28 July
37 commemorations of 28 July in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 10 August of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Holy Apostles of the Seventy and Deacons (1st century)
- Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, and Parmenas
- Martyr Julian of Dalmatia (c. 138-161)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Eustathius the Soldier, of Ancyra (c. 316)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐστάθιος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Acacius of Miletus (c. 321)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀκάκιος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Drosis (Drosida, Drosa), by being cast into a golden crucibleἩ Ἁγία Δροσίς ἡ Μάρτυςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Martyr Auxentios, of Laodicea in PhrygiaὉ Ἅγιος Αὐξέντιος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Venerable Irene Chrysovolantou of Cappadocia, Abbess of Chrysovalantou (912)Ἡ Ὁσία Εἰρήνη ἡ Χρυσοβαλάντουsynaxarion.gr · orthochristian.com · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Paul of Xeropotamou, on Mount Athos (820 or 996)Ὁ Ὅσιος Παῦλος ὁ Ξηροποταμηνόςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint George the Builder, of Iveron, Mt. Athos (1029 or 1033)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Moses of the Kiev Caves, Wonderworker (13th-14th centuries)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Saint Anthony, Bishop of Rostov, Yaroslavl, and Belozersk (1336)pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr David of Aleppo (1660)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Pitirim, Bishop of Tambov (1698)orthochristian.com · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org
- New Martyr Christodoulos of Kassandreia (1777)Ὁ Ἅγιος Χριστόδουλος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐκ Κασσανδρείαςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Ponomarev, Deacon (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Basil (Erekaev), Hieromonk of Sarov Monastery (1937)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Virgin-martyrs Anastasia Kamaeva and Helen Astashkina (1937)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Martyrs Aretha Yeriomkin, John Lomakin, John Selmanov, John Milioshkin (1937)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Virgin-martyr Maura Moisieva (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Bazyluk) of Jabłeczna, in Chelm and Podlasie, Poland (1942)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Martyrs Nazarius and Celsus, martyrs in Milan in Italy under Nero (c. 68)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Victor I, born in North Africa, he was Pope of Rome for ten years from 189-198orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Peregrinus, a priest near Lyon in France at the time of St Irenaeus and during the persecution under Severus (2nd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Camelian, successor of St Lupus as Bishop of Troyes in France from 478 (c. 525)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Ursus and Leobatius (Leubais), Brother-Abbots, of Gaul (c. 500)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Samson of Dol, Bishop of Dol, in Brittany (c. 565)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Banthus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (7th century)heiligenlexikon.de · rus-kirche-baden.de
- Saint Arduinus (Ardwyne), patron-saint of Trepino in the south of Italy (7th century)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Lucidus of Aquara, a monk of St Peter's near Aquara, in the south of Italy (c. 938)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Lyutius, a monk at Montecassino who died as a hermit at La Cava Abbey in Italy (c. 1038)orthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Consecration the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos in the Quarter of DeaconessἘγκαίνια Ναοῦ Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν τοὶς Διακονίσσηςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Synaxis of the Saints of Tambov (1988)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Abbess Daria of Sezenovo Convent (1858)pravoslavie.ru
- Translation of the relics of Saint Jacob the New Chozebite (1960)en.jerusalem-patriarchate.info
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Directress of Smolensk", brought from Constantinople (1046)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos "Grebensk" (1380), "Kostroma" (1672), and "Umileniye" ("of Tender Feeling") of Diveyevo Convent (1885), before which St....holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravenc.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- Reverence list of an "Smolensk" Icon of the Mother of God
- "Ustiug" (1290)
- "Vidropusskaya" (15th century)
- "Voronin" (1524)
- "Xristoforov" (16th century)
- "Suprasl", Poland (16th century)
- "Yugskaya" (1615)
- "Igritsky" (1624)
- "Shuiskaya" (1654-55)
- "Sedmiezersk" (Seven Lakes) (17th century)
- "Sergievsk" (Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra) (1730)
The list is July 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.