August 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Aug. 19 – Eastern Orthodox Church calendar – Aug. 21
All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 2 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For August 20, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 7.
Feasts
Afterfeast of the Dormition.
Saints
Prophet Samuel (11th century BC)
Hieromartyr Philip of Heraclea, Bishop, and with him Martyrs Severus, Memnon, and 37 soldiers, in Philippopolis, Thrace (304)
Saints Reginus and Orestes the Great Martyrs, in Cyprus.
Martyr Lucius the Senator, of Cyprus (c. 310)
Martyrs Heliodorus and Dosa (Dausa) in Persia (380)
Martyr Photine, at the gates of Blachernae.
Saint Hierotheus, first Bishop and Enlightener of Hungary (10th century)
Saint Stephen I of Hungary, King of Hungary (1038)(see also: August 16 - West)
Pre-Schism Western saints
Saint Porphyrius, an early martyr in Palestrina near Rome.
Saint Amator (Amadour), hermit.
Saint Maximus, a disciple of St Martin and founder of the monastery of Chinon in France, confessor (c. 470)