Orthodox saints and name days on August 6

Name days on August 6

Savvas, Sabbas, Sotirios, Sotiris, Sotiria, Sotiroula

Saints and feasts of August 6

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  Transfiguration of the Lord

  Great Feast, Μεταμόρφωση

  The Great Feast of the Transfiguration commemorates the day Christ led Peter, James, and John up Mount Tabor and was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, His garments became white as light, Moses and Elijah appeared speaking with Him, and the voice of the Father declared Him the beloved Son.

  Name days: Savvas, Sabbas, Sotirios, Sotiris, Sotiria, Sotiroula

• Abbakoum the New Martyr

  Martyr, Αββακούμ ο Νεομάρτυς

  Saint Abbakoum was a monk from Mount Athos who confessed Christ openly before the Ottoman authorities in Thessaloniki. Tradition relates that he went to his martyrdom with joy on the feast of the Transfiguration.