August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

The Origin of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of Jesus Christ.

Holy Seven Maccabees:
* Martyrs: Abimus, Antoninus, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusabonus, Alimus, Marcellus, their mother Solomonia, and their teacher Eleazar
Holy Nine Martyrs of Perge in Pamphylia:
* Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cindeus, Minsitheus, Cyriacus, Mineon, Catanus, Eucleus
Martyr Papas the New.
Martyr Eleazar.
Martyr Cyricus, by beheading.
Martyr Theodore, by the sword.
Martyr Polyeuctus, by being buried alive in manure.
Venerable Martyr Elessa of Kythira
Saint Timothy of Proconnesus, Wonderworker, Archbishop of Proconnesus

Martyrs Menas, Menais, and others of England.
Child-martyr Justin, venerated in Louvre near Paris in France
Saint Nemesius, a saint venerated near Lisieux in France.
Saint Leus of Viguenza, a priest whose relics were honoured in Viguenza in Italy
Saint Verus, Bishop of Vienne; he attended the Council of Arles in 314
Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop
Saint Exuperius of Bayeux, first Bishop of Bayeux in France, he is honoured in Corbeil
Saint Ríoch, a nephew of St. Patrick, early Irish Christian missionary and Abbot of Innisboffin in Ireland
Saint Almedha, suffered martyrdom on a hill near Brecon in Wales
Saint Severus, a priest of noble family, famous for his charity, honoured from time immemorial in the village that bears his name, St Sever de Rustan
Saints Friard, and Secundel deacon, hermits on the Isle of Vindomitte near Nantes in Gaul
Virgin-martyr Sidwell of Exeter
Saint Kenneth, a hermit who made his cell among the rocks in the Gower peninsula in Wales at a place later called Llangenydd after him
Saint Peregrinus, a pilgrim from Ireland who returning from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land settled as a hermit near Modena in Italy
Saint Jonatus, a monk at Elnone in Belgium; Abbot of Marchiennes and then of Elnone Abbey
Saint Mary the Consoler, sister of St Anno, Bishop of Verona in Italy
Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, Bishop of Winchester

Baptism of Rus'