8 Августа 1840 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Saturday, August 8, 1840 (July 27, 1840 by the Julian calendar)
8^th Week after Pentecost, Tone six

[.:] Holy Great-martyr and Healer Panteleimon (305). Commemoration of the canonization of St. Herman of Alaska (1970). New Hieromartyr Ambrose (Gudko), bishop of Sarapul (1918), pesbyter Demetrius (Vasilevsky) and presbyter Ciril (Boyko). Blessed Nicholas Kochanov, fool-for-Christ at Novgorod (1392). St. Anthusa, abbess of Mantinea in Asia Minor and her 90 sisters (759). St. Ioasaph, metropolitan of Moscow (1555). St. Clement of Ochrid, bishop of Greater Macedonia (916), and Sts. Angelar (10th c.), Gorazd (896), Nahum of Ochrid (910), and Sabbas (10th c.), disciples of Sts. Cyril and Methodius (Bulgaria). Martyr Christodulus (1777) (Greek). The blind man who confessed Christ and was martyred with St. Panteleimon (Greek). 853 Martyrs of Thrace who were drowned(Greek).