July 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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July 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 9

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 21 by Old Calendar.

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

Saints

• Hieromartyr Epictetus, Priest, and Monk-martyr Astion, at Halmyris in Scythia Minor (Romania) (290)
• Great-martyr Procopius of Caesarea in Palestine, and with him (303):

:* Martyrs Theodosia (his mother), tribunes Antiochus and Nicostratus, martyrs Abdias and Sabbas, and twelve women of senatorial rank, all by the sword.

• Martyr Mirdat, King of Kartli, Georgia (410)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saints Aquila and Priscilla, a Christian missionary married couple described in the New Testament (Acts 18:3, Rom. 16:3-4) (1st century)