Happy Feast! - for the Saints of August

Celebrating some of the saints from the South’s Christian inheritance of various lands:

Universal Church Feasts:

6^th – The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.

https://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/worship/the-church-year/transfiguration

https://orthochristian.com/81299.html

9^th – Holy Apostle Matthias (+63 A.D.).

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/09/102243-apostle-matthias-of-the-seventy

15^th – The Falling Asleep of the Most Pure Mother of God.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/15/102302-the-dormition-of-our-most-holy-lady-the-mother-of-god-and-ever-v

16^th - Translation of the Image Not-Made-By-Hands of our Lord Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople (944). The Third "Feast of the Savior" in August. While the Lord was preaching in Palestine, his fame reached a king Avgar of Edessa, who suffered from leprosy. Avgar sent a messenger named Ananias to ask whether the Lord could heal his illness. The king also charged Ananias, if he was unable to bring back Jesus Himself, to bring back a likeness of Him. When Ananias found Jesus, the Lord told him that he could not come to Edessa since the time of His passion was at hand. But he took a cloth and washed His face, miraculously leaving a perfect image of His face on the cloth. Ananias brought the holy image back to the king, who reverently kissed it. Immediately his leprosy was healed, save for a small lesion that remained on his forehead. Later the Apostle Thaddeus came to Edessa, preaching the gospel, and Avgar and his household were baptized, at which time his remaining leprosy vanished. The king had the holy likeness mounted on wood and displayed above the city gate for all to revere. But Avgar's grandson returned to idolatry, and the Bishop of Edessa had the image hidden in the city wall to prevent it from being defiled. Many years later, when the Persian king Chosroes besieged Edessa, the Bishop Eulabius was told in a vision to find the sealed chamber, whose location had been forgotten. The holy icon was found, completely incorrupt, and by its power the Persian army was driven off. In the year 944 the image was brought to Constantinople and enshrined in the Church of the Theotokos called the Pharos. This is the event commemorated today.

http://abbamoses.com/months/august.html

More about this holy feast is at https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/16/102304-translation-of-the-image-not-made-by-hands-of-our-lord-jesus-chr .

21^st – Holy Apostle Thaddeus of the Seventy.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/21/102355-apostle-thaddeus-of-the-seventy

25^th – Holy Apostle Titus of the Seventy.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/25/102393-apostle-titus-of-the-seventy-and-bishop-of-crete

29^th – The Beheading of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John (+32).

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/29/102419-the-beheading-of-the-holy-glorious-prophet-forerunner-and-baptis

Africa:

7^th – St Horus (+390). Saint Horus in his youth withdrew into the Thebaid desert and struggled in complete solitude for many years, leading the life of a strict hermit. Having advanced in years, Saint Horus was granted to see an angel, who announced that the Lord had destined him for the salvation of the many people who would seek his guidance. After this, the monk began to accept everyone who came to him for advice and help. The Lord granted him a gift of reading the Holy Scriptures, despite the fact that the saint since childhood had not been taught reading and writing. Gradually, a large monastery formed around Saint Horus, in which the holy Elder was the spiritual guide. . . . The rest is at

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/07/102225-venerable-horus-of-the-thebaid-egypt

However, before leaving this Saint, one other event from his life is worth mentioning (quoted from the same site just above):

‘Once, when the saint still lived with only one disciple, he brought to the Elder’s attention the approach of Holy Pascha. Saint Horus immediately stood up at prayer, and raising his hands, he stood thus for three days under the open sky, in unceasing prayer. He then explained to his disciple that for a monk every feastday, and especially Pascha, is celebrated by removing oneself from everything mundane, and lifting up one’s mind to unity with God.’

9^th – St Numidicus and Companions. + 251. A group of martyrs burnt at the stake at Carthage in North Africa under Decius. Numidicus was dragged still breathing out of the ashes of the funeral pyre and was ordained priest by St Cyprian.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

9^th – St Psoi (+417). One of the great Desert Fathers of Egypt. He was blessed to see the Lord Jesus with his own eyes more than once during his life. His holy relics remain incorrupt to this day. Here is an account of his life:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/09/102245-venerable-psoi-of-egypt

17^th – Sts Liberatus, Boniface, Servus, Rusticus, Rogatus, Septimus and Maximus. + 483. Liberatus was abbot of a monastery in North Africa, the others were monks: Boniface, a deacon, Servus and Rusticus, sub-deacons, Rogatus and Septimus, monks, and Maximus, a child educated in the monastery. All were martyred under the Arian King Hunneric.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

More details follow here:

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/172.html

21^st – St Quadratus. 3rd cent. A Bishop of Utica in North Africa who taught both clergy and laity to confess Christ. They were all martyred. St Quadratus was greatly revered in Africa.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

24^th – Holy Martyrs of Utica. IN the persecution of Valerian, in the year 258, the proconsul of Africa went from Carthage to Utica, and commanded all the Christians who were detained in the prisons of that city to be brought before him. St. Austin says their number amounted to one hundred and fifty-three. The proconsul had ordered a great pit of burning lime to be prepared in a field, and by it an altar of idols with salt and hog’s liver placed on it ready for sacrifice. He caused his tribunal to be erected near this place in the open air, and he gave the prisoners their choice either to be thrown into this pit of burning lime, or to offer sacrifice to the idols which were set by it. They unanimously chose the first, and were all consumed together in the furnace.

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/242.html

26^th – St Tithoes (+4^th century). One of the great Egyptian Desert Fathers, he was a disciple of St Pachomius the Great and served as abbot of Tabennisi. Through his years of struggle in prayer, he attained to such purity of heart that whenever he raised his hands in prayer, his spirit was instantly caught up in pure contemplation of God. When one of the brethren asked him what path leads to humility, he answered 'The path of humility is abstinence, prayer and considering oneself as the least of all creatures.' He reposed in peace.

http://holytrinityorthodox.com/iconoftheday/los/August/26-06.htm

27^th – Abba Pimen the Great (+450). A highly honored Desert Father of Egypt.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/27/102404-venerable-pimen-the-great

28^th – St Moses the Black (+400). Another greatly venerated Desert Father. A slave, a robber, and a murderer early in his life, his repentance was such that he ascended to quite a height on the ladder of Divine ascent.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/28/102414-venerable-moses-the-ethiopian-of-scete

31^st – St Cyprian of Carthage. c 200-258. Thascius Cecilianus Cyprianus was born in North Africa. He became a lawyer, was converted to Orthodoxy and consecrated Bishop of Carthage in 248. He wrote numerous treatises on theological subjects, one of the most important being De Unitate Catholicae Ecclesiae, and wrote numerous letters. He is one of the greatest Fathers of the Church and he was a model of compassion, discretion and pastoral zeal. Cyprian went into hiding during the persecution of Decius but was arrested and beheaded under Valerian.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

More about St Cyprian is here:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/31/102443-hieromartyr-cyprian-bishop-of-carthage

Africa/Italy:

15^th – St Alipius of Tagaste. + c 430. A disciple and lifelong friend of Blessed Augustine, he was also baptised in Milan on Easter Eve 387. On his return to Africa he lived as a hermit. St Alipius then visited Palestine and in about 393 he became Bishop of Tagaste in North Africa.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

His struggles with the passions excited by circuses, gladiator fights, etc. are especially good for us to study since this generation is so much addicted to them as well:

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/152.html

Antioch:

5^th – St Eusignius, the Soldier-Martyr (+362). He was a soldier in the Imperial army beginning under the pagan Emperor Maximian. He was a general under Constantine, and saw the Cross that appeared to the Emperor. After sixty years of military service, he retired to his home town and devoted himself to prayer, fasting and good works. A townsman, angry with a judgment that Eusignius had made to settle a dispute, denounced him to Julian the Apostate as a Christian. Summoned before Julian, he vigorously rebuked the Emperor for his apostasy from the Faith; for this he was beheaded, in advanced old age, in 362.

http://abbamoses.com/months/august.html

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/05/102206-martyr-eusignius-of-antioch

Asia Minor:

4^th – Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. During a persecution of Christians under the Emperor Decius, these seven Christian youths hid themselves in a cave outside Ephesus. When they were discovered, their persecutors sealed them in the cave to die; but God instead sent them a miraculous, life-preserving sleep. There they rested for about two hundred years. In the time of the Emperor Theodosius the Younger (408-450), a heresy that denied the bodily Resurrection of the dead began to trouble the people. The Emperor prayed God to reveal the truth to the people. At this time, some shepherds removed the stones blocking the cave in order to build a sheep-pen. They discovered the seven youths, who awoke in full health and told their miraculous story. The miracle was told throughout the empire, and the Emperor himself came to Ephesus and spoke with the youths. A week later, they again fell asleep, this time in death.

http://abbamoses.com/months/august.html

A more detailed account is here:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/04/102195-7-holy-youths-seven-sleepers-of-ephesus

5^th – St Nonna, Mother of St Gregory the Theologian (+374). A great ensample for wives and mothers. By her prayers and holy life she converted her husband to the Orthodox Faith. Her life is recounted here:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/05/102214-righteous-nonna-mother-of-saint-gregory-the-theologian

26^th – Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalia and their 23 companions (+4^th century). Sts Adrian and Natalia are ensamples for all husbands and wives to emulate. Read about their holy martyrdom and about those who suffered with them here:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/26/102398-martyrs-adrian-and-natalia-and-23-companions-of-nicomedia

Asia Minor/Mt Sinai:

8th – St Gregory the Sinaite. Saint Gregory of Sinai was born around the year 1268 in the seacoast village of Clazomenia near the city of Smyrna (Asia Minor), of rich parents. In about the year 1290, he was taken into captivity by the Hagarenes and sent off to Laodicea. After gaining his freedom, the saint arrived on the island of Cyprus, where he was tonsured a monk. He set off afterwards to Mount Sinai and there assumed the great schema. Having fulfilled his obediences of cook and baker, and then as copyist, he surpassed all in reading and knowledge of Scriptural and patristic books. The strictness of his life (fasting, vigil, psalmody, standing at prayer) brought some to astonishment and others to envy. Departing the monastery, the monk visited Jerusalem. For some time he lived on the island of Crete, and afterwards he visited Mt. Athos with its monasteries and ascetics. In this way, he acquired the experience of many centuries of the monastic life from the ancient monasteries. Only after this did Saint Gregory the Sinaite settle himself in a solitary place for “hesychia” [stillness doing the Jesus Prayer], a cell for silence and the unhindered pursuit of mental prayer, combined with hard work. The precious legacy of Saint Gregory is in his teaching about the inner life, 15 texts “On Stillness,” and 137 texts “On Commandments and Doctrines,” . . . . The rest is at

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/08/102237-venerable-gregory-of-sinai

Cornwall/England:

30^th – St Rumon. 6th cent.? A bishop and patron-saint of Tavistock in England. Romansleigh in Devon is named after him.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

More about St Rumon is available here: http://orthochristian.com/106352.html

Crete:

8^th – St Myron the Wonderworker (+350). He was a widowed farmer who, though poor, shared the produce of his farm freely with the needy. Once he found some thieves stealing his grain. Without saying who he was, he helped the thieves fill their sacks and make their escape. His virtue became known, and he was ordained to the priesthood, then consecrated bishop. In his own lifetime he was known as a great wonderworker. He reposed in peace.

http://abbamoses.com/months/august.html

See also https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/08/102233-saint-myron-the-wonderworker-bishop-of-crete .

England:

1^st – St Ethelwold of Winchester. 912-984. Born in Winchester in England and already a monk and priest, in 955 he became Abbot of Abingdon and in 963 Bishop of Winchester. Together with St Dunstan and St Oswald of York he led the monastic revival of the age, restoring the monasteries of Newminster, Milton Abbas, Chertsey, Peterborough, Thorney and Ely to monastic life after occupation by married clergy. For this reason, he was called 'The Father of Monks'. The Winchester School of Illumination flourished under him, as did developments in music and liturgy.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

For many more details about the life of this illustrious Saint of the English Church, visit

http://orthochristian.com/96173.html

2^nd – St Etheldritha. Died 834. Saint Etheldritha was daughter of King Offa of the Mercians and his queen, Quindreda. She was betrothed to King Ethelbert of the East Angles, who was killed by her father's treachery. Because she had wanted to consecrate her life entirely to the service of God, she left the court and established herself about 793 in a small cell on Croyland Island in the desolate marshes of Lincolnshire. There she lived as a recluse for forty years devoting herself to assiduous prayer and the practice of Christian virtue. Several miracles attested to her eminent sanctity, however, she was best known for her prophesies. Her tomb was among those arranged around that of Saint Guthlac, but her relics were lost during the ravages of the Danes when they destroyed Croyland Abbey in 870.

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0802a.html

2^nd – St Plegmund. + 914. The tutor of King Alfred and twentieth Archbishop of Canterbury. Born in Cheshire (his hermitage at Plemstall, Plegmundstow, was named after him). He restored the Church in England after the Danish attacks and was a notable scholar.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0802b.html

5^th – St Oswald, King and Martyr. The successor of St Edwin on the throne of Northumbria in England, he was baptised in exile on Iona. In 635 he defeated the Welsh King Cadwalla and so his real reign began. One of his main aims was to enlighten his country and so he called on St Aidan to help him. In 642 he fell in battle at Maserfield fighting against the champion of paganism, Penda of Mercia. He has always been venerated as a martyr and his head is still in St Cuthbert's coffin in Durham.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

For a full account of this English Christian hero:

https://orthochristian.com/73006.html

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/05/109072-saint-oswald-king-and-martyr

Hymns to the Saint:

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/servoswa.htm

10^th – St Bettelin (Bertram). Patron of Stafford in England, the base of his shrine still exists at Ilam.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

More about his life and legacy are here:

http://orthochristian.com/105917.html

19^th – St Credan of Evesham. Died c. 780. We know that Saint Credan, 8th abbot of Evesham Abbey, governed during the reign of King Offa of Mercia (757-796) because his name appears in several of the king's charters. He had a thriving cultus prior to the coming of the Normans, who suspected anything Anglo-Saxon. The relics of Credan and other local saints at Evesham were put through an ordeal by fire in 1077. It is reported that they emerged unscathed and during the translation that followed, they are reported to have shone like gold. Credan's relics and shrine also withstood the damage that occurred when the church tower fell in 1207.

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0819c.html

20^th – St-King Edbert. +768. The successor of St Ceolwulf on the throne of Northumbria in England. After a prosperous reign of twenty years he resigned and went to the monastery of York, where he spent a further ten years in prayer and seclusion.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

20^th – St-King Oswin. +651. A prince of Deira, part of the kingdom of Northumbria in England, in 642 he succeeded St Oswald as ruler of Deira, but reigned only nine years, being killed at Gilling in Yorkshire by order of his cousin Oswy. Ever since he has been venerated as a martyr.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

More at

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/202.html

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0820a.html

22^nd – St Sigfrid of Wearmouth. +688. A monk and disciple of St Benedict Biscop, he became Abbot of Wearmouth in England in 686. He was an example of monastic virtue.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

St Bede’s life of St Sigfrid is given here:

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/bede-jarrow.asp

29^th – St Sebbe. 664-694. King of Essex in England. After a peaceful reign of thirty years he became a monk at the monastery of Westminster ('the monastery in the West') which he had founded. His life was one of prayer, repentance and almsgiving.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/293.html

31^st – Sts Cuthburgh (Cuthburga) and Cwenburgh. + c 725. Sister of King Ina of Wessex, she became a nun at Barking with St Hildelith. Together with her sister St Cwenburgh, she founded a monastery in Wimborne in Dorset, where she was abbess and was succeeded by her sister. Many nuns from Wimborne helped to enlighten Germany.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/313.html

31^st – St Eanswythe of Folkestone. + c 640. Granddaughter of King Ethelbert of Kent. She founded the first convent in England on the coast near Folkestone. This was later destroyed by the Danes and swallowed up by the sea. Relics of St Eanswith are venerated in her church in Folkestone to this day.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

A longer accounts are at

http://orthochristian.com/97000.html

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/31/102446-saint-eanswythe-abbess-of-folkestone

England/Germany:

13th – St Wigbert. HE was an Englishman of noble birth, who, despising the world in his youth, embraced a monastic state. St. Boniface invited him to join in the labours of the conversion of the Germans, and made him abbot of two monasteries which he built, that of Fritzlar, three miles from Cassel, and afterwards also of Ortdorf, in the same province of Hesse. When called out to hear any one’s confession he spoke to no one in his road, and made haste back to his monastery. Broken by sickness he resigned the government of his monasteries to St. Boniface, the better to prepare himself for his last passage. No state of his last sickness could make him mitigate the severity of his monastic abstinence and fasts, though he condemned not such indulgence in others. He died about the year 747, before St. Boniface, and was famous for miracles. His body was soon after translated to the monastery of Herfeld, and his shrine there adorned by St. Lullus with gold and silver.

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/134.html

England/Scotland:

25th – St Ebba the Elder. SHE was sister to St. Oswald and Oswi, kings of the Northumbers, and, assisted by the liberality of the latter, founded a nunnery upon the Darwent, in the bishopric of Durham, called from her Ebchester; also a double separate monastery at Coldingham in the marshes, now in Scotland, below Berwick. This latter house of nuns she governed herself till she was called to eternal bliss in 683.

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/253.html

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0825b.html

A service for the Saint:

http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/servebbo.htm

France:

4^th – Sts Epiphanes and Isidore. Two early martyrs, venerated at the Cathedral of Besançon in France until the French Revolution.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

5^th – St Memmius (+c 300). [In French Menge, First Bishop and Apostle of Chalons, on the Marne.]  THE CATALAUNIAN plains, according to Jornandes, one hundred leagues in length, and seventy in breadth, famous for the defeat of Attila, and other great victories, gave name to the whole province of Champagne, and were the theatre of the apostolic labours of St. Memmius, the first bishop and apostle of Chalons, in the decline of the third century. Flodoard is our voucher that he was contemporary with St. Sixtus, bishop of Rheims in 290. He is honoured on the 5th of August, the day of his death. His relics, after several translations, are deposited in a rich shrine of silver gilt, together with those of his sister St. Poma, and famous for many miracles. St. Gregory of Tours relates that when he was travelling through Chalons his servant fell dangerously ill of a fever: St. Gregory, prostrate before the tomb of St. Memmius, prayed earnestly for his recovery, and the next morning the youth found himself perfectly well.

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/054.html

8^th – St Leobald. + 650. Founder of Fleury, later called Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, near Orleans in France. St Mummolus. + c 678. Second Abbot of Fleury in France. He had relics of Sts Benedict and Scholastica brought from Italy and so Fleury came to be known as Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

For more on the famous Fleury Abbey:

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06102c.htm

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/saint-benoit-sur-loire-abbey-fleury

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/oefranc1.htm

Pictures:

https://www.france-voyage.com/tourism/fleury-abbey-1173.htm

http://www.abbaye-fleury.com/la-basilique.html

12^th – St Porcarius and those martyred with him (+732). Abbot Porcarius governed Lerins Abbey on an island off the coast of Provence, France, now known as Saint-Honorat, at a time when the monastery included over 500 monks. About 732, Porcarius was warned by an angel that they were threatened by the descent of barbarians from the sea. Immediately the abbot heeded the warning and sent off to safety all the young students at the abbey and 36 of the younger religious. When the ship left fully loaded, he set about preparing the rest of the community for death. The community was attacked by the Saracens, probably Moors from Spain or North Africa, and were massacred, except four who were taken into slavery.

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0812a.html

13th – St Radegund (+587). SHE was daughter of Bertaire, a pagan king of part of Thuringia, in Germany, who was assassinated by his brother Hermenfred. Theodoric, or Thierry, king of Austrasia, or Metz, and his brother Clotaire I., then king of Soissons, fell upon Hermenfred, vanquished him, and carried home a great booty. Among the prisoners, Radegundes, then about twelve years old, fell to the lot of King Clotaire, who gave her an education suitable to her birth, and caused her to be instructed in the Christian religion, and baptized. The great mysteries of our holy faith made such an impression on her tender soul, that, from the moment of her baptism, she gave herself to God with her whole heart, abridged her meals to feed the poor, whom she served with her own hands, and made prayer, humiliations, and austerities her whole delight. It was her earnest desire to serve God in the state of perpetual virginity; but was obliged at length to acquiesce in the king’s desire to marry her. Being by this exaltation become a great queen, she continued no less an enemy to sloth and vanity than she was before, and she divided her time chiefly between her oratory, the church, and the care of the poor. She also kept long fasts, and during Lent wore a hair-cloth under her rich garments. . . . More about her illustrious life is here:

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/133.html

17^th – St Patroclus of Troyes. The Martyr Patroclus lived during the third century under the emperor Aurelian (270-275). He was a native of the city of Tricassinum (now the city of Troyes in France) and led a pious Christian life: he loved to pray, to read the Holy Scriptures, to fast and to be charitable to the poor. For this the Lord bestowed upon him the gift of wonderworking. The emperor Aurelian summoned Saint Patroclus to himself and commanded him to worship idols, promising for this great honors and riches. The saint disdained idol worship saying that the emperor himself was a beggar. “How can you call me, the emperor, a beggar?” asked Aurelian. The saint answered: . . . The rest of the Saint’s life is here:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/17/102316-martyr-patroclus-of-troyes

20^th – St Haduin (Harduin). + c 662. Bishop of Le Mans in France, he founded several monasteries including Notre-Dame-d'Evron.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

20^th – St Philibert. c 608-684. Born in Gascony in France, at the age of twenty he became a monk and then Abbot of Rébais. Later he founded and was Abbot of Jumièges. He opposed the tyrant Ebroin and was imprisoned and exiled. Before his repose he also founded the monastery of Noirmoutier, restored Quinçay and helped several others.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/225.html

21^st – St Sidonius of Clermont. c 423-480. Caius Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius was born in Lyons. A soldier, he married the daughter of Avitus, Emperor of the West, after which he served the State (468-9). He then became Bishop of Clermont in France. As bishop he saved his people from Goths under Alaric. Sidonius was a writer but he gave his wealth to the poor and to monasteries.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

More about St Sidonius:

CAIUS SOLLIUS APOLLINARIS SIDONIUS was born at Lyons about the year 431, and was of one of the most noble families in Gaul, where his father and grandfather, both named Apollinaris, had commanded successively in quality of prefects of the prætorium. He was educated in arts and learning under the best masters, and was one of the most celebrated orators and poets of the age in which he lived. From his epistles, it is manifest that he was always religious, pious, humble, affable, extremely affectionate, beneficent, and compassionate, and no lover of the world, even whilst he lived in it; for some time he had a command in the imperial army; and he married Papianilla, by whom he had a son called Apollinaris, and two daughters. Papianilla was daughter of Avitus, who after having been thrice prefect of the prætorium in Gaul, was raised to the imperial throne at Rome in 455; . . . The rest of the life of this illustrious Saint is at

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/233.html

22^nd – St Symphorian. + c 200. A member of a senatorial family in Autun in France, he was martyred under Marcus Aurelius for refusing to sacrifice to a pagan goddess.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/222.html

24^th – St Ouen, Archbishop of Rouen (+683). HE was otherwise called Dadon, and was son of Autaire, a virtuous French nobleman, who was settled in Brie. St. Columban being courteously entertained by him, gave his blessing to his two sons, Ouen and Adon, then in their infancy. Autaire placed them both, during their youth, in the court of King Clotaire II., where they contracted a friendship with St. Eloi, and by his example conceived a great contempt for the world, and both resolved to devote themselves to the service of God. Adon executed his design some time after, and founded upon an estate which he had near the river Marne, the double monastery of Jouarre, then called Jotrum, which he endowed with his own estate. It is at present a Benedictin nunnery. St. Ouen was in great credit with king Clotaire II, and with his son and successor Dagobert I. who made him keeper of his seal, in quality of his referendary or chancellor; and original acts signed by him by virtue of this office are still extant. He obtained of the king a grant of a piece of land situated in the forest of Brie, between the greater and lesser Morin; where, in 634, he erected a monastery called, from the brook near which it stands, Resbac, at present Rebais. . . . The rest is at https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/243.html

27^th – St Caeserius of Arles. 470-543. Born in Châlon-sur-Saône in France, he became a monk at Lérins when young and then Bishop of Arles. He presided several Councils and founded a convent afterwards called after him at Arles, where his sister St Caesaria became abbess. He was zealous for decorum in liturgy and excelled as a preacher. His homilies still exist. During the distress caused by the siege of Arles in 508, he sold the treasures of his church to help the poor.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/271.html

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Caesarius_of_Arles

28th – St Julian, Martyr (+3rd century). HE was descended from, one of the best families of Vienne in Dauphiné. He served with the tribune Ferreol; and knew well how to reconcile the profession of arms with the maxims of the gospel. Crispin, governor of the province of Vienne, having declared himself against the Christians, our saint withdrew to Auvergne, not that he dreaded the persecution, but that he might be at hand to be of service to the faithful; for being acquainted, that he was sought after by the persecutors, of his own accord he presented himself before them saying: “Alas, I am too long in this bad world; oh! how I burn with desire to be with Jesus.” He had scarcely uttered these words, when they separated his head from his body. It was near Brioude; but the place of his interment was for a long time unknown, until God revealed it to St. Germain of Auxerre, when he passed by Brioude on his return from Arles, about the year 431. His head was afterwards translated to Vienne with the body of St. Ferreol. St. Gregory of Tours relates a great number of miracles wrought by his intercession.

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/283.html

29^th – St Medericus (Merry). + c 700. Born in Autun in France, he became a monk at St Martin's in Autun, where he eventually became abbot. Later he lived as a hermit near Paris, where now stands the church of Saint-Merry.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/294.html

France/Germany:

30^th – St Agilus. c 580-650. A young nobleman who became a monk with St Columbanus at Luxeuil. He remained at Luxeuil under the founder's successor, St Eustace, but went with him in 612 to preach in Bavaria. On his return to France he became Abbot of Rebais near Paris.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/305.html

France/Germany/Belgium/Italy:

17^th – St Carloman. 707-755. The eldest son of Charles Martel, he became King of Austrasia after his father died. 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.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

Germany:

5^th – St Afra, Patroness of Augsburg, and those martyred with her. + c 304. A martyr who suffered in Augsburg in Germany, probably under Diocletian. She was venerated there from early times and the monastery of that city was dedicated to her.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

Much more about her, including the actual dialogue between St Afra and her persecutors, as well as details about those who suffered with her is at

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/053.html

Germany/France:

11^th – St Gery. + c 625. Gaugericus was born near Trier in Germany, ordained priest and later became Bishop of Cambrai and Arras in France for over thirty-nine years.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

The reputation of his virtue and learning raised him to the episcopal chair of Cambray and Arras, which sees remained united from the death of St. Vedast to the year 1093. This saint continued his labours in that charge for thirty-nine years, and entirely extirpated out of that country the remains of idolatry. Lest through the multitude of affairs he should in any degree forget that the sanctification of his own soul was his first and most essential duty, and that, without attending to this in the first place, he could hope for little fruit of his labours for the salvation of others, and could not expect that God would make any account of them, he was careful to season them with assiduous recollection, prayer, and self-examination; but from time to time he betook himself to some retired solitude, there to attend to God alone and to recommend to him, by fervent prayer, the souls intrusted to his care. . . . More is at

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/113.html

Hungary:

16^th – St-King Stephen. + c 935-1038. On the death of his father, Geza (997), Stephen became King of Hungary. He had married Gisela, a sister of the Emperor Henry II in 995, and they set about enlightening their people. Stephen gradually welded the Magyars into national unity. He organised dioceses and founded monasteries (among them Pannonhalma, which still exists). The declining years of St Stephen were darkened by many misfortunes and difficulties, though he never ceased to be just, kind and merciful. To this day the Magyars consider him their greatest national saint and hero.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

More:

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/021.html

Ireland:

4^th – St Lua. 554-609? Originally from Limerick in Ireland, he became a disciple of St Comgall and founded many monasteries. A great ascetic, he was of great tenderness to both man and beast.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0804a.html

9^th – St Phelim. 6th cent. A disciple of St Columba. The town of Kilmore in Ireland grew up around his cell and he is the main patron-saint there

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

11^th – St Attracta (+5^th century). Holy Mother Attracta (Araght, Atty) is a greatly venerated Irish anchoress and foundress of monastic communities. She was born in the fifth century to a noble family and was a contemporary of St. Patrick, the enlightener of the Irish land, who according to tradition tonsured her. The future saint was born in what is now County Sligo in the west of the Republic of Ireland, in the province of Connacht. From childhood she dreamed of dedicating her life to the service of God. She prayed fervently, bestowed alms on the poor and fasted continuously for the mortification of her flesh. On learning that her parents did not approve of her decision to lead the monastic life and wanted her to marry (the girl was beautiful and had several suitors), the young Attracta left her parents’ home, taking two companions with her.

The rest is at

http://orthochristian.com/123323.html

15^th – St McCartin. +506. Saint MacCartin, one of the earliest disciples of Saint Patrick, is said to have been born into the noble Irish family of the Arads. In Gaelic his name was Aedh Mac Carthin, derived from carthann meaning "kindness." St. MacCarthen at one time had the peaceful function to carry the aged Saint Patrick on his back across fords and other difficult places, on their missionary journeys. Patrick consecrated him bishop of Clogher in 454 AD, of which diocese MacCartin is the patron.

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0815a.html

Ireland/England:

31^st – St Aidan of Lindisfarne. +651. An Irish monk at Iona who, at the request of St Oswald, King of Northumbria, went to enlighten the north of England. He fixed his see at Lindisfarne (Holy Island) where he ruled as abbot and bishop, his diocese reaching from the Forth to the Humber. His life was illustrated by numberless miracles and was most fruitful, as is witnessed to by the writings of St Bede. He reposed at Bamburgh.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

Much more about this great Saint is at

http://orthochristian.com/82077.html

Ireland/England/France/Belgium:

8^th – St Ultan. 8th cent. Born in Ireland, he was a priest at the monastery of St Peter in Crayke in Yorkshire in England. He excelled in the art of illumination.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

More about St Ultan is included in this article:

https://orthochristian.com/90151.html

Ireland/France:

30^th – St Fiacre (Fiacrius, Fiaker, Fèvre). + c 670. Born in Ireland, he was given land by St Faro of Meaux in France. He lived here for the rest of his life, attracting many disciples for whom he built the monastery of Breuil.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/303.html

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0829a.html

Ireland/Italy:

1st – St Peregrinus. HE was an Irish young prince of royal blood, who, after visiting the holy places in Palestine, led an austere eremitical life for forty years in the chain of mountains near Modena in Italy. He died in 643. He is honoured among the patrons of the country of Modena and Lucca, and from him that chain of the Appennine hills is called Monti di S. Pellegrini.

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/015.html

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0801c.html

Old Rome:

2nd – St Stephen, Bishop of Rome, and those martyred with him. The Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome, suffered in the year 257 during the reign of the emperor Valerian (253-259). Saint Stephen, occupying the throne (253-257) of the holy First Bishop of Rome, zealously contended against the heresy of Novatus, which taught that it is not proper to receive back those returning from heresy. More at

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/02/102187-hieromartyr-stephen-pope-of-rome-and-those-with-him

4^th – St Perpetua. + c 80. A matron from Rome baptised by the Apostle Peter who converted her husband and her son, St Nazarius. Her relics are enshrined in Milan and Cremona in Italy.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

5^th – St Fabian, Bishop of Rome, and St Pontius. Fabian succeeded St Antherus as Pope of Rome in 236 and was martyred in 250 under Decius. St Cyprian described him as an 'incomparable man' and added that the glory of his death matched the purity and goodness of his life.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/05/102209-hieromartyr-fabian-pope-of-rome-and-martyr-pontious

Commemorated with St Fabian is St Pontius, a fellow-worker with St Fabian and also a martyr:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/05/109008-martyr-pontius

8^th – Sts Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus and Companions. + 304. A group of twenty-four martyrs who suffered in Rome under Diocletian. At their head was St Cyriacus, a deacon. They were buried near the seventh milestone on the Ostian Way.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/081.html

10^th – St Laurence the Archdeacon of Rome, Pope Sixtus II, and those martyred with them. +258. St Laurence was one of the deacons of Pope Sixtus II and was martyred three days after the Pope by being roasted on a gridiron. He has always been venerated as one of the most celebrated martyrs of Rome. His martyrdom, said Prudentius, was the death of idolatry in Rome. He was buried on the Via Tiburtina, where his basilica now stands.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

More details about their glorious witness for Christ are here:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/10/102258-martyr-and-archdeacon-laurence-and-those-with-him-of-rome

11^th – Holy Virgin-Martyr Susanna and those martyred with her (+296). She was the daughter of Gavinius, a Christian priest in Rome, and the niece of Pope Gaius. The Emperor Diocletian's adopted son Maximian wished to marry Susanna, but she had no desire to marry any one, least of all a pagan. The patricians Claudia and Maxima were sent to Susanna by the Emperor to present Maximian's suit; but instead she turned both of them, and all their households, to the Faith. The enraged Emperor had Claudia, Maxima and their families executed, then had Susanna herself beheaded. The Emperor's wife, Serena, was a secret Christian, and took Susanna's body secretly and buried it. Soon after this Susanna's father Gavinius and her uncle Pope Gaius also met martyrdom.

http://abbamoses.com/months/august.html

More at

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/11/102268-virginmartyr-susanna-and-those-with-her-at-rome

13th – St Hippolytus and those martyred with him. The Martyr Hippolytus was a chief prison guard at Rome under the emperors Decius (249-251) and Valerian (253-259). He was converted to Christ by the Martyr Laurence (August 10), and he buried the martyr’s body.

They informed the emperor of this, and Saint Hippolytus was arrested. Valerian asked: “Are you then a sorcerer, to have stolen away the body of Laurence?” The saint confessed himself a Christian, and they beat him fiercely with rods. His only response was, “I am a Christian.”

The emperor gave orders to clothe Saint Hippolytus in his soldier’s garb, saying, “Be mindful of your calling and be our friend. Offer sacrifice to the gods together with us, just as before.” But the martyr answered, . . . The rest is at

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/13/102288-martyr-hippolytus-of-rome-and-those-with-him-martyr-concordia-ir

22^nd – St Hippolytus of Porto (+235/251). A disciple of St Irenaeus of Lyons and an important writer in the early Church who defended the Orthodox Faith against various heresies (like his spiritual father St Irenaeus).

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/221.html

25^th – St Genesius the Actor. + c 300. An actor in Rome who, while taking part in a satire on Orthodox baptism, was suddenly converted and at once martyred.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/262.html

A similar event happened with St Gelasinus the Actor:

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/263.html

26^th – Sts Irenaeus and Abundius. + c 258. Martyrs in Rome drowned in the public sewers during the persecution of Valerian.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

27^th – St Liberius, Bishop of Rome (+366).  An ardent opponent of Arianism.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/27/102408-saint-liberius-pope-of-rome

29^th – St Sabina and St Seraphia her servant, martyrs (2^nd century?).

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/292.html

30^th – St Pammachius. c 340-410. A Roman senator, married to one of the daughters of St Paula. On the death of his wife in 395, Pammachius became a monk and spent the rest of his life and his immense wealth in the service of the sick and the poor.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/304.html

Old Rome/Russia:

15^th – St Macarius the Roman (+1550). Saint Macarius the Roman was born at the end of the fifteenth century into a wealthy family of Rome. His parents raised him in piety and gave him an excellent education. He might have expected a successful career in public service, but he did not desire honors or earthly glory. Instead, he focused on how to save his soul. He lived in an age when the Christian West was shaken by the Protestant Reformation. While others around him were pursuing luxury and lascivious pleasures, he studied the Holy Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers. Saint Macarius was grieved to see so many darkened by sin and worldly vanity, and was disturbed by the rebellions and conflicts within the Western Church. With tears, he asked God to show him the path of salvation, and his prayer did not go unanswered. He came to realize that he would find the safe harbor of salvation in the Orthodox Church. Saint Macarius left Rome secretly, and set out for Russia without money, and wearing an old garment. After many sufferings on his journey, he arrived in Novgorod, where he rejoiced to see so many churches and monasteries. One of these monasteries had been founded three centuries before by his fellow countryman, Saint Anthony the Roman (August 3).  Saint Macarius came to the banks of the River Svir, where Saint Alexander of Svir (April 17 and August 30) had founded the monastery of the Holy Trinity. . . . The rest of the life of this Saint so crucial for the West is here:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/15/149024-saint-macarius-the-roman

Palestine:

2nd – Translation of the Relics of the First Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen (+428). The body of the holy Protomartyr Stephen, was left at the foothill of the city for two days to be eaten by dogs. But on the second night, Gamaliel— teacher of the Apostle Paul and the Apostle Barnabas— along with his son, secretly came and took the body to his own estate, in Capharganda, to be buried. Nicodemus, who died while weeping at this grave, was also buried there along with Gamaliel's godson Abibus and Gamaliel himself upon his repose. After many years the memory of St. Stephen's burial place had left the minds of men, until 415 when Gamaliel appeared three times to Father Lucian, priest at Capharganda. He revealed to Fr. Lucian the place of his burial and everything about it. Fr. Lucian received the blessing of the Patriarch to exhume the saints from their grave where a strong, sweet fragrance filled the cave. St. Stephen's relics were translated to Zion and honorably buried, and many of the sick were healed by his relics. The other three relics were placed inside a church atop the cave on a hill. Eventually, his relics were translated to Constantinople. More about this wonderful event is at

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_Stephen_the_Protomartyr

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/02/102181-translation-of-the-relics-of-the-protomartyr-and-archdeacon-step

Hymns to the Saint:

Your relics have risen from the depths of the earth, / like a treasury for the immortal life of all of creation. / The Church, rejoicing in the grace that she receives from them, / duteously honors you, Protomartyr Stephen. / Preserve us from error and heresy by your intercession!

You were the first to be sown on the earth by the Heavenly Husbandman, O all-praised one. / You were the first to shed your blood on the earth for Christ, O blessed one. / You were the first to receive the crown of victory from Him in heaven, / Stephen, first of the suffering God-crowned martyrs.

https://www.oca.org/saints/troparia/2020/08/02/102181-translation-of-the-relics-of-the-protomartyr-and-archdeacon-step

7^th – Holy Martyrs Marinus the Soldier and Asterius the Senator (+260). Marinus was a soldier in the Roman army, serving in Caesarea in Palestine. During a persecution under the Emperor Gallienus, he was arrested and beheaded for his Christian faith. The senator Asterius, also a Christian, was present at his execution. Asterius took off his senatorial toga, wrapped the martyr's body in it, and carried the holy body away to bury it. For this he too was beheaded.

http://abbamoses.com/months/august.html

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/07/102223-martyr-marinus-the-soldier-at-caesarea-in-palestine

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/07/102224-martyr-asterius-the-senator-at-caesarea-in-palestine

14^th – St Eusebius. A martyred priest of the third century. The dialogue with his persecutors and his other acts are good to read as the clouds of persecution gather once again:

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/141.html

14^th – Holy Prophet Micah.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/14/102296-prophet-micah

20^th – Holy Prophet Samuel.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/20/102349-prophet-samuel

A hymn to the Saint:

You were given as a precious gift to a barren womb, / and offered as a fragrant sacrifice to your Lord. / You served Him in truth and righteousness; / wherefore we honor you, O Samuel prophet of God, / as an intercessor for our souls.

https://www.oca.org/saints/troparia/2020/08/20/102349-prophet-samuel

28^th – Righteous King Hezekiah (+691 B.C.). https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/28/108967-righteous-hezekiah

28^th – Righteous Anna the Prophetess.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/28/102416-righteous-anna-the-prophetess-and-daughter-of-phanuel-who-met-th

Palestine/Syria:

1st – The 7 Holy Maccabee brothers, their mother, and teacher.  The seven holy Maccabee martyrs Abim, Antonius, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusebonus, Alimus and Marcellus, their mother Solomonia and their teacher Eleazar suffered in the year 166 before Christ under the impious Syrian king Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The martyric death of the Maccabee brothers inspired Judas Maccabeus, and he led a revolt against Antiochus Epiphanes. With God’s help, he gained the victory, and then purified the Temple at Jerusalem. He also threw down the altars which the pagans had set up in the streets. All these events are related in the Second Book of Maccabees (Ch. 8-10). Various Fathers of the Church preached sermons on the seven Maccabees, including Saint Cyprian of Carthage, Saint Ambrose of Milan, Saint Gregory Nazianzus and Saint John Chrysostom.  The whole account is at

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/01/102162-7-holy-maccabee-martyrs

Russia:

13^th – St Tikhon, the Wonderworker of Zadonsk and All Russia (+1783). An excellent pastor and gifted spiritual writer. His humility and meekness are wonderful to behold. An account of his life and his writings is here:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/13/102287-saint-tikhon-bishop-of-voronezh-wonderworker-of-zadonsk-and-all

30^th – St Alexander of Svir (+1533). One of the most renowned Russian saints. His holiness was such that he was granted a visitation by the All-Holy Trinity, in Whose honor he founded a monastery. Much more about this glorious wonderworker is here:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/30/102423-venerable-alexander-abbot-of-svir

Spain:

6^th – Sts Justus and Pastor. Two brothers, aged respectively thirteen and nine, who were scourged and beheaded at Alcalá in Spain under Diocletian.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

More details:

https://www.bartleby.com/210/8/063.html

6^th – St Stephen of Cardeña and Companions. + 872. Abbot of the Castilian monastery of Cardeña near Burgos in Spain where there were over two hundred monks. By tradition the Abbot and the monks were martyred by the Saracens.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

19^th – Sts Leovigild and Christopher. +852. Leovigild was a monk and pastor in Cordoba in Spain and Christopher a monk of the monastery of St Martin de La Rojana near Cordoba. They were martyred in Cordoba under Abderrahman II.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

22^nd – St Eulalia of Barcelona and Martyr Felix (+303). She was born of Christian parents in Barcelona, and dedicated herself to a life of holiness, taking Christ as her bridegroom. When the persecutor Dacian came to Barcelona, Eulalia secretly left her parents' house by night and came before Dacian, denouncing him in front of many witnesses as a murderer of the innocent, and publicly confessing her faith in Christ. The wicked Dacian had her stripped and beaten, then tied to a tree in the form of a cross, and ordered that her flesh be burned with torches. When her torturer mockingly asked 'Where is your Christ to save you?' she answered 'He is here with me; you cannot see Him because of your impurity.' When the holy Eulalia died at last under torture, the people saw a white dove fly from her mouth. An unseasonable snowstorm then covered her naked body like a white garment.

http://abbamoses.com/months/august.html

More at

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/22/102374-virginmartyr-eulalia-of-barcelona-and-the-martyr-felix

Spain/Old Rome:

27th – St Hosius (+359). Saint Hosius the Confessor was bishop for more than sixty years in the city of Cordova (Spain) during the fourth century. The holy emperor Saint Constantine the Great (306-337) deeply revered him and made him a privy counsellor. The saint advised Saint Constantine to convene the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea in 325, and he was the first to sign the acts of this Council. After the death of Saint Constantine the Great, Saint Hosius defended Saint Athanasius of Alexandria (May 2) against the emperor Constantius (337-361), an advocate of the Arian heresy. Because of this, they sent him to prison in Sirmium. Saint Hosius died in the year 359 after his return to Cordova.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/27/102407-saint-hosius-the-confessor-bishop-of-cordova

Switzerland:

3^rd – St Benno. +940. Born in Swabia in Germany, he became a hermit on Mt Etzel in Switzerland, St Meinrad's former hermitage. He lived there with a few disciples, so founding the monastery of Einsiedeln. In 927 he became Bishop of Metz in France. Striving to overcome abuses, he was attacked and blinded by enemies of Christ. He resigned and returned to Einsiedeln.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

For more on the importance of Einsiedeln Abbey’s influence on the West:

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05367a.htm

The monastery’s web site:

https://www.kloster-einsiedeln.ch/

Syria/Cilicia:

19th – St Andrew the Commander and 2,593 soldiers who were martyred with him. The Martyr Andrew Stratelates was a military commander in the Roman army during the reign of the emperor Maximian (284-305). They loved him in the Roman army because of his bravery, invincibility and sense of fairness. When a large Persian army invaded the Syrian territories, the governor Antiochus entrusted Saint Andrew with the command of the Roman army, giving him the title of “Stratelates” (“Commander”). Saint Andrew selected a small detachment of brave soldiers and proceeded against the adversary. His soldiers were pagans, and Saint Andrew himself had still not accepted Baptism, but he believed in Jesus Christ. Before the conflict he persuaded the soldiers that the pagan gods were demons and could not help them in battle. He proclaimed to them Jesus Christ, the omnipotent God of Heaven and earth, giving help to all who believe in Him. . . . The rest is at

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/19/102340-martyr-andrew-stratelates-and-2593-soldiers-with-him-in-cilicia

Wales:

1^st – St Aled (+6^th century). Saint Aled was a descendant of King Saint Brychan of Brecknock (f.d. April 6). She is said to have suffered martyrdom on a hill near Brecknock, Wales. It is related that she was a young nun who fled to Llanfillo, then Llechfaen, and finally Slwch Tump near Brecon, in order to escape an unwanted marriage to a prince. She built a cell at Brecon with the help of the local lord. Later she was found by her suitor. Again she ran, but he caught and beheaded her with his sword. As in the story of St. Winefride, a miraculous spring erupted from the ground. More at

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0801e.html

Wales/Cornwall/England/Brittany:

16^th – St Armel. + c 550. Born in the south of Wales, he was a cousin of St Samson. A church in Cornwall was dedicated to him - St Erme. He went to Brittany and founded Saint-Armel-des-Boscheaux and Plou-Ermel (Ploermel).

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

His veneration has spread all across France:

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0816a.html

Wales/England/Cornwall/Ireland:

27^th – St Decuman. +706. Born in Wales, he lived as a hermit at what is now St Decumans in Somerset in England, where he was martyred.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

More about St Decuman is here:

http://orthochristian.com/123699.html

Wales/Scotland/England:

26th – St Ninian of Whithorn. + ? 432. One of the most venerated saints of Scotland. He is commemorated as “Apostle of the Southern Picts.” A Briton who was sent to enlighten his native country, he established his mission at Whithorn in Wigtownshire in Scotland, so called because the church was built of stone plastered white. There was a monastery attached to it and it was from this centre that Ninian and his monks enlightened the northern Britons and the Picts.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm

More about this Saint who should be treasured in every Southern heart is here:

https://orthochristian.com/73449.html

A service for St Ninian:

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/pdf/servs/ninian.pdf

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

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