August 2 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 4

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 3, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 21.

Saints

Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome (1st century)August 3 / August 16. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ἁγία Σαλώμη ἡ Μυροφόρος. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome, and Companions (257)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Στέφανος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Πάπας Ρώμης καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 3 Αυγούστου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). (see also: August 2) Venerable Saints Isaac (383),Venerable Isaac the Ascetic of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Dalmatius,Venerable Dalmatus the Ascetic of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople. OCA - Lives of the Saints. and Faustus (5th century),Venerable Faustus the Ascetic of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople. OCA - Lives of the Saints. ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople.Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ὅσιοι Δαλμάτιος, Φαῦστος, καὶ Ἰσαάκιος. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Protomartyr Rajden (Razhdenes) of Tsromi and Nikozi, Georgia (457)The Martyr Razhdenes. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).Martyr Razhden of Persia the Georgian. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Cosmas of Palestine, eunuch and hermit (6th century)Venerable Cosmas the Eunuch and Hermit of Palestine. OCA - Lives of the Saints.The Monk Kosma the Hermit. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Martyr Olympios the Prefect (Olympius the Eparch), Byzantine noble martyred under the Persian King Chosroes II for confessing the Orthodox Faith (c. 610-641)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ὀλύμπιος ὁ ἔπαρχος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint John of Patalaria Monastery, Confessor and Abbot (8th-9th centuries)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ὁμολογητὴς ἡγούμενος τῆς Μονῆς Πατελαρίας. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Theoclite the Wonderworker, of Optimaton (Theme of the Optimatoi) (ca. 842)Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ὁσία Θεοκλητῶ ἡ Θαυματουργός. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saints John the Monastic, and John the New, Bishops of Ephesus.Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰωάννης καὶ Ἰωάννης ὁ Νέος Ἐπίσκοποι Ἐφέσου. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Nuns Theodora, and Theopisti her daughter, of Aegina, in Thessaloniki (892)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ὁσίες Θεοδώρα καὶ Θεοπίστη ἡ θυγατέρα της ἐξ Αἰγίνης. 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Theodora and her daughter Theopiste. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

Pre-Schism Western saints

Saint Aspren (Aspronas), Bishop of Naples (1st century)August 3. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Saint Euphronius, Bishop of Autun in France and a friend of St Lupus of Troyes, Confessor (c. 475) 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) Saint Faustus, son of St Dalmatius of Pavia in Italy, lived the life of a holy monk (5th century) Saint Senach (Snach), a disciple of St Finian and his successor as Abbot of Clonard in Ireland (6th century) Saint Benno, hermit on Mt Etzel in Switzerland, a founder of the monastery of Einsiedeln, became Bishop of Metz in 927 (940) Saint Gregory of Nonantula, Abbot of Nonantola Abbey near Modena in Italy (933)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

Venerable Anthony the Roman, Abbot in Novgorod (1147)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Θαυματουργός Ρωμαῖος ἐκ Νοβογορδίας (Ρῶσος). 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Anthony the Roman and Abbot of Novgorod. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Nine Kherkheulidze brothers, their mother and sister, and 9,000 others, who suffered on the field of Marabda, Georgia (1625)9 Kherkheulidze Brothers with their Mother and Sister and Nine Thousand Martyrs of Marabda. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).9 Kherkheulidze Brothers with their Mother and Sister and Nine Thousand Martyrs of Marabda. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Venerable Iraclie (Flocea) of Bessarabia, Protosyncellus, exarch of the monasteries of the Archdiocese of Chișinău (1964)Holy Synod approves canonization of 16 modern-day saints. BASILICA.RO. 12.07.2024. Retrieved: February 15, 2026.Romanian Synod canonizes 16 martyrs, confessors, and ascetics of the 20th-century. Orthodox Christianity. Bucharest, July 15, 2024. Retrieved: February 15, 2026.

New martyrs and confessors

New Hieromartyr Viacheslav Lukanin, Deacon (1918)August 16 / August 3. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). New Hieromartyr Nicholas Pomerantsev, Priest (1938)

Other commemorations

Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Ignatius of Harbin (1958)

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources August 3 / August 16. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). August 16 / August 3. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). August 3. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 57. Menologion: The Third Day of the Month of August. Orthodoxy in China. August 3. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 230-231. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 378-379.

Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 3 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 3 Αυγούστου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources 16 августа (3 августа). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).