July 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 28 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 30

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 11 by Old Calendar.

For July 29th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 16.

Saints

 * Virgin-martyr Seraphima (Serapia) of Antioch (c. 117-138)
 * Martyr Kallinikos of Cilicia in Asia Minor (c. 250)
 * Martyr Theodota and her three sons in Bithynia (c. 304)
 * Martyrs Benjamin and Berius, by the Palace of the Hebdomon.
 * Martyr Mamas, by drowning.
 * Martyr Basiliscus the Elder, by the sword.
 * Martyr Ioannis.
 * The holy Martyrs, a father and mother, with their two children, by fire.
 * Blessed John the Soldier (c. 361)  (see also: July 30)
 * Saint Theodosius the Younger, the pious emperor (450)
 * Martyr Eustathius the Cobbler of Mtskheta, Georgia (589)
 * Saint Constantine I, Patriarch of Constantinople (677)  (see also: August 9)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saints Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix, two brothers and their sister martyred in Rome under Diocletian (c. 303)
 * Saint Faustinus (4th century)
 * Saint Prosper of Orleans, Bishop of Orleans in France (c.453)
 * Saint Lupus the Confessor, Bishop of Troyes, Gaul (479)
 * Saint Sulien (Sulian, Silin), born in Brittany, he founded a small monastery in Luxulyan in Cornwall (6th century)
 * Saint Kilian, an abbot of a monastery on the island of Inis Cealtra in Ireland, and author of a Life of St Brigid (7th century)
 * Saint Olaf II of Norway (Olav, Tola), King of Norway (1030)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Constantine III Leichoudes, Patriarch of Constantinople (1063)
 * Saints Constantine and Cosmas of Kosinsk, in Pskov, Abbots (13th century)
 * Saint Romanus of Kirzach, founder of Kirzhach Monastery, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1392)
 * Saint Bogolep, Child Schemamonk of Chorny Yar, near Astrakhan (1667)
 * Hieromartyr Bessarion of Smolyan, Bulgaria (1670)
 * Martyr Daniel Kushnir of Mlievich (Daniel of Cherkassk), Ukraine (1766)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyrs Seraphim (Bogoslovsky) and Theognostus (Pivovarov), Hieromonks of a skete at Kyzyl-Zharskoe, Kazakhstan (1921)
 * New Hieromartyr Anatole (Smirnov), Hieromonk and hermit of the Caucasus Mountains, Abkhazia (1930-1935)
 * New Hieromartyr Pachomius (Rusin), Hieromonk, of Alma Ata, Kazakhstan (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr Alexis Krasnovsky, Priest (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Nativity of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia (3rd century)
 * Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Rudoe Selo (19th century)
 * Repose of Archpriest Georges Florovsky (1979)