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Calendar of Saints

Below is a general and non-exhaustive 5 day calendar of commemorations in the Orthodox Church. Refresh browser if first day in list is not today.

  • Tuesday, 05 August 2025
    +Dormition Fast*; +Forefeast of the Transfiguration; +Martyr Eusignius of Antioch (362); +Ven. Job of Ushchelsk (1628); +Hieromartyr Antherus (236) and Fabian (250), Popes of Rome. Martyrs Cantidius, Cantidian, and Sibelius of Egypt; +Righteous Nonna, mother of St. Gregory the Theologian (374)

    * The Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God (15 August) is preceded by a two-week fast, referred to as the Dormition Fast, which occurs on 01 August through 14 August.

  • Wednesday, 06 August 2025
    +Dormition Fast*; +The Holy Transfiguration of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ**; +New Martyr Habakkuk (17th c.)

    * The Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God (15 August) is preceded by a two-week fast, referred to as the Dormition Fast, which occurs on 01 August through 14 August. On 06 August, the Feast of the Transfiguration, fish, wine and oil are allowed.

    ** The Feast of the Transfiguration (06 August) is ranked as one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Byzantine liturgical calendar and commemorates the transfiguration of Christ on Mt. Tabor, when our Lord appeared in His divine glory before the Apostles Peter, James, and John.

  • Thursday, 07 August 2025
    +Dormition Fast*; +Afterfeast of the Transfiguration; +Holy Мartyr Mercurius of Smolensk (13th c.); +Martyr Dometius of Persia and two disciples (363); +Ven. Pimen the Much-ailing, of the Kiev Caves (1110); +Ven. Pimen, Faster, of the Kiev Caves (13th-14th c.); +St. Mercurius, Bishop of Smolensk (Kiev Caves, 1239); +Martyrs Marinus the soldier and Asterius the Senator, at Cæsarea in Palestine (260); +Ven. Hor of the Thebaïd (c. 390); +Virgin Potamia the Wonderworker; +Ven. Dometius of Philotheou, Mt. Athos (16th c.)

    * The Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God (15 August) is preceded by a two-week fast, referred to as the Dormition Fast, which occurs on 01 August through 14 August.

  • Friday, 08 August 2025
    +Dormition Fast*; +Afterfeast of the Transfiguration; +St. Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Kyzikos (813-820); +Ven. Gregory the Iconographer, of the Kiev Caves (12th c.); +Translation of the Relics of Ven. Zosimas and Sabbatius of Solovétsky Monastery (1566); +St. Myron, Bishop of Crete (c. 350); +Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonidas of Constantinople, and many infants martyred with them. Ven. Gregory of Sinai and Mt. Athos (14th c.)

    * The Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God (15 August) is preceded by a two-week fast, referred to as the Dormition Fast, which occurs on 01 August through 14 August.

  • Saturday, 09 August 2025
    +Dormition Fast*; +Afterfeast of the Transfiguration; +Apostle Matthias (c. 63); +Glorification of Ven. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America (1970); +Hieromartyr Euthymios of Rhodes (16th c.); +Martyr Anthony of Alexandria; +Ven. Psoï of Egypt (4th c.). Martyrs Julian, Marcian, John, James, Alexius, Demetrius, Photius, Peter, Leontius, and Mary, of Constantinople (730)

    * The Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God (15 August) is preceded by a two-week fast, referred to as the Dormition Fast, which occurs on 01 August through 14 August.