August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar day
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August 2 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 4
All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]
For August 3, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 21.
Saints
- Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome (1st century)[1][2][note 2]
- Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome, and Companions (257)[4][5][note 3] (see also: August 2)
- Venerable Saints Isaac (383),[6] Dalmatius,[7] and Faustus (5th century),[8] ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople.[1][9]
- Protomartyr Rajden (Razhdenes) of Tsromi and Nikozi, Georgia (457)[1][10][11]
- Saint Cosmas of Palestine, eunuch and hermit (6th century)[1][12][13]
- Martyr Olympios the Prefect (Olympius the Eparch), Byzantine noble martyred under the Persian King Chosroes II for confessing the Orthodox Faith (c. 610-641)[14]
- Saint John of Patalaria Monastery, Confessor and Abbot (8th-9th centuries)[1][5][15]
- Venerable Theoclite the Wonderworker, of Optimaton (Theme of the Optimatoi) (ca. 842)[1][16][note 4]
- Saints John the Monastic, and John the New, Bishops of Ephesus.[5][17][note 5]
- Venerable Nuns Theodora, and Theopisti her daughter, of Aegina, in Thessaloniki (892)[5][18][19][note 6]
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Aspren (Aspronas), Bishop of Naples (1st century)[20][note 7]
- Saint Euphronius, Bishop of Autun in France and a friend of St Lupus of Troyes, Confessor (c. 475)[20][21]
- Saint Trea, hermitess, converted to Orthodoxy by St Patrick, she spent the rest of her life as an anchoress in Ardtree, now in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland (5th century)[20]
- Saint Faustus, son of St Dalmatius of Pavia in Italy, lived the life of a holy monk (5th century)[20]
- Saint Senach (Snach), a disciple of St Finian and his successor as Abbot of Clonard in Ireland (6th century)[20]
- Saint Benno, hermit on Mt Etzel in Switzerland, a founder of the monastery of Einsiedeln, became Bishop of Metz in 927 (940)[20][note 8]
- Saint Gregory of Nonantula, Abbot of Nonantola Abbey near Modena in Italy (933)[20]
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Anthony the Roman, Abbot in Novgorod (1147)[1][22][23]
- Nine Kherkheulidze brothers, their mother and sister, and 9,000 others, who suffered on the field of Marabda, Georgia (1625)[1][24][25]
- Venerable Iraclie (Flocea) of Bessarabia, Protosyncellus, exarch of the monasteries of the Archdiocese of Chișinău (1964)[26][27][note 9]
New martyrs and confessors
Other commemorations
Icon gallery
Icon of the two Marys and Salome at the Tomb of Jesus.
Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome.
St. Isaac of Dalmatia.
Church of Sant'Aspreno ai Crociferi, Naples, dedicated to Saint Aspren.
Venerable Anthony the Roman.
Icon of Nine Brothers Kherkheulidze with their Mother and Sister.
Notes
- The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar"). - She was the mother of the Apostles James and John, the wife of Zebedee, and the daughter of Joseph the Betrothed, who was a widower when he became betrothed to the Mother of God. She was a disciple of the Lord and one of the Myrrh-bearing women who first brought tidings of the Resurrection to the world.[3] Name days celebrated today include:
- Salome (Σαλώμη).
- He is commemorated in certain Synaxaria on September 7 as well.
- Born in Swabia in Germany, he became a hermit on Mt Etzel in Switzerland, St Meinrad's former hermitage. He lived there with a few disciples, so founding the monastery of Einsiedeln. In 927 he became Bishop of Metz in France. Striving to overcome abuses, he was attacked and blinded by enemies of Christ. He resigned and returned to Einsiedeln.
- See: (in Romanian) Iraclie Flocea. Wikipedia. (Romanian Wikipedia).