmartyr Potamia of Alexandria, the Wonderworker, by the sword (4th century)
• Venerable Hyperechius of the "Paradise", Egypt (4th century)
• Saint Vardan the Martyr, of Armenia (451)
• Saint Irene of Athens, Byzantine empress regnant and a strong iconodule (803) (see also: August 9)
• Venerable Theodosius the New, of the Peloponnese, the healer (862)
• The Venerable 10,000 Ascetics of the Thebaid, reposed in peace
• Saint Sozon of Nicomedia
• Saint Hierotheus of Hungary (10th century)
• Saint Stephen of Hungary, king (1038)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Faustus, a soldier martyred in Milan in Italy under Commodus (c. 190)
• Hieromartyr Sixtus II (Xystus), Pope of Rome, martyred with his deacons [Felicissim and Agapit] (258) (see also: August 10 - in the East)
• Saints Peter, Julian (Juliana) and Companions, a group of twenty or more martyrs in Rome under Valerian and Gallienus (c. 260)
• Saint Carpophorus, Exanthus, Cassius, Severinus, Secundus and Licinius, soldiers martyred in Como in the north of Italy under Maximian Herculius (c. 295)
• Saint Afra, martyred during the Diocletian persecution (304)
• Saint Donatian, second Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in France (4th century)
• Saints Donatus, second Bishop of Arezzo in Italy, and Hilarinus, a martyr in Ostia (4th century)
• Saint Victricius of Rouen, former army officer, became missionary in the north of France, and Bishop of Rouen, Confessor (407)
• Saint Donatus, Bishop of Besançon (c. 660)
• Saint Donat (Dunwyd), patron saint of St Donat's or Llandunwyd in Glamorgan in Wales

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Pimen the Much-ailing (Poemen), of the Kiev Caves (1110)
• Venerable Pimen the Faster, of the Far Caves in Kiev ()
• Saint Mikallos of Akanthou in Cyprus, one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (12th century){{#tag:ref|The "300 Allemagne Saints" (: τριακοσίων Μαρτύρων καὶ Ὁσίων τῆς Κύπρου; or, ἐκ Παλαιστίνης ἐλθόντων εἰς Κύπρον τριακοσίων) came to Cyprus from Palestine, and lived as ascetics in various parts of the island. Included among the "300 Allemagne Saints" are: :* Venerable Anastasios the Wonderwoker of Cyprus, September 17 :* Venerable Abbacum the Ascetic of Cyprus, Wonderworker, December 2 :* Venerable Cassian the Martyr (Kassianos), December 4 :* Venerable Calantius of Tamassos (Kalandios), April 26 :* Martyr Constantine of Cyprus (Constantine of Allemagne), Wonderworker, July 1 According to some of their lives in the Great Synaxaristes, after the dissolution of the Second Crusade (1147 - 1149), they decided to live the monastic life in the Jordan desert. However since the Latins there disturbed them, they relocated to Cyprus and dispersed over the island.|group=note}}
• Saint Mercurius of the Near Caves in Kiev, Bishop of Smolensk (1239)
• Saint Agathon the Ktetor of Athos (14th century)
• Venerable Nicanor the Wonderworker of Mt. Callistratus (1419 or 1549)
• Venerable David of Euboea, Wonderworker () (Church of Greece; see also: November 1)
• Venerable Dometius of Philotheou Monastery on Mount Athos, the "standard-bearer", and wonderworker (16th century)
• Saint Theodora of Sihla (18th century)
• Saint Pârvu Mutu, painter (1735)
• Saint Olimpiada (Strigalova) of Arzamas, schemanun (1828)
• Venerable Anthony of Optina, Schema-Abbot, Elder of Optina Monastery (1865)
• Venerable Joseph 'Gerontogiannis', monk of Kapsa Monastery on Crete (1874)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Alexander Hotovitzky, Priest of New York and Protopresbyter of Moscow, Missionary of America, Hieromartyr of the Bolshevik yoke (1937) (see also: November 21, December 4)
• New Hieromartyrs Peter Tokarev, Michael Plyshevsky, John Vorontsov, Demetrius Milovidov, and Alexius Vorobyov, Priests (1937)
• New Hieromartyr Athanasius (Yegorov), Abbot, of Izmailovo (Moscow) (1937)
• New Hieromartyr Eliseus Schtolder, Deacon (1937)
• New Hieromartyr Basil Amenitsky, Priest (1938)

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the First Siege of Constantinople (Saving of Constantinople from the Persians and Avars) (626)
• Uncovering of the relics (1832) of Saint Metrophanes of Voronezh (Macarius in schema), Bishop of Voronezh, the first bishop there (1703)
• Synaxis of the Saints of Valaam Monastery
• Trigorsk Icon of the Mother of God
• Valaam Icon of the Mother of God
• Repose of Elder Adrian of South Dorotheus Monastery (1853)
• Repose of Schemamonk John the Silent (John the Blind), of Valaam Monastery (1894)
• Repose of Elder Callinicus the Hesychast, of Katounakia, Mount Athos (1930)
• Repose of Archimandrite Vladimir of Jordanville Monastery, New York (1988)

Icon gallery

File:Menologion of Basil 031.jpg|Martyrdom of Dometius of Persia and his two disciples File:Osios David o en Euboea.jpg|Venerable David of Euboea, Wonderworker File:Alexander Hotovitsky fresco.jpg|Altar fresco of Saint Alexander Hotovitzky File:Saint Mitrophan of Voronezh.jpg|St. Metrophanes of Voronezh

Notes

References

Sources

• August 7 / August 20. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• August 20 / August 7. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• August 7. 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 Seventh Day Day of the Month of August. Orthodoxy in China.
• August 7. 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. pp. 235-236.
• 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. 383-386.

; Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 7 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 7 Αυγούστου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

; Russian Sources

• 20 августа (7 августа). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).

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