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August 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 5

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 17 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 4, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 22.

Saints

  • The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus:

:* Maximilian, Jamblicus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustodian (Constantine), and Antoninus (250 and ca. 446)

  • Martyr Eleutherius of Byzantium (early 4th century) <small>(see also: December 15)</small>
  • Martyr Thathuil, by hanging from an apple tree.
  • Martyr Eudokia (Ia) of Anatolia, in Persia, by beheading (362) and 9,000 with her in Persia (363)
  • Saint Agabius, Bishop of Verona in Italy, and Confessor (c. 250) <small>(Russian use only - see also: August 24 - Universal)</small>

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Nicholas (Prozgrov) (1930)
  • "Kazan-Penza" (Kazan of Penza) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1717) <small>(see also: April 21)</small>

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File:Seven Sleepers icon.jpeg|The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers:) of Ephesus.

File:Ia of Persia (Menologion of Basil II).jpg|Martyr Eudoxia (Ia) of Persia (Menologion of Basil II).

File:St. Kosmas Aitolos - Bolton, Ontario - 2007.jpg|Saint Kosmas Aitolos, New Hieromartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles.

File:Molla Zeyrek Camii.jpg|The former Church of the Pantokrator (today Zeyrek Mosque).

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Notes

References

Sources

  • August 4 / August 17. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • August 17 / August 4. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • August 4. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.&nbsp;57.
  • Menologion: The Fourth Day of the Month of August. Orthodoxy in China.
  • August 4. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  • 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.&nbsp;231-232.
  • Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp.&nbsp;379-380.

; Greek Sources

  • Great Synaxaristes: 4 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  • Συναξαριστής. 4 Αυγούστου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

; Russian Sources

  • 17 августа (4 августа). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).