July 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 27 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 29

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 10 by Old Calendar.

For July 28th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 15.

Saints

 * Holy Apostles of the Seventy and Deacons (1st century):
 * Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, and Parmenas.


 * Martyr Julian of Dalmatia (c. 138-161)
 * Martyr Eustathius the Soldier, of Ancyra (c. 316)
 * Martyr Acacius of Miletus (c. 321)
 * Martyr Drosis (Drosida, Drosa), by being cast into a golden crucible.   (see also: March 22)
 * Martyr Auxentios, of Laodicea in Phrygia.
 * Venerable Irene Chrysovolantou of Cappadocia, Abbess of Chrysovalantou (912)
 * Venerable Paul of Xeropotamou, on Mount Athos (820 or 996)
 * Saint George the Builder, of Iveron, Mt. Athos (1029 or 1033)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Martyrs Nazarius and Celsus, martyrs in Milan in Italy under Nero (c. 68)  (see also: October 14)
 * Saint Victor I, born in North Africa, he was Pope of Rome for ten years from 189-198 (198)
 * Saint Peregrinus, a priest near Lyons in France at the time of St Irenaeus and during the persecution under Severus (2nd century)
 * Saint Camelian, successor of St Lupus as Bishop of Troyes in France from 478 (c. 525)
 * Saints Ursus and Leobatius (Leubais), Brother-Abbots, of Gaul (c. 500)  (see also: July 30)
 * Saint Samson of Dol, Bishop of Dol, in Brittany (c. 565)
 * Saint Banthus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (7th century) (see also: July 25)
 * Saint Arduinus (Ardwyne), patron-saint of Trepino in the south of Italy (7th century)
 * Saint Lucidus of Aquara, a monk of St Peter's near Aquara, in the south of Italy (c. 938)
 * Saint Lyutius, a monk at Montecassino who died as a hermit at La Cava Abbey in Italy (c. 1038)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Moses of the Kiev Caves, Wonderworker (13th-14th centuries)
 * Saint Anthony, Bishop of Rostov, Yaroslavl, and Belozersk (1336)
 * New Martyr David of Aleppo (1660)
 * Saint Pitirim, Bishop of Tambov (1698)
 * New Martyr Christodoulos of Kassandreia (1777)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Nicholas Ponomarev, Deacon (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Basil (Erekaev), Hieromonk of Sarov Monastery (1937)
 * Virgin-martyrs Anastasia Kamaeva and Helen Astashkina (1937)
 * Martyrs Aretha Yeriomkin, John Lomakin, John Selmanov, John Milioshkin (1937)
 * Virgin-martyr Maura Moisieva (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Bazyluk) of Jabłeczna, in Chelm and Podlasie, Poland (1942)   (see also: August 9)

Other commemorations

 * Consecration the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos in the Quarter of Deaconess.
 * Synaxis of the Saints of Tambov (1988)
 * Repose of Abbess Daria of Sezenovo Convent (1858)
 * Translation of the relics of Saint Jacob the New Chozebite (1960) (see also: August 5)

Icons

 * Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Directress of Smolensk", brought from Constantinople (1046)
 * Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos "Grebensk" (1380), "Kostroma" (1672), and "Umileniye" ("of Tender Feeling") of Diveyevo Convent (1885),  before which St. Seraphim reposed.
 * Reverence list of an "Smolensk" Icon of the Mother of God:
 * "Ustiug" (1290)
 * "Vidropusskaya" (15th century)
 * "Voronin" (1524) (see also: June 15)
 * "Xristoforov" (16th century)
 * "Suprasl", Poland (16th century)
 * "Yugskaya" (1615)
 * "Igritsky" (1624)
 * "Shuiskaya" (1654-55)
 * "Sedmiezersk" (Seven Lakes) (17th century)
 * "Sergievsk" (Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra) (1730)