August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
August 5 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 7
All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 19 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For August 6, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 24.
Feasts
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saints Justus and Pastor, two brothers, aged respectively thirteen and nine, scourged and beheaded at Alcalá in Spain under Diocletian
- Saint Hormisdas, Pope of Rome and Confessor, author of the Formula of Hormisdas
- Saint Hardulf, a hermit at Breedon in Leicestershire in England where the church is dedicated to him
- Saint Gezelin, a hermit honoured in Slebusrode near Cologne in Germany.
- Saint Stephen of Cardeña and Companions, Abbot of the Castilian monastery of Cardeña near Burgos in Spain, where there were over two hundred monks, martyred by the Saracens
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Theoctistus, Bishop of Chernigov
- New Martyr Abbacum of Thessalonica
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Maxim Sandovich of Lemkovyna, priest, protomartyr of the Lemko people, by the Austro-Hungarians
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Prozorov, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Nikolai Zavarin, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Peter Tokarev, Priest, of Yaroslavl-Rostov
- New Hieromartyr Dimitry, Archbishop of Gdov
Other commemorations
- Repose of Hieroschemamonk Nikon the Cave-dweller, of Valaam Monastery
- Repose of Priest Basil Shoustin, disciple of Optina Elders
- Repose of Elder Tryphon of Kapsala, Mount Athos