title: August 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # August 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  August 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 25
  
  All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 6 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For August 24, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 11
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Hieromartyr Eutychius (1st century), disciple of St. John the Theologian.
  * Martyr Tation, at Claudiopolis (Bithynia) (305)
  * Virginmartyr Kyra (Cira, Cira, Shirin) Persia (558)
  * Saint George Limniotes the Confessor, of Mount Olympus in Bithynia (716)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Saint Ptolemy (Ptolemaeus), by tradition a disciple of the Apostle Peter, he became Bishop of Nepi in Tuscany in Italy, where he was martyred (1st century)
  * Saint Romanus of Nepi, a Bishop and martyr of Nepi in Tuscany, Italy, by tradition a disciple of St Ptolemy (1st century)
  * Saint Aurea of Ostia, an early martyr in Ostia in Italy (c. 270)
  * Saint Patrick, a bishop in Ireland, surnamed Patrick the Elder, whose relics were later enshrined at Glastonbury in England (c. 450)
  * Saint Yrchard (Irchard, Yarcard), a priest in Scotland, consecrated bishop by St Ternan to work among the Picts (5th century)
  * Saint Ouen (Audöenus, Audoin, Aldwin, Owen, Dado), Archbishop of Rouen, Gaul, Confessor (c. 683)
  * Saint Bregwin, Twelfth Archbishop of Canterbury (764)
  * Saint Sandratus (Sandradus), Abbot of Gladbach, and in 981 Abbot of Weissenburg (986)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Saint Martyrius, Archbishop of Novgorod (1199)
  * Hieromartyr Athanasius II, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1244)
  * Venerable Arsenius, founder of Komel Monastery (Vologda), Wonderworker (1550)
  * Venerable Serapion the Wonderworker, abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist at David Gareja monastery complex, Georgia (1774)
  * New Hieromartyr Cosmas of Aetolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779) (see also: August 4)
  * Saint Aristocleus, Elder, of Moscow and Mount Athos (1918)
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyr Maxim Sandovich, Priest, of Lemkovina, Poland (1914)
  * New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Shakhmut), Archimandrite, of Grodno (Belarus) (1946)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Petrovskaya" ("of St. Peter of Moscow") (ca. 1306)
  * Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos (c. 1385) to St. Sergius of Radonezh (1392)
  * Translation of the relics (1479) of St. Peter of Moscow, Metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow (1326)
  * Translation of the relics (1716) of St. Dionysios of Zakynthos, Archbishop of Aegina (1624)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Interior of the Basilica of St. Aurea of Ostia.
  * New Hieromartyr Cosmas of Aetolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles.
  * New Hieromartyr Maxim Sandovich, Priest, of Lemkovina.
  * Sarcophagus of Saint Dionysios of Zakynthos.
  