June 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
June 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 9
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 21 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For June 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 26.
Saints
Martyr Calliope, at Rome- Martyrs Nicander and Marcian, at Dorostolum in Moesia
- Martyr Mark, by the sword.
- Saint Naucratius, brother of St. Basil the Great
- Venerable Melania the Elder, nun, of Palladius’ Lausiac History
- Venerable Atre of Nitria in Egypt
- Saint Ephraim of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch
- Venerable Zosimas, monk, of Phoenicia
- Venerable Paul the Confessor, of Kaiuma Monastery in Constantinople
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Maximinus of Aix, venerated as the first Bishop of Aix in Provence in France
- Saint Sallustian of Sardinia, confessor.
- Saint Bron, a disciple of St Patrick and Bishop of Cassel-lrra near Sligo in Ireland
- Saint Gildard, Bishop of Rouen in France for some fifteen years
- Saint Heraclius of Sens, the fourteenth Bishop of Sens in France
- Saints Severinus of Sanseverino and Victorinus of Camerino, brothers who were both bishops and hermits in the 6th century.Saint Medardus the Wonderworker, Bishop of Noyon
- Venerable Levan, who came to Cornwall and gave his name to St Levan
- Saint Eustadiola, born in Bourges in France, as a widow she spent her fortune building Moyenmoutier Abbey, where she became a nun and abbess
- Saint Chlodulf of Metz, son of St Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, he too became Bishop of Metz, for forty years
- Venerable Muirchú, a holy man in Ireland who wrote Lives of St Brigid and St Patrick
- Venerable Syra, by tradition, the sister of St Fiacre, an anchoress in France
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Theodore, Bishop of Rostov and Suzdal
- Venerable Theophilus of Luga and Omutch, disciple of St. Arsenius of Konevits.
- New monk-martyr Theophanes, at Constantinople
- Saint Nicephorus, Archdeacon, of Constantinople, who suffered under the Uniates in Marienburg, Galicia
- New Hieromartyr Theodore, Priest, of Kvelta, Georgia
Other commemorations
Translation of the relics of Great-martyr Theodore Stratelates, of Heraclea- Translation of the relics of Hieromartyr Alphege, abbot of Canterbury
- Uncovering of the relics of Saints Basil and Constantine, Princes of Yaroslavl.
- Synaxis of the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos and the Archangel Michael, in the Sosthenion district of Constantinople.
- Synaxis of the Church of the Cross at Mtskheta, Georgia.
- Glorification of St John of Kronstadt by the Russian Orthodox Church
- Repose of lay elder Theodore of White Lake
Icons
- Yaroslavl Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
- Uryupinsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos