August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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July 31 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 2
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[edit] 2005
- New Calendarists only: Fasting day (beginning of Dormition Fast)
- 7th Monday after Pentecost
- 1st Corinthians 5:9-6:11
- Matthew 13:54-58
[edit] Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 14 by Old Calendarists
[edit] Saints
- Maccabean martyrs Abimus, Antoninus, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusabonus, Alimus, Marcellus, their mother Solomonia, and their teacher Eleazar (166 B.C.)
- Martyrs Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cindeus, Minsitheus, Cyriacus, Mineon, Catanus, Eucleus, and others of Perge in Pamphylia (3rd century)
- Martyr Papas the New
- Martyr Cyricus
- Martyrs Theodore and Polyeuctus
- Martyrs Menas, Menais, and others of England
- Martyr Elessa of Cythera
- Saint Timothy the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Priconissus of the Peloponnesus
[edit] Other commemorations
- Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of Jesus Christ
- Finding of the relics of Nestor of San Francisco
- Beginning of the Dormition Fast
