title: August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # 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).
  