May 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
May 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 9
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 21 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For May 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 25.
Saints
Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, the "beloved disciple" of the Lord- The holy group of Soldier Martyrs
- Saint Augustina the Martyr, in Byzantium
- Saint Agathius
- Saint Emilia, mother of saints Macrina, Basil the Great, Naucratius, Peter of Sebaste, and Gregory of Nyssa Saint Arsenius the Great, of Scetis
- Saint Hierax of Egypt
- Saint Milles the Melodist, monk
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Hieromartyr Dionysius of Vienne
- Martyr Victor of Milan
- Saint Helladius of Auxerre
- Saint Gybrian of Ireland, Priest
- Saint Desideratus, successor of St Arcadius as Bishop of Bourges, in France
- Saint Iduberga, foundress of Nivelles,
- Saint Benedict II, Pope of Rome
- Hieromartyr Indract of Glastonbury, and his companions at Shapwick
- Saints Wiro, Plechelm, and Hierodeacon Otger, Missionary bishops in the Maas Valley at Limburg
- Saint Macarius of Ghent, archbishop
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Pimen the Faster, of the Far Caves in Kiev
- Venarable Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves
- Saint Arsenius the Lover of Labor, of the Kiev Caves
- The Monks Zosima and Adrian of Volokolamsk, founders of the Sestrinsk monastery on the banks of the River Sestra
New martyrs and confessors
- Martyr Nicephorus Zaitsev
Other commemorations
- Apparition of the Archangel Michael on Mount Gargano near Manfredonia in southern Italy, to Bishop Laurence of Siponto, in memory of which the famous Monastery of the Archangel was founded
- Commemoration of the miraculous healing of blinded Stephen by the Most Holy Theotokos of Kassiopi, Corfu
- Translation of the relics of St. Arsenius of Novgorod, Fool-for-Christ
- Schema-hieromonk Michael of Valaam, Confessor for the Orthodox Calendar