August 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 30 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For August 17, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 4.

Feasts

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Alexis Velikoselsky, Priest (1918)[14]
  • New Hieromartyr Demetrius Ostroumov, Priest (1937)[14]

Other commemorations

Icons

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Notes

  1. [1]
    The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
    The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
  2. [2]
    "In some places, the Burial Service of the Theotokos is celebrated on August 17 using a special epitaphios with an icon depicting the Mother of God."[2]
  3. [3]
    Patron of Antikythera.
  4. [4]
    "In Achaia, St. Myron, priest and martyr, who was beheaded at Cyzicum, after undergoing many torments, in the time of the emperor Decius and the governor Antipater."[5]
  5. [5]
    "At Ptolemais, in Palestine, the holy martyrs Paul, and his sister Juliana, who suffered under Valerian."[5]
  6. [6]
    "At Nicomedia, the holy martyrs Straton, Philip and Eutychian, who were condemned to the beasts, but being uninjured by them, ended their martyrdom by fire."[5]
  7. [7]
    His memory is recorded in the Byzantine church calendar of Gideon (p. 158). He was martyred in defense of the holy icons in the reign Copronymus in 768.
  8. [8]
    He was the founder of a monastery, and an anchorite. He originated from Sicily. He prophesied the fall of Thessaloniki. He traveled to the Peloponnese and to Constantinople, where he fell ill, and on his return to Thessaloniki he reposed in the church of the Holy Apostles and St. Demetrius. He died on 17 August 903, which is his feast day.
  9. [9]
    We ought tentatively to regard it as probable that the saints whose lives have come down to us were really the founders of Greek monasticism in South Italy, and that before their time there were no Greek monasteries in the district. There probably were hermits; but the rise of monasteries does not begin before the end of the ninth century; and the leaders of the monks were Elias Junior (†903), Elias Spelaeotes ("the Cave-Dweller", †c. 960), Lucas of Demena (†984), Vitalis of Castronuovo (†994), and Nilus of Rossano (†1004).[15]
  10. [10]
    "At Carthage, in Africa, the holy martyrs Liberatus, abbot, Boniface, deacon, Servus and Rusticus, subdeacons, Rogatus and Septimus, monks, and Maximus, a young child. In the persecution of the Vandals, under king Hunneric, they were subjected to various unheard-of torments for the confession of the Catholic faith and the defense of one baptism. Finally, being nailed to the wood wherewith they were to be burned, as the fire was always put out miraculously whenever kindled, they were struck with iron bars by order of the tyrant until their brains were dashed out. Thus they terminated the glorious series of their combats, and were crowned by our Lord."[5]
  11. [11]
    "At Teramo, St. Anastasius, bishop and confessor."[5]
  12. [12]
    "This eminent man, greatly commended for his ecclesiastical spirit and holy life, was the attendant deacon of St. Paulinus, Archbishop of York. When the Saint was obliged to return to Kent, in company with Queen Ethelburga, JAMES was left behind with the Northumbrian neophytes. He remained faithfully at his post throughout the troublous times which followed, and was able to teach and baptise many new converts. So great was the veneration in which his memory was held, that the place of his usual residence was called by his name. He was a steady observer of the disciplinary usages, which he had brought from Kent, and a skilful teacher of the Roman Church chant. James had the consolation of living to witness the restoration of Christianity in his adopted country, and was spared for many years for the service of God and the advantage of the faithful."[19]
  13. [13]
    He encouraged the foundation of monasteries at Fulda in Germany and Lobbes and Stavelot in Belgium. He also helped St Boniface in the task of enlightenment. On St Boniface's advice, he left his kingdom to his brother and became a monk on Mt Soracte and then at Montecassino in Italy. Here he was employed in the kitchen and as a shepherd. He reposed at a monastery in Vienne in France.
  14. [14]
    See also: (in Dutch) Jeroen van Noordwijk. Wikipedia. (Dutch Wikipedia).
  15. [15]
    "An Irish missionary priest in Holland, where he was put to death for the Faith (A.D. 885)."[22]
  16. [16]
    See: (in Romanian) Nazaria. Wikipedia. (Romanian Wikipedia).
  17. [17]
    See: (in Romanian) Olimpiada (schimonahie). Wikipedia. (Romanian Wikipedia).
  18. [18]
    See: (in Romanian) Safta Brâncoveanu. Wikipedia. (Romanian Wikipedia).
  19. [19]
    He established himself permanently in the city of Piatra Neamţ, living in asceticism like a true hermit in the bell tower of Stephen the Great in the middle of the city for 26 years, until his death. There he labored alone in fasting and prayer, summer and winter, without fire, without bed, without a coat, and without shoes on his feet, living in God's grace. He reposed on August 15, 1916 and was buried in the town cemetery. In the summer of 1934 his remains were placed in Văratec Monastery, in northeastern Romania. He is known as “Grandpa Gheorge” among the pious faithful. His relics, kept beneath the main church in the monastery, are fragrant.[36]
  20. [20]
    He was glorified by the Ecumenical Patriarchate on November 17, 2023. The official communiqué of the Ecumenical Patriarchate was as follows:
    (in Greek) "1. Κατ᾿ αὐτήν ὁμοφώνῳ συνοδικῇ ἀποφάσει κατετάγησαν εἰς τό Ἀγιολόγιον τῆς Ὀρθοδόξου Ἐκκλησίας:
    α) ὁ Ἱερομόναχος Ἀθανάσιος Χαμακιώτης, ἐκ τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μητροπόλεως Κηφισίας, Ἀμαρουσίου, Ὠρωποῦ καί Μαραθῶνος, καί
    β) ὁ Ἀρχιμανδρίτης Γερβάσιος Παρασκευόπουλος, ἐκ τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μητροπόλεως Πατρῶν, ἀμφότεροι διακριθέντες ἐπί ὁσιότητι καί θυσιαστικῇ διακονίᾳ τοῦ Χριστωνύμου λαοῦ, ἐγχαραχθέντες ἐξ ἀρχῆς ὡς Ἅγιοι εἰς τήν συνείδησιν αὐτοῦ."[38]

    The Ecumenical Patriarchate later signed the Patriarchal and Synodal Act of canonization on December 28, 2023.[39]
  21. [21]
    The Sven Icon of the Mother of God of the Caves has two festal celebrations: May 3 (the day of the repose of St Theodosius of the Caves), and August 17 (the day of the repose of St Alypius), who painted the icon. The August 17 celebration was established in the year 1815 in thanksgiving for the deliverance of the city of Briansk (around which the icon appeared in 1288) from invasion during the 1812 Napoleonic War.[42]
  22. [22]
    The Monastery of Panagia Goumenissa (c. 14th century) celebrates a three-day feast from August 15th-17th.

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