August 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# August 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 24

All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 5 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 23, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 10.

## Feasts

* Apodosis of the Dormition.

## Saints

* Hieromartyr Pothinus, Bishop of Lyons (ca. 177)
* Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons (202)
* Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary (304) (see also: March 26)
* Martyrs Severus, Memnon the Centurion, and 38 others, of Thrace (ca. 305) (see also: August 20)
* Martyr Lupus of Novae (306), slave of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki. (see also: October 26)
* Saints Eutychius (540) and Florentius (547) of Nursia.
* Saint Callinicus, Patriarch of Constantinople (705)
* Saint Anthony, Bishop of Sardis (10th century)
* Saint Nicholas the Sicilian, ascetic of Mt. Neotaka in Euboea.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyrs Quiriacus, Maximus Archelaus and Companions (c. 235)
* Martyrs Minervius, Eleazar and Companions, in Lyons in France - eight children are included in their number (3rd century)
* Saint Tydfil, venerated in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, where she was slain by the heathen (c. 480)
* Saint Victor of Vita (Victor Vitensis), born in Carthage in North Africa, he was either Bishop there or in Utica (c. 535)
* Saint Éogan of Ardstraw (c. 618)
* Saints Flavian (Flavinian, Flavius) of Autun, the twenty-first Bishop of Autun in France (7th century)
* Saints Altigianus and Hilarinus, two monks killed by the Saracens at Saint-Seine in France (731)
* Martyrs Æbbe the Younger, Abbess of Coldingham Priory, Northumbria, and her companions (870)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Haralambos of Panagia Kalyviani convent (in the Heraklio Prefecture), the newly-revealed (1788)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyrs Ephraim (Kuznetsov), Bishop of Selenginsk, and John Vostorgov, Archpriest, of Moscow, and Martyr Nicholas Varzhansky (1918)
* New Hieromartyrs Paul Gaidai and John Karabanov, Priests (1937)

## Other commemorations

* Synaxis of Panagia Proussiotissa (Mother of God of Proussa) in Evrytania, Greece (c. 829–842)
* Mykhaylivska Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
* Repose of Abbot Ioannicius (Moroi) of Sihastria, Romania (1944)

## Icon gallery

* Hieromartyr Pothinus, Bishop of Lyons.
* Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons.
* Saint Tydfil.
