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Month of August

icon of August saints

August 1: Procession of the Precious Wood of the Cross & Commemoration of the 7 Holy Maccabee Children

August 1: Feast of the Most-Merciful Savior & the All-Holy Theotokos

August 2: Transfer of the Relics of the Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen

August 3: Sts. Isaacius, Dalmatus & Faustus

August 3: St. Anthony the Roman

August 4: Seven Holy Youths of Ephesus

August 5: Forefeast of the Transfiguration & Holy Martyr Eusygnius

August 6: Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord

August 7: Holy Martyred Monk Dometius

August 8: St. Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus

August 8: Transfer of the Relics of Sts. Zosimas & Sabbatius of Solovki

August 9: Holy Apostle Matthias

August 10: Holy Martyr & Archdeacon Laurence

August 11: Holy Martyr & Archdeacon Euplus

August 12: Martyrs Photius & Anicetas and St. Maximus the Confessor

August 13: Leave-taking of the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord

August 13: St. Tikhon, Bishop of Voronezh

August 14: Forefeast of the Dormition and Holy Prophet Micah

August 15: Dormition of the Most-Holy Theotokos

August 16: Transfer of the Image Not-Made-By-Hands of Our Lord from Edessa to Constantinople

August 16: All-Night Vigil for the Transfer of the Image Not-Made-By-Hands

August 17: Holy Martyr Myron

August 18: Holy Martyrs Florus & Laurus

August 19: Holy Martyr Andrew the General

August 20: Holy Prophet Samuel

August 21: Holy Apostle Thaddaeus & Holy Martyr Bassa & Those with Her

August 22: Holy Martyr Agathonicus & Those with Him and Holy Martyr Luppus

August 23: Leave-taking of the Dormition of the All-holy Theotokos

August 24: Hieromartyr Eutyches

August 24: Holy New-hieromartyr Maximus Sandovich, Protomartyr of the Lemko People

August 25: Return of the Relics of the Holy Apostle Bartholomew & Holy Apostle Titus

August 26: Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalia

August 26: Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Theotokos

August 27: St. Poemen the Great

August 28: St. Moses the Black

August 28: Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Kiev Far Caves

August 29: Beheading of St. John the Forerunner and Baptist

August 30: Holy Fathers Alexander, John and Paul the New, Patriarchs of Constantinople

August 30: Transfer of the Relics of St. Alexander Nevsky

August 31: Deposition of the Precious Cincture of the Theotokos

August 31: Our Father among the Saints Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Enlightener of Northumbria