August 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• Afterfeast of the Dormition.

  Saints

• Hieromartyr Myron of Cyzicus, Priest
• Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus, with others, of Caesarea in Bithynia
• Martyrs Paul and his sister Juliana, and Quadratus, Acacius and Stratonicus the executioners, at Ptolemais in Syria
• Martyrs Straton, Philip, Eutychian, and Cyprian, of Nicomedia
• Venerable Monk-martyr Macarius of Mount St. Auxentius
• Venerable Elias the Younger of Calabria,
• Venerable Aiglon, a hermit who lived ascetically and reposed in peace.

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Eusebius, a Greek by birth, reposed in exile in Sicily
• Saint Theodulus of Grammont, an early Bishop of Valais, who was much revered in Switzerland and Savoy
• Hieromartyrs Liberatus, Boniface, Servus, Rusticus, Rogatus, Septimus, and Maximus, under the Arian King Hunneric
• Saint Anastasius of Terni, Bishop of Terni in Italy
• Saint James the Deacon, companion of St Paulinus of York in his mission to Northumbria
• Saint Drithelm, monk at Melrose Abbey in Scotland, Confessor, great ascetic
• Saint Carloman, eldest son of Charles Martel, became King of Austrasia
• Saint Amor, companion of St Pirmin in preaching Christ in Germany, founder of the monastery of Amorbach in Franconia
• Martyr Patroclus of Troyes, under Aurelian
• Hieromartyr Jeroen, hieromonk, at Noordwijk, Netherlands
• Saint Benedicta and Cecilia, two daughters of the King of Lorraine, became nuns and successively Abbesses of Susteren Abbey, in the Rhineland, Germany

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Alypius the Iconographer, of the Kiev Caves Monastery
• Saint Tbeli Abuserisdze of Khikhuni, Adjara
• Venerable Leucius, Abbot of Volokolamsk
• Blessed Theodoretus, Enlightener of the Laps in Solovki
• Saint Philip of Mt. Yankov Monastery, left bank of Sukhona River in Vologda, monk
• New Monk-martyr Agapius, at Thermes, near Thessalonica
• Venerable Monk-martyr Demetrius of Samarina, at Ioannina
• Saint Pimen, Archimandrite, of Ugreshi Monastery
• Saint George the Pilgrim, of Piatra Neamț, in eastern Romania

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Alexis Velikoselsky, Priest
• New Hieromartyr Demetrius Ostroumov, Priest

  Other commemorations

• Repose of Schemanun Ardaliona of Ust-Medveditsky Convent
• Repose of Schemamonk Onuphrius of Valaam Monastery

  Icons

• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Armatia", Constantinople.
• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Svensk"
• Icon of Panagia of Goumenissa.

  Icon gallery