August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
August 2 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 4
All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For August 3, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 21.
Saints
Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome- Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome, and Companions Venerable Saints Isaac, Dalmatius, and Faustus, ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople.
- Protomartyr Rajden of Tsromi and Nikozi, Georgia
- Saint Cosmas of Palestine, eunuch and hermit
- Martyr Olympios the Prefect, Byzantine noble martyred under the Persian King Chosroes II for confessing the Orthodox Faith
- Saint John of Patalaria Monastery, Confessor and Abbot
- Venerable Theoclite the Wonderworker, of Optimaton
- Saints John the Monastic, and John the New, Bishops of Ephesus.
- Venerable Nuns Theodora, and Theopisti her daughter, of Aegina, in Thessaloniki
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Aspren, Bishop of Naples
- Saint Euphronius, Bishop of Autun in France and a friend of St Lupus of Troyes, Confessor
- Saint Trea, hermitess, converted to Orthodoxy by St Patrick, she spent the rest of her life as an anchoress in Ardtree, now in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
- Saint Faustus, son of St Dalmatius of Pavia in Italy, lived the life of a holy monk
- Saint Senach, a disciple of St Finian and his successor as Abbot of Clonard in Ireland
- Saint Benno, hermit on Mt Etzel in Switzerland, a founder of the monastery of Einsiedeln, became Bishop of Metz in 927
- Saint Gregory of Nonantula, Abbot of Nonantola Abbey near Modena in Italy
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Venerable Anthony the Roman, Abbot in Novgorod- Nine Kherkheulidze brothers, their mother and sister, and 9,000 others, who suffered on the field of Marabda, Georgia
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Viacheslav Lukanin, Deacon
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Pomerantsev, Priest
Other commemorations
- Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Ignatius of Harbin