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August 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)


Aug. 1 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Aug. 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.

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".

Greek Sources

Russian Sources


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