July 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# July 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 28 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 30

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 11 by Old Calendar.

For July 29th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 16.

## Saints

* Virgin-martyr Seraphima (Serapia) of Antioch (c. 117-138)
* Martyr Kallinikos of Cilicia in Asia Minor (c. 250)
* Martyr Theodota and her three sons in Bithynia (c. 304)
* Martyrs Benjamin and Berius, by the Palace of the Hebdomon.
* Martyr Mamas, by drowning.
* Martyr Basiliscus the Elder, by the sword.
* Martyr Ioannis.
* The holy Martyrs, a father and mother, with their two children, by fire.
* Blessed John the Soldier (c. 361) (see also: July 30)
* Saint Theodosius the Younger, the pious emperor (450)
* Martyr Eustathius the Cobbler of Mtskheta, Georgia (589)
* Saint Constantine I, Patriarch of Constantinople (677) (see also: August 9)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saints Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix, two brothers and their sister martyred in Rome under Diocletian (c. 303)
* Saint Faustinus (4th century)
* Saint Prosper of Orleans, Bishop of Orleans in France (c.453)
* Saint Lupus the Confessor, Bishop of Troyes, Gaul (479)
* Saint Sulien (Sulian, Silin), born in Brittany, he founded a small monastery in Luxulyan in Cornwall (6th century)
* Saint Kilian, an abbot of a monastery on the island of Inis Cealtra in Ireland, and author of a Life of St Brigid (7th century)
* Saint Olaf II of Norway (Olav, Tola), King of Norway (1030)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Constantine III Leichoudes, Patriarch of Constantinople (1063)
* Saints Constantine and Cosmas of Kosinsk, in Pskov, Abbots (13th century)
* Saint Romanus of Kirzach, founder of Kirzhach Monastery, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1392)
* Saint Bogolep, Child Schemamonk of Black Ravine, near Astrakhan (1667)
* Hieromartyr Bessarion of Smolyan, Bulgaria (1670)
* Martyr Daniel Kushnir of Mlievich (Daniel of Cherkassk), Ukraine (1766)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyrs Seraphim (Bogoslovsky) and Theognostus (Pivovarov), Hieromonks of a skete at Kyzyl-Zharskoe, Kazakhstan (1921)
* New Hieromartyr Anatole (Smirnov), Hieromonk and hermit of the Caucasus Mountains, Abkhazia (1930-1935)
* New Hieromartyr Pachomius (Rusin), Hieromonk, of Alma Ata, Kazakhstan (1938)
* New Hieromartyr Alexis Krasnovsky, Priest (1938)

## Other commemorations

* Nativity of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia (3rd century)
* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Rudoe Selo (19th century)
* Repose of Archpriest Georges Florovsky (1979)

## Icon gallery

* Virgin-martyr Seraphima (Serapia), with her mistress.
* Martyr Kallinikos of Cilicia.
* St. Theodosius the Younger welcomes the relics of John Chrysostom.
* Martyr Eustathius the Cobbler of Mtskheta, Georgia.
* Martyrdom of Sts. Simplicius and Faustinus.
* St. Lupus the Confessor, Bishop of Troyes.
* Saint Olaf II of Norway, King of Norway.
* St. Constantine of Kosinsk.
* St. Cosmas of Kosinsk.
* Hieromartyr Bessarion of Smolyan, Bulgaria.
* Archpriest Georges Florovsky.
