August 6 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 8
All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 20 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For August 7, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 25.
Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.
Venerable Candida the Byzantine
Hieromartyr Narcissus, Bishop of Jerusalem (c. 213)
Martyrs Marinus the Soldier (see also: March 17) and Asterius the Senator, at Caesarea in Palestine (260)
Martyr Dometius of Persia and his two disciples (363)
Venerable Or (Horus) of the Thebaid (390)
Virginmartyr Potamia of Alexandria, the Wonderworker, by the sword (4th century)
Venerable Hyperechius of the "Paradise", Egypt (4th century)
Saint Vardan the Martyr, of Armenia (451)
Saint Irene of Athens, Byzantine empress regnant and a strong iconodule (803) (see also: August 9)
Venerable Theodosius the New, of the Peloponnese, the healer (862)
The Venerable 10,000 Ascetics of the Thebaid, reposed in peace
Saint Hierotheus of Hungary (10th century)
Saint Stephen of Hungary, king (1038)
Saint Faustus, a soldier martyred in Milan in Italy under Commodus (c. 190)