8 August
38 commemorations of 8 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 21 August of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Gregory of Sinai
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christorthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Saint Myron the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Crete (350)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μύρωνsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonides, of Constantinople, and many infants with them, by fire (4th century)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἐλευθέριος, Λεωνίδης καὶ τὰ Ἅγια Νήπια οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Gormizdas (Hormisdas) of Persia (418)Roman Martyrology · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- The Ten Venerable ascetics of EgyptΟἱ Ἅγιοι Δέκα Ὅσιοι καὶ Ἀσκητὲς ἀπὸ τὴν Αἴγυπτοsynaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org
- The two martyrs of Tyre, dragged to deathΟἱ Ἅγιοι Δύο Μάρτυρες ἀπὸ τὴν Τύροsynaxarion.gr
- Martyr Styracius, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Στυράκιος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus (820)Ὁ Ἅγιος Αἰμιλιανὸς ὁ Ὁμολογητής Ἐπίσκοπος Κυζίκουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Theodosius the New, Igumen of OrovὉ Ὅσιος Θεοδόσιος ἡγούμενος Ὀρόβωνsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Venerable Gregory, Iconographer, of the Kiev Caves (12th century)ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos) (1346)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Zosimus the Sinaite, of Tuman Monastery, Serbia (14th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gregory, Wonderworker, of the Kiev Caves (14th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr Triantaphyllos of Zagora, Thessaly, at Constantinople (1680)Ὁ Ἅγιος Τριαντάφυλλος ὁ Μάρτυρας ἀπὸ τὴ Ζαγοράsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr Anastasius (Spaso) of Radovishte in Strumica, at Thessaloniki (1794)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀναστάσιος ὁ Μάρτυρας ἀπὸ τὴ Βουλγαρίαsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Monkmartyr Euthymius, Abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist, at David Gareja monastery complex, Georgia (1804)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Philaret of Ichalka, Ivanovo (1913)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Kallinikos (Poulos) of Edessa, Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and Almopia (1984)orthodoxtimes.com · romfea.gr
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Joseph (Baranov), Hieromonk of the Tolga Monastery (Yaroslavl) (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Shumkov, Priest (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Nicodemus (Krotkov), Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com · kostroma-eparhia.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Alexandru Baltagă of Bessarabia, priest (1941)basilica.ro · orthochristian.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 Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus and Companions, a group of twenty-four martyrs who suffered in Rome under Diocletian (304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Severus, a priest who came from India to enlighten the area around Vienne in France (c. 445)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Leobald (Leodebod, Leodebaldus), founder of Fleury Abbey, later called Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, near Orleans in France (650)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Mummolus (Mommolus, Mommolenus), second Abbot of Fleury in France (c. 678)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Sigrada, mother of Sts Leodegarius and Warinus, nun at the convent in Soissons in France (c. 678)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ternatius (Terniscus), eleventh Bishop of Besançon in the east of France (c. 680)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ellidius (Illog), Patron-saint of Hirnant in Powys in Wales and of a church in the Scilly Isles (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gedeon, the thirteenth Bishop of Besançon in France (796)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ultan, priest at the monastery of St Peter in Crayke in Yorkshire (8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Rathard (Rathard von Andechs), a noble who became a priest and founded the monastery of Diessen (Dießen-Andechs) in Germany (815)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.
- Consecration of the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul, in the year 891 AD (6399 AM), in reign of Leo VI the Wise, when there occurred a solar eclipse...Ἐγκαίνια Ναοῦ Ἁγίων Ἀποστόλων Πέτρου καὶ Παύλουsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Consecration of the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos in JerusalemἘγκαίνια Ναοῦ Θεοτόκου ἐν Ἱερουσαλύμοιςsynaxarion.gr
- "Tolga" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1314)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- First (1566) and second (1992) translations of the relics of Sts. Zosimas (1478) and Sabbatius (1435), of Solovkiholytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Translation of the relics (1992) of St. Herman of Solovki (1479)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Uncovering of the relics (2002) of St. Barlaam of Chikoisk Monastery (Siberia) (1846)pravoslavie.ru
The list is August 8 (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.