August 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 13 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 15

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 27 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 14, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 1.

Feasts

Forefeast of the Dormition of the Mother of God.August 14 / August 27. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Προεόρτια (παραμονή) τῆς κοιμήσεως τῆς Θεοτόκου. 14 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 14 Αυγούστου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Saints

Prophet Micah (8th century BC)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Προφήτης Μιχαίας. 14 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Prophet Micah. OCA - Lives of the Saints. (see also: January 5) Martyr Tarcisius, at Rome, under Valerian and Gallienus (c. 253–260)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ταρσίζιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 14 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: August 15) Martyr Ursicius, at Illyricum (305- 313)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Οὐρσίκιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 14 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Martyr Luke the Soldier, by fire.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Λούκιος ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ στρατιώτης. 14 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.August 27 / August 14. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Hieromartyr Marcellus, Bishop of Apamea (389)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάρκελλος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀπαμείας. 14 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Hieromartyr Marcellus the Bishop of Apamea. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

Pre-Schism Western saints

Saint Eusebius of Rome, a priest in Rome who founded the 'church' called the titulis Eusebii after him (4th century)August 14. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Saint Fachanan, Abbot of Rosscarbery, Cork, Ireland (c. 600) Saint Werenfrid, born in England, he worked with St Willibrord among the Frisians in the Netherlands (c. 760) Saint Eberhard of Einsiedeln Abbey (958) Saint Anastasius (Anastaz-Astrik), Archbishop of Esztergom (c. 1007)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New Martyr Symeon of Trebizond, at Constantinople (1653)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Συμεὼν ὁ Τραπεζούντιος, ὁ χρυσοχόος. 14 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

New martyrs and confessors

New Hieromartyr Basil (Bogoyavlensky), Archbishop of Chernigov, and with him: New Monkmartyr Matthew (Pomerantsev), Archimandrite, of Perm, and New Martyr Alexei Zverev (1918) New Hieromartyr Vladimir Tsedrinsky, Priest (1918) New Hieromartyrs Nazarius, Metropolitan of Kutaisi, Georgia, and with him: Priests Herman, Hierotheus, and Simon, and Archdeacon Bessarion (1924)New Martyr Nazarius, Metropolitan of Kutaisi-Gaenati, and his companions of Georgia. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Georgia ("New Martyrs of the Georgian Church"), who suffered under the Atheist Yoke (20th century) New Hieromartyrs Vladimir Smirnov and Nicholas Tolgsky, Priests (1937)The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 60. Virgin-Martyr Eudokia, nun, and Martyr Theodore Zakharov (1937) New Hieromartyr Eleutherius (Pechennikov), Schema-Archimandrite, of the Holy Trinity Monastery (Smolensk) (1937) New Martyr Eva (Pavlova), Abbess of Holy Trinity Convent in Penza (Saratov) (1937) Venerable New Hiero-Confessor Alexander (Urodov), Archimandrite, of Sanaxar and Seven Lakes Monasteries (1961)

Other commemorations

Translation of the True Cross back to the Palace.Great Synaxaristes: Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίου Σταυροῦ στὸ Παλάτι. 14 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Translation of the relics (1091) of Venerable Theodosius of the Kiev Caves, Abbot (1074)Great Synaxaristes: Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ὁσίου Θεοδοσίου ἡγουμένου τοῦ Σπηλαίου (Ρῶσος). 14 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Translation of the relics of the Venerable Theodosius of the Kiev Far Caves. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Translation of the relics (1798) of Venerable Arcadius, monk of Novotorzhok (1077)Venerable Arcadius of Novotorsk. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Commemoration of the disciples of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk: Monks Theophanes, Aaron, Nicander, Cosmas, and Metrophanes (18th-19th centuries) Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius (Makkos) of Bethany (1991)August 14 / August 27. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). Αρχιμ. Γ.Ι.Ρ. Ο ΓΕΡΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΒΗΘΑΝΙΑΣ: ΑΡΧΙΜΑΝΔΡΙΤΗΣ ΘΕΟΔΟΣΙΟΣ Ι. ΜΑΚΚΟΣ (1913-1991). ΕΚΔΟΣΗ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΙΚΟΥ «ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΙΚΟΙ ΠΑΛΜΟΙ», ΠΟΛΥΓΥΡΟΣ 1992. Retrieved: 28 August 2021.

Icons

Icon of the Mother of God "the Converser" (1383)Icon of the Mother of God “the Converser”. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Icon of the Mother of God of Narva (1558)Icon of the Mother of God of Narva. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources August 14 / August 27. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). August 27 / August 14. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). August 14. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 60. Menologion: The Fourteenth Day of the Month of August. Orthodoxy in China. August 14. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 243. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 393–394.

Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 14 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 14 Αυγούστου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources 27 августа (14 августа). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).