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