2 August
24 commemorations of 2 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 15 August of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome, and Companions (257)orthochristian.com · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint PhocasὉ Ἅγιος Φωκᾶςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint Friardus of Vindumitta in Gaul (c. 577)holytrinityorthodox.com
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Fotou the Cypriot (Photini the Cypriot), the WonderworkerἩ Ὁσία Φωτεινὴ ἡ Φώτου ἡ Κυπρίαsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Blessed Basil of Kamenny Monastery, Lake Kubenskoye, Vologda (1472)ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Marco of Belavinsk, in Vologda (1492)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Blessed Basil of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ (1552)Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός καὶ θαυματουργὸς ἐν Μόσχᾳ (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr Theodore of the Dardanelles (1690)Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόδωρος ὁ Νεομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Platon (Kolegov), Hieromonk, of Chasovo (Komi) (1937)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.
- Martyr Rutilius (250)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maximus of Padua, successor of St Prosdocimus as Bishop of Padua in Italy, Wonderworker (2nd century)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Auspicius, the first Bishop of Apt in France (pre-4th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop of Vercelli in Piedmont in Italy (371)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Sidwell (Sativola), a Briton from the West of England near Exeter, she was beheaded as a martyr, by a scythe (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Boetharius (Betharius, Bethaire), Bishop of Chartres in France, he was present at the Council of Sens (623)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Etheldritha (Alfreda), daughter of King Offa of Mercia, an anchoress at Crowland in Lincolnshire in England (c. 835)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Plegmund, the tutor of King Alfred and twentieth Archbishop of Canterbury (914)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · 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.
- Translation of the relics (415) of the Righteous Nicodemus, Gamaliel, and Abibus, of Jerusalem (1st century)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Translation of the relics from Jerusalem to Constantinople (428) of Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (34)Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Πρωτομάρτυρα Στεφάνουsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Translation of the relics of Martyrs Dada, Maximus, and Quintilian, at Dorostolum in Moesia (286)Εὕρεσις Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίων Μαρτύρων Μαξίμου, Δᾴδα καὶ Κυντιλλιανοὺsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Consecration of the Church of St. John the Theologian, near the Holy Great Church in ConstantinopleἘγκαίνια ἱεροῦ Ναοῦ Ἁγίου Ἰωάννου Θεολόγου πλησίον τῆς ἁγιοτάτης Μεγάλης Ἐκκλησίαςsynaxarion.gr
- Repose of the pious Emperor Justinian II, Fool-for-Christ, interred in the Church of the Holy ApostlesἩ ἀποβίωση τοῦ εὐσεβῆ Βασιλιὰ Ἰουστινιανοῦ Β’ ποὺ τάφηκε στοὺς Ἁγίους Ἀποστόλουςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Repose of Hieromonk Peter (Seregin), spiritual father of Pühtitsa Convent, Estonia (1982)pravoslavie.ru
- Icon of the Mother of God of Achair (2002)drevo-info.ru
The list is August 2 (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.