August 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 18
All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 30 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For August 17, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 4.
Hieromartyr Myron of Cyzicus, Priest (250)
Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus (Coronatus), with others, of Caesarea in Bithynia (c. 250) (see also: December 14)
Martyrs Paul and his sister Juliana, and Quadratus, Acacius and Stratonicus the executioners, at Ptolemais in Syria (273) (see also: March 4)
Martyrs Straton, Philip, Eutychian, and Cyprian, of Nicomedia (303)
Venerable Monk-martyr Macarius of Mount St. Auxentius (768)
Venerable Elias the Younger of Calabria, (Elias of Enna) (903)
Venerable Aiglon, a hermit who lived ascetically and reposed in peace.
Saint Eusebius, a Greek by birth, reposed in exile in Sicily (310)
Saint Theodulus of Grammont (Theodore, Yoder), an early Bishop of Valais, who was much revered in Switzerland and Savoy (4th century)
Hieromartyrs Liberatus, Boniface, Servus, Rusticus, Rogatus, Septimus, and Maximus, under the Arian King Hunneric (483)
Saint Anastasius of Terni, Bishop of Terni in Italy (c. 553)
Saint James the Deacon, companion of St Paulinus of York in his mission to Northumbria (after 671) (see also: October 18)
Saint Drithelm, monk at Melrose Abbey in Scotland, Confessor, great ascetic (c. 700)
Saint Carloman, eldest son of Charles Martel, became King of Austrasia (754)
Saint Amor (Amator, Amour), companion of St Pirmin in preaching Christ in Germany, founder of the monastery of Amorbach in Franconia (8th century)