August 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# August 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 20 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 22

All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 3 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 21, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 8.

## Feasts

* Afterfeast of the Dormition.

## Saints

* Holy Forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (ca. 2000 BC)
* Apostle Thaddeus of Edessa, one of the Seventy Apostles (44)
* Martyr Bassa of Edessa and her sons Theognius, Agapius, and Pistus (305-311)
* Saint Sarmean, Catholicos of Kartli, Georgia (774)
* Saint Theocleta the Wonderworker, of Asia Minor (840)
* Hieromartyrs Romulus, Priest, and the Deacons Donatus and Silvanus, and Martyr Venustus (Romania)
* Venerable Alexander of Iconium.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Euprepius of Verona, first Bishop of Verona in the north of Italy (1st century)
* Saint Cyriaca (Dominica), a wealthy widow in Rome, she sheltered persecuted Orthodox Christians (249)
* Saint Paternus, born in Alexandria, he came to Rome, was arrested in Fondi and was martyred for Orthodoxy there (c. 255)
* Saint Privatus, Bishop of Mende in France (260)
* Saint Anastasius, a military tribune converted to Orthodoxy on seeing the courage of the young St Agapitus, in Salone, Italy (274)
* Saint Quadratus, a Bishop of Utica in North Africa who taught both clergy and laity to confess Christ (3rd century)
* Martyrs Luxorius, Cisellus and Camerinus, martyrs in Sardinia beheaded under Diocletian (303)
* Saint Sidonius Apollinaris, Bishop of Clermont in France (c. 423-480)
* Saint Leontius the Elder, Bishop of Bordeaux in France and the predecessor of St Leontius the Younger (c. 541)
* Saint Avitus I, Bishop of Clermont, Gaul (594)
* Saint Eardwulf of Northumbria (Hardulph of Breedon) (c. 808)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Abramius the Lover-of-labor of the Kiev Caves
* Saint Abramius of Smolensk, Archimandrite, Wonderworker of Smolensk (1220), and his disciple St. Ephraim (1238) (see also: August 20)
* Saint Isaiah of Mount Athos (14th century)
* Saint Cornelius, founder and abbot of Paleostrov Monastery (Palei Island, Valaam, Karelia) (1420), and his disciple St. Abramius (15th century)
* New Hieromartyr Symeon, Bishop of Samokovo, Bulgaria (1737)
* Saint Martha (Milyukova), schemanun of Diveyevo (1829)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Alexander Yelokhovsky, Priest of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1918)
* New Hieromartyr Paul Yagodinsky, Priest of Yaransk (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Theodore Kallistov, Archpriest (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Raphael, Abbot of Sisatovac Monastery, Serbia (1941)
* New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Dalanov), Hieromonk of Optina Monastery (1942)

## Other commemorations

* Translation of the relics (1953) of Saint Nectarius (Kephalas), Metropolitan of Pentapolis (North Africa) (1920) (see also: September 3)
* Commemoration of Hieromonk John (Kotlyarevsky) at Poltava (1951)

## Icon gallery

* Holy Forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
* Apostle Thaddeus of Edessa.
* Stained-glass windows at Clermont-Ferrand cathedral, with Saint Sidonius Apollinaris.
* Saint Abramius of Smolensk, Wonderworker.
* Saint Nectarius (Kephalas), Metropolitan of Pentapolis (North Africa).
