August 2 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 4

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

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

Saints

• Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome (1st century)^{[1][2][note 2]}
• Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome, and Companions (257)^{[4][5][note 3]} (see also: August 2)
• Venerable Saints Isaac (383),^[6] Dalmatius,^[7] and Faustus (5th century),^[8] ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople.^[1][9]
• Protomartyr Rajden (Razhdenes) of Tsromi and Nikozi, Georgia (457)^[1][10][11]
• Saint Cosmas of Palestine, eunuch and hermit (6th century)^[1][12][13]
• Martyr Olympios the Prefect (Olympius the Eparch), Byzantine noble martyred under the Persian King Chosroes II for confessing the Orthodox Faith (c. 610-641)^[14]
• Saint John of Patalaria Monastery, Confessor and Abbot (8th-9th centuries)^[1][5][15]
• Venerable Theoclita (Theokliti) the Wonderworker, of Optimaton (Theme of the Optimatoi) (ca. 842)^{[1][16][note 4]}
• Saints John the Monastic, and John the New, Bishops of Ephesus.^{[5][17][note 5]}
• Venerable Nuns Theodora, and Theopisti her daughter, of Aegina, in Thessaloniki (892)^{[5][18][19][note 6]}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Aspren (Aspronas), Bishop of Naples (1st century)^{[20][note 7]}
• Saint Euphronius, Bishop of Autun in France and a friend of St Lupus of Troyes, Confessor (c. 475)^[20][21]
• 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)^[20]
• Saint Faustus, son of St Dalmatius of Pavia in Italy, lived the life of a holy monk (5th century)^[20]
• Saint Senach (Snach), a disciple of St Finian and his successor as Abbot of Clonard in Ireland (6th century)^[20]
• Saint Benno, hermit on Mt Etzel in Switzerland, a founder of the monastery of Einsiedeln, became Bishop of Metz in 927 (940)^{[20][note 8]}
• Saint Gregory of Nonantula, Abbot of Nonantola Abbey near Modena in Italy (933)^[20]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Anthony the Roman, Abbot in Novgorod (1147)^[1][22][23]
• Nine Kherkheulidze brothers, their mother and sister, and 9,000 others, who suffered on the field of Marabda, Georgia (1625)^[1][24][25]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Viacheslav Lukanin, Deacon (1918)^[26]
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Pomerantsev, Priest (1938)^[26]

Other commemorations

• Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Ignatius of Harbin (1958)^[1]

Icon gallery

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  Icon of the two Marys and Salome at the Tomb of Jesus.
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  Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome.
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  St. Isaac of Dalmatia.
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  St. Razhden the Protomartyr.
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  Church of Sant'Aspreno ai Crociferi, Naples, dedicated to Saint Aspren.
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  Venerable Anthony the Roman.
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  Icon of Nine Brothers Kherkheulidze with their Mother and Sister.