August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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August 2 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 4

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

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

Saints

Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome (1st century)
Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome, and Companions (257) <small>(see also: August 2)</small>
Venerable Saints Isaac (383), Dalmatius, and Faustus (5th century), ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople.
Protomartyr Rajden (Razhdenes) of Tsromi and Nikozi, Georgia (457)
Saint Cosmas of Palestine, eunuch and hermit (6th century)
Martyr Olympios the Prefect (Olympius the Eparch), Byzantine noble martyred under the Persian King Chosroes II for confessing the Orthodox Faith (c. 610-641)
Saint John of Patalaria Monastery, Confessor and Abbot (8th-9th centuries)
Venerable Theoclite the Wonderworker, of Optimaton (Theme of the Optimatoi) (ca. 842)
Saints John the Monastic, and John the New, Bishops of Ephesus.
Venerable Nuns Theodora, and Theopisti her daughter, of Aegina, in Thessaloniki (892)

Saint Aspren (Aspronas), Bishop of Naples (1st century)
Saint Euphronius, Bishop of Autun in France and a friend of St Lupus of Troyes, Confessor (c. 475)
Nine Kherkheulidze brothers, their mother and sister, and 9,000 others, who suffered on the field of Marabda, Georgia (1625)
Venerable Iraclie (Flocea) of Bessarabia, Protosyncellus, exarch of the monasteries of the Archdiocese of Chișinău (1964)