August 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
August 8 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 10
All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 22 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For August 9, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 27.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.
Saints
Holy Apostle Matthias Martyr Anthony of Alexandria Venerable Psoes of Egypt- Saint Samuel of Edessa, presbyter
- Saint Constantine I, Patriarch of Constantinople
- The Holy Ten Martyrs of Halki, who defended the wonderworking icon of the Savior, made of copper:
- Saint Irene of Athens, Byzantine empress regnant and a strong iconodule ''''
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saints Secundian, Marcellian and Verian, martyrs who suffered near Civitavecchia in Italy under Decius
- Saint Numidicus and Companions, a group of martyrs burnt at the stake at Carthage in North Africa under Decius
- Saint Romanus Ostiarius, an early martyr in Rome
- Saints Firmus and Rusticus, two relatives, probably citizens of Bergamo in the north of Italy, honoured in Verona under Maximian
- Saint Amor, venerated in Franche-Comté in France together with St Viator.
- Saint Domitian of Châlons, third Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in France, Confessor
- Saint Rusticus, a martyr at Sirmium in Pannonia
- Saint Autor, the thirteenth Bishop of Metz in France
- Saint Bandaridus, Bishop of Soissons in France from 540 to 566 and founder of a monastery at Crépin
- Saint Phelim, a disciple of St Columba
- Saint Serenus, Bishop of Marseilles in France
- Saint Nathy, disciple of St Finian of Clonard
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Hieromartyr Euthymius of Rhodes
- Saint Macarius, founder of Oredezh Monastery
- Saint Philaret, Archbishop of Chernigov
- Saint Alexis Medvedkov, Archpriest, of Ugine, France
- Saint Anthony, schiarchimandrite of Balta
- Saint Severian, deacon, confessor of Adjara
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyr Abbess Margaret of Menzelino
- Holy New Martyr Ignatius, at St Onuphrios Monastery in Jabłeczna
Other commemorations
- Icon of the Savior "Not-Made-by-Hands" of Camuliana in Cappadocia, an acheiropoieton
- The Restoration of the Temple of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste, in Constantinople.Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki.
- Canonization of Venerable Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of America.