August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of Jesus Christ.
• The Feast to the All-Merciful Saviour and the Most Holy Mother of God.
• Beginning of the Dormition Fast.

  Saints

• Holy Seven Maccabees:
• * Martyrs: Abimus, Antoninus, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusabonus, Alimus, Marcellus, their mother Solomonia, and their teacher Eleazar
• Holy Nine Martyrs of Perge in Pamphylia:
• * Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cindeus, Minsitheus, Cyriacus, Mineon, Catanus, Eucleus
• Martyr Papas the New.
• Martyr Eleazar.
• Martyr Cyricus, by beheading.
• Martyr Theodore, by the sword.
• Martyr Polyeuctus, by being buried alive in manure.
• Venerable Martyr Elessa of Kythira
• Saint Timothy of Proconnesus, Wonderworker, Archbishop of Proconnesus

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyrs Menas, Menais, and others of England.
• Child-martyr Justin, venerated in Louvre near Paris in France
• Saint Nemesius, a saint venerated near Lisieux in France.
• Saint Leus of Viguenza, a priest whose relics were honoured in Viguenza in Italy
• Saint Verus, Bishop of Vienne; he attended the Council of Arles in 314
• Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop
• Saint Exuperius of Bayeux, first Bishop of Bayeux in France, he is honoured in Corbeil
• Saint Ríoch, a nephew of St. Patrick, early Irish Christian missionary and Abbot of Innisboffin in Ireland
• Saint Almedha, suffered martyrdom on a hill near Brecon in Wales
• Saint Severus, a priest of noble family, famous for his charity, honoured from time immemorial in the village that bears his name, St Sever de Rustan
• Saints Friard, and Secundel deacon, hermits on the Isle of Vindomitte near Nantes in Gaul
• Virgin-martyr Sidwell of Exeter
• Saint Kenneth, a hermit who made his cell among the rocks in the Gower peninsula in Wales at a place later called Llangenydd after him
• Saint Peregrinus, a pilgrim from Ireland who returning from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land settled as a hermit near Modena in Italy
• Saint Jonatus, a monk at Elnone in Belgium; Abbot of Marchiennes and then of Elnone Abbey
• Saint Mary the Consoler, sister of St Anno, Bishop of Verona in Italy
• Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, Bishop of Winchester

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Basil, Archbishop of Chernigov
• New Hieromartyr Demetrius Pavsky, Priest

  Other commemorations

• Baptism of Rus'
• Finding of the relics of Bishop of the Aleutians and Alaska
• Repose of Abbess Alexia of Nizhni-Novgorod
• Uncovering of the relics of the Venerable Sophia of Suzdal

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