August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
August 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 5
All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 17 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For August 4, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 22.
Saints
The Holy Seven Youths of Ephesus:- Martyr Eleutherius of Byzantium
- Martyr Thathuil, by hanging from an apple tree. Martyr Eudokia (Ia) of Anatolia, in Persia, by beheading and 9,000 with her in Persia
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Perpetua, a matron from Rome baptised by the Apostle Peter who converted her husband and her son, St Nazarius
- Saint Agabius, Bishop of Verona in Italy, and Confessor
- Saint Tertullinus, a priest, martyred in Rome under Valerian two days after his ordination
- Saints Epiphanes and Isidore, two early martyrs, venerated at the Cathedral of Besançon in France until the French Revolution.
- Saint Protasius, a martyr honoured in Cologne in Germany.
- Saint Sithney, patron saint of Sithney, Cornwall
- Saint Euphronius of Tours, Bishop of Tours in France
- Saints Peregrinus, Maceratus and Viventius
- Saint Lugid of Killaloe, a disciple of St Comgall, founded many monasteries
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas
- New Hieromartyr Michael, Hieromonk of Staroye Zubarevo in Mordovia, and Martyrs Simeon and Demetrius Vorobiev of Tver
Other commemorations
- Consecration of the sacred temple of the Christ the Saviour, within the Pantocrator Monastery in Constantinople.
- "Kazan-Penza" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
- Uncovering of the relics of Saint Alexei Bortsurmansky ''''