August 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 9 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 11

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 23 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 10, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 28.

Feasts

• Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.

Saints

• Holy Hieromartyrs Archdeacon Laurence, with Pope Sixtus II, and Hippolutus with Justin (258)
• Deacons Felicissimus and Agapitus of Rome (258)
• Martyrs Romanus the Soldier and others, at Rome (258) <small>(see also August 9)</small>
• Saint Heron the Philosopher.
• Holy 6 martyrs of Bizin (or of Libya).

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Holy 165 Martyrs of Rome, soldiers, martyred in Rome under Aurelian (274)
• Virgin-martyrs Bassa, Paula and Agathonica, in Carthage in North Africa.
• Saint Asteria (Hesteria), a martyr venerated in Bergamo in Lombardy in Italy (c. 307)
• Saint Gerontius (Geraint), a Briton who was King of Damnonia (Devon), now in England, he fell in battle against the pagan Saxons (508)
• Saint Blane (Blaan, Blain), a disciple of Sts Comgall and Canice in Ireland, he was a bishop in Scotland, was buried at Dunblane which was named after him (6th century)
• Saint Deusdedit (6th century)
• Saint Aredius (Arige, Aregius), an outstanding Archbishop of Lyon in France (c. 614)
• Saint Agilberta (Aguilberta, Gilberta), second Abbess of Jouarre Abbey (c. 680)
• Saint Bertram (Bertelin, Bettelin, Beorhthelm), Wonderworker of Ilam & Stafford, England (8th century)
• Saint Thiento and Companions, Abbot of Wessobrunn in Bavaria in Germany, martyred with six of his monks by invading Hungarians (955)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Monk-martyr Jovan of Stjenica <small>()</small> (1462)
• Blessed Laurence of Kaluga, Fool-for-Christ (1515)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Vyacheslav Zakedsky, Priest (1918)
• New Hieromartyr Athanasius Kislov, Priest (1937)

Other commemorations

• Second Uncovering and Translation of the relics of Venerable Sabbas of Storozhev or Zvenigorod (1998)
• Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Solovki.

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Notes

References

Sources

• August 23 / August 10. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• August 10. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.&nbsp;59.
• Menologion: The Tenth Day of the Month of August. Orthodoxy in China.
• August 10. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• . Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp.&nbsp;238-239.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p.&nbsp;389.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 10 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 10 ΑυγούστοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 23 августа (10 августа). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).