July 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# July 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 27 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 29

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 10 by Old Calendar.

For July 28th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 15.

## Saints

* Holy Apostles of the Seventy and Deacons (1st century):

   * Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, and Parmenas.
* Martyr Julian of Dalmatia (c. 138-161)
* Martyr Eustathius the Soldier, of Ancyra (c. 316)
* Martyr Acacius of Miletus (c. 321)
* Martyr Drosis (Drosida, Drosa), by being cast into a golden crucible. (see also: March 22)
* Martyr Auxentios, of Laodicea in Phrygia.
* Venerable Irene Chrysovolantou of Cappadocia, Abbess of Chrysovalantou (912)
* Venerable Paul of Xeropotamou, on Mount Athos (820 or 996)
* Saint George the Builder, of Iveron, Mt. Athos (1029 or 1033)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyrs Nazarius and Celsus, martyrs in Milan in Italy under Nero (c. 68) (see also: October 14)
* Saint Victor I, born in North Africa, he was Pope of Rome for ten years from 189-198 (198)
* Saint Peregrinus, a priest near Lyons in France at the time of St Irenaeus and during the persecution under Severus (2nd century)
* Saint Camelian, successor of St Lupus as Bishop of Troyes in France from 478 (c. 525)
* Saints Ursus and Leobatius (Leubais), Brother-Abbots, of Gaul (c. 500) (see also: July 30)
* Saint Samson of Dol, Bishop of Dol, in Brittany (c. 565)
* Saint Banthus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (7th century) (see also: July 25)
* Saint Arduinus (Ardwyne), patron-saint of Trepino in the south of Italy (7th century)
* Saint Lucidus of Aquara, a monk of St Peter's near Aquara, in the south of Italy (c. 938)
* Saint Lyutius, a monk at Montecassino who died as a hermit at La Cava Abbey in Italy (c. 1038)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Moses of the Kiev Caves, Wonderworker (13th-14th centuries)
* Saint Anthony, Bishop of Rostov, Yaroslavl, and Belozersk (1336)
* New Martyr David of Aleppo (1660)
* Saint Pitirim, Bishop of Tambov (1698)
* New Martyr Christodoulos of Kassandreia (1777)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Nicholas Ponomarev, Deacon (1918)
* New Hieromartyr Basil (Erekaev), Hieromonk of Sarov Monastery (1937)
* Virgin-martyrs Anastasia Kamaeva and Helen Astashkina (1937)
* Martyrs Aretha Yeriomkin, John Lomakin, John Selmanov, John Milioshkin (1937)
* Virgin-martyr Maura Moisieva (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Bazyluk) of Jabłeczna, in Chelm and Podlasie, Poland (1942) (see also: August 9)

## Other commemorations

* Consecration the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos in the Quarter of Deaconess.
* Synaxis of the Saints of Tambov (1988)
* Repose of Abbess Daria of Sezenovo Convent (1858)
* Translation of the relics of Saint Jacob the New Chozebite (1960) (see also: August 5)

### Icons

* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Directress of Smolensk", brought from Constantinople (1046)
* Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos "Grebensk" (1380), "Kostroma" (1672), and "Umileniye" ("of Tender Feeling") of Diveyevo Convent (1885), before which St. Seraphim reposed.
* Reverence list of an "Smolensk" Icon of the Mother of God:

   * "Ustiug" (1290)

   * "Vidropusskaya" (15th century)

   * "Voronin" (1524) (see also: June 15)

   * "Xristoforov" (16th century)

   * "Suprasl", Poland (16th century)

   * "Yugskaya" (1615)

   * "Igritsky" (1624)

   * "Shuiskaya" (1654-55)

   * "Sedmiezersk" (Seven Lakes) (17th century)

   * "Sergievsk" (Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra) (1730)

## Icon gallery

* St. John the Evangelist with Prochorus.
* St. Nicanor the Deacon.
* Venerable Irene Chrysovolantou of Cappadocia.
* Venerable Paul of Xeropotamou, on Mount Athos.
* Martyr Nazarius.
* St. Samson of Dol, Bishop of Dol, in Brittany.
* Venerable Moses the Wonderworker of the Kiev Caves.
* Saint Pitirim, Bishop of Tambov.
* New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Bazyluk).
* Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God (Dionisius the Wise, 1482).
