August 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Aug. 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 18
All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 30 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For August 17, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 4.
Feasts
Afterfeast of the Dormition.
Saints
Hieromartyr Myron of Cyzicus, Priest (250)
Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus (Coronatus), with others, of Caesarea in Bithynia (c. 250)(see also: December 14)
Martyrs Paul and his sister Juliana, and Quadratus, Acacius and Stratonicus the executioners, at Ptolemais in Syria (273)
Martyrs Straton, Philip, Eutychian, and Cyprian, of Nicomedia (303)
Venerable Monk-martyr Macarius of Mount St. Auxentius (768)
Venerable Elias the Younger of Calabria, (Elias of Enna) (903)
Venerable Aiglon, a hermit who lived ascetically and reposed in peace.
Pre-Schism Western saints
Saint Eusebius, a Greek by birth, reposed in exile in Sicily (310)
Saint Theodulus of Grammont (Theodore, Yoder), an early Bishop of Valais, who was much revered in Switzerland and Savoy (4th century)