August 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• Afterfeast of the Dormition.

  Saints

• Martyrs Florus and Laurus of Illyria, twin brothers who worked as stonemasons
• The Holy Host of Paupers, brought together by Saints Florus and Laurus, who smashed the statues of the pagan gods and were martyred by fire.
• Martyrs Hermes, Serapion, Polyaenus of Rome
• Hieromartyr Emilian, Bishop of Trebia in Umbria, and lay martyrs Hilarion, Dionysius, Hermippus, and about 1,000 others, in Italy
• Venerable Barnabas and his nephew Sophronius, founders of Mount Mela Monastery, near Trebizond
• Venerable Christopher of Trebizond, Abbot of Mount Mela Monastery
• Saints John and George, Patriarchs of Constantinople.
• Martyr Juliana near Strobilos in Lycia.
• Martyr Leo, drowned off the coast of Myra in Lycia.
• The 4 Venerable Ascetics, reposed in peace.
• Saint Macarius, Abbot of the Pelekete monastery near Prusa, Bithynia
• Venerable John of Rila, founder and Abbot of Rila Monastery, Bulgaria

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Agapitus of Palestrina, a fifteen-year-old who bravely confessed Christ and was martyred in Palestrina near Rome
• Martyrs John and Crispus, priests in Rome who devoted themselves to recovering and burying the bodies of the martyrs, for which they also suffered martyrdom.
• Saint Firminus of Metz, Greek or Italian by origin, he was Bishop of Metz in France for eight years, Confessor
• Saint Daig Maccairill, disciple of St Finian, he founded a monastery at Inis Cain Dega, and was both abbot and bishop
• Saint Milo, a monk together with his father at Fontenelle Abbey in France, and later a hermit
• Saint Inan,a hermit in Ayrshire in Scotland, where churches are dedicated to him

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Christodoulus the Philosopher, called "the Ossetian," of Georgia
• Venerable Sophronius of St. Anne's skete on Mount Athos
• New Monk-martyr Demetrius the Vlach, of Samarina, at Ioannina

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyrs Archimandrite Augustine of Orans Monastery, and Archpriest Nicholas of Nizhni-Novgorod, and 15 people with them
• New Hieromartyr Gregory Bronnikov, Priest, and Martyr Eugene Dmitriev and Michael Eregodsky

  Other commemorations

• Uncovering of the Relics of Venerable Arsenios the New of Paros
• Repose of Schemamonk Nicholas "the Turk," of Optina Skete

  Icons

• Icon of the Mother of God the "Directress" of Trebizond, also known as "Panagia Soumeliotissa".

  Icon gallery