August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 23

All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 22, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 9.

## Feasts

* Afterfeast of the Dormition.

## Saints

* Martyrs Agathonicus of Nicomedia and his companions:

   * Zoticus, Theoprepius (Bogolep), Acindynus, Severian, Zeno, and others, who suffered under Maximian (4th century)
* Hieromartyr Athanasius, Bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, by beheading (c. 257)
* Saint Anthusa of Seleucia (298), and Martyrs Charesimus and Neophytus (c. 253-259)
* Martyrs Irenaeus, Or, and Oropsus.
* Martyr Julian of Heliopolis in Syria (c. 362)
* Saint Ariadne (515), daughter of Emperor Leo I.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Antoninus of Rome, a converted executioner in Rome (186)
* Saint Symphorian of Autun, martyred for refusing to sacrifice to a pagan goddess (2nd century)
* Saint Hippolytus of Porto, Bishop of Porto in Italy, martyred by drowning under Alexander (236)
* Hieromartyr Maurus, and Companions, a group of fifty martyrs in Rheims in France (260)
* Saints Fabrician and Philibert, martyrs in Toledo in Spain.
* Saints Martial, Saturninus, Epictetus, Maprilis, Felix and Companions, martyrs with St. Aurea of Ostia, honoured in Ostia, Italy (c. 300)
* Virgin Martyr Eulalia of Barcelona (303) (see also: December 10)
* Saint Timothy, a martyr in Rome under Diocletian (c. 306)
* Saint Gunifort, a pilgrim, perhaps from England, who was martyred in Pavia in Italy.
* Saint Sigfrid, Abbot of Wearmouth (c. 688)
* Saint Ethelgitha, Abbess of a convent in Northumbria (c. 720)
* Saint Andrew of Tuscany (c. 880)
* Saint Arnulf of Eynesbury, saintly hermit, whose relics were venerated in Arnulphsbury or Eynesbury in Cambridgeshire, England (9th century)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Bogolep of St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery (16th century)
* Venerable Isaac I (Antimonov, the "Elder"), Schema-Archimandrite of Optina Monastery (1894)

### New martyrs and confessors

* Ephraim (Kuznetsov), Bishop of Selenginsk, and Priest John Vostorgov (1918)
* Macarius (Gnevushev), Bishop of Orel, and Priests John Boyarshinov and Alexis Naumov (1918)
* Theodore (Smirnov), Bishop of Penza, and with him Priests Basil Smirnov and Gabriel Archangelsky (1937)
* John (Troyansky), Bishop of Veliki Luki (1937)
* Alexis (Orlov), Archbishop of Omsk (1937)
* Andrew (Ukhtomsky), Archbishop of Ufa and Menzelin (1937)
* Hierotheus (Glazkov), Hieromonk, of Lyubim (Yaroslasvl) (1937)
* John (Laba) and Hilarion (Tsurikov), Hieromonks, of Mirzoyan (Kazakhstan) (1937)
* Alexander Ratkovsky, Michael Lyubertsev and Theodore Malyarovsky, Priests (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Gorazd (Pavlík), Bishop of Prague, Bohemia and Moravo-Cilezsk, slain by Nazis (1942)

## Other commemorations

* Synaxis of Panagia Proussiotissa (Mother of God of Proussa) in Evrytania, Greece (c. 829–842)
* Georgian Icon (Iveron Icon, Iverskaya) of the Most Holy Theotokos, at the Monastery of St. Alexis of Moscow (1650)

## Icon gallery

* The martyrdom of Symphorian of Autun.
* New Hieromartyr Macarius (Gnevushev), Bishop of Orel.
* New Hieromartyr Gorazd (Pavlík), Bishop of Prague, Bohemia and Moravo-Cilezsk.
* Georgian Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Iverskaya) (end of the 17th century).
