July 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
July 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 9
All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 21 by Old Calendar.
For July 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 25.
Saints
- Hieromartyr Epictetus, Priest, and Monk-martyr Astion, at Halmyris in Scythia Minor Great-martyr Procopius of Caesarea in Palestine, and with him :
- Martyr Mirdat, King of Kartli, Georgia
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saints Aquila and Priscilla, a Christian missionary married couple described in the New Testament
- Saint Auspicius of Trier, the fourth Bishop of Trier in Germany and successor of St Maternus
- Saint Apollonius, Bishop of Benevento in Italy
- Saints Sostratus, Spirus, Eraclius, Eperentius and Cecilia, martyrs of Syrmium in Pannonia
- Saint Morwenna, patroness of Morwenstow, England
- Saint Urith of Chittlehampton, a nun martyred by pagan English invaders at Chittlehampton in Devon Saints Kilian, Colman and Totnan, monks from Ireland, Enlighteners of Franconia and East Thuringia, where they were martyred
- Saint Landrada of Austrasia, foundress and first Abbess of Munsterbilsen in Belgium
- Saint Withburgh of East Anglia, an anchoress at East Dereham, Norfolk, England
- Saint Arnold of Arnoldsweiler, a charitable Greek musician at the court of Charlemagne
- Blessed Edgar the Peaceful, King of Mercia and Northumbria, and upon the death of his brother Eadwig, King of all England
- Saint Grimbald, monk at St. Bertin Abbey in Saint-Omer in Flanders, invited by King Alfred the Great to help restore scholarship in England, Abbot of Winchester
- Virgin-martyr Sunniva and companions, on Selje Island, Norway
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Procopius of Ustyug, Fool-for-Christ, Wonderworker of Ustiug, Vologda Venerable Theophilus the Myrrh-gusher of Pantocrator Monastery on Mount Athos
- Righteous Procopius, Fool-for-Christ, of Ustya, Vologda
- New Hieromartyr Anastasius of Saint Blaise in Hegumenitsa, Priest, of Constantinople
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Alexander Popov, Theodore Raspopov, and Nikolai Bryantsev, Priests
- New Hieromartyr Procopius, Archbishop of Kherson
Icons
- Miracle of the Annunciation Icon of the Mother of God at Ustiug Appearance of the Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
- Reverence list of a "Kazan" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, at:
- "Jacobshtad" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Weeping "Umileniye" of Novgorod.
- Icon of the Mother of God "Our Lady of Sitka", Alaska
Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics of St. Demetrius of Basarabov, Bulgaria, to Bucharest
- Slaying of Anastasia Strogilos on the Mount of Olives
- ''Synaxis of All Military Saints of the Orthodox Church''