July 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 4

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 16 by Old Calendar.

For July 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 20.

Saints

 * Martyr Hyacinth the Cubicularius, of Caesarea in Cappadocia (108)
 * Martyrs Theodotus and Theodota, martyred with St. Hyacinth at Caesarea in Cappadocia (108)
 * Martyrs Diomedes, Eulampius, Asclepiodotus, and Golinduc, who suffered with Saint Hyacinth (108)


 * Saint Celadion, patriarch of Alexandria (167)
 * Saint Anatolius of Laodicea, Bishop of Laodicea, and his successor, St. Eusebius (3rd century)
 * Martyrs Mark and Mocius (4th century)
 * Saint Alexander, founder of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones ("the Ever-Vigilant"), Constantinople (c. 430) (see also: January 15, February 23)
 * Saint Anatolius, Patriarch of Constantinople (458)
 * Saint Isaias the Solitary, of Scetis and Palestine (491)
 * Saint Symeon the Stylite (the third stylite), of Cilicia (6th century)
 * Martyr Theodota (712)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Dathus (Datus), Bishop of Ravenna in Italy (190)
 * Saints Irenaeus, a deacon, and Mustiola, a noble lady, martyred in Chiusi in Tuscany in Italy under Aurelian for ministering to other martyrs and burying their relics (273)
 * Saint Heliodorus of Altino, first bishop of Altinum (Altino) (c. 390)
 * St. Byblig of Carnarvon (Biblig, Peblig, Piblig, Publicius), Gwynedd, in Wales.
 * Saint Germanus, Bishop of the Isle of Man and Enlightener of Peel, nephew of St. Patrick of Ireland (474)
 * St. Bladus (Baldus), an early Bishop of the Isle of Man.
 * Saint Gunthiern, a prince in Wales who went to Brittany and lived as a hermit (c. 500)
 * Saint Leo II, Pope of Rome (683)
 * Saint Cilléne Droichtech, Abbot of Iona (c. 752)
 * Saint Guthagon, born in Ireland, he crossed to Belgium and became a hermit (8th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint George the Godbearer, of the Black Mountain, teacher of St. George of Mount Athos (1068)
 * Saint Basil the Bishop of Ryazan (1295)
 * Venerable Anatolius, recluse, of the Near Caves in Kiev (12th century)
 * Venerable Anatolius, recluse, of the Far Caves in Kiev (13th century)
 * Saints Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), holy princes of Yaroslavl (13th century)
 * Saint Basil (Kalika or Koleka), Archbishop of Novgorod (1352)
 * Saint Patricius of Vladimir, priest and martyr (1411)
 * Saints John and Longinus, Wonderworkers of Yarensk, Solovki (1544-1545)
 * Blessed John of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ (1589)
 * Venerable Nicodemus of Khozyuga (Kozhe Lake), monk of Kozhaezersk Monastery (1640)
 * Blessed Michael, Herodion, Basil, and Thomas, Fools-for-Christ, of Solvychegodsk (17th century)
 * Saint Joachim the New Godbeaerer, of Notenon Monastery in Achaia (17th century)
 * Saint Euphrosine (Viaziemska) of Kolupanovo, Aleksin, Fool-for-Christ (1855)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Monk-martyr Gerasimus the New, of Carpenision, at Constantinople (1812)
 * New Hieromartyr Anthony (Bystrov), Archbishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk (1931)

Other commemorations

 * Icon of the Mother of God the "Milk-Giver" (Galaktotrophousa), of the Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos.
 * Second translation (1652) of the relics of Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (1569)
 * Uncovering of the relics (1959) of Hieromartyr Raphael of Lesbos (1463), in Mytilene.
 * Uncovering of the relics (2005) of Sylvester (Olshevsky), Bishop of Omsk (1920) (see also: February 25)
 * Repose of Nun Euphrosyne "the Unknown," of Kolyupanovo, Aleksin (1855)