title: August 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # August 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  August 19 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – August 21
  
  All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 2 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For August 20, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 7.
  
  ## Feasts
  
  * Afterfeast of the Dormition.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Prophet Samuel (11th century BC)
  * Hieromartyr Philip of Heraclea, Bishop, and with him Martyrs Severus, Memnon, and 37 soldiers, in Philippopolis, Thrace (304)
  * Saints Reginus and Orestes the Great Martyrs, in Cyprus.
  * Martyr Lucius the Senator, of Cyprus (c. 310)
  * Martyrs Heliodorus and Dosa (Dausa) in Persia (380)
  * Martyr Photine, at the gates of Blachernae.
  * Saint Hierotheus, first Bishop and Enlightener of Hungary (10th century)
  * Saint Stephen I of Hungary, King of Hungary (1038) (see also: August 16 - West)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Saint Porphyrius, an early martyr in Palestrina near Rome.
  * Saint Amator (Amadour), hermit.
  * Saint Maximus, a disciple of St Martin and founder of the monastery of Chinon in France, confessor (c. 470)
  * Martyr Oswine of Deira, king of Deira (651)
  * Saint Haduin (Harduin), Bishop of Le Mans in France, he founded several monasteries including Notre-Dame-d'Evron (c. 662)
  * Saint Philibert of Jumièges (Gaul) (685)
  * Saint Eadberht of Northumbria (Edbert), successor of St Ceolwulf on the throne of Northumbria in England, then became a monastic (768)
  * Saint Burchard, monk at Lobbes Abbey in Belgium, then became Bishop of Worms where he was a canonist (1026)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Venerable Abramius of Smolensk, Archimandrite, Wonderworker of Smolensk, (1220) (see also: August 21)
  * New Martyr Theocharis of Neapolis, Cappadocia (1740)
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyr Vladimir Chetverin, Priest (1938)
  * New Martyrs of Estonia (1944-1955):
  
     * New Hieromartyr Peeter (Pähkel), Bishop of Tartu and Pechory (1948)
  
     * New Hieromartyr Alypy (Ivlev), Archimandrite (1950)
  
     * New Hieromartyr Vladimir Irodionov, Protopresbyter (1945)
  
     * New Hieromartyr Ioann Vark, Priest (1952)
  
     * New Hieromartyr Leonid Lavrov, Priest (1954)
  
     * New Hieromartyr Seraphim Ulyanov, Priest (1955)
  
     * Martyr Alexander Gadalin, church warden (1951)
  
     * Martyr Andrei Punsun (1955)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Repose of Hieromonk Seraphim Rose of Platina, California (1982)
  * Repose of Archimandrite Spyridon (Lukich) of Kyiv (1991)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Prophet Samuel.
  * Martyr Oswine of Deira, King of Deira and Passion Bearer.
  * St. Stephen I of Hungary, King of Hungary.
  * Venerable Abramius of Smolensk.
  * New Martyr Theocharis of Neapolis, Cappadocia.
  * New Hieromartyr Peeter (Pähkel), Bishop of Tartu and Pechory.
  * Hieromonk Seraphim Rose of Platina, California.
  