July 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 9

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 21 by Old Calendarists.

Saints

• Great martyr Procopius of Caesarea in Palaestina (303)
• Righteous Procopius of Ustiug in Vologda, Fool-for-Christ and wonderworker (1303)
• Saint Theophilus the Myrrh-gusher of Pantocrator Monastery on Mount Athos (1548)

Pre-Schism Western Saints

• St. Edgar the Peaceful, King of Mercia and Northumbria, and upon the death of his brother Eadwig (A.D. 959), King of all England.^[1]
• St. Grimbald was a monk at St. Bertin Abbey in Saint-Omer in Flanders who was invited by King Alfred the Great to help restore scholarship in England.^[1]
• St. Morwenna may have been a daughter of King St. Brychan of Brycheiniog, and is often confused with St. Modwenna (5th July), who lived two centuries later.^[1]
• St. Ulrith of Chittlehampton.^[1]
• St. Withburgh of East Anglia, an anchoress at East Dereham, Norfolk, England.^[1]

Other commemorations

• Appearance of the "Kazan" and "Peschanskaya" Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos

References

1. Hutchison-Hall, John (Ellsworth) (2014). Orthodox Saints of the British Isles - Volume III (1 ed.). New York: St. Eadfrith Press. ISBN 9780692257661.

• 8th July. Pre-Schism Orthodox Western Saints.