August 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 24 by Old calendarists
Old Style and New Style dates
Old Style and New Style are used in English language historical studies either to indicate that the start of the Julian year has been adjusted to start on 1 January even though documents written at the time use a different start of year ; or to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian...


Saints

  • Holy Martyr
    Martyr
    A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...

     and Archdeacon
    Archdeacon
    An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, Chaldean Catholic, and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church...

     Euplus of Catania
    Catania
    Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and...

     (304
    304
    Year 304 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Valerius...

    )
  • Virgin-martyr Susanna
    Saints Tiburtius and Susanna
    Saints Tiburtius and Susanna were two Roman Catholic martyrs, the feast day of each of whom is 11 August. The saints were not related, but are simply venerated on the same day.-Tiburtius:...

     and those with her in Rome
    Rome
    Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

    : Pope Gaius, presbyter
    Presbyter
    Presbyter in the New Testament refers to a leader in local Christian congregations, then a synonym of episkopos...

     Gabinus, his brother Maximus father of Susanna, Claudius and his wife Praepeginda and their sons Alexander and Cutias (295
    295
    Year 295 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Tuscus and Anullinus...

    -296
    296
    Year 296 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Constantius...

    )
  • Martyrs Basil and Theodore of the Kiev Caves Monastery (1098)
  • Saint
    Saint
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     Theodosius of the Kiev Caves, formerly Prince Theodore of Ostrog (1438)
  • Saint Passarion of Palestine
    Palestine
    Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....

     (5th century)
  • Saint Niphon of Constantinople
    Patriarch Nephon II of Constantinople
    Nephon II, , born Nicholas, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople three times: from 1486 to 1488, from 1497 to 1498 and for a short time in 1502...

    , Patriarch
    Patriarch
    Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The system of such rule of families by senior males is called patriarchy. This is a Greek word, a compound of πατριά , "lineage, descent", esp...

     from Mount Athos
    Mount Athos
    Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...

     (16th century)
  • Martyrs Neophytus, Zeno, Gaius, Mark, Macarius, and Gaianus

Other commemorations

  • Commemoration of the miracle
    Miracle
    A miracle often denotes an event attributed to divine intervention. Alternatively, it may be an event attributed to a miracle worker, saint, or religious leader. A miracle is sometimes thought of as a perceptible interruption of the laws of nature. Others suggest that a god may work with the laws...

     of Saint Spyridon
    Spyridon
    Spyridon is a Greek male given name. As with most Greek names nowadays, it is shortened to Σπύρος since Spyridon sounds too archaic and ecclesiastical...

     on Corfu
    Corfu
    Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the edge of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality. The...

     with the Hagarenes
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