Aug. 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 4

2005

• Fasting day
• 7th Wednesday after Pentecost
• 1st Corinthians 7:12-24
• Matthew 14:35-15:11

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 16 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome
• Venerable Isaac, Dalmatus, and Faustus, ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (5th century)
• Venerable Anthony the Roman, Abbot in Novgorod (1147)
• Saint Cosmas of Palestine, eunuch and hermit (6th century)
• Martyr Razhden of Georgia (457)
• Saint John of Patalaria Monastery, confessor and abbot
• Saint Theoctistus the Wonderworker of Optimaton
• Nun Theodora of Thessalonica

Other commemorations

• Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Ignatius of Harbin (1958)