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 2 3 4 5 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.

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