6 August
16 commemorations of 6 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 19 August of the civil calendar.
In the map: Transfiguration of Christ: August 6
Feasts
- The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ (Second "Feast of the Savior" in August)Ἡ Μεταμόρφωση τοῦ Σωτῆρος Χριστοῦorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Theoctistus, Bishop of Chernigov (1123)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr Abbacum of Thessalonica (1628)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀββακοὺμ ὁ Νεομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Maxim Sandovich of Lemkovyna, priest, protomartyr of the Lemko people, by the Austro-Hungarians (1914)
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Prozorov, Priest (1930)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Nikolai Zavarin, Priest (1937)orthochristian.com · patriarchia.ru
- New Hieromartyr Peter Tokarev, Priest, of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)
- New Hieromartyr Dimitry (Lyubimov), Archbishop of Gdov (1938)austroca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · russiascatacombsaints.blogspot.com
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Saints Justus and Pastor, two brothers, aged respectively thirteen and nine, scourged and beheaded at Alcalá in Spain under Diocletian (c. 304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Hardulf, a hermit at Breedon in Leicestershire in England where the church is dedicated to him (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gezelin (Ghislain, Gisle, Joscelin), a hermit honoured in Slebusrode (Schlebuschrath) near Cologne in Germanyorthodoxengland.org.uk
- 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... (872)orthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Repose of Hieroschemamonk Nikon the Cave-dweller, of Valaam Monastery (1822)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Priest Basil Shoustin, disciple of Optina Elders (1968)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Elder Tryphon of Kapsala, Mount Athos (1978)pravoslavie.ru
The list is August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.