August 18 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 20 All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 1 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For August 19, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 6. Feasts Afterfeast of the Dormition. Saints Martyr Andrew Stratelates and 2,593 soldier-martyrs with him, in Cilicia (284-305) Martyrs Timothy, Agapius, and Thecla, of Palestine (304) Martyrs Eutychianus, Strategius and Myron, by fire (304) Pre-Schism Western saints Saint Julius, an early martyr in Rome (c. 190) Saint Rufinus, a saint venerated in Mantua in Italy from early times, confessor. Saint Marianus, a hermit in the forest of Entreaigues in Berry in France, confessor (c. 515) Saint Donatus, born in Orleans in France, he lived as a hermit on Mt Jura near Sisteron in Provence (c. 535) Saint Elaphius, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in France (580) Saint Mochta (Mochteus), possibly born in Wales, he founded the monastery of Louth in Ireland (6th century) Saint Bertulf of Bobbio, a monk at Luxeuil in France, then went to Bobbio in Italy where he became abbot on the repose of St Attalas (640) Saint Magnus of Avignon (660) Saint Calminius (Calmilius), a hermit who founded the monasteries of Villars and Mauzac near Riom in France (c. 690) Saint Guenninus, Bishop of Vannes in Brittany (7th century) Saint Namadie (Namadia), wife of St Calminius, as a widow she became a nun at Marsat in France (c. 700) Saint Sebaldus, probably born in England, he lived as a hermit near Vicenza in Italy, then preached with St Willibald in the Reichswald in Germany (c. 770) Saint Credan, eighth Abbot of Evesham Abbey (780) Saint Marinus, Bishop at the monastery of St Peter in Besalú in Catalonia in Spain (c. 800) Saint Badulf (Badour, Badolf), a monk and Abbot of Ainay, near Lyons in France (850) Saint Leovigild and Christopher, monks, martyred in Cordoba under Abderrahman II (852) Post-Schism Orthodox saints Saint Pitirim, Bishop of Perm (1455) Venerable Theophanes of Docheiariou monastery, the New Wonderworker (16th century) New martyrs and confessors Saint Nicholas Lebedev, Priest of Tver, New-Martyr (1933) Other commemorations "Donskoy" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Theotokos "Of the Don") (1591) Uncovering of the relics (1646) of St. Gennadius, Abbot of Kostroma (1565) Repose of Abbess Maria (Ushakova) of Diveyevo (1904) Repose of Archimandrite Spyridon (Efimov) (1984), disciple of St. John of Shanghai and