Afterfeast of the Transfiguration
Fast day — no meat; dairy and eggs are allowed.
Commemorated today
- St Emilian the ConfessorConfessor — suffered for the faith but was not killed
- St Myron the Wonderworker, Bishop of Crete (350)Hierarch · d. 350
- St Gregory of Sinai (Mt Athos) (1346)d. 1346
- Holy New Martyrs Triantaphillus of Zagoras and Anastasius of ThessolonicaNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution
- Kallinikos, Metropolitan of Edessa and PellaHierarch
- Anastatios the Martyr from BulgariaMartyr
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on August 8 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on August 21 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.