August 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# August 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 1 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 3

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 15 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 2, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 20.

## Saints

* Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome, and Companions (257) (see also: August 3)
* Saint Phocas.
* Saint Friardus of Vindumitta in Gaul (c. 577) (see also: August 1 - West)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyr Rutilius (250)
* Saint Maximus of Padua, successor of St Prosdocimus as Bishop of Padua in Italy, Wonderworker (2nd century)
* Saint Auspicius, the first Bishop of Apt in France (pre-4th century)
* Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop of Vercelli in Piedmont in Italy (371)
* Saint Sidwell (Sativola), a Briton from the West of England near Exeter, she was beheaded as a martyr, by a scythe (6th century)
* Saint Boetharius (Betharius, Bethaire), Bishop of Chartres in France, he was present at the Council of Sens (623)
* Saint Etheldritha (Alfreda), daughter of King Offa of Mercia, an anchoress at Crowland in Lincolnshire in England (c. 835)
* Saint Plegmund, the tutor of King Alfred and twentieth Archbishop of Canterbury (914)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Fotou the Cypriot (Photini the Cypriot), the Wonderworker.
* Blessed Basil of Kamenny Monastery, Lake Kubenskoye, Vologda (1472)
* Saint Marco of Belavinsk, in Vologda (1492)
* Blessed Basil of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ (1552)
* New Martyr Theodore of the Dardanelles (1690)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Platon (Kolegov), Hieromonk, of Chasovo (Komi) (1937)

## Other commemorations

* Translation of the relics (415) of the Righteous Nicodemus, Gamaliel, and Abibus, of Jerusalem (1st century)
* Translation of the relics from Jerusalem to Constantinople (428) of Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (34)
* Translation of the relics of Martyrs Dada, Maximus, and Quintilian, at Dorostolum in Moesia (286)
* Consecration of the Church of St. John the Theologian, near the Holy Great Church in Constantinople.
* Repose of the pious Emperor Justinian II, Fool-for-Christ, interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles.
* Repose of Hieromonk Peter (Seregin), spiritual father of Pühtitsa Convent, Estonia (1982)
* Icon of the Mother of God of Achair (2002)

## Icon gallery

* Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome.
* Relief of St Sidwell (Sativola) on a shopping arcade in Sidwell Street, Exeter.
* Stained glass window of Plegmund from Chester Cathedral.
* Blessed Basil of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ.
* Emperor Justinian II, Fool-for-Christ, on the reverse of this coin, holding a patriarchal globe with PAX, "peace".
