August 7

Feasts

Afterfeast of the Transfiguration; Martyr Dometius of Persia and two disciples; Martyrs Marinus the soldier and Asterius the senator at Caesaria in Palestine; Saint Poemen (Pimen) the Much-ailing of the Kiev Caves; Saint Hor (Horus) of the Thebaid, in Egypt; Saint Pimen, faster of the Kiev Caves; Virgin-Martyr Potamia the Wonder-worker; Saint Dometius of Philotheou Monastery on Mount Athos; Saint Mercurius, Bishop of Smolensk (Kiev Caves); Elder Anthony of Optina; Holy Ten Thousand Ascetics of Thebes; Hieromartyr Narcissus, Patriarch of Jerusalem; Saint Hyperechius of the Paradise; Saint Sozon of Nicomedia; Saint Theodosius the New, healer of Peloponnesus; Venerable Theodora of Sihla; Saint Nicanor, Wonder-worker of Mount Calistratus; translation of the relics of Saint Metrophanes, first Bishop of Voronezh; repose of Elder Adrian of South Dorotheus Monastery, and Schemamonk John the Blind of Valaam; repose of Elder Callinicus the Hesychast of Mount Athos