17 August
39 commemorations of 17 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 30 August of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Dormitionorthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Hieromartyr Myron of Cyzicus, Priest (250)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μύρων ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus (Coronatus), with others, of Caesarea in Bithynia (c. 250)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Θῦρσος, Λεύκιος, Κορωνᾶτος καὶ ἡ συνοδεία τουςsynaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Paul and his sister Juliana, and Quadratus, Acacius and Stratonicus the executioners, at Ptolemais in Syria (273)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Παῦλος καὶ Ἰουλιανὴ οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῶν Μαρτυρήσαντες (δήμιοι)synaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Straton, Philip, Eutychian, and Cyprian, of Nicomedia (303)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Στράτων, Φίλιππος, Εὐτυχιανὸς καὶ Κυπριανὸς οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Monk-martyr Macarius of Mount St. Auxentius (768)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μακάριος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Elias the Younger of Calabria, (Elias of Enna) (903)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἠλίας ὁ Νέοςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Aiglon, a hermit who lived ascetically and reposed in peaceὉ Ὅσιος Αἴγλωνsynaxarion.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Alypius the Iconographer, of the Kiev Caves Monastery (1114)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀλύπιος ὁ Ζωγράφος ὁ ἐν Σπηλαίῳ (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Tbeli Abuserisdze of Khikhuni, Adjara (13th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Leucius, Abbot of Volokolamsk (1492)ocafs.oca.org
- Blessed Theodoretus, Enlightener of the Laps in Solovki (1571)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Philip of Mt. Yankov Monastery, left bank of Sukhona River in Vologda, monk (1662)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- New Monk-martyr Agapius, at Thermes, near Thessalonica (1752)pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Monk-martyr Demetrius of Samarina (Pindos), at Ioannina (1808)Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Μοναχὸςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org
- Saint Nazaria, Schemanun, first abbess of Văratec Monastery, disciple of St. Basil of Poiana Mărului, St. Paisius Velichkovsky of Neamț, and St. Joseph of... (1814)orthochristian.com
- Saint Olimpiada, Schemanun, founder and benefactor of Văratec Monastery, disciple of St. Paisius Velichkovsky of Neamț, St. Joseph of Văratec, and Venerable... (1842)orthochristian.com
- Saint Elisabeta (Safta) Brâncoveanu, Schemanun, resident of Văratec Monastery (1857)orthochristian.com
- Saint Pimen, Archimandrite, of Ugreshi Monastery (1880)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint George the Pilgrim (Gheorghe Lazăr the Ascetic), of Piatra Neamț, in eastern Romania (1916)basilica.ro
- Venerable Athanasios Hamakiotis, Greek Hieromonk and spiritual father noted for his pastoral work in Attica (1967)orthochristian.com · ec-patr.org
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Alexis Velikoselsky, Priest (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Demetrius Ostroumov, Priest (1937)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 Eusebius, a Greek by birth, reposed in exile in Sicily (310)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Theodulus of Grammont (Theodore, Yoder), an early Bishop of Valais, who was much revered in Switzerland and Savoy (4th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Hieromartyrs Liberatus, Boniface, Servus, Rusticus, Rogatus, Septimus, and Maximus, under the Arian King Hunneric (483)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Anastasius of Terni, Bishop of Terni in Italy (c. 553)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint James the Deacon, companion of St Paulinus of York in his mission to Northumbria (after 671)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Drithelm, monk at Melrose Abbey in Scotland, Confessor, great ascetic (c. 700)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Carloman, eldest son of Charles Martel, became King of Austrasia (754)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Amor (Amator, Amour), companion of St Pirmin in preaching Christ in Germany, founder of the monastery of Amorbach in Franconia (8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyr Patroclus of Troyes, under Aurelian (270-275)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Jeroen (Hiero, Iero), hieromonk, at Noordwijk, Netherlands (857)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Benedicta and Cecilia, two daughters of the King of Lorraine, became nuns and successively Abbesses of Susteren Abbey, in the Rhineland, Germany (10th century)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 Schemanun Ardaliona of Ust-Medveditsky Convent (1864)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Schemamonk Onuphrius of Valaam Monastery (1912)pravoslavie.ru
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Armatia", ConstantinopleΣύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν τοὶς Ἀρματίουsynaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Svensk" (1288)pravoslavie.ru
- Icon of Panagia of Goumenissaecclesia.gr
The list is August 17 (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.