August 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Aug. 4 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 6

[edit] 2005

• Fasting day
• 7th Friday after Pentecost
• 1st Corinthians 7:35-8:7
• Matthew 15:29-31

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 18 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Martyr Eusignius of Antioch (362)
• Martyrs Cantidius, Cantidian, and Sibelius of Egypt
• Martyr Pontius in Cimella, France (257)
• Hieromartyrs Fabian and Anterus, Popes of Rome (250, 236)
• Righteous Nonna, mother of Saint Gregory the Theologian (374)