31 July
24 commemorations of 31 July in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 13 August of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Forefeast of the Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of the LordἘγκαίνια Ναοῦ τῆς Θεοτόκου ἐν Βλαχερναὶς καὶ Προεόρτια Προόδου Τιμίου Σταυροῦorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · pravenc.ru · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru · tyoos.org
Saints
- Righteous Joseph of Arimathea, who buried the Master Christ (1st century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωσὴφ ὁ ἀπὸ Ἀριμαθαίαςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Righteous Eudocimus of Cappadocia, Military Commander of Cappadocia (9th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐδόκιμοςsynaxarion.gr · pravenc.ru · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Julitta (Juliet), at Caesarea in Cappadocia (304-305)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint John the Exarch of Bulgaria (c. 917-927)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Arsenius, Bishop of Ninotsminda in Georgia (1082)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Holy anonymous new martyr of Crete, at Alexandria in Egypt (1811)Ἀνώνυμος Κρητικὸς Νεομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- New Monk-martyr Dionysius of Vatopedi, Mt. Athos (1822)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs, at Petrograd (1922)
- Benjamin (Kazansky), Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdovsk
- Sergius (Shein), Archimandrite
- New Martyrs, at Petrograd (1922)
- George Novitsky and John Kovsharov
- Martyr Maximus Rumyantsev (1928)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New New Hieromartyr Vladimir Kholodkovsky, Priest (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr John Rumyantsev, Priest; Martyr Constantine Razumov, Priest; Virgin-martyr Anna Serova; and St. Elizabeth Rumyantseva (after 1937)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas, Priest (1941)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hiero-confessor Basil (Preobrazhensky), Bishop of Kineshma (1945)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.
- Saint Calimerius, a Greek who became Bishop of Milan in Italy, Apostle of the Po Valley (c. 190)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Fabius, a soldier beheaded in Caesarea in Mauretania in North Africa under Diocletian, for refusing to carry a standard bearing idolatrous emblems (300)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Twelve Soldier-Martyrs of Rome, by the swordΟἱ Ἅγιοι 12 Μάρτυρες οἱ Ρωμαῖοιsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Saint Firmus of Tagaste, in North Africa, he was tortured and endured terrible sufferings rather than betray the hiding-place of one of his flockorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Germanus of Auxerre, Bishop of Auxerre in Gaul (448)pravenc.ru · Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Neot, Hermit, in Cornwall (c. 877)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Consecration of the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos of Blachernaeholytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Translation of the relics of Apostle Philip to CyprusἈνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Φιλίππου τοῦ Ἀποστόλουsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Elder Gerasim the Younger, of the St. Sergius Skete, Kaluga (1918)pravoslavie.ru
The list is July 31 (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.