July 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 3 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 5

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 17 by Old Calendar.

For July 4, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 21.

Saints

 * Martyrs Theodotus and Theodota, martyred with St. Hyacinth at Caesarea in Cappadocia (108)
 * Hieromartyr Theophilos, by the sword.
 * Saint Korilla (Cyrilla).
 * Hieromartyrs Innocent and Sabbatius, and 30 others with them, in Sirmium of Pannonia (304)
 * Hieromartyr Theodore of Cyrene, Bishop of Cyrene in Libya,  and with him Martyrs Cyprilla, Aroa, and Lucia (310)
 * Hieromartyr Donatus, Bishop of Libya,  and Monk-martyr Hilarion (c. 361-363)
 * Venerable Martha, mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger, of the Wonderful Mountain (551)
 * Saint Andrew of Crete, Archbishop of Crete, the Jerusalemite (712)
 * Saint Asclepias the Wonderworker.
 * Venerable Menignos.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Prophets Hosea and Haggai (6th-4th century BCE) (see also: October 17, December 4, December 16)
 * Saint Namphamon and Companions, of Carthaginian descent, he was martyred with several compatriots at Madaura in Numidia in North Africa and called 'the Archmartyr' (c. 180)
 * Saint Jucundian, a martyr in North Africa.
 * Saint Laurianus, Archbishop of Seville in Spain, he was martyred in Bourges in France (c. 544)
 * Saint Finbar, an Abbot of Innis-Doimhle, in Wexford, Ireland (6th century)
 * Saint Bertha of Artois (Bertha of Blangy), a Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Abbess of noble blood (c. 725)
 * Saint Aurelian, a monk and Abbot of Ainay in France, he later became Archbishop of Lyons (895)
 * Saint Ulrich of Augsburg and Bavaria (973)
 * Saint Hatto, born of a noble Swabian family, he left all his property to the monastery of Ottobeuren in Germany, and became a monk there (985)
 * Saint Procopius of Sázava, Abbot of Sázava in Bohemia (1053)  (see also: April 1 - East )

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Burial of St. Andrew, Prince of Bogolubovo (1174)
 * Saint Michael Choniates, Metropolitan of Athens (1220)
 * Saint Andrew (Rublev), iconographer, of the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery, Moscow (1428)

New martyrs and confessors

 * Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia (1918):
 * Tsar Nicholas II,
 * Tsaritsa Alexandra,
 * Crown Prince Alexius
 * Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and with them:
 * New Martyr Passion bearer Eugene Botkin, physician.


 * New Hieromartyr Nilus, Hieromonk, of Poltava (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Jonah (Sankov) the Athonite (1938)  (see also: June 21 )
 * New Hieromartyrs Sava (Trlajic), Bishop of Gornji Karlovac (1941) and Đorđe Bogić, Priest, of Nasice (1941)
 * New Hieromartyr Demetrius Kazansky, Priest (1942)

Other commemorations

 * Icon of the Mother of God of Galatea.
 * Translation of the relics (460-490) of St. Martin the Merciful, Bishop of Tours (397)   (see also: October 12, November 11, November 12)
 * Uncovering of the relics of St. Euthymius the Wonderworker, Archimandrite, of Suzdal (1507)
 * Repose of Hieroschemamonk John, founder of Sarov Monastery (1737)
 * Repose of Righteous Confessor Andrew the Russian, at Cairo (c. 1850)
 * Slaying of General Dragoljub (Drazha) Mihailovic of Serbia (1946)
 * Repose of Archpriest Tikhon Pelikh of Sergiyev Posad (1983)