August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics): Difference between revisions

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on '''August 16''' by [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Churches]] on the [[Julian Calendar|Old Calendar]].{{#tag:ref|The notation ''' ''[[Old Style]]'' or (''OS'')''' is sometimes used to indicate a date in the '''[[Julian Calendar]]''' (which is used by churches on the '''"Old Calendar"''').<br />The notation ''' ''[[New Style]]'' or (''NS'')''', indicates a date in the '''[[Revised Julian calendar]]''' (which is used by churches on the '''"New Calendar"''').|group=note}}

For August 3, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on '''[[July 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)|July 21]]'''.

* '''Holy Myrrh-bearer [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]]''' (1st century)<ref name=PRAVOSLAVIE>[http://days.pravoslavie.ru/en/Days/20140803.htm August 3 / August 16]. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).</ref><ref>Great Synaxaristes: {{gr icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/284/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ἡ Ἁγία Σαλώμη ἡ Μυροφόρος].'' 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref>{{#tag:ref|She was the mother of the Apostles James and John, the wife of Zebedee, and the daughter of Joseph the Betrothed, who was a widower when he became betrothed to the Mother of God. She was a disciple of the Lord and one of the Myrrh-bearing women who first brought tidings of the Resurrection to the world.<ref>''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/03-05.htm Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome].'' HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).</ref> [[Name day]]s celebrated today include:

* Hieromartyr [[Pope Stephen I|Stephen]], Pope of Rome, and Companions (257)<ref>Great Synaxaristes: {{gr icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/282/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Στέφανος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Πάπας Ρώμης καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ].'' 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref><ref name=ECCLESIA>{{gr icon}} Συναξαριστής. ''[http://www.ecclesia.gr/greek/synaxaire/synaxari.asp?minas=8&id=336 3 Αυγούστου].'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).</ref>{{#tag:ref|He is commemorated in certain Synaxaria on [[September 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)|September 7]] as well.|group=note}} <small>(''see also: [[August 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)|August 2]]'')</small>

* '''Venerable Saints [[Isaac of Dalmatia|Isaac]] (383),<ref>''[http://oca.org/saints/lives/2014/08/03/102189-venerable-isaac-the-ascetic-of-the-dalmatian-monastery-at-consta Venerable Isaac the Ascetic of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople].'' OCA - Lives of the Saints.</ref> [[Dalmatius of Constantinople|Dalmatius]], and Faustus (5th century), [[ascetic]]s of the Dalmatian Monastery at [[Constantinople]]'''.<ref name=PRAVOSLAVIE/><ref>Great Synaxaristes: {{gr icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/281/sxsaintinfo.aspx Οἱ Ὅσιοι Δαλμάτιος, Φαῦστος, καὶ Ἰσαάκιος].'' 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref>

* Protomartyr [[Razhden the Protomartyr|Rajden]] (''Razhdenes'') of Tsromi and Nikozi, [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] (457)<ref name=PRAVOSLAVIE/><ref>''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/03-03.htm The Martyr Razhdenes].'' HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).</ref><ref>''[http://oca.org/saints/lives/2014/08/03/102193-martyr-razhden-of-persia-the-georgian Martyr Razhden of Persia the Georgian].'' OCA - Lives of the Saints.</ref><ref name=DECR>{{ru icon}} [http://mospat.ru/calendar/2013/08/16 16 августа 2013 (нов. ст.)]. Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).</ref>

* Saint Cosmas of Palestine, [[eunuch]] and [[hermit]] (6th century)<ref name=PRAVOSLAVIE/><ref>''[http://oca.org/saints/lives/2014/08/03/102194-venerable-cosmas-the-eunuch-and-hermit-of-palestine Venerable Cosmas the Eunuch and Hermit of Palestine].'' OCA - Lives of the Saints.</ref><ref name=DECR/><ref>''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/03-04.htm The Monk Kosma the Hermit].'' HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).</ref>

* Martyr Olympios the Prefect (''Olympius the Eparch''), Byzantine noble martyred under the Persian King [[Khosrau II|Chosroes II]] for confessing the Orthodox Faith (c. 610-641)<ref>Great Synaxaristes: {{gr icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/288/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Ὀλύμπιος ὁ ἔπαρχος ὁ Μάρτυρας].'' 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref>

* Saint John of Patalaria Monastery, Confessor and Abbot (8th-9th centuries)<ref name=PRAVOSLAVIE/><ref name=ECCLESIA/><ref>Great Synaxaristes: {{gr icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/283/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ὁμολογητὴς ἡγούμενος τῆς Μονῆς Πατελαρίας].'' 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref>

* Venerable Theoclita (''Theokliti'') the [[Wonderworker]], of [[Optimatoi|Optimaton]] (''Theme of the Optimatoi'') (ca. 842)<ref name=PRAVOSLAVIE/><ref>Great Synaxaristes: {{gr icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/285/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ἡ Ὁσία Θεοκλητῶ ἡ Θαυματουργός].'' 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref>{{#tag:ref|In Codex 73 of the Monastery of Our Lady of Halki, there is also a saint called Theokliti, whose memory is commemorated on [[August 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)|August 21]].|group=note}}

* Saints John the Monastic, and John the New, [[Metropolis of Ephesus|Bishops of Ephesus]].<ref name=ECCLESIA/><ref>Great Synaxaristes: {{gr icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/286/sxsaintinfo.aspx Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰωάννης καὶ Ἰωάννης ὁ Νέος Ἐπίσκοποι Ἐφέσου].'' 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref>{{#tag:ref|Their memory is preserved in two codices, the Patmiako Codex 266, and the Parisian Codex 152. In the Parisian Codex they are also commemorated on [[August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)|August 4]].|group=note}}

* Venerable Nuns Theodora, and Theopisti her daughter, of [[Aegina]], in Thessaloniki (892)<ref name=ECCLESIA/><ref>Great Synaxaristes: {{gr icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/289/sxsaintinfo.aspx Οἱ Ὁσίες Θεοδώρα καὶ Θεοπίστη ἡ θυγατέρα της ἐξ Αἰγίνης].'' 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref>{{#tag:ref|Their memory was celebrated on [[August 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)|August 29]], but was moved to August 3, dueto the feast of the Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John.|group=note}}

* Saint Euphronius, [[Bishop of Autun]] in France and a friend of St Lupus of Troyes, Confessor (c. 475)<ref name=LATIN/><ref name=ROMAN/>

* Saint Trea, hermitess, converted to Orthodoxy by St Patrick, she spent the rest of her life as an anchoress in Ardtree in Derry, Ireland (5th century)<ref name=LATIN/>

* saint Faustus, son of St [[Dalmatius of Pavia]] in Italy, lived the life of a holy monk (5th century)<ref name=LATIN/>

* '''Venerable [[Anthony of Rome|Anthony the Roman]], Abbot in [[Novgorod]]''' (1147)<ref name=PRAVOSLAVIE/><ref name=DECR/><ref>Great Synaxaristes: {{gr icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/287/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Θαυματουργός Ρωμαῖος ἐκ Νοβογορδίας (Ρῶσος)].'' 3 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref><ref>''[http://oca.org/saints/lives/2014/08/03/102192-venerable-anthony-the-roman-and-abbot-of-novgorod Venerable Anthony the Roman and Abbot of Novgorod].'' OCA - Lives of the Saints.</ref>

* [[Nine Brothers Kherkheulidze|Nine Kherkheulidze brothers]], their mother and sister, and 9,000 others, who suffered on the field of Marabda, Georgia (1625)<ref name=PRAVOSLAVIE/><ref>''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/August/03-06.htm 9 Kherkheulidze Brothers with their Mother and Sister and Nine Thousand Martyrs of Marabda].'' HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).</ref><ref>''[http://oca.org/saints/lives/2014/08/03/205464-9-kherkheulidze-brothers-with-their-mother-and-sister-and-nine-t 9 Kherkheulidze Brothers with their Mother and Sister and Nine Thousand Martyrs of Marabda].'' OCA - Lives of the Saints.</ref>

* New Hieromartyr Viacheslav Lukanin, Deacon (1918)<ref name=DECR/><ref name=MOSPAT>[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/index.php?year=2013&today=16&month=8&trp=0&tzo=-4 August 16 / August 3]. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).</ref>

* New Hieromartyr Nicholas Pomerantsev, Priest (1938)<ref name=DECR/><ref name=MOSPAT/>

* Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Ignatius of [[Harbin Russians|Harbin]] (1958)<ref name=PRAVOSLAVIE/><ref>''[http://www.orthodox.cn/saints/menologia/8-3_en.htm Menologion: The Third Day of the Month of August].'' Orthodoxy in China.</ref>

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* [http://days.pravoslavie.ru/en/Days/20140803.htm August 3 / August 16]. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).

* [http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/index.php?year=2013&today=16&month=8&trp=0&tzo=-4 August 16 / August 3]. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).

* [http://oca.org/saints/lives/2014/08/03 August 3]. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.

* Dr. Alexander Roman. ''[http://www.ukrainian-orthodoxy.org/calendar/august/default.html August].'' Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).

* Rev. Richard Stanton. ''[http://archive.org/details/menologyofenglan00stanrich A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries].'' London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp.&nbsp;378-379.

'''Greek Sources'''

* Great [[Synaxarium|Synaxaristes]]: {{gr icon}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/m/8/d/3/sxsaintlist.aspx 3 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ]. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

* {{gr icon}} Συναξαριστής. ''[http://www.ecclesia.gr/greek/synaxaire/synaxari.asp?minas=8&id=336 3 Αυγούστου].'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

'''Russian Sources'''

* {{ru icon}} [http://www.pravenc.ru/calendar/2014/08/16.html 16 августа (3 августа)]. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).

* {{ru icon}} [http://mospat.ru/calendar/2013/08/16 3 августа (ст.ст.) 16 августа 2013 (нов. ст.)]. Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

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