August 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
August 29 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 31
All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 12 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For August 30th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 17.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist.
Saints
- Hieromartyr Philonidis of Cyprus.
- 6 Martyrs of Melitene, by drowning.
- 16 Monk-martyrs of Thebes, by the sword.
- Saint Bryaene of Nisibis Saints Alexander, John VIII of Constantinople, and Paul the New, Archbishops of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarchs.
- The Venerable Guardian.
- Venerable Sarmata of "The Paradise", ascetic of the desert, Egypt
- Saint Eulalius, Bishop of Cyprus
- Saint Christopher of Palestine
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saints Boniface and Thecla, parents of the Twelve Brothers commemorated on September 1
- Hieromartyr Felix, and Martyrs Fortunatus, Septiminus and Januarius, by beheading
- Saint Pammachius, a Roman senator, married to one of the daughters of St Paula
- Saint Loarn, a disciple of St Patrick of Ireland
- Saint Rumon, a bishop and patron-saint of Tavistock in England
- Saint Agilus
- Saint Fiacrius, Irish hermit and hospice-founder at Breuil in Brie
- Saints Pelagius, Arsenius and Sylvanus, hermits near Burgos in Old Castile in Spain, martyred by the Saracens.
- Venerable Fantinus of Calabria, the Wonderworker, in Thessalonica
- Saint Bononius, Abbot of Lucedio in Piedmont
- Saint Peter of Trevi, he preached to the peasants of Tivoli, Anagni and Subiaco
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Synaxis of Serbian Hierarchs:- * Saints Sava I, Arsenius, Sava II, Eustathius I, James, Nicodemus, and Daniel II, Archbishops;
- * Saints Ioannicius II, Spyridon, Ephraim II, Cyril, Nicon, Macarius, and Gabriel I, Patriarchs;
- * St. Gregory, Bishop.
- Saint Alexander, Abbot of Vocha Monastery, near Galich
- Repose of St. Alexander, Abbot of Svir
- Saint Varlaam, Metropolitan of Moldavia
- Saint Ioannicius, Metropolitan of Kiev and Galich ''''
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Peter, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Paul, Priest and Virgin-martyr Elizaveta, and Martyr Theodore
- New Hieromartyr Ignatius, Schema-Archimandrite of the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery, Moscow
- New Hiero-confessor Peter Cheltsov, Archpriest, of Smolensk
Other commemorations
Uncovering of the relics of St. Daniel, great prince of Moscow Translation of the relics of St. Alexander Nevsky, great prince of Novgorod- Translation of the relics of St. Guthlac, Hieromonk of Crowland. ''''