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August 1 (eastern Orthodox Liturgics)

2005

day (beginning of Dormition Fast)

7th Monday after Pentecost

1st Corinthians 5:9-6:11

Matthew 13:54-58

FIXED COMMEMORATIONS

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 14 by Old Calendarists

Saints

Maccabean Martyr s Abimus, Antoninus, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusabonus, Alimus, Marcellus, their mother Solomonia, and their teacher Eleazar ( 166 B.C. )

Martyrs Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cindeus, Minsitheus, Cyriacus, Mineon, Catanus, Eucleus, and others of Perge in Pamphylia ( 3rd Century )

Martyr Papas The New

Martyr Cyricus

Martyrs Theodore and Polyeuctus

Martyrs Menas, Menais, and others of England

Martyr Elessa Of Cythera

Saint Timothy the Wonderworker , Archbishop of Priconissus of the Peloponnesus

Other commemorations

Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of Jesus Christ

Finding of the Relics of Nestor Of San Francisco

Beginning of the Dormition Fast