August 2 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 4

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For August 3, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 21.

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Viacheslav Lukanin, Deacon (1918)[26]
  • New Hieromartyr Nicholas Pomerantsev, Priest (1938)[26]

Other commemorations

  • Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Ignatius of Harbin (1958)[1]

Notes

  1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
    The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
  2. She was the mother of the Apostles James and John, the wife of Zebedee, and the daughter of Joseph the Betrothed, who was a widower when he became betrothed to the Mother of God. She was a disciple of the Lord and one of the Myrrh-bearing women who first brought tidings of the Resurrection to the world.[3] Name days celebrated today include:
    • Salome (Σαλώμη).
  3. He is commemorated in certain Synaxaria on September 7 as well.
  4. In Codex 73 of the Monastery of Our Lady of Halki, there is also a saint called Theokliti, whose memory is commemorated on August 21.
  5. Their memory is preserved in two codices, the Patmiako Codex 266, and the Parisian Codex 152. In the Parisian Codex they are also commemorated on August 4.
  6. Their memory was celebrated on August 29, but was moved to August 3, dueto the feast of the Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John.
  7. "At Naples, in Campania, St. Aspren, bishop, who was cured of a sickness by the apostle St. Peter, and after being baptized, was made bishop of that city."[21]
  8. Born in Swabia in Germany, he became a hermit on Mt Etzel in Switzerland, St Meinrad's former hermitage. He lived there with a few disciples, so founding the monastery of Einsiedeln. In 927 he became Bishop of Metz in France. Striving to overcome abuses, he was attacked and blinded by enemies of Christ. He resigned and returned to Einsiedeln.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 August 3 / August 16. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  2. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ἡ Ἁγία Σαλώμη ἡ Μυροφόρος. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  3. Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  4. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Στέφανος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Πάπας Ρώμης καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  5. 1 2 3 4 (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 3 Αυγούστου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
  6. Venerable Isaac the Ascetic of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  7. Venerable Dalmatus the Ascetic of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  8. Venerable Faustus the Ascetic of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  9. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ὅσιοι Δαλμάτιος, Φαῦστος, καὶ Ἰσαάκιος. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  10. The Martyr Razhdenes. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  11. Martyr Razhden of Persia the Georgian. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  12. Venerable Cosmas the Eunuch and Hermit of Palestine. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  13. The Monk Kosma the Hermit. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  14. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ὀλύμπιος ὁ ἔπαρχος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  15. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ὁμολογητὴς ἡγούμενος τῆς Μονῆς Πατελαρίας. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  16. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ἡ Ὁσία Θεοκλητῶ ἡ Θαυματουργός. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  17. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰωάννης καὶ Ἰωάννης ὁ Νέος Ἐπίσκοποι Ἐφέσου. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  18. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ὁσίες Θεοδώρα καὶ Θεοπίστη ἡ θυγατέρα της ἐξ Αἰγίνης. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  19. Venerable Theodora and her daughter Theopiste. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  20. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 August 3. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  21. 1 2 The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 230-231.
  22. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Θαυματουργός Ρωμαῖος ἐκ Νοβογορδίας (Ρῶσος). 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  23. Venerable Anthony the Roman and Abbot of Novgorod. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  24. 9 Kherkheulidze Brothers with their Mother and Sister and Nine Thousand Martyrs of Marabda. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  25. 9 Kherkheulidze Brothers with their Mother and Sister and Nine Thousand Martyrs of Marabda. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  26. 1 2 August 16 / August 3. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).

Sources

Greek Sources
Russian Sources
  • (in Russian) 16 августа (3 августа). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
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