Orthodox saints and name days on August 7

Name days on August 7

Dometios, Nikanor, Nikanoras, Potamia

Saints and feasts of August 7

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  Dometios the Persian

  Martyr, Δομέτιος

  St. Dometios was a Persian of the fourth century who came to faith in Christ and left his homeland for the regions of Syria and Mesopotamia, where he received the monastic tonsure and later lived in ascetic solitude, drawing many who sought healing and counsel through his prayers.

  Name days: Dometios

• Narkissos Patriarch of Jerusalem

  Hierarch, Νάρκισσος Ιεροσολύμων

  Saint Narkissos was bishop of Jerusalem at the end of the second century. Tradition relates that he lived to a very great age, withdrew for a time into the desert after being slandered, and returned to his see to serve alongside Saint Alexander.

• Theodosios the New of Argos

  Venerable, Θεοδόσιος ο Νέος

  Saint Theodosios was born in Athens in the ninth century and became a monk, settling as a hermit near Argos in the Peloponnese. Many came to him for healing and counsel, and a monastery grew up around his cell.

• Nikanor of Zavorda

  Venerable, Νικάνωρ

  Saint Nikanor was born in Thessaloniki in the fifteenth century and, after distributing his wealth to the poor, embraced the monastic life. He founded the Monastery of the Transfiguration at Zavorda on Mount Kallistratos in western Macedonia.

  Name days: Nikanor, Nikanoras

• Potamia the Wonderworker

  Holy Woman, Ποταμία

  The synaxaria record that Saint Potamia was a virgin who confessed Christ and was beheaded by the sword.

  Name days: Potamia

• Asterios the Senator

  Martyr, Αστέριος

  Saint Asterios was a Roman senator who, tradition relates, reverently buried the body of the martyr Marinos at Caesarea in Palestine. For this act of faith he was himself arrested and beheaded in the third century.

• Theodora of Sihla

  Holy Woman, Θεοδώρα της Σύχλας

  Saint Theodora was born in Moldavia in the seventeenth century and, after her marriage was dissolved by agreement, became a nun. She lived for many years as a hermitess in a cave near the Sihla skete, enduring cold and hunger in prayer.