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Aug. 29 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 31

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 12 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 30th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 17.

Feasts

  • Afterfeast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist.

    • Saints

  • Hieromartyr Philonidis (Philoneidis) of Cyprus (3rd century).
  • 6 Martyrs of Melitene, by drowning.
  • 16 Monk-martyrs of Thebes, by the sword.
  • Saint Bryaene of Nisibis (318)
  • Saints Alexander (340), John the Faster (595), and Paul the New (784), Patriarchs of Constantinople.
  • The Venerable Guardian (Grk.: Ὁ Ὅσιος Φύλαξ).
  • Venerable Sarmata of "The Paradise", ascetic of the desert, Egypt (c. 362)
  • Saint Eulalius, Bishop of Cyprus (4th century)
  • Saint Christopher of Palestine (Christopher the Roman, in Palestine) (6th century)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saints Boniface and Thecla, parents of the Twelve Brothers commemorated on September 1 (c. 250)
  • Hieromartyr Felix, and Martyrs Fortunatus, Septiminus and Januarius, by beheading (c. 304)
  • Saint Pammachius, a Roman senator, married to one of the daughters of St Paula (c. 340-410)
  • Saint Loarn, a disciple of St Patrick of Ireland (5th century)
  • Saint Rumon, a bishop and patron-saint of Tavistock in England (6th century)
  • Saint Agilus (Ail, Aile, Aisle, Ayeul) (c. 580-650)
  • Saint Fiacrius (Fiacre, Fiaker, Fèvre), Irish hermit and hospice-founder at Breuil in Brie (c. 670)
  • Saints Pelagius, Arsenius and Sylvanus, hermits near Burgos in Old Castile in Spain, martyred by the Saracens. (c. 950)
  • Venerable Fantinus of Calabria, the Wonderworker, in Thessalonica (974)
  • Saint Bononius, Abbot of Lucedio in Piedmont (1026)
  • Saint Peter of Trevi, he preached to the peasants of Tivoli, Anagni and Subiaco (c. 1050)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Synaxis of Serbian Hierarchs:
  • Saints Sava I (1235), Arsenius (1266), Sava II (1271), Eustathius I (1285), James (1292), Nicodemus (1325), and Daniel II (1338), Archbishops;
  • Saints Ioannicius II (1354), Spyridon (1388), Ephraim II (1395), Cyril (1419), Nicon (c. 1439), Macarius (1574), and Gabriel I (1659), Patriarchs;
  • St. Gregory (1012), Bishop.
  • Saint Alexander, Abbot of Vocha Monastery, near Galich (14th-15th century)
  • Repose of St. Alexander, Abbot of Svir (1533)
  • Saint Barlaam, Metropolitan of Moldavia (1657)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Peter, Priest (1918)
  • New Hieromartyr Paul, Priest and Virgin-martyr Elizaveta, and Martyr Theodore (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Lebedev), Schema-Archimandrite of the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery (St. Peter’s Monastery), Moscow (1938)
  • New Hiero-confessor Peter Cheltsov, Archpriest, of Smolensk (1972)

    • Other commemorations

  • Uncovering of the relics (1652) of St. Daniel, great prince of Moscow (1303)
  • Translation of the relics (1724) of St. Alexander Nevsky (Alexis in schema), great prince of Novgorod (1263)
  • Translation of the relics of St. Guthlac, Hieromonk of Crowland.

    • References

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