August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Aug. 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 4

Contents 1 2005 2 Fixed commemorations 2.1 Saints 2.2 Other commemorations

[edit] 2005

• Fasting day
• 7th Wednesday after Pentecost
• 1st Corinthians 7:12-24
• Matthew 14:35-15:11

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 16 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome
• Venerable Isaac, Dalmatus, and Faustus, ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (5th century)
• Venerable Anthony the Roman, Abbot in Novgorod (1147)
• Saint Cosmas of Palestine, eunuch and hermit (6th century)
• Martyr Razhden of Georgia (457)
• Saint John of Patalaria Monastery, confessor and abbot
• Saint Theoctistus the Wonderworker of Optimaton
• Nun Theodora of Thessalonica

[edit] Other commemorations

• Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Ignatius of Harbin (1958)