Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

August 08

Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,

Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics

1. Afterfeast of the Transfiguration.
2. St. Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus.
3. St. Myron, Bishop of Crete.
4. Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonides of Constantinople, and many infants martyred with them.
5. St. Gregory of Sinai (and Mt. Athos. .
6. St. Gregory, iconographer of the Kiev Caves.
7. St. Gregory, Wonderworker of the Kiev Caves.
8. Translation of the Relics of Saints Zosimas and Sabbatius of Solovki.
9. New-Martyr Triandaphyllus of Thessaly.
10. Greek Calendar
    • Twelve Ascetics of Egypt.
    • Two Martyrs of Tyre.
    • Martyr Styracius.
11. "Tolga" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.