August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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July 31 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 2

Contents 1 2005 2 Fixed commemorations 2.1 Saints 2.2 Other commemorations

[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