August 7 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 9

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 21 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For August 8, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 26.

Feasts

• Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.^{[1][note 2]}

Saints

• Saint Myron the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Crete (350)^{[1][3][4][5][note 3]}
• Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonides, of Constantinople, and many infants with them, by fire (4th century)^{[1][4][6][7][8]}
• Martyr Gormizdas (Hormisdas) of Persia (418)^{[1][6][9][10]}
• The Ten Venerable ascetics of Egypt.^[11][12]
• The two martyrs of Tyre, dragged to death.^[13][12]
• Martyr Styracius, by the sword.^[4][14]
• Saint Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus (820)^{[1][4][15][16][note 4]} (see also: January 8)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saints Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus and Companions, a group of twenty-four martyrs who suffered in Rome under Diocletian (304)^{[17][note 5]}
• Saint Severus, a priest who came from India to enlighten the area around Vienne in France (c. 445)^{[17][note 6]}
• Saint Leobald (Leodebod, Leodebaldus), founder of Fleury Abbey, later called Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, near Orleans in France (650)^[17]
• Saint Mummolus (Mommolus, Mommolenus), second Abbot of Fleury in France (c. 678)^{[17][note 7]}
• Saint Sigrada, mother of Sts Leodegarius and Warinus, nun at the convent in Soissons in France (c. 678)^[17]
• Saint Ternatius (Terniscus), eleventh Bishop of Besançon in the east of France (c. 680)^[17]
• Saint Ellidius (Illog), Patron-saint of Hirnant in Powys in Wales and of a church in the Scilly Isles (7th century)^[17]
• Saint Gedeon, the thirteenth Bishop of Besançon in France (796)^[17]
• Saint Ultan, priest at the monastery of St Peter in Crayke in Yorkshire (8th century)^{[17][note 8]}
• Saint Rathard (Rathard von Andechs), a noble who became a priest and founded the monastery of Diessen (Dießen-Andechs) in Germany (815)^[17]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Theodosius the New, Igumen of Orov.^[4][18]
• Venerable Gregory, Iconographer, of the Kiev Caves (12th century)^{[1][4][9][19]}
• Venerable Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos) (1346)^[1][9][20]
• Saint Zosimas the Sinaite, of Tumana Monastery, Serbia (14th century)^[1][9]
• Saint Gregory, Wonderworker, of the Kiev Caves (14th century)^[1][9]
• New Martyr Triantaphyllos of Zagora, Thessaly, at Constantinople (1680)^{[1][4][21][22][note 9]}
• New Martyr Anastasius (Spaso) of Radovishte in Strumica, at Thessaloniki (1794)^{[1][4][9][23]}
• Monkmartyr Euthymius, Abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist, at David Gareja monastery complex, Georgia (1804)^[1][9][24]
• Saint Philaret of Ichalka, Ivanovo (1913)^[1][9][10]
• Saint Kallinikos (Poulos) of Edessa, Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and Almopia (el) (1984)^{[25][26][note 10]}

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Joseph (Baranov), Hieromonk of the Tolga Monastery (Yaroslavl) (1918)^[1][9]
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Shumkov, Priest (1937)^[9]
• New Hieromartyr Nicodemus (Krotkov), Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich (1938)^{[1][9][note 11]} (see also: January 23^[28])

Other commemorations

• Consecration of the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul, in the year 891 AD (6399 AM), in reign of Leo VI the Wise, when there occurred a solar eclipse from the sixth to the ninth hours.^[29][30]
• Consecration of the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos in Jerusalem.^[31]
• "Tolga" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1314)^[1][32][33]
• First (1566) and second (1992) translations of the relics of Sts. Zosimas (1478) and Sabbatius (1435), of Solovki.^{[1][9][34][note 12]}
• Translation of the relics (1992) of St. Herman of Solovki (1479)^[1][9]
• Uncovering of the relics (2002) of St. Barlaam of Chikoisk Monastery (Siberia)^{[note 13]} (1846)^[1]

Icon gallery

• 
  New Hieromartyr Nicodemus (Krotkov).
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  Saints Zosima (left) and Savvaty (right) with their lives.
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  St. Herman of Solovki.
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  St. Barlaam of Chikoisk Monastery (Siberia).