August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Aug. 3 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 5

2005

• New Calendarists only: Fasting day (for the Dormition)
• 7th Thursday after Pentecost
• 1st Corinthians 7:24-35
• Matthew 15:12-21

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 17 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Holy Seven Sleepers of Ephesus: Maximilian, Jamblicus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustodian, and Antoninus (250)
• Martyr Eudoxia of Persia (364
• Martyr Eleutherius of Constantinople (4th century)
• Cosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles
• Martyr Thathuil
• Martyr Ia, and 9,000 others with her

References

Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints