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13 August

29 commemorations of 13 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 26 August of the civil calendar.

In the map: St. Dorotheos of GazaSt. Tikhon of Zadonsk

Feasts

  • Apodosis of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christorthochristian.com · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru

Saints

  • Martyr Hippolytus of Rome, and 18 martyrs with him (258)
    • Martyrs Concordia, Irenaeus and Abundius
    ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyr Coronatus, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Κορωνάτος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
  • Saint Eudocia the Empress (460), wife of Theodosius the Younger, in PalestineἩ Ἁγία Εὐδοκία ἡ βασίλισσαsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Seridus, Abbot, of Gaza (ca. 543)Ὁ Ὅσιος Σέριδος ἡγούμενος τῆς Μονῆς στὴ Γάζαsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Abba Dorotheus of Gaza (560-580)Ὁ Ὅσιος Δωρόθεοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Dositheos, attendant to Abba Dorotheus of Gaza (6th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Δοσίθεοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr

Orthodox saints after the Schism

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyrs John Shyshev, Ioasph Panov and Constantine Popov, Priests (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr Benjamin of Petrograd, Metropolitan, and those with him (1921)
  • New Hieromartyrs Sergius, Archimandrite, and those with him (1921)
  • New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Zvezdinsky), Bishop of Dmitrov (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Orlov and Jacob Arkhippov, Priests, and Alexis Vedensky, Deacon, of Yarsoslavl-Rostov (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Martyr Basil Aleksandrin (1942)holytrinityorthodox.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.

  • Saint Pontian, Pope of Rome, was exiled by Emperor Maximinus Thrax to Sardinia in c 235, where he died from ill-treatmentorthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Cassian of Imola, a martyr who refused to worship idols and suffered a slow death in Imola in Italy (c. 250)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saints Centolla and Helen, two virgin-martyrs near Burgos in Spain (c. 304)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Cassian of Todi, Bishop of Todi, martyred under Maximian Herculeus (4th century)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Junian of Mairé, founder of the monastery of Mairé in Poitou in France and later a hermit in Chaulnay (587)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Radegunde of Poitiers, nun (587)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Muredach (Murtagh, Muiredach), first Bishop of Killala and founder of Innismurray (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Wigbert, Abbot of Hersfeld, and English missionary to Germany, Confessor (c. 747)Roman Martyrology · Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Herulph, a monk at St Gall in Switzerland, then founded the monastery of Ellwangen (764) near Augsberg in Germany, later became Bishop of Langres in... (785)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Ludolf, Abbot of New Corvey (Nova Corbeia) in Westphalia in Germany from 971 to 983orthodoxengland.org.uk

Other commemorations

Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.

  • Translation of the relics (c. 681) of Venerable Maximus the Confessor (662)Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ὁσίου Μαξίμου τοῦ Ὁμολογητοῦsynaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org
  • Uncovering of the relics (1547) of St. Maximus of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ (1433)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάξιμος ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός τῆς Μόσχαςsynaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos
    • "Of Minsk" (1500)
    • "Of the Passion" (1641)
    • "Of the Seven Arrows" (Vologda) / "The Softener of Evil Hearts" (1830)
  • Repose of Valaam Schema-monk Timothy of Mount Athos (1848)pravoslavie.ru

The list is August 13 (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.

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