August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 5

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 17 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 4, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 22.

## Saints

* The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus:

   * Maximilian, Jamblicus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustodian (Constantine), and Antoninus (250 and ca. 446)
* Martyr Eleutherius of Byzantium (early 4th century) (see also: December 15)
* Martyr Thathuil, by hanging from an apple tree.
* Martyr Eudokia of Anatolia, in Persia, by beheading (362)
* Martyrs Ia and 9,000 with her in Persia (363) (see also: August 11 and September 11)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Perpetua, a matron from Rome baptised by the Apostle Peter who converted her husband and her son, St Nazarius (c. 80)
* Saint Agabius, Bishop of Verona in Italy, and Confessor (c. 250)
* Saint Tertullinus, apriest, martyred in Rome under Valerian two days after his ordination (257)
* Saints Epiphanes and Isidore, two early martyrs, venerated at the Cathedral of Besançon in France until the French Revolution.
* Saint Protasius, a martyr honoured in Cologne in Germany.
* Saint Sithney (Sezni), patron saint of Sithney, Cornwall (c. 529)
* Saint Euphronius of Tours, Bishop of Tours in France (573)
* Saints Peregrinus, Maceratus and Viventius (6th century)
* Saint Lugid of Killaloe (Lua, Molua), a disciple of St Comgall, founded many monasteries (c. 609)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* New Hieromartyr Cosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779) (see also: August 24 - Greek)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Nicholas (Prozgrov) (1930)
* New Hieromartyr Michael (Zhuk), Hieromonk of Staroye Zubarevo in Mordovia, and Martyrs Simeon and Demetrius Vorobiev of Tver (1937)

## Other commemorations

* Consecration of the sacred temple of the Christ the Saviour, within the Pantocrator Monastery in Constantinople.
* "Kazan-Penza" (Kazan of Penza) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1717) (see also: July 8)
* Uncovering of the relics (2000) of Saint Alexei Bortsurmansky (1848) (see also: April 21)

## Icon gallery

* The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers:) of Ephesus.
* Martyr Eudoxia (Ia) of Persia (Menologion of Basil II).
* Saint Kosmas Aitolos, New Hieromartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles.
* The former Church of the Pantokrator (today Zeyrek Mosque).
