August 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 14 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 16

All fixed commemorations below are observed on ''August 28'' by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 15, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the saints listed on '' August 2''.

Feasts

* ''The Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary''.August 15 / August 28
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyr Tarcisius, at Rome, seized by a heathen mob and preferred to die rather than expose the sacred mysteries to profanation (c. 253–260)August 15
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. (''see also: August 14 - Greek'')
* Saint Alypius of Thagaste, Bishop of Tagaste in North Africa (c. 430)
* Saint Altfrid, Bishop of Hildesheim, was devoted to the Mother of God (874)
* Saint Arduinus, a priest in Rimini in Italy who lived as a hermit and ended his days in the monastery of San Gudenzio (1009)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Macarius the Roman, Abbot (1550)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. 60.
* Saint Chariton of Novgorod (16th century), disciple of St. Macarius the Roman.
* New Hieromartyr Christos, Hieromonk, of Ioannina (c. 1770)August 28 / August 15
Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
* Saint Stephen, Elder, of Vyatka (1890)

New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Andrew Voliansky, Priest (1919)
* New Hieromartyr Paul Szwajko, Priest, and New Martyr Joanna, Presvytera, of Graboviec (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland) (1943)

Other commemorations

* Commemoration of the Miracle of the Theotokos at the Siege of Constantinople (717–18).
* Repose of Elder Anthony of Murom (Arsenius in schema) (1851), friend of St. Seraphim of Sarov.
* Repose of Archimandrite Hieron, founder of New Athos (1912)
* Repose of Blessed George Lazar of Văratec, Romania (1916)
* Repose of Abbess Ruffina of Harbin and Shanghai (1937)
* Repose of Venerable Elder Joseph the Hesychast, of New Skete, Mt. Athos (1959)
Ανακοινωθέν για την πρώτη ημέρα των εργασιών της Αγίας και Ιεράς Συνόδου (9 Μαρτίου 2020)
'' Οἰκουμενικόν Πατριαρχεῖον. Δευτέραν, 9ην τ. μ. Μαρτίου 2020. Retrieved: 10 March 2020.
Αγιοκατάταξη Ιωσήφ του Ησυχαστού, Εφραίμ Κατουνακιώτη και Δανιήλ Κατουνακιώτη
'' ΡΟΜΦΑΙΑ. (Romfea.gr). 09/03 17:52. Retrieved: 10 March 2020.

'' Orthodox Christianity. Istanbul, March 10, 2020. (''see: August 16'')
* Repose of Metropolitan Augustinos (Kantiotis) of Florina (2010)

Icons

* Icons of the Theotokos' Dormition:
:* 'Kiev Caves' (1073);
:* 'Ovinov' (1425);
:* 'Pskov-Caves' (1472);
:* 'Semigorodnaya' (15th century);
:* 'Seven Cities';
:* 'Pyukhtitsa' (16th century);
:* 'Bakhchisarai'.

* Her Icons:
:* 'Atskurskaya' (1st century);
:* 'Tsilkani' in Georgia (4th century);
:* 'Vladimir-Rostov' (12th century);
:* 'Mozdok' (13th century);
:* 'Gaenatskaya' (13th century);
:* 'Chukhlom' (14th century);
:* 'Surdyeg' (1530);
:* 'Tupichev' (17th century);
:* 'Blachernae' (Georgia).

* Her Icons:
:* 'Diasozousa';
:* 'Chajnicke'.

* Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God (Novgorod).
Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God
'' OCA - Lives of the Saints.

Icon gallery

File:HSX Koimetesis.jpg, Mosaic of the Koimesis, ( Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora).
File:Dormition El Greco.jpg, Icon of the Dormition of the Theotokos
( El Greco, 16th century).
File:Dormition of the Theotokos Semigorodnyaya.jpg, Dormition of the Theotokos Semigorodnyaya.
File:2007-08-14--Procession of the Epitaphios--Dormition of the Virgin Mary.jpg, Outdoor procession of the Epitaphios of the Theotokos, Toronto (2007).
File:Orthodox Priests in Procession - Great Vespers of the Dormition.jpg, Procession of the Epitaphios of the Theotokos, Ottawa (2018).

Notes

References

Sources

August 15 / August 28
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).

August 28 / August 15
Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).

August 15
OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
* 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. 60.
*

'' Orthodoxy in China.


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. p. 244.
* 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. 394–395.

; Greek Sources
* Great Synaxaristes:
15 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ
ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
* Συναξαριστής.
15 Αυγούστου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

; Russian Sources
*

Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).

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