July 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 3 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 5

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 17 by Old Calendarists

Saints

Saint Andrew of Crete, archbishop (712)
Venerable Martha, mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger (554)
Hieromartyr, Theodore of Cyrene, Bishop of Cyrene in Libya and those martyrs with him
Saint Andrei Rublev, iconographer (1430)
Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia: Tsar Nicholas II, Tsaritsa Alexandra, Crown Prince Alexei, and Grand duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and those martyred with them (1918)
Burial of prince Andrei I Bogolyubsky

Pre-Schism Western Saints

St. Finbar, Abbot of Innis-Doimhle (most likely present-day Inch, Co. Wexford), Ireland.^[1]

References

↑ Hutchison-Hall, John (Ellsworth) (2014). Orthodox Saints of the British Isles - Volume III (1 ed.). New York: St. Eadfrith Press. ISBN 9780692257661.

Orthodox Saints and Feasts
4th July. Pre-Schism Orthodox Western Saints.
Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints

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