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15 August

20 commemorations of 15 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 28 August of the civil calendar.

In the map: Dormition of the Theotokos: August 15

Feasts

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable Macarius the Roman, Abbot (1550)ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Chariton of Novgorod (16th century), disciple of St. Macarius the Romanpravoslavie.ru
  • New Hieromartyr Christos, Hieromonk, of Ioannina (c. 1770)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Stephen, Elder, of Vyatka (1890)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Andrew Voliansky, Priest (1919)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr Paul Szwajko, Priest, and New Martyr Joanna, Presvytera, of Graboviec (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland) (1943)holytrinityorthodox.com · lublin.cerkiew.pl · pravoslavie.ru

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.

  • Martyr Tarcisius, at Rome, seized by a heathen mob and preferred to die rather than expose the sacred mysteries to profanation (c. 253–260)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Alypius of Thagaste, Bishop of Tagaste in North Africa (c. 430)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Altfrid, Bishop of Hildesheim, was devoted to the Mother of God (874)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Arduinus, a priest in Rimini in Italy who lived as a hermit and ended his days in the monastery of San Gudenzio (1009)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.

  • Commemoration of the Miracle of the Theotokos at the Siege of Constantinople (717–18)Ἀνάμνηση Θαύματος Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκουsynaxarion.gr
  • Repose of Elder Anthony of Murom (Arsenius in schema) (1851), friend of St. Seraphim of Sarovpravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Archimandrite Hieron, founder of New Athos (1912)pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Blessed George Lazar of Văratec, Romania (1916)pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Abbess Ruffina of Harbin and Shanghai (1937)internetsobor.org · pravoslavie.ru · roca.org · stvladimirs.ca
  • Repose of Venerable Elder Joseph the Hesychast, of New Skete, Mt. Athos (1959)ec-patr.org · orthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru · romfea.gr
  • Repose of Metropolitan Augustinos (Kantiotis) of Florina (2010)pravoslavie.ru
  • Icons of the Theotokos' Dormition
    • 'Kiev Caves' (1073)
    • 'Ovinov' (1425)
    • 'Pskov-Caves' (1472)
    • 'Semigorodnaya' (15th century)
    • 'Seven Cities'
    • 'Pyukhtitsa' (16th century)
    • 'Bakhchisarai'
  • Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God (Novgorod)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org

The list is August 15 (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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