August 1

July 31 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 2

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 14 by Old Calendarists

Feasts

• Beginning of the Dormition Fast.
• Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of Jesus Christ.^{[1][note 1]}
• The Feast to the All-Merciful Saviour and the Most Holy Mother of God (especially in churches dedicated to Christ).^{[2][note 2][note 3]}

Saints

• Holy Seven Maccabees:

• Martyrs: Abimus, Antoninus, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusabonus, Alimus, Marcellus, their mother Solomonia,^[4] and their teacher Eleazar (166 B.C.)^[5][6]

• Holy Nine Martyrs of Perge in Pamphylia:

• Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cindeus, Minsitheus, Cyriacus, Mineon, Catanus, Eucleus (3rd c.)^[7][8]

• Martyr Papas the New.^{[9][note 4]}
• Martyr Eleazar.^[10]
• Martyr Cyricus, by beheading.^[11]
• Martyr Theodore, by the sword.^[12]
• Martyr Polyeuctus, by being buried alive in manure.^[13]
• Venerable Martyr Elessa of Kythira (375)^[14][15]
• Saint Timothy of Proconnesus, Wonderworker, Archbishop of Proconnesus (6th c.)^[15][16]

Pre-Schism Western Saints

• Martyrs Menas, Menais, and others of England.^{[17][note 5]}
• Child-martyr Justin, venerated in Louvre near Paris in France (ca.290)^[18]
• Saint Nemesius, a saint venerated near Lisieux in France.^[18]
• Saint Leus of Viguenza, a priest whose relics were honoured in Viguenza in Italy (4th c.)^[18]
• Saint Verus, Bishop of Vienne; he attended the Council of Arles in 314 (ca.314)^[18]
• Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop (371)^[15]
• Saint Exuperius of Bayeux, first Bishop of Bayeux in France, he is honoured in Corbeil (405)^[18]
• Saint Ríoch, a nephew of St. Patrick, early Irish Christian missionary and Abbot of Innisboffin in Ireland (ca.490)^[18]
• Saint Almedha (Eluned, Eled, Elevetha), suffered martyrdom on a hill near Brecon in Wales (5th c.)^[18]
• Saint Severus, a priest of noble family, famous for his charity, honoured from time immemorial in the village that bears his name, St Sever de Rustan (ca.500)^[18]
• Saints Friard (Friardus of Vindumitta), and Secundel (Secundellus) deacon, hermits on the Isle of Vindomitte near Nantes in Gaul (ca.577)^[15][18]
• Virgin-martyr Sidwell of Exeter {Sativola) (6th c.)^{[19][note 6]}
• Saint Kenneth (Cenydd, Kined), a hermit who made his cell among the rocks in the Gower peninsula in Wales at a place later called Llangenydd after him (6th c.)^[18]
• Saint Peregrinus, a pilgrim from Ireland who returning from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land settled as a hermit near Modena in Italy (643)^[18]
• Saint Jonatus, a monk at Elnone in Belgium; Abbot of Marchiennes (c 643-652) and then of Elnone Abbey (c 652-659)^[18]
• Saint Mary the Consoler, sister of St Anno, Bishop of Verona in Italy (8th c.)^[18]
• Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, Bishop of Winchester (984)^[15][20]

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

• Saint Davyd Sviatoslavich, Prince of Chernigov (1097–1123)^[3]

New Martyrs and Confessors

• New Hieromartyr Basil, Archbishop of Chernigov (1918)^[2][19]
• New Hieromartyr Demetrius priest (1937)^[19]

Other commemorations

• Baptism of Rus' (1 August 988)
• Finding of the relics (1882) of Bishop Nestor (Zakkis) of the Aleutians and Alaska (1882)^[15]
• Repose of Abbess Alexia of Nizhni-Novgorod (1940)^[15]
• Uncovering of the relics (1995) of the Venerable Sophia of Suzdal (1542)^[19]

Notes

References

Sources

• August 1/14. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• August 14 / August 1. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
• August 1. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• Dr. Alexander Roman. August. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
• August 1. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• August 1. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) 1 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.