… a thousand years as one day. – August

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Not in Synaxarion because New

August 2nd – Saint Photene (Fotou) of Cyprus

August 10th – Saint Felicissimus the Deacon, Saint Agapitus the Deacon, and the soldier Saint Romanus the soldier

August 15th – Panagia of Jerusalem Icon

August 16th – Saint Joseph the Hesychast

August 22nd – Saint Felix

August 23rd – Panagia Phaneromene

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1st

• The Procession of the Holy and Life-giving Cross in Constantinople
• The Seven Maccabees Brothers: Abimus, Antoninus, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusebonus, Alimus and Marcellus, their Mother Solomone and their Teacher, the Scribe Eleazar
• The Nine Holy Martyrs of Perga in Pamphylia: Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cindeus, Mnesitheus, Cyriacus, Menaeus, Catanus and Euclus
• Holy Martyrs Polyeuctus, who accomplished his Martyrdom being buried alive in a heap of dung; Theodore and Cyricus, slain by the sword; Eleazar, who had his head burned, and their Companions, whose Synaxis is celebrated in the Viglentios quarter
• Holy Martyrs Mines and Meneus, whose Synaxis is celebrated in the Hebdomon quarter
• Holy Martyr Papas the New, who, after having been put in a sack, was thrown into the sea
• Holy Virgin and Martyr Elessa of Cythera
• Our Holy Father Timothy the Wonderworker, Bishop of Proconnesus
• Our Holy Father Eusebius, Bishop of Verceil

2nd

• Translation of the Relics of the Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen
• Translation of the Relics of the Holy Martyrs Maximus, Quintillian and Dada of Dorostolum
• Holy New Martyr Theodore of Tsanakale (Kalipolis)
• Our Venerable Father Basil the Blessed, Fool for Christ and Wonderworker of Moscow

3rd

• Our Venerable Fathers Isaac, Faustus and Dalmatus
• Holy Hieromartyr Stephen I, Pope of Rome
• Saint Salome the Myrrh-bearer, who died in peace
• Saint Theoclita the Wonderworker, who died in peace
• Our Holy Fathers John the Monk and John the New, Archbishops of Ephesus
• Our Venerable Father John the Confessor, Abbot of Patellaria
• Venerable Cosmas, Eunuch and Hermit in Palestine
• Our Venerable Father Antony the Roman, Wonderworker and Abbot of Novgorod
• Venerable Basil of Kameny
• Holy Martyr Razhden, Protomartyr of Georgia

4th

• The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus: Maximilian, Exacudostian, Jamblicus, Martinian, Dionysius, Antoninus and Constantine (or John)
• Our Holy Mother Eudocia and the Translation of her Relics
• Saint Thuthael (Thathuel), Martyred by being hanged on an apple tree

5th

• Forefeast of the Transfiguration
• Holy Martyr Eusignius of Antioch
• The Holy Brothers and Martyrs Cantidius and Cantidian, stoned to death
• Saint Nonna, Mother of Saint Gregory the Theologian
• Holy Martyr Sobel the Egyptian, who died pierced by arrows
• Holy Martyr Fabianus, Pope of Rome, slain by the sword
• Saint Euthymius, Patriarch of Constantinople
• Our Holy Father Eugenius of Aitolia
• Holy New Martyr Christos of Preveza
• Venerable Job of Ushelsk
• Venerable John of Chozeba
• Saint Oswald, King of Northumbria and Martyr

6th

• The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ
• Holy Monk and Martyr Habakkuk, Martyred in Thessalonica on 6 August 1628
• Our Holy Father Theoctistus, Bishop of Chernigov

7th

• Holy Monk and Martyr Dometius of Persia and his two disciples
• Our Venerable Father Or, who died in peace
• Our Venerable Father Hyperechius, who died in peace
• The Ten Thousand Ascetics of the Thebaid, who died in peach
• Holy Virgin and Wonderworker Potamia, slain by the sword
• Saint Narcissus, Archbishop of Jerusalem
• Holy Martyr Asterius the Senator, slain by the sword
• Saint Sozon of Nicodemia, who, after having been cast into the fire, came out unhurt and died in peace
• Devout Empresses, Guardians of Orthodoxy, Irene and Pulcheria
• Our Venerable Father Theodosius the New, the Wonderworker, who died in peace
• Our Holy Father Dometius, who practiced Ascesis near the Monastery of Philotheou on Mount Athos
• Our Holy Father Nicanor the Wonderworker, who shone in Ascesis on Mount Callistratus
• Venerable Joseph of Crete, nicknamed ‘Old John’
• Venerable Pimen the Much-ailing of the Lavra of the Kiev Caves
• Venerable Pimen the Faster of the Kiev Caves
• Translation of the Relics of Saint Metrophanes, First Bishop of Voronezh
• Holy Hieromartyr Alexander Chotovitsky
• Venerable Theodora of Sihla
• Saint Victricus, Bishop of Rouen

8th

• Our Holy Father Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus
• Saint Myron, Archbishop of Crete, the Wonderworker
• Holy Martyrs Eleutherius, Leonides and the Holy Children who died with them by fire
• The Ten Holy Ascetics of Egypt, who died in peace
• The Two Holy Martyrs of Tyre in Phoenicia, who died dragged behind a cart
• Holy Martyr Stirakios, slain by the sword
• Our Venerable Father Theodosius, Abbot of the Monastery of Orobee
• Holy New Martyr Triantaphyllus of Zagor, Martyred in Constantinople in 1680
• Holy New Martyr Anastasius, Martyred in Thessalonica in 1794
• Venerable Gregory the Iconographer of the Lavra of the Kiev Caves
• Translation of the Relics of Saints Zosimas and Sabbatius of Solovki
• Our Venerable Father Euthymius, Abbot of the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist in the desert of Saint David

9th

• Holy Apostle Matthias
• The Ten Holy Martyrs who suffered for the Icon of Christ in Constantinople: Julian, Marcian, John, James, Alexius, Demetrius, Photius (Phocas), Peter, Leontius and Maria the Patrician
• Holy Martyr Antony of Alexandria, who died by fire
• Our Venerable Father Psoes of Egypt, who died at Prayer
• The Discovery of the Icon ‘Not Made with Hands’ of Camuliana
• Our Venerable Father Macarius of the Monastery of Oredezh on Lake Ladoga
• Synaxis of all the Saints who shone in Asceticism in the Monastery of Solovki

10th

• Holy Martyrs Laurence the Archdeacon, Sixtus, Pope of Rome, and Hippolytus
• Saint Heron the Philosopher
• The Six Holy Martyrs of Libya, who died from having their bones broken and their flesh burned
• Holy Martyr Laurence of Antioch and his Companions
• Venerable Laurence, the Fool for Christ of Kaluga

11th

• Great Martyr Euplus the Deacon
• Holy Martyrs Neophytus, Zeno, Gaius, Mark, Macarius and Gaian, who died by fire
• Our Venerable Father Passarion of Palestine, nourisher of the poor and father of orphans
• Our Holy Father Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople, who practiced Ascesis in the Monastery of Dionysiou on Mount Athos
• The Discovery of the Icon of Our Lord Jesus Christ ‘Not Made with Hands’
• Holy New Martyrs Anastasius and Demetrius of Lesbos
• Holy Monks and Martyrs Basil and Theodore of the Lavra of the Kiev Caves
• Venerable Theodosius (formerly Prince Theodore of Ostrog), who lived in the Lavra of the Kiev Caves

12th

• Holy Martyrs Photius and Anicetus
• Our Venerable Father Palamon
• Holy Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop of Comana
• The Twelve Soldiers of Crete, who were Martyred, being slain by the sword
• Venerable Castor, who died in peace
• Our Venerable Father Eglon (‘Ajlawan), who lived the Ascetic life on the Mount of Olives

13th

• Our Venerable Father Maximus the Confessor
• Our Venerable Father Seridus, Abbot of the Monastery of Gaza, who died in peace
• Our Venerable Father Dorotheus of Gaza
• Venerable Dositheus, disciple of Saint Dorotheus, who died in peace in the Monastery of Abba Seridus
• Devout Empress Eudocia, who died in peace
• Blessed Empress Irene, Foundress of the Monastery of the Pantocrator, who received the Angelic Habit under the name of Xenia
• Holy Martyr Coronatus, slain by the sword
• Holy Martyrs Pamphylus and Capiton, whose Relics were Venerated in the Monastery of Saint Euphemia, in the Olybrion quarter of Constantinople
• Our Venerable Father Sergius and Stephen on the Mole
• Our Holy Father Tikhon of Zadonsk the Wonderworker, Bishop of Voronezh
• The Finding of the Relics of Saint Maxim of Moscow, the Fool for Christ
• Saint Radegunda, Queen of the Franks

14th

• Forefeast of the Dormition of the All Holy Mother of God
• Holy Prophet Micah
• Holy Hieromartyr Marcellus, Bishop of Apamea
• Holy Martyr Ursicius
• Holy Martyr Lucius the Soldier, who died by fire
• Holy New Martyr Simeon of Trebizond, who died by hanging in Constantinople
• Venerable Arcadius of the Monastery of Novotorzhok
• Translation of the Relics of Saint Theodosius of Kiev
• Holy Hieromartyrs Nazarus, Metropolitan of Kutaisi, the Priests Symeon Mcedlidze Germanus Jajanidze, Hierotheus Nikoladze, and Archdeacon Bessarion Kukhianidze

15th

• The Dormition, or the Translation to Heaven, of Our All-Glorious Soverign Lady, the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary
• The Memory of the Great Mercy that God showed, through the intercession of Our Soverign Lady, the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, in repulsing the impious Saracens who were besieging Constantinople
• Our Venerable Father Macarius the Roman, the Wonderworker of Novgorod

16th

• The Translation from Edessa to Constantinople of the Image Not Made With Hands of Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Image that is also called the Holy Mandylion
• Holy Martyr Diomedes
• Saint Macarius I, Bishop of Jerusalem
• Holy Martyr Demetrianus of Leucopetria
• Venerable Cheremon of Scetis
• Holy Martyr Alcibiades, who died by fire
• The Thirty-Three Martyrs of Palestine, slain by the sword
• Venerable Nilus of Erikoussa, restorer of the Monastery of Giromerion
• Holy New Martyr Nicodemus, Monk of the Meteora
• Our Venerable Father Gerasimus the New of Cephalonia
• Holy New Martyr Stamatius of Volos, slain by the sword in Constantinople
• Holy New Martyr Apostolos, slain by the sword in Constantinople
• Our Venerable Father Timothy, Archbishop of Euripos, Founder of the Monastery of Penteli in Attica, who died in peace
• The Finding of the Relics of the Holy Martyrs Seraphim, Dorotheus, James, Demetrius, Basil and Sarantis of Megara
• Our Venerable Father Joachim of Osogovo
• Saint Eustathius II, Archbishop of Serbia
• Our Venerable Father Raphael of Banat
• Holy Monk and Martyr Christopher Gourieli, Martyred in Damascus
• Holy Prince-Martyr Constantine Brancoveanu, his sons Constantine, Stephen, Radu and Matthew, and his advisor Ianache Vacarescu

17th

• Holy Hieromartyr Myron
• Holy Martyrs Straton, Philip, Eutychian and Cyprian of Nicodemia
• Holy Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, Coronatus and their Companions
• Venerable Eglon the Recluse of Scetis
• Holy Monk and Martyr Macarius, the Recluse of Mount Saint Auxentius, who strove for the defence of the Holy Icons under Constantine Copronymus
• Venerable Eutychius, Eutychian and their sister Cassiana, who practiced Ascesis on Crete
• Venerable Elias the New of Sicily, Monk of Calabria
• Holy Monk and Martyr Demetrius the New of Samarina in Epirus
• Holy Monk and New Martyr Agapius
• Our Venerable Father Alypius the Iconographer of the Lavra of the Kiev Caves
• Our Venerable Father Theodoretus of Kola, Enlightener of the Lapps
• Venerable Philip of Yankovsk
• Our Venerable Father Pimen, Abbot of the Monastery of Ugresha

18th

• Holy Martyrs Florus and Laurus, and their Companions
• Holy Martyrs Hermes, Serapion and Polyaenus of Rome
• Holy Martyr Juliana
• Holy Martyr Leo, who was thrown into the sea near Myra in Lycia
• The Four Holy Ascetics, who died in peace
• Our Holy Fathers John V and George I, Patriarchs of Constantinople
• Venerable Macarius of Constantinople
• Our Venerable Fathers Barnabas and Sophronius, Founders of the Monastery of the Mother of God of Soumela, and the Venerable Christopher, who restored it
• Our Venerable Father Sophronius, of the Skete of Saint Anne on Mount Athos
• Our Venerable Father Arsenius the New of Paros
• The Falling asleep of Our Venerable Father John of Rila
• Our Holy Father Christodulus, a Georgian Monk

19th

• Holy and Great Martyr Andrew Stratelates and his 2,593 Companions
• Holy Martyrs Timothy, Agapius and Thecla
• Holy Martyrs Eutychian the Soldier and Strategius, who died by fire
• Our Venerable Father Theophanes the New of Naoussa, the Wonderworker
• Our Holy Father Pitirim, Bishop of Perm
• The Finding of the Relics of Saint Gennadius of Kostroma

20th

• Holy and Glorious Prophet Samuel
• Holy Martyrs Philip, Bishop of Heraclea, Severus the Priest and Hermes
• Holy Martyr Lucius the Senator
• Holy Martyrs Reginus and Orestes of Cyprus
• Holy New Martyr Theocharis of Neapolis in Asia Minor
• Saint Stephen, First King of Hungary
• Saint Hierotheus, first Bishop and Enlightener of Hungary
• Our Venerable Father Philibert of Jumieges and Noirmoutier

21st

• Holy Apostle Thaddeus
• Holy Martyr Bassa and her three sons: Theognius, Agapius and Pistus
• Saint Alexander of Iconium
• Holy New Hieromartyr Isaac of Hanak in Syria
• Our Venerable Father Abraham of Smolensk and his disciple Ephrem
• Venerable Abraham the Lover of Labour of the Lavra of the Kiev Caves
• Venerable Cornelius and Abraham of the Island of Palei
• Martha (Maria Melyukova), Nun of the Great Habit of Diveyevo
• Our Venerable Father Isaiah the Athonite

22nd

• Holy Martyr Agathonicus and his Companions: Zoticus, Theoprepius, Acindynus and Severian
• Holy Martyr Anthusa of Seleucia, her servants Charissimus and Neophytus, and Bishop Athanasius of Tarsus, who Baptised them
• Empress Ariadne, wife of Zeno
• Holy Martyr Julian of Heliopolis in Syria
• Holy Archpriest Alexis (Medvedkov) of Ugine
• Holy and Glorious Martyr Eulalia of Barcelona
• Holy Martyr Symphorian of Autun

23rd

• Holy Martyr Lupus
• Holy Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons
• Holy Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium, and his Companions Or and Oropsis, slain by the sword
• Holy Martyrs Severus and Memnon the Centurion, and the Thirty-Eight Martyr of Thrace
• Our Holy Father Callinicus, Patriarch of Constantinople
• Saint Antony, Bishop of Sardes
• Venerable Nicolas of Sicily, who practiced Ascesis on Mount Neotax on the Island of Euboea
• Saint Sarmiane, Catholicos of Georgia

24th

• Holy Martyr Eutychus, disciple of Saint John the Theologian
• Holy Martyr Tation (Tatian)
• Our Venerable Father George of Lemnos, the Confessor
• Holy Hieromartyr Athanasius II, Patriarch of Jerusalem, who perished in Confessing the True Faith in 1244, during the sack of the Holy City by the Muslims
• Holy New Hieromartyr and Equal to the Apostles, Cosmas of Aitolia
• Translation of the Relics of Our Holy Father Dionysius, Archbishop of Aegina, from the Island of the Strophades on Zakynthos (24 August 1716)
• Our Holy Father Arsenius, Abbot of the Monastery of Komel
• Translation of the Relics of Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Kiev
• Venerable Aristocles of Moscow
• Our Venerable Father Serapion of the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist in the desert of Saint David of Garedja
• Our Holy Father Ouen (Dado), Bishop of Rouen

25th

• Translation of the Relics of the Holy and Glorious Apostle Bartholomew
• Holy Apostle Titus, Bishop of Gortyna on Crete
• Our Holy Fathers John II and Epiphanius, Patriarchs of Constantinople
• Our Holy Father Menas, Patriarch of Constantinople
• Our Venerable Father John of Carpathos
• Our Holy Fathers Eulogius, Bishop of Edessa and Saint Protogenes, Bishop of Carrhae
• Holy Martyr Sabas of Benethalon

26th

• Holy Martyrs Adrian, Natalia his wife and their twenty-three Companions
• Holy Martyr Adrian the Prince
• Saint Maximus II, Archbishop of Jerusalem and Confessor
• Holy Martyrs Atticus and Sisinius
• Our Holy Father Tithoes, who died in peace
• Our Venerable Father Ibistion, who died in peace
• Venerable Joasaph, son of King Abenner, and his Spiritual Father Barlaam
• Our Venerable Father Adrian, Abbot of the Ondrussov Monastery, and the Venerable Cyprian of Storozhev
• Venerable Adrian of Uglich, disciple of Saint Paisius of Uglich, who died in peace
• Translation of the Miraculous Icon of the Mother of God of Vladimir to Moscow
• Our Venerable Mother Maria, Fool for Christ of the Monastery of Diveyevo

27th

• Our Venerable and God-bearing Father Poemen
• Saint Praylius, Archbishop of Jerusalem
• Our Holy Father Liberius the Confessor, Pope of Rome
• Our Holy Father Hosius, Bishop of Cordova
• The Ethiopian Eunuch Baptised by the Holy Apostle Philip
• Holy Martyr Anthusa the New, who, after being clothed in a tunic of horsehair, was flung into a pit with her feet tied to a heavy stone
• Holy Martyr Phanurius
• Holy Hieromartyr Kushka and Our Venerable Father Pimen the Faster of the Lavra of the Kiev Caves
• Our Holy Father Caesarius, Archbishop of Arles

28th

• Our Venerable Father Moses the Ethiopian
• Holy Martyrs Diomedes and Laurence, who were bound to a plane-tree and pierced by arrows
• Righteous King Hezekiah of Judah, who died in peace
• Saint Anna, daughter of Phanuel
• The Thirty-Three Martyrs of Heraclea
• Holy Hieromartyr Damon
• Synaxis of the Holy Fathers of the Lavra of the Kiev Caves, whose Relics lie in the Further Caves of Saint Theodosius
• Our Venerable Father Sabas of Pskov and Krypets
• Holy Martyr Shushanik (Susanna) of Georgia
• Holy Martyrs Ferreol of Vienne and Julian of Brioude

29th

• The Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet and Forerunner John
• Our Holy Mother Theodora of Thessalonica
• Our Holy Father Arcadius the Wonderworker, Bishop of Arsinoe on Cyprus
• Translation of the Relics of Our Holy Father Joseph Samakos
• Translation of the Relics of Our Holy Father Alexander, Abbot of the Monastery of Voche

30th

• Our Holy Fathers Alexander, John and Paul the New, Patriarchs of Constantinople
• The Six Martyrs of Melitene
• The Sixteen Martyrs of Thebes
• Venerable Sarmatas, who practiced Ascesis in the Egyptian desert
• Venerable Christopher of Palestine
• Venerable Fantinus the Wonderworker, who died in peace
• Holy Martyr Bryena of Nisibis
• Our Holy Father Eulalius, Bishop of Lapithos on Cyprus, who died in peace
• Venerable Phylax
• Our Venerable Father Alexander of Svir
• Translation of the Relics of Saint Alexander Nevsky
• Synaxis of the Holy Hierarchs, Enlighteners of the Serbian Church: Archbishops Sava I, Sava II, Arsenius I, Eustathius I, Nicodemus and Daniel; Patriarchs Koannicius I, Ephraim II, Spiridon, Macarius and GabrielI; and Sava III, Gregory, John, Maxim and Nikon
• Saint Barlaam, Metropolitan of Moldavia

31st

• The Deposition of the Precious Girdle of the Most Holy Mother of God in the Church of Chalkoprateia
• Holy Martyrs Andrew, Heraclius, Faustus and Menas, who found death being dragged behind horses
• Holy Martyr Phileortus
• Holy Martyr Diadochus
• The Seven Virgins of Gaza, slain by the sword
• The Three Hundred and Sixty-Six Martyrs of Nicodemia, slain by the sword
• The Four Martyrs of Perga in Pamphylia, forced to run over hot embers scattered on the ground
• The Hundred Thousand Martyrs of Tbilissi
• Our Venerable Father Aidan, Founder and Bishop of Lindisfarne

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