title: August 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # 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).
  