July 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# July 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 9

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 21 by Old Calendar.

For July 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 25.

## Saints

* Hieromartyr Epictetus, Priest, and Monk-martyr Astion, at Halmyris in Scythia Minor (Romania) (290)
* Great-martyr Procopius of Caesarea in Palestine, and with him (303):

   * Martyrs Theodosia (his mother), tribunes Antiochus and Nicostratus, martyrs Abdias and Sabbas, and twelve women of senatorial rank, all by the sword.
* Martyr Mirdat, King of Kartli, Georgia (410)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saints Aquila and Priscilla, a Christian missionary married couple described in the New Testament (Acts 18:3, Rom. 16:3-4) (1st century) (see also: February 13, July 14)
* Saint Auspicius of Trier, the fourth Bishop of Trier in Germany and successor of St Maternus (c. 130)
* Saint Apollonius, Bishop of Benevento in Italy (c. 326)
* Saints Sostratus, Spirus, Eraclius, Eperentius and Cecilia, martyrs of Syrmium in Pannonia (4th century)
* Saint Morwenna, patroness of Morwenstow, England (5th or 6th century) (see also July 5 )
* Saint Urith of Chittlehampton (Hieritha), a nun martyred by pagan English invaders at Chittlehampton in Devon (6th century?)
* Saints Kilian (Chilianus), Colman and Totnan, monks from Ireland, Enlighteners of Franconia and East Thuringia, where they were martyred (c. 689)
* Saint Landrada of Austrasia, foundress and first Abbess of Munsterbilsen in Belgium (c. 690)
* Saint Withburgh of East Anglia (Withburga), an anchoress at East Dereham, Norfolk, England (c. 743)
* Saint Arnold of Arnoldsweiler, a charitable Greek musician at the court of Charlemagne (c. 800)
* Blessed Edgar the Peaceful, King of Mercia and Northumbria, and upon the death of his brother Eadwig (A.D. 959), King of all England (975)
* Saint Grimbald, monk at St. Bertin Abbey in Saint-Omer in Flanders, invited by King Alfred the Great to help restore scholarship in England, Abbot of Winchester(901)
* Virgin-martyr Sunniva (Sunnifa) and companions, on Selje Island, Norway (10th century)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Procopius of Ustyug, Fool-for-Christ, Wonderworker of Ustiug, Vologda (1303)
* Venerable Theophilus the Myrrh-gusher of Pantocrator Monastery on Mount Athos (1548)
* Righteous Procopius, Fool-for-Christ, of Ustya, Vologda (c. 1600)
* New Hieromartyr Anastasius of Saint Blaise in Hegumenitsa, Priest, of Constantinople (1743)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyrs Alexander Popov, Theodore Raspopov, and Nikolai Bryantsev, Priests (1918)
* New Hieromartyr Procopius (Titov), Archbishop of Kherson (1937) (see also: November 10 )

## Icons

* Miracle of the Annunciation Icon of the Mother of God at Ustiug (1290)
* Appearance of the Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1579)
* Reverence list of a "Kazan" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, at:

   * Kazan (1579)

   * "Yaroslavl" (1588)

   * Moscow (1612)

   * "Viazniky" (1624)

   * Nizhnelomovskaya (1643)

   * Vitebsk (1655)

   * "Tobolsk" (1661)

   * "Kaplunovka" (1689)

   * "Tambov" (1695)

   * Shlisselburg (1702)

   * "Penza" (1717) (see also: August 4)

   * Petersburg (1721)

   * "Peschanka" / "Peschanskaya" (1754)

   * "Chimeev" (1770)

   * "Vysochinovsky" (18th century)

   * "Vyshensky" (1812)
* "Jacobshtad" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (17th century)
* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Weeping "Umileniye" ("Of Tender Feeling") of Novgorod.
* Icon of the Mother of God "Our Lady of Sitka", Alaska (1850)

## Other commemorations

* Translation of the relics (1779) of St. Demetrius of Basarabov, Bulgaria, to Bucharest (1685)
* Slaying of Anastasia Strogilos on the Mount of Olives (1995)
* Synaxis of All Military Saints of the Orthodox Church (2019)

## Icon gallery

* Great-martyr Procopius of Caesarea in Palestine.
* St. Urith of Chittlehampton's (Hieritha's) tomb.
* Relics of Saints Kilian, Colman and Totnan.
* St. Withburgh of East Anglia.
* St. Arnold of Arnoldsweiler (Coat of arms of Arnoldsweiler).
* Blessed Edgar the Peaceful.
* St. Procopius of Ustyug.
* Righteous Procopius, Fool-for-Christ, of Ustya.
* Ustyug Annunciation.
* Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, copy in the museum of Rostov Kremlin
* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Peschanskaya.
* Four Military Saints by Michael Damaskinos, showing St George and St Theodore Teron on the left, and St Demetrios and St Theodore Stratelates on the right.
