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.September 12/August 30. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Μεθεόρτια ἀποτομῆς κεφαλῆς Ἰωάννου Προδρόμου. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Saints

Hieromartyr Philonidis (Philoneidis) of Cyprus (3rd century).Great Synaxaristes: http://synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/500/sxsaintinfo.aspx. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: June 17) 6 Martyrs of Melitene, by drowning.Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι 6 Μάρτυρες ποὺ μαρτύρησαν στὴ Μελιτινὴ. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. 16 Monk-martyrs of Thebes, by the sword.Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι 16 Μάρτυρες οἱ Θηβαῖοι. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Bryaene of Nisibis (318)Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ὁσία Βρυαίνη. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.64. Saints Alexander (340),Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξανδρος Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. John VIII of Constantinople (595),Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. and Paul the New (784),Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Παῦλος ὁ νέος, Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Archbishops of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarchs.St Alexander the Patriarch of Constantinople. OCA - Lives of the Saints. The Venerable Guardian (Grk.: Ὁ Ὅσιος Φύλαξ).Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Φύλαξ. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Sarmata of "The Paradise", ascetic of the desert, Egypt (c. 362)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Σαρματᾶς. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Eulalius, Bishop of Cyprus (4th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐλάλιος ὁ Ἱεράρχης. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Christopher of Palestine (Christopher the Roman, in Palestine) (6th century)St Christopher of Palestine. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

Pre-Schism Western saints

Saints Boniface and Thecla, parents of the Twelve Brothers commemorated on September 1 (c. 250)August 30. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Hieromartyr Felix, and Martyrs Fortunatus, Septiminus and Januarius, by beheading (c. 304)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Φῆλιξ, Φουρτουνᾶτος, Σεπτιμῖνος καὶ Ἰανουάριος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Pammachius, a Roman senator, married to one of the daughters of St Paula (c. 340-410) Saint Loarn, a disciple of St Patrick of Ireland (5th century) Saint Rumon, a bishop and patron-saint of Tavistock in England (6th century) Saint Agilus (Ail, Aile, Aisle, Ayeul) (c. 580-650) Saint Fiacrius (Fiacre, Fiaker, Fèvre), Irish hermit and hospice-founder at Breuil in Brie (c. 670) Saints Pelagius, Arsenius and Sylvanus, hermits near Burgos in Old Castile in Spain, martyred by the Saracens. (c. 950) Venerable Fantinus of Calabria, the Wonderworker, in Thessalonica (974)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Φαντῖνος ὁ Θαυματουργός. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.St Fantinus of Calabria. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Bononius, Abbot of Lucedio in Piedmont (1026) Saint Peter of Trevi, he preached to the peasants of Tivoli, Anagni and Subiaco (c. 1050)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

Synaxis of Serbian Hierarchs:September 12 / August 30. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).Synaxis of the Serbian Hierarchs. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saints Sava I (1235), Arsenius (1266), Sava II (1271), Eustathius I (1285), James (1292), Nicodemus (1325), and Daniel II (1338), Archbishops; Saints Ioannicius II (1354), Spyridon (1388),St Spyridon the Patriarch. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Ephraim II (1395), Cyril (1419), Nicon (c. 1439), Macarius (1574),St Macarius the Patriarch. OCA - Lives of the Saints. and Gabriel I (1659),St Gabriel I the Patriarch. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Patriarchs; St. Gregory (1012), Bishop. Saint Alexander, Abbot of Vocha Monastery, near Galich (14th-15th century) Repose of St. Alexander, Abbot of Svir (1533)Venerable Alexander the Abbot of Svir. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Varlaam, Metropolitan of Moldavia (1657) Saint Ioannicius (Rudniev), Metropolitan of Kiev and Galich (1900)Holy Synod of UOC canonizes two saints. Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ). 21/07/2016. Retrieved: 6 July 2017. (see also: June 7)

New martyrs and confessors

New Hieromartyr Peter, Priest (1918) New Hieromartyr Paul, Priest and Virgin-martyr Elizaveta, and Martyr Theodore (1937) New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Lebedev), Schema-Archimandrite of the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery (St. Peter’s Monastery), Moscow (1938) New Hiero-confessor Peter Cheltsov, Archpriest, of Smolensk (1972)

Other commemorations

Uncovering of the relics (1652) of St. Daniel, great prince of Moscow (1303)Uncovering of the relics of St Daniel the Prince of Moscow. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Translation of the relics (1724) of St. Alexander Nevsky (Alexis in schema), great prince of Novgorod (1263)Translation of the relics of St Alexander Nevsky. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀλέξανδρος ἡγεμόνας τῆς Ρωσίας. 30 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Translation of the relics of St. Guthlac, Hieromonk of Crowland. (see also: April 11)

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References

Sources September 12/August 30. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). September 12 / August 30. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). August 30. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 64. August 30. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 263.

Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 30 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 30 Αυγούστου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources 12 сентября (30 августа). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 30 августа по старому стилю / 12 сентября по новому стилю. Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на год.