July 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 9

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 21 by Old Calendar . ^{[note 1]}

For July 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 25 .

Saints [ edit ]

• Hieromartyr Epictetus, Priest, and Monk-martyr Astion, at Halmyris in Scythia Minor (Romania) (290) ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Great-martyr Procopius of Caesarea in Palestine , and with him (303): ^{[1] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [note 2] [note 3]}

• Martyrs Theodosia (his mother), ^[10] tribunes Antiochus and Nicostratus, ^[11] martyrs Abdias and Sabbas, ^[12] and twelve women of senatorial rank, ^[13] all by the sword.

• Martyr Mirdat , King of Kartli, Georgia (410) ^{[1] [3] [14]}

Pre-Schism Western saints [ edit ]

• Saints Aquila and Priscilla , a Christian missionary married couple described in the New Testament (Acts 18:3, Rom. 16:3-4) (1st century) ^{[15] [16] [note 4] [note 5]} ( see also: February 13 , July 14 )
• Saint Auspicius of Trier , the fourth Bishop of Trier in Germany and successor of St Maternus (c. 130) ^[15]
• Saint Apollonius, Bishop of Benevento in Italy (c. 326) ^{[15] [note 6] [note 7]}
• Saints Sostratus, Spirus, Eraclius, Eperentius and Cecilia, martyrs of Syrmium in Pannonia (4th century)
• Saint Morwenna , patroness of Morwenstow , England (5th or 6th century) ^{[15] [note 8]} ( see also July 5 )
• Saint Urith of Chittlehampton ( Hieritha ), a nun martyred by pagan English invaders at Chittlehampton in Devon (6th century?) ^{[3] [15] [note 9]}
• Saints Kilian ( Chilianus ), Colman and Totnan , monks from Ireland, Enlighteners of Franconia and East Thuringia , where they were martyred (c. 689) ^{[15] [17] [18] [note 10] [note 11]}
• Saint Landrada of Austrasia , foundress and first Abbess of Munsterbilsen in Belgium (c. 690) ^{[15] [19]}
• Saint Withburgh of East Anglia ( Withburga ), an anchoress at East Dereham , Norfolk , England (c. 743) ^{[7] [15] [20] [note 12]}
• Saint Arnold of Arnoldsweiler , a charitable Greek musician at the court of Charlemagne (c. 800) ^{[15] [note 13] [note 14]}
• Blessed Edgar the Peaceful , King of Mercia and Northumbria , and upon the death of his brother Eadwig (A.D. 959), King of all England (975) ^{[1] [3] [15] [21] [22] [note 15]}
• Saint Grimbald , monk at St. Bertin Abbey in Saint-Omer in Flanders , invited by King Alfred the Great to help restore scholarship in England, Abbot of Winchester(901) ^{[3] [15] [23] [24]}
• Virgin-martyr Sunniva ( Sunnifa ) and companions, on Selje Island , Norway (10th century) ^{[1] [7] [15] [25] [26] [note 16]}

Post-Schism Orthodox saints [ edit ]

• Saint Procopius of Ustyug , Fool-for-Christ , Wonderworker of Ustiug, Vologda (1303) ^{[1] [3] [5] [27] [28] [29]}
• Venerable Theophilus the Myrrh-gusher of Pantocrator Monastery on Mount Athos (1548) ^{[1] [3] [5] [7] [30] [31] [note 17]}
• Righteous Procopius, Fool-for-Christ , of Ustya , Vologda (c. 1600) ^{[1] [3] [7] [29] [32] [note 18]}
• New Hieromartyr Anastasius of Saint Blaise in Hegumenitsa, Priest, of Constantinople (1743) ^{[1] [3] [5] [7] [33] [34]}

New martyrs and confessors [ edit ]

• New Hieromartyrs Alexander Popov, Theodore Raspopov, and Nikolai Bryantsev, Priests (1918) ^{[3] [29] [35]}
• New Hieromartyr Procopius (Titov), Archbishop of Kherson (1937) ^{[7] [note 19]} ( see also: November 10 )

Icons [ edit ]

• Miracle of the Annunciation Icon of the Mother of God at Ustiug (1290) ^{[3] [36] [37]}
• Appearance of the Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1579) ^{[1] [3] [7] [38] [39]}
• Reverence list of a "Kazan" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, at: ^{[3] [29]}

• Kazan (1579)
• "Yaroslavl" (1588)
• Moscow (1612)
• "Viazniky" (1624)
• Nizhnelomovskaya (1643)
• Vitebsk (1655)
• "Tobolsk" (1661)
• "Kaplunovka" (1689)
• "Tambov" (1695) ^[40]
• Shlisselburg (1702)
• "Penza" (1717) (see also: August 4 )
• Petersburg (1721)
• "Peschanka" / "Peschanskaya" (1754) ^{[1] [note 20]}
• "Chimeev" (1770)
• "Vysochinovsky" (18th century)
• "Vyshensky" (1812)

• "Jacobshtad" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (17th century) ^{[3] [29]}
• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Weeping "Umileniye" ("Of Tender Feeling") of Novgorod. ^{[1] [41]}
• Icon of the Mother of God "Our Lady of Sitka ", Alaska (1850) ^[42]

Other commemorations [ edit ]

• Translation of the relics (1779) of St. Demetrius of Basarabov , Bulgaria, to Bucharest (1685) ^{[1] [3]}
• Slaying of Anastasia Strogilos on the Mount of Olives (1995) ^[1]
• Synaxis of All Military Saints of the Orthodox Church (2019) ^{[43] [44] [note 21]}

Icon gallery [ edit ]

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  Great-martyr Procopius of Caesarea in Palestine .
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  St. Urith of Chittlehampton 's ( Hieritha's ) tomb.
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  Relics of Saints Kilian , Colman and Totnan .
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  St. Withburgh of East Anglia .
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  St. Arnold of Arnoldsweiler ( Coat of arms of Arnoldsweiler ).
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  Blessed Edgar the Peaceful .
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  St. Procopius of Ustyug .
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  Righteous Procopius, Fool-for-Christ , of Ustya .
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  Ustyug Annunciation .
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  Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, copy in the museum of Rostov Kremlin
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  Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Peschanskaya.
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  Four Military Saints by Michael Damaskinos , showing St George and St Theodore Teron on the left, and St Demetrios and St Theodore Stratelates on the right.

Notes [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

Sources [ edit ]

• July 8/July 21 . Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• July 21 / July 8 . HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• July 8 . OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• July 8 . The Year of Our Salvation - Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts.
• 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. 50.
• The Eighth Day of the Month of July . Orthodoxy in China.
• July 8 . 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. pp. 199?200.
• 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. 324?328.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes : (in Greek) 8 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ . ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστ??. 8 Ιουλ?ου . ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
• (in Greek) ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ . Αποστολικ? Διακον?α τη? Εκκλησ?α? τη? Ελλ?δο? (Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece).
• (in Greek) 08/07/2018 . Ορθ?δοξο? Συναξαριστ??.

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• (in Russian) 21 июля (8 июля) . Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (in Russian) 8 июля по старому стилю / 21 июля по новому стилю . Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2018 год.
• (in Russian) 8 июля (ст.ст.) 21 июля 2014 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).