August 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Aug. 1 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 3

2005

• New Calendarists only: Fasting day (for the Dormition)
• 7th Tuesday after Pentecost
• 1st Corinthians 6:20-7:12
• Matthew 14:1-13

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 15 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Blessed Basil of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ (1552)
• Blessed Basil of Kamenny Monastery, Lake Kubenskoye, Vologda (1472)
• Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome
• Saint Marco of Belavinsk in Vologda (1492)
• Saint Friardus of Vindunitta in Gaul (6th century)
• Martyr Phocas
• Martyr Theodore of the Dardanelles (1692)

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of the Protomartyr and Archdeacon Saint Stephen in 428
• Finding of the relics of righteous Nicodemus, Gamaliel, and Abibas in 428
• Translation of the relics of martyrs Maximus, Dada, and Quintilian at Dorostorum in Bulgaria 286
• Repose of Priest Alexis Medvedkov of France (1934)

References

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints
• Orthodox Saints and Feasts
• Pravoslavie Orthodox Calendar
• Menologia