title: August 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # August 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  August 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 24
  
  All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 5 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For August 23, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 10.
  
  ## Feasts
  
  * Apodosis of the Dormition.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Hieromartyr Pothinus, Bishop of Lyons (ca. 177)
  * Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons (202)
  * Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary (304) (see also: March 26)
  * Martyrs Severus, Memnon the Centurion, and 38 others, of Thrace (ca. 305) (see also: August 20)
  * Martyr Lupus of Novae (306), slave of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki. (see also: October 26)
  * Saints Eutychius (540) and Florentius (547) of Nursia.
  * Saint Callinicus, Patriarch of Constantinople (705)
  * Saint Anthony, Bishop of Sardis (10th century)
  * Saint Nicholas the Sicilian, ascetic of Mt. Neotaka in Euboea.
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Martyrs Quiriacus, Maximus Archelaus and Companions (c. 235)
  * Martyrs Minervius, Eleazar and Companions, in Lyons in France - eight children are included in their number (3rd century)
  * Saint Tydfil, venerated in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, where she was slain by the heathen (c. 480)
  * Saint Victor of Vita (Victor Vitensis), born in Carthage in North Africa, he was either Bishop there or in Utica (c. 535)
  * Saint Éogan of Ardstraw (c. 618)
  * Saints Flavian (Flavinian, Flavius) of Autun, the twenty-first Bishop of Autun in France (7th century)
  * Saints Altigianus and Hilarinus, two monks killed by the Saracens at Saint-Seine in France (731)
  * Martyrs Æbbe the Younger, Abbess of Coldingham Priory, Northumbria, and her companions (870)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Saint Haralambos of Panagia Kalyviani convent (in the Heraklio Prefecture), the newly-revealed (1788)
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyrs Ephraim (Kuznetsov), Bishop of Selenginsk, and John Vostorgov, Archpriest, of Moscow, and Martyr Nicholas Varzhansky (1918)
  * New Hieromartyrs Paul Gaidai and John Karabanov, Priests (1937)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Synaxis of Panagia Proussiotissa (Mother of God of Proussa) in Evrytania, Greece (c. 829–842)
  * Mykhaylivska Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
  * Repose of Abbot Ioannicius (Moroi) of Sihastria, Romania (1944)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Hieromartyr Pothinus, Bishop of Lyons.
  * Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons.
  * Saint Tydfil.
  