August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 5

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 17 by

For August 4, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 22.

Saints

• The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus:^[1][2][3]

• Maximilian, Jamblicus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustodian (Constantine), and Antoninus (250 and ca. 446)

• Martyr Eleutherius of Byzantium (early 4th century)^{[1][4][note 2]} (see also: December 15)
• Martyr Thathuil, by hanging from an apple tree.^[6][7][8]
• Martyr Eudokia of Anatolia, in Persia, by beheading (362)^{[1][9][10][note 3]}
• Martyrs Ia and 9,000 with her in Persia (363)^{[1][5][7][8][note 4]} (see also: August 11 and September 11)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Perpetua, a matron from Rome baptised by the Apostle Peter who converted her husband and her son, St Nazarius (c. 80)^{[5][11][note 5]}
• Saint Agabius,
  Bishop of Verona in Italy, and Confessor (c. 250)^[5][11]
• Saint Tertullinus, apriest, martyred in Rome under Valerian two days after his ordination (257)[11]^{[note 6]}
• Saints Epiphanes and Isidore, two early martyrs, venerated at the Cathedral of Besançon in France until the French Revolution.^[11]
• Saint Protasius, a martyr honoured in Cologne in Germany.^[5][11]
• Saint Sithney (Sezni), patron saint of Sithney, Cornwall (c. 529)^{[11][note 7]}
• Saint Euphronius of Tours, Bishop of Tours in France (573)^[5][11]
• Saints Peregrinus, Maceratus and Viventius (6th century)^{[11][note 8]}
• Saint Lugid of Killaloe (Lua, Molua), a disciple of St Comgall, founded many monasteries (c. 609)^{[11][note 9]}

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• New Hieromartyr
  Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779)^[1][8][12] (see also: August 24
  - Greek)

• New Hieromartyr Nicholas (Prozgrov) (1930)[8]
• New Hieromartyr Michael (Zhuk), Hieromonk of Staroye Zubarevo in Mordovia, and Martyrs Simeon and Demetrius Vorobiev of Tver (1937)^[1][8][12]

Other commemorations

• Consecration of the sacred temple of the Christ the Saviour, within the Pantocrator Monastery in Constantinople.^[13]
• "Kazan-Penza" (Kazan of Penza) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1717)^[8][12] (see also: July 8)
• Uncovering of the relics (2000) of Saint Alexei Bortsurmansky (1848)^{[14][note 10]} (see also: April 21)

Icon gallery

• 
  The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers:) of Ephesus.
• 
  Martyr Eudoxia (Ia) of Persia (Menologion of Basil II).
• 
  Saint

  Kosmas Aitolos

  , New Hieromartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles.
• 
  The former Church of the Pantokrator (today Zeyrek Mosque).

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