August 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Aug. 29 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 31
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 12 by Old Calendarists
Saints
- Sts. Alexander (340), John the Faster (595), and Paul the New (784), patriarchs of Constantinople
- St. Bryaene of Nisibis (318)
- St. Sarmata of "The Paradise", Egypt (ca. 362)
- St. Eulalius, bishop of Caesarea (4th century)
- St. Christopher of Palestine (6th century)
- Repose of St. Alexander, abbot of Svir (1533)
- St. Barlaam, metropolitan of Moldavia (1657)
- Hieromartyr Felix and Martyrs Fortunatus, Septiminus and Januarius
- Synaxis of Serbian Hierarchs: Sts. Sava I (1235), Arsenius (1266), Sava II (1271), Eustathius I (1285), James (1292), Nicodemus (1325), and Daniel II (1338), archbishops; Sts. Ioannicius II (1354), Spyridon (1388), Ephraim II (1395), Cyril (1419), Nicon (ca. 1439), Macarius (1574), and Gabriel I (1659), patriarchs; and St. Gregory (1012), bishop.
- New Hieromartyr Schema-archimandrite Ignatius (Lebedev) of St. Peter’s Monastery (1938)
- Hiero-confessor Archpriest Peter Cheltsov of Smolensk (1972)
Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics (1724) of St. Alexander Nevsky (Alexis in schema), great prince of Novgorod (1263)
- Uncovering of the relics (1652) of St. Daniel, great prince of Moscow (1303)
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