August 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Aug. 20
- Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 22
(1920)
August 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Aug. 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 21-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 2 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Prophet Samuel...
- Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 22
August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Aug. 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 23-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 4 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Martyr Agathonicus of Nicomedia and his companions:...
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 3 by Old CalendaristsOld 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
- Apostle Thaddeus of Edessa, one of the Seventy Apostles (4444Year 44 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crispus and Taurus...
) - Martyr Bassa of Edessa and her sons Theogonius, Agapius and Pistus (4th century)
- Saint Abramius, archimandrite, Wonderworker of Smolensk, (1220 and his disciple St. Ephraim (1238)
- Saint Abramius the Lover-of-labor of the Kiev Caves
- Saint Theocleta the Wonderworker of Asia Minor (840840Year 840 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.-Europe:* After the death of Louis the Pious, his sons Lothar, Charles the Bald and Louis the German fight over the division of the Holy Roman Empire, with Lothar succeeding as Emperor.-Asia:* Tang Wu Zong succeeds Tang Wen Zong...
) - Saint Cornelius, abbot of Paleostrov, (ValaamValaamValaam, also known historically by the Finnish name Valamo, is an archipelago in the northern portion of Lake Ladoga, lying within the Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation. The total area of its more than 50 islands is 36 km². The largest island is also called Valaam. It is best known as...
) (1420) and his disciple St. Abramius (15th century) - Saint Isaiah of Mt. Athos (14th century)
- New Martyr Symeon of SamokovoSamokovoSamokovo is a village in the municipality of Kuršumlija, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 61 people....
(1737) - Saint Martha, schemanun of Diveyevo (1829)
- New Hieromartyr Raphael, abbot of Sisatovac MonasteryŠišatovac monasteryThe Šišatovac Monastery is a Serb Orthodox monastery situated on the Fruška Gora mountain in the northern Serbia, in the province of Vojvodina. The foundation of the monastery is ascribed to the refugee monks from the Serbian monastery of Žiča...
, SerbiaSerbiaSerbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
(1941)
Other commemorations
Translation of the relics (1953) of Saint Nectarius (Kephalas), metropolitan of PentapolisPentapolis
A pentapolis, from the Greek words , "five" and , "city" is a geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities...
(1920)